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Rod Blagojevich impeached
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was removed from office by lawmakers after being charged by federal prosecutors with trying to sell President Obama's former U.S. Senate seat. He also was accused of using his power as governor to leverage campaign contributions.
The accusations led the Illinois Senate to impeach Blagojevich in February, making him the first governor in more than 20 years to get kicked out of office.
Blagojevich was arrested in December 2008 after FBI wiretaps recorded a conversation about swapping Obama's Senate seat for a Cabinet position, a new job or campaign money. He has denied the allegations. His federal corruption trial is set to start in June.
McDermott becomes chair of county Dems
In March, Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. took over Gary Mayor Rudy Clay's position as Lake County Democratic chairman after a convincing 408-288 caucus victory.
The 40-year-old McDermott was the first elected chairman younger than 65. Clay had held the position since 2005 before losing to McDermott.
The first order of business for the new Democratic chairman was to replace election board member John McCloud, of Gary, with Kevin Smith, a Hammond attorney and McDermott's campaign manager.
McDermott also favored making elected offices -- including those of sheriff, coroner, surveyor and the county's fiscal offices -- into merit-based appointments.
Most recently, McDermott engineered an endorsement by party leaders and election by precinct committeemen of Lake County Recorder Mike Brown as the replacement for county Clerk Thomas Philpot, who is expected to step down at the end of the year to become county coroner.
Popular Hammond couple murdered
The parents of CLTV talk show host Garrard McClendon -- Milton McClendon, 78, and his wife, Ruby McClendon, 76 -- were found dead in a Cook County forest preserve Oct. 19. Hammond residents Gregory Brooks Jr., 18, and Reo Jon'Ta Thompson, 17, pleaded not guilty to the double homicide and are currently being held in the Lake County Jail.
Brooks and Thompson are accused of forcing their way into the McClendons' home, stealing multiple items and beating them before fatally shooting the couple. Hammond police obtained security footage of the teenagers selling the McClendons' jewelry at a Cash For Gold store in Hammond, along with statements from witnesses who saw them in the McClendons' Cadillac in the days after the couple's death.
If convicted on all counts, they face as many as 130 years behind bars.
Munster police Officers Gabriel Isenblatter, Joseph Wells and Sgt. Jeffrey Huckaby were credited for finding the two suspects surveying a home of another elderly potential victim a day after the McClendons were found.
Bridge collapse sends 50 into Hidden Lake
A 90-foot wooden pedestrian bridge collapsed at Hidden Lake Park in Merrillville on July 4, just as a holiday fireworks show ended, sending about 50 people into the water.
Twenty-five people were injured; 16 of those were taken to area hospitals.
It's estimated more than 100 people were on the suspension bridge when it gave way. Ross Township Trustee John Rooda, who oversees Hidden Lake Park, said he was told the bridge was deemed unsafe if more than 40 people were on it at one time.
A structural engineer's assessment of the bridge showed overcrowding, not a structural defect, caused an I-beam anchoring the structure to break.
Numerous lawsuits were filed, including one seeking $5.5 million in damages from Ross Township and Rooda. The lawsuits remain pending. The bridge debris has been removed from the park. There are plans to replace the structure.
Michael Jackson dies
Music legend and Gary native Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest in his Los Angeles home June 25.
The King of Pop had multiple memorial ceremonies, including a service at The Steel Yard in Gary on July 10 and a televised service held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, which more than 20,000 people attended.
Shocked mourners visited Jackson's childhood home on the corner of 23rd Avenue and Jackson Street in Gary in the days and the weeks after his death.
The Los Angeles County coroner's office ruled the death of the 50-year-old a homicide because of a mixture of drugs in his system at the time of death. Conrad Murray, Jackson's personal doctor, administered the drug Propofol, a powerful anesthetic. He was under investigation but was not charged with a crime.
Since Jackson's death there have been highly publicized estate and custody battles, through which his mother, Katherine, gained custody of Jackson's three children and money from his estate.
Crown Point lands sports complex
A new sports complex named after the legendary Bo Jackson is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2011.
Crown Point Mayor David Uran partnered with Bo Jackson Elite Sports to create the new complex at the former site of the city's water plant.
Bo Jackson Elite Sports will provide $3.4 million toward the $16 million project. The rest of the money will come from user fees and from soliciting funds from sponsors, foundations and grant programs.
The Bo Jackson Legacy Athletic Center will be comprised of two buildings. The first building will house Crown Point parks offices, a community room, an athletic apparel store and a food court.
The second building will be a dome with enough space for two baseball and softball fields, four soccer fields, four youth football fields, four full-size basketball courts and eight full-size volleyball courts.
A second sports complex is planned for Hobart and will be attached to the existing 124-room Hilton Garden Inn, 7775 Mississippi St. It will consist of three inflatable structures covering 165,000 square feet, said Tony Czapla, managing director of Catalyst Sports Performance. Czapla, a partner in the new Sports Center, said the air-supported structures will accommodate 12 regulation basketball courts. The structures can be converted to accommodate baseball, cheer and dance, football, martial arts, soccer, softball, track and field, wresting and extreme sports, along with trade shows and large group convention gatherings.
Voters defeat school referenda
St. John Township residents in mid-June rejected a $95 million referendum proposal to expand and renovate Lake Central High School, the sixth-largest high school in Indiana.
Only 20 percent of registered voters turned out at the polls to decide an issue that was highly debated in the community.
Voters had the choice of voting yes or no. The ballot included no other options or alternatives.
Before the special election, Lake Central School Corp. Superintendent Gerald Chabot said if voters were to reject the plan, there was no backup. Modular classrooms will be used to help manage overcrowding at the high school.
The expansion and renovation plan would have included construction of classrooms, a new administration center, auditorium and a reconfigured football field, among other improvements.
Since then, however, the school corporation has hired a consultant to assess needs at all school buildings within the district.
Meanwhile, Porter Township Schools officials had hoped to add classrooms and facilities and move the middle school to the high school campus to alleviate overcrowding at several levels. The plan also included a track at the high school that would have eliminated the need to bus athletes to the track at the current middle school. Since the July referendum defeat, the School Board gave Superintendent Nick Brown the go-ahead to form a working committee to explore options at Porter Lakes Elementary School, where students have used portable classrooms the past 2 1/2 years. The committee is expected to create a proposal for Brown to present to the board at its March meeting. Community recommendations have been to keep a new project to less than $10 million.
Hobart family killed in I-65 accident
A summer vacation to Florida turned fatal June 26 when a Hobart family of five was killed in a fiery crash on Interstate 65.
Brian W. Workman, 33, his wife, Joanna L. Workman, 31, and their three children died when their pickup truck was smashed between two semitrailers.
Friends and relatives of the family said they were traveling to Florida to visit Brian's mother, who had never seen their 1-year-old child Ryan and to visit Disney World.
The family lived in the Nob Hill subdivision of Hobart. Daughter Ashley, 13, attended River Forest Jr./Sr. High School and son Tyler, 8, was in third grade at Meister Elementary.
Three escape from Michigan City prison
The July escape of three men from the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City set off a manhunt that stretched into Michigan and led authorities to the vacation home of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, where one of the convicts -- 48-year-old Charles Smith -- was captured next door.
Then Lance Battreal, 45, was found at his mother's home in the Ohio River town of Rockport, Ind. Nearly two weeks later, the last of the three escapees -- Mark Booher -- was captured on the northwest side of Indianapolis.
Booher, 46, and Smith, both convicted murderers from New Castle, Ind., and Batrreal, a convicted rapist from Rockport, escaped July 12 through a series of underground tunnels.
Numerous sightings were reported in and around Michigan City during the days after the escape, prompting a beefed up police presence in the area.
Tornado strikes Chesterton
An Aug. 19 tornado left a 60-yard-wide scar of snapped trees, downed power lines and damaged homes across 2 1/2 miles of Chesterton.
The F2 twister's 120-mph winds destroyed eight buildings and damaged about 200 others. Chesterton Middle School and an apartment building at Third and Brown streets were among the most heavily damaged buildings.
No significant injuries were reported from the tornado, which hit the town about 7:40 p.m., even though tornado sirens did not sound to alert residents of the approaching storm. The storm, however, prompted local officials to check and replace some of the equipment used to trigger the sirens.
Crews worked for days clearing downed trees and other debris. The town incurred tens of thousands of dollars in expenses, but fell short of what was needed to qualify for federal assistance.
Porter County withdraws from RDA
In April, the Porter County Council voted 4-3 to exit the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority and rescind its appointment to the seven-member RDA board. The council also filed a lawsuit against the RDA seeking to have a court certify its withdrawal, along with the withholding of its $3.5 million yearly contribution to the RDA.
Regionalism became a bad word this year among some elected officials and voters in Porter County, who claimed the RDA had lost sight of its original goal of using shared resources to accomplish large projects such as improving the Gary airport and extending South Shore train lines to Valparaiso and Lowell.
The RDA is fighting the move, and the two sides are scheduled to face off in court Jan. 25. Voters in Porter and St. Joseph counties also overwhelmingly shot down the creation of a proposed Regional Transportation District in November.
The outcome was interpreted in part as opposition to the proposed new county income tax to fund the district, which also might have included Lake and LaPorte counties. Those counties did not comply with a state order to host a referendum.
Deadly year in Porter County
Porter County generally averages three homicides a year, but five occurred during 2009.
In January, Andrew Katzelis, 82, of South Haven, was shot in his home. Police charged his girlfriend, Jennifer Cook, 35, of Portage, with killing him, stealing from him and attempting to make his death look like a suicide.
In May, Jeremiah Higgins, 27, was shot to death inside his Portage apartment by an unknown man who was looking to collect money from someone who didn't even live in the apartment.
In August, Aaron Blum, 32, of Morgan Township, was shot to death while in a truck with his father. Police said the father, James Blum, 67, shot himself, but survived. Police said no one else was involved in the shooting, but James Blum has not been charged.
Also in August, Maria Rodriguez, 50, of Ogden Dunes, was stabbed to death by her husband, Jaime, 53, in a murder-suicide.
In October, police said Juan Garcia, 33, of Valparaiso, was shot to death by his fiancee's son, Edward Ibarra, 21, of Valparaiso.
The coroner's office also saw a spike in suicides, and accidental overdoses remained high.
Racial incidents continue to plague Porter County
Racial crimes -- including numerous acts of vandalism and a death threat -- continued to be a problem in Porter County during 2009.
In September, a black employee of Target in Valparaiso reported someone wrote a racial slur on his car and called in a racially motivated death threat.
Other incidents included the writing of a racial term on a black Valparaiso High School student's locker in March; the discovery in April of a note threatening to kill the "Arabs" at Speedmart on Ind. 130, west of Valparaiso; and racial graffiti and arson at Valparaiso University's Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center in April.
Arrest made in payday loan robberies
Police in August arrested the man whom they say robbed 16 payday loan stores in Indiana and Illinois.
Police said Lewis Gilbert III, 45, of Schererville, was planning to commit his 17th robbery when officers nabbed him.
Gilbert told police he began his robbery spree in April because of money problems. Police said he used the $30,000 he obtained from the robberies to pay bills and vacation in the Dominican Republic. During the spree, he often used disguises, and he struck in several cities, including Michigan City, Crown Point, Hammond and Valparaiso, police said.
State's finances lead to big budget cuts
School corporations, state agencies and colleges and universities across Indiana began to feel the pain of state budget cuts this year.
A state revenue forecast released in December found that Indiana was on track to spend $1.8 billion more than it will take in through June 2011.
That led Gov. Mitch Daniels to cut 10 percent from state agency budgets, 6 percent from higher education and 3 percent from K-12 education. As the end of the year approached, schools began to decide exactly what was going to be cut.
Earlier in the year, failure to reach a budget compromise in the General Assembly led to a special session that cost about $150,000.
Education reform was a second focus of the June budget-writing special session. The Legislature removed limits on establishing new charter schools, as well as repealed a law that prohibited using student achievement to evaluate teacher performance.
Gary and East Chicago schools took the hardest hit in terms of school funding, mostly due to declining enrollment. Gary Community School Corp. was already on track to lost $12.4 million in state funding even before the governor's budget cuts.
Swine flu continued to cause concern
The swine flu, renamed the H1N1 virus because the U.S. Department of Agriculture found people couldn't get the virus from eating pork products, dominated the world's attention, especially during the cold and flu season.
In Indiana, there were 34 confirmed H1N1 deaths between June 1 and Dec. 12. State health officials saw a decline in flu-related visits to doctors offices and hospitals in late November.
The strand of influenza was treated with antiviral drugs. However, there were reports out of North Carolina of a group of people who had contracted a strand of swine flu that was resistant to the antiviral Tamiflu.
Questions also lingered about the safety, necessity and availability of the H1N1 vaccine. Indiana received more than 800,000 doses of the vaccine, and the state expected to receive 4.5 million doses through early 2010. The vaccine was not experimental, as some may have heard, health officials said. It was prepared in the same manner as the seasonal flu vaccine.
The search for Jada Justice
Armed with water bottles and fliers, family members and supporters spent days spreading the word about Jada Justice, a 3-year-old Portage toddler who was reported missing by her cousin Engelica Castillo.
But fears were confirmed in late June when Jada was found dead in a remote field near Otis, after a nine-day, nationally publicized search.
Castillo, and her boyfriend, Timothy Tkachik, ultimately were charged with Jada's murder. The couple are accused of dumping the girl's body, encased in concrete, June 15 into a LaPorte County swamp, only after a failed attempt at burning her body to destroy evidence.
Region residents view historic inauguration
The inauguration of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, had plenty of witnesses from Northwest Indiana. Obama made history Jan. 20, becoming the first black president.
Locals, including Wheeler High School freshman Abby Zeitler, Gary's Quentin Smith, a Tuskegee Airman, and groups such as the Culver Girls Academy equestrian team and the Morton High School band saw the historic moment in person.
Zeitler, along with other high school students, attended the inauguration in Washington, D.C., as a part of the Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference. Smith was invited by the National Urban League and by Tuskegee Airman associations. Members of the Culver Girls Academy equestrian team were invited to ride in the inaugural parade. The Morton band collected enough donations to perform at the Heritage Presidential Inauguration Festival at George Mason University.
Cantrell sentenced; Allen convicted
A pair of Lake County power brokers found the federal court cases against them at or near an end in 2009.
For county politico Robert Cantrell, years of political drama and courtroom theatrics culminated March 31 when Hammond federal Senior Judge Rudy Lozano issued a 6 1/2-year prison sentence.
Cantrell's sentencing was postponed repeatedly after he was convicted in June 2008 of four counts of depriving the public of honest services, three counts of insurance fraud using the U.S. mail and four counts of filing false tax returns between 2000 and 2003.
The indictment accused him of taking cash kickbacks from a contract between his then-employer, the North Township trustee's office, and a political ally's company.
Cantrell's appeal is pending.
Meanwhile, former Calumet Township Trustee Dozier Allen Jr. joined a long list of public officials convicted in federal corruption cases.
After a seven-day jury trial and nine hours of deliberations in Hammond federal court, jurors found Allen and deputies Wanda Joshua and Ann Marie Karras guilty in April of two fraud counts each for taking checks from a federal contract between 2000 and 2002.
The three await sentencing. Co-defendant Albert Young Jr. pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud.
Cline Avenue bridge closed for defects
In mid-November, the Indiana Department of Transportation closed a four-mile stretch of Cline Avenue between Calumet Avenue in Hammond and Michigan Avenue in East Chicago because of significant structural damage.
INDOT spokeswoman Angie Fegaras said a detailed inspection raised several questions about the structure's ability to handle the traffic load. Inspectors found the most severe damage between Riley Road and the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal.
A $90.6 million plan to restructure the area of Cline Avenue over the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal in 2012 is now up in the air after the closure.
With the current plan, bridge renovations wouldn't be complete until 2012, and it would cause a 1.25-mile stretch -- which carries steel shipments in and out of local steel mills and casino patrons to gaming boats -- to be closed until then.
Now there is a decision as to whether the bridge should be repaired or rebuilt. If the bridge is rebuilt, it lends to the possibility of being lowered and changing the number of lanes.
Bodies found at Gary funeral home
Four abandoned bodies, along with seven urns with cremated remains, were found at the defunct Serenity Garden Funeral Home in Gary over the Memorial Day weekend.
The former owner Darryl Cammack surrendered to authorities in late September after being charged with two felony counts of theft and one misdemeanor count of failing to dispose of human remains in a timely manner.
Cammack also faced civil charges in July by the family of Rosa Villarreal, of East Chicago, who was identified as one of the four abandoned bodies. The family claimed they paid Cammack for her funeral service and cremation when she died three years ago, yet her remains were among those discovered by the building's new owners.
Cammack has yet to go to trial. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of six years and six months in prison.
The curious tale of Marcus Schrenker
His current cinder block jail cell in Hamilton County is a far cry from where Marcus Schrenker used to sleep, in his former waterfront mansion in Geist, a tony suburb of Indianapolis.
In January, facing suspicion over his business dealings, millionaire money manager Schrenker downed his plane into a Florida swamp, launching a manhunt and mystery into what had happened.
Schrenker, a Merrillville native, first spilled the details of his bizarre, near-death jump into infamy to The Times in a jailhouse interview. He told of treating erratic bouts of bipolar disorder for years with prescription drugs, and of the guilt of conducting an extramarital affair.
"I was worth millions, had a beautiful wife," he said. "I'm in hell right now."
He said everything from a flight plan to Florida, to a motorcycle stored in Alabama, were part of an elaborate plan to kill himself and reward his betrayed family with insurance benefits. Reports that he had faked his death to escape his legal troubles were wrong, he said.
"The scary thing about Jan. 11 is I told a lot of people I was going to kill myself, and nobody believed me," Schrenker told The Times.
Prosecutors and former acquaintances have painted Schrenker as a skilled con artist. He is awaiting trial in Noblesville, Ind., for allegedly bilking investors out of more than $1 million.
Indiana prosecutors say Schrenker sold clients a nonexistent foreign currency fund, created false account information and used their money for personal expenses.
"It's a hornets' nest," Schrenker of the case against him. "I'm taking it very seriously."
He said his lavish lifestyle drew unintended scrutiny and skepticism of his business dealings.
But, he added, "I'm no Bernie Madoff."
Visclosky comes under scrutiny
Rep. Pete Visclosky's powerful, quiet leadership in the U.S. House took a public beating this year. A federal investigation into his fundraising and lobbying ties spread from the offices of former lobbying firm PMA Group to Visclosky's influential seat on the House Appropriations Committee.
The Merrillville Democrat admitted in the spring that his office and some staff had been subpoenaed in the investigation into whether donations funneled through PMA to Visclosky were illegal. Soon after, his longtime chief of staff resigned.
Visclosky then ceded his control over an energy and water spending bill, saying he wanted to avert clouding the process with the case, which is ongoing.
"The bill involves approximately $30 billion in federal spending, touching upon everything from flood control projects like the Little Cal to nuclear arms," Visclosky said at the time. "And the meticulous consideration of this bill is vitally important."
He remained chairman of the House Energy and Water Subcommittee.
With the approval of the Federal Election Commission, Visclosky last summer spent $100,000 in campaign funds on legal fees tied to the federal PMA inquiry.
Since the start of the probe, Visclosky's campaign donations have slipped, blamed by some experts on not only the lagging economy, but also the investigation.
In December, the Office of Congressional Ethics recommended dropping the investigation into three House Democrats' relationships with PMA. Visclosky was not one of them, and reports say the office continues to examine his ties.
Nose doctor nabbed in Italy
Former doctor Mark Weinberger was captured Dec. 15 in Italy, more than five years after he disappeared from his Merrillville surgery clinic amid mounting charges of fraud and malpractice.
The 46-year-old sinus specialist, who earned the moniker "The Nose Doctor," was found hiding in a tent at the foot of Mont Blanc in the Italian Alps. He stabbed himself in the neck while in police custody, but his injuries weren't life-threatening.
Local prosecutor are working with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of International Affairs, which will coordinate Weinberger's extradition with Italian authorities.
The mystery surrounding Weinberger began in 2004 when he disappeared while traveling with his wife in Greece. He was the subject of an international dragnet, and his case was featured on "America's Most Wanted."
Weinberger was indicted by a federal grand jury in Hammond in 2006 on 22 counts of fraud for allegedly scheming to overbill insurance companies for procedures that either were not needed or never performed.
In addition, Weinberger faces about 300 civil claims filed by patients of his Merrillville Center for Advanced Surgery LLC.


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Ritical Thinking about the Viet Nam Conflict
Critical Thinking about the Viet Nam Conflict
Minimum 2000words or as ordered 8pages with at least 6 references, not included word cited. No wikipedia as references. Include at least two pictures within the research paper, just put a link of the picture is fine but not count as one of the 6 references.
Dates of the Viet Nam conflict are at: html
Research Process citation examples:
You can Choose one of these topics for the research paper, please be narrowed on your arugment/topic:
Find one argument in Martin Luther Kings seminal antiwar sermon A time to Break Silence,and argue the reliability of that argument. Examples might be MLKs claim that Ho Chi Minhs land reform was benevolent, that the US set up Concentration campsor that the poor bore a disporportionate share of the burden of the war. For the sermon see:king.html (remember to relate to the topic of Vietname Conflict)
B.Examine the role of the Media in Viet Nam. There are hundreds of available sources on this topic, but some which come immediately to mind are ONCE UPON A DISTANT WAR, QUAGMIRE, DISPATCHES, THE GREEN BERETS, MALCOM BROWNS RED SOCKS AND MUDY BOTTS
C. A comparison argument or contrast, but not both between a limited aspect of the Viet Nam Conflict and our COnflict in Afghanistan.
Ritical Thinking about the Viet Nam Conflict
Minimum 2000 words with at least six references (WIKIPEDIA is not acceptable as a reference–it is more myth than fact on the topic of Viet Nam) including at least one reference from the Internet and one reference from the Apocalypse, Unit 5, Logic. Posting, hard copy, web page, or email acceptable. If you include pictures and appendices, hard copy or web page may be your medium of choice. The medium is not important; the quality of the research and the argument will decide the grade. Early on in the quarter you should decide on a topic that interests you, and your choice of topic will drive your selection of optional books and movies during the quarter. The joy of research comes from restriction, narrowing down to a very small topic, and researching deeply and imaginatively into it, and thinking deeply about it. You then organize an argument and document it, following the principles of Units 3, 4, 5, & 6 of the Apocalypse.Principles of units 3-6: html.
General SUGGESTED Topics–WRITE ON ONLY ONE OF THESE: (you can pick the topic u want to write from the followings)
A.Find one argument in Martin Luther Kings seminal antiwar sermon A Time to Break Silence,and argue the reliability (See Unit 5for this definition-an argument is reliable when we are sufficiently convinced of its truth to believe it or act upon it.) of that argument. Examples might be MLKs claim that Ho Chi Minhs land reform was benevolent, that the US set up Concentration camps,or that the poor bore a disproportionate share of the burden of the war. Some Vietnamese students have used their grandparents as sources on land reform-think imaginatively. For the sermon see: /html
The Course Research Page is at: edu/fac/Thomas.Pilsch/Vietnam.html
The TALE OF KIEU Webpage is at:kieu.html

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Michael MacKay, Radio Lemberg, 23.05.2018
The developing Battle of Horlivka is a demonstration of how the Joint Forces Operation differs from the Anti-Terrorist Operation that preceded it. For the first time since 2014 and the first year of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are initiating security operations against illegal armed formations instead of only responding to their attacks. The Joint Forces Operation has a righteous mission: to restore the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. That means that one way or another foreign, Russian invasion-occupation troops must leave Ukraine – all of Ukraine.
The Joint Forces Operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2018 is worlds apart from the volunteer battalions of 2014. Today, Ukraine fields an army which is larger, better-armed, and more professional. Russian forces in occupied Donbas have fragile morale and have no meaningful local support. This gives rise to a strategy by Ukraine with regard to occupied Horlivka that is designed to break the will of the Russian terrorists to fight, without necessarily destroying them in open battle.
An anonymous source close to the Joint Forces Operation told that the purpose of Ukrainian military actions around Horlivka is to "tighten the noose" around Donetsk. The source claims that Ukrainian forces have a plan to take heights of land around Horlivka, thus commanding to city. With the territory around Horlivka controlled by Ukrainian forces, the Russian illegal armed formations inside the city "will surrender Horlivka without a fight. There is just no point in dying there. Everything is clearly visible," said the source.
The map tells the story of what would happen should Horlivka be liberated by Ukrainian forces. A bridgehead would be opened to the liberation of Yenakiyeve and Debalseve. Should the Russian invader-occupiers lose those cities, the M-04 highway connecting Donetsk region and Luhansk region would be lost to them – so would the Debaltseve railhead. The city of Donetsk itself would then be in as exposed position for the Russians, militarily, as the city of Horlivka is now.
A lot of what the anonymous source is saying sounds like wishful thinking. Ukrainians yearn for a victory and want to hear that such a plan exists and will be carried out. But what is more likely going on is that the Ukrainian army is reaping the rewards of its greater professionalism and the weaker morale of the Russian side. The result is that Ukraine is winning combat actions and Russia is losing them, with the result that the noose truly is tightening around Horlivka.
Ukraine was reacting to Russian illegal armed formations harassing the village of Pivdenne in the 'grey zone' when they mounted an operation to take control completely. Ukrainian forces also took under their protection a part of Pivdenne village closest to Horlivka, called Chyhyri. Despite frenzied Russian counter-attacks, the 24th Mechanized Brigade hold this territory securely now. Ukrainian forces are two kilometres farther towards Horlivka, and have a commanding position over western neighbourhoods (which have been evacuated by the Russian occupation regime and effectively abandoned). Unconfirmed reports on May 22 claim that Ukrainian forces have liberated or are fighting in the Haharina coal mine complex to the north of the Chyhyri hamlet of Pivdenne village, and the mine's slag heap (which is a dominating height of land) to the north of that.
That was to the west of Horlivka. Active raiding benefited the Joint Forces Operation to the city's north. The Russian invader-occupiers have been regularly shelling civilians in Zaitseve, which is on the free Ukraine side of the battlefront directly north of occupied Horlivka. The Russians have been firing artillery from positions in the occupied village of Holmivskyi, which is to the east of Zaitseve. On May 20, a subversive and reconnaissance group of the 46th Separate Assault Battalion ("Donbas-Ukraine") captured three enemy troops when they came across an observation post for artillery spotting. The three Russian soldiers were turned over to the Security Service of Ukraine.
Planned operations to control villages in the 'grey zone' and active raiding is what sets the proactive Joint Forces Operation apart from the reactive Anti-Terrorist Operation. Given the professionalism of the Ukrainians and the fragile morale of the Russians, the Ukrainian army controls the battlefield and the Russian army does not. Ukraine is liberating territory and Russia is failing to take it back. The practical effect of small Ukrainian victories and small Russian defeats is that Ukraine is beginning to command the heights of land around Horlivka.
The best outcome for Horlivka would be a repeat of what happened in Slovyansk and Kramatorsk in July 2014: the Russians give up, and withdraw down the highway to the city of Donetsk. Ukraine is tightening the noose around Horlivka, and it's coming up to decision-time for the Russians for "fight or flight." One way or another, sooner or later, liberation will come for all of Russian-occupied Donbas and Crimea. Wishful thinking or not, let us hope that the Russians give up Horlivka sooner rather than later.


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MAPLETON, Iowa -- A Denison, Iowa, woman was killed early Friday when the vehicle she was riding in collided with a pickup truck on a county road near Mapleton.
An Iowa State Patrol crash report said that Rosa Garcia Villagomez, 36, died after a 2007 Nissan Maxima driven by Luis Perez Campos struck a 2007 Dodge Ram 1500 at about 4:48 a.m. on Monona County Road E-16 near Sumac Avenue, approximately three miles east of Mapleton.
Perez Campos was westbound, the report said, when he struck the pickup, driven by Linda Baker, 46, of Kiron, Iowa. Baker's vehicle was having mechanical problems and had previously been traveling east. The preliminary investigation showed that the pickup was possibly partially in the westbound lane when the collision occurred. The crash remains under investigation.
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The Pre is great! Too bad it will fail.
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The way to understand Pre's inevitable failure is not to think about how good the phone is compared with other phones. That's useful for picking your own handset, but useless for predicting market success.
The formula for predicting success is to identify what kind of person will buy each handset model, then count the warm bodies in each category. Subtract the market share you expect will be taken by competitors. And finally, you need to factor in the business execution side -- the stuff that analysts like to focus on and gadget enthusiasts like to ignore.
Pundits predicting Pre's primacy are assuming the phone will succeed in both business and consumer spaces. Why? Because Palm is strong in business, and the Pre has all kinds of entertaining goodies that consumers will enjoy.
I'm sorry, but that's wrong on both counts.
I think it's more accurate to divide users into not two but three categories: business users, consumers and power users.
Businesses need secure phones capable of running proprietary apps that hook up with company databases. It takes years to cultivate customers in this market and to get enterprises committed to writing their mission-critical apps on a specific platform. Microsoft, RIM and, yes, Palm dominate this market.
But like the iPhone, the Pre will not succeed in the business market any time soon, and Palm knows it. Palm's 22-page Pre Business Launch Guide distributed to Sprint employees warns that Palm "cant afford to sell the Pre to the wrong customers."
Who are the "wrong customers"? Well, according to Palm, it's "IT-centric business users." But isn't "IT centrism" the very quality that separates the business market from the consumer market?
When confronted with an "IT-centric business user," Sprint employees are asked to blow the dust off of that old Treo in the corner and try to sell that instead. The Treo is old, but at least it runs an OS the IT folks have seen before.
The Pre runs the brand spanking new webOS. Big IT shops want stability and compatibility, but Palm changes operating systems like underwear.
OK, forget business for now. The Pre will succeed in the consumer space, right? Well, no, actually. The consumer category includes teenagers, college students, parents -- OK, just about everyone. These users are looking for something brain-dead easy, but packed with toys and entertainment.
The Palm Pre UI is slick and appealing, new and innovative. But in the mass consumer handset market, only three things count: Brand appeal, simplicity and apps. And on all three counts, Apple clobbers Palm. That's why iPhone has destroyed every other "better" phone that has come along.
Palm's Synergy feature allows users to pull together contacts from multiple sources, and maintain threaded conversations across SMS, GTalk and AIM. Cool for tinkering geeks, but will your mom use it?
Gestures are less intuitive than iPhone's. 3D game development is poorly supported in the webOS SDK. The UI is feature rich, but complex and only semi-intuitive for average users.
The conventional wisdom is wrong. The Pre is not suitable for the business market, and it doesn't have what it takes to compete against iPhone in the consumer marketplace, either.
Which brings us to the smartphone power users. They tend to care more about power than beauty, and want to tinker. They're comfortable with complexity and want flexibility more than simplicity.
One reason Pre gets such good press is that the phone is targeted at precisely the kind of power-hungry geeks who write about phones on the Internet. Average users who think phones are too hard to use don't write gadget blogs. But they are the majority.
If you're salivating over the Pre, ask yourself: Are you a typical user? No, you're not.
Pre will capture power users, as well as Treo holdouts and a few people who really want an iPhone but are put off by the Kool-Aid-guzzling Apple fan cult.
So the Big Question is: Are there enough power users out there to drive the sales Palm needs to survive as a company?
"Gotchas" that will Wreck the Pre Party
Palm also confronts three "gotchas" that have nothing to do with the quality of the phone.
First, the Pre will be rare for a while . Yes, the phone launches June 6, but only in the US. And the number of units available for sale at Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack and a few Wal-Mart stores will be very limited. One analyst predicts fewer than 150,000 units units at launch. Best buy will reportedly average just four handsets per store!
By comparison, Apple sold some 270,000 iPhones on the very first day, a million within the first 74 days and more than 21 million to date.
What this means is that if I'm wrong, and the Pre is a runaway, mass-market hit, Palm won't be able to supply them fast enough. Palm needs a blockbuster success to survive, but cannot produce handsets at a blockbuster pace, at least for now.
The second major "gotcha" is that we're in a massive recession. People aren't buying phones like they would in better economic times. Sure, smartphone sales are up for the first quarter, but that's mainly because iPhone doubled it's marketshare over Q1 last year. Cold comfort for Palm.
And finally, we must remember that any comparisons made in the press between Pre and iPhone are between the future Pre and the past iPhone. The future iPhone, which will probably be announced within a week of Palm's Pre launch, may feature faster 3G, better exterior, more storage (32 GB!), better camera with auto-focus and video recording, built-in compass and will definitely include copy and paste, push notifications, multimedia texting, embeddable Google maps, landscape mode for all apps and tethering. Most of Pre's key differentiators will be erased.
The Pre will provide at least one major benefit for Palm, however: It makes the company a more attractive acquisition target. (Dell would be an ideal buyer.)
Look, I'm not here to bash the Pre. I think it's a fantastic phone, and for many users far superior to any other. It's just that no matter how much the power users love it, the Pre is not ready for business, can't top iPhone for consumers and is entering the market at the worst possible time.
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|Katie, Emily, Wallace and Gromit: Mrs. Right
|Season 1, Episode 8
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|Katie's Wishes
|To be right, later be wrong again
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Katie goes over to Veruca Salt's but her enemie is interested in interviewing as to how he predicted how school ended so early. Katie runs out again and bumps into Victor in the streets, looking for more punishment. Katie decides to give him some, telling him that he's got a hornets' nest in his other hand. Instantly, a nest appears and hornets fly out, stinging Victor in the eyes and ears, preventing from seeing or hearing anything. Katie tests this out by telling him that there's a professional wrestler behind him, before accidentally turning the wrestler into a woman. Katie then tells Victor about her God friends, causing them to reappear. After accidentally getting rid of them and getting them back, Katie undoes the wish. Next time she bumps into Victor, this time, she is proven to be wrong, as Victor has a hornets' nest, a jar full of scorpions and his new wrestler girlfriend to get revenge.
- Katie Sandow
- Emily
- Wallace
- Gromit
- Victor Quartermaine (antagonist)
- The Dazzlings (semi-antagonist)
- Vicky (minor antagonist)
- Lord Barkis Bittern (minor antagonist)
- Veruca Salt (Debut, rare antagonist)
Katie's wrong testEdit
- Katie = did it work, can i be wrong again?
- Wallace = only one way to find out!
(rises his Wand and poofs to the building with a bomb timer)
- Wallace = Pick a wire! pick a wire!
- Katie = are you sure this won't get me wrong???
- Wallace = oh ok, have it Emily's way!
(Emily rises her wand and poofs to Katie house.)
- This is the second time Vicky hasn't torture katie (the first one was Pilot.)


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Coll 28/67 'Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–' [258r] (515/644)
The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 6 Dec 1933-27 Mar 1947. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers.
This transcription is created automatically. It may contain errors.
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^une 17, 1942.
Section 1.
Copy No. j \ 2
Sir R. Bullard to Mr. Eden.—(Received June 17.)
gi r ^ Tehran, May 26. 1942.
IN accordance with the instructions contained in the Right Hon. the
Viscount Halifax's circular despatch of the 4th November, 1939, I have the
honour to transmit herewith a political report on Persia for the year 1941. Ihe
report has been prepared with some difficulty. In the first place, most of
the records for the period from the 1st January, 1941, until the occupation by
Allied troops in August have been destroyed; in the second, Mr. Greenway, to
whom I am indebted for a draft of a considerable portion of the report, wa J
transferred, and it was some while before time could be found, by those who had
a first-hand knowledge of the events of 1941, to bring the report to completion.
I have, &c.
Annual Political Report for 1941.
FROM the beginning of 1941 until the invasion of Persia by the B rit i s h and
Soviet troops in August mere were no serious attempts on the part of the Persian
Government to take advantage of the difficulties of Great Britain or to lenew
the pressure which had been applied in the previous year by the cancellation ot
the credits agreements and the blackmailing of the A.LO.C. over the royalty
question. The Shah, whose rigid policy of maintaining neutrality and ot
pursuing his plan of economic development was stressed m the report on Persia
for 1940 still hoped that he would be able to secure the maximum advantage
from both sides. In accordance with this policy, therefore, his Government
turned a deaf ear to British protests about the presence s u ia lar g®
numbers of potentially dangerous Germans and to the risk to which both Butis
and Persian interests were exposed by the presence of Axis merchant vessels
laid up, with skeleton Axis crews, in Persian waters. This problem, which was
to be solved so dramatically later in the year, was even at the beginning 01 1941
a source of considerable anxiety to His Majesty's Government. In January His
Majesty's Minister renewed the representations which he had made without
success in the previous year, and drew the attention of the Persian Government
to the fact that, among the excessive number of so-called German specmhsts and
business men, were many who were credibly believed to be German officers, and
who had, in any case, no real connexion with the firms by whom they were
nominally employed. The danger which this situation presented to Peisia as
well as to Great Britain was stressed in vain; the Persian Government com
placently replied that measures had already been taken to keep all Germans under
surveillance, to send away some suspicious characters, and to grant visas to
Germans desiring to enter Persia only at Tehran and after exhaustive enquiry.
They calculated that these measures were amply sufficient to obviate any untoward
2. There was, unfortunately, some ostensible justification tor the presence
in Persia of many of the German specialists, since there was much machinery
of German origin to be installed or maintained in connexion with the Shah s
numerous industrial schemes; and the very fact that these men weie nominally
employed in undertakings in which His Majesty had a personal financial interest
made it impossible for his Government, who had long ceased to resist his will,
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Annual reports for Persia [Iran] produced by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The reports were sent to the Foreign Office by HM's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran (from 1943, Ambassador to Iran). The reports cover the following years: 1932 (ff 2-50); 1933 (ff 51-98); 1934 (ff 99-128); 1935 (ff 129-165); 1936 (ff 166-195); 1937 (ff 196-227); 1938 (ff 228-249); 1939 (ff 250-251); 1940 (ff 252-257); 1941 (ff 258-266); 1942 (ff 267-277); 1943 (ff 278-289); 1944 (ff 290-306); 1945 (ff 307-317); 1946 (ff 318-320).
The reports for 1932 to 1938 are comprehensive in nature (each containing their own table of contents), and cover: an introductory statement on affairs in Persia, with a focus on the Shah's programme of modernisation across the country; an overview of foreign relations between Persia and other nations, including with the United Kingdom, British India, and Iraq; Persia's involvement in international conventions and agreements, for example the League of Nations and the Slave Traffic Convention; British interests in or associated with Persia, including Bahrain and Bahrainis resident in Persia, the Residency A diplomatic office of the British Government established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bushire, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Bank of Persia, and the Imperial and International Communications Company; political affairs in Persia, including court and officials, majlis, tribes and security; economic affairs in Persia (government finances and budgets, trade, industry, agriculture, opium production); communications (aviation, railways, roads); consular matters; military matters (army, navy, air force).
Reports from 1939 to 1946 are briefer in nature, Reports from 1941 onwards focusing on the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia, and the role of United States advisors in the Persian Government's administration.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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The file's reports are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Each report for the years 1932-1938 begins with a table of contents referring to that report's own printed pagination sequence.
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The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 308A
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Bangladesh Cricket Board XI 294 (Mazid 106) v
England XI 256 (Duckett 60)
Tour game, Chittagong, day two
Haseeb Hameed and Ben Duckett scored fifties but the rest of the batting capitulated to the leg spin of Tanveer Haider as England XI were dismissed for 256 in their first innings ending the tour game against Bangladesh Cricket Board XI in a draw in Chittagong.
England resumed the final day at four for naught. Hameed (57 retired out) and Duckett (60 retired out) looked in good nick. Duckett reached his fifty off 91 deliveries and with the score reading 90 for naught at lunch, he retired out to give others a chance.
Hameed on the other hand scored a patient fifty needing 113 deliveries to reach there and followed his opening partner, retiring out on 57.
Even though Ben Stokes (25) and Joe Root (24) got starts, they failed to carry on as a triple strike from Haider (4-53) reduced England to 139 for four.
Gary Ballance (36 not out) remained unbeaten but was running out of support at the other end and England were eventually dismissed for 256 ending the game in a draw.
The action now shifts to the Test series with the first game scheduled to be played between 20th and 24th October in Chittagong.
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Additionally, Intune includes details about the noncompliant device in the email notification.
Remotely lock the noncompliant device: For devices that are noncompliant, you can issue a remote lock. The user is then prompted for a PIN or password to unlock the device. More on the Remote Lock feature.
Mark device non-compliant: Create a schedule (in number of days) after the device is marked not compliant. You can configure the action to take effect immediately, or give the user a grace period to be compliant.
This article shows you how to:
- Create a message notification template
- Create an action for noncompliance, such as send an email or remotely lock a device
Before you begin
To set up actions for non-compliance, you need at least one device compliance policy. To create a device compliance policy, see the following platforms:
When using device compliance policies to block devices from corporate resources, Azure AD conditional access must be set up. See Conditional access in Azure Active Directory or common ways to use conditional access with Intune for guidance.
Create a notification message template
To send email to your users, create a notification message template. When a device is noncompliant, the details you enter in the template is shown in the email sent to your users.
In the Azure portal, select All services, filter on Intune, and select Microsoft Intune.
Select Device compliance > Notifications.
Select Create notification. Enter the following information:
- Name
- Subject
- Message
- Email header – Include company logo
- Email footer – Include company name
- Email footer – Include contact information
Once you're done adding the information, choose Create. The Notification message template is ready to use. Note that the logo you upload as part of the Company Portal branding will be used for email templates. For more information about Company Portal branding, see Company identity branding customization.
You can also edit a Notification template previously created.
Add actions for noncompliance
When you create a device compliance policy, Intune automatically creates an action for noncompliance. When a device isn't meeting your compliance policy, this action marks the device as not compliant. You can customize how long the device is marked as not compliant. This action can't be removed.
You can also add another action when you create a compliance policy, or update an existing policy.
In the Azure portal, open Microsoft Intune > Device compliance.
Select Policies, choose one of your policies, and then select Properties.
Don't have a policy yet? Create an Android, iOS, Windows, or other platform policy.
JAMF devices and devices targeted with device groups cannot receive compliance actions at this time.
Select Actions for noncompliance > Add.
Select your Action:
Send email to end users: When the device is noncompliant, choose to email the user. Also:
- Choose the Message template you previously created
- Enter any Additional recipients by selecting groups
Remotely lock the noncompliant device: When the device is noncompliant, lock the device. This forces the user to enter a PIN or passcode to unlock the device.
Schedule: Enter the number of days (0 to 365) after noncompliance to trigger the action on users' devices. After this grace period, you can enforce a conditional access policy. If you enter 0 number of days, then conditional access takes effect immediately. For example, you can block access to corporate resources immediately if a device is noncompliant.
When finished, select Add > OK to save your changes.
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John the Baptist, June 24, 2018
John the Baptist
June 24, 2018
Holy Communion at 8:30 and 11am
Prayer of the Day
Almighty God, by your gracious providence your servant John the Baptist was born to Elizabeth and Zechariah. Grant to your people the wisdom to see your purpose and the openness to hear your will, that the light of Christ may increase in us, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Scripture readings
Malachi 3:1-4
Psalm 141:1-10
Acts 13:13-26
Luke 1:57-80
|Entrance Hymn
|Christ, whose glory Fills the Skies
|Hymn of the Day
|By All Your Saints, st. 1, 15, 3
|Distribution hymns
|Blessed Be the God of Israel
|O Christ, Our Light, O Radiance True
|Sending hymn
|Prepare the Royal Highway
|LBW Lutheran Book of Worship
WOV With One Voice
In our prayers we remember The Night Ministry.
Education hour at 9:45am
Sunday School, Pre-Confirmation and Confirmation classes are on summer break.
Adult Education
The Sunday morning Bible study group will not meet June 24, July 1, or July 8.
There are no Adult Education classes during June.
Download the Adult Ed schedule for July-August 2018.
The Grace Church Library is open and staffed on Sundays from 8:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Look for books related to Adult Ed topics as well as many other subjects. The library is also open for self-service during the week.
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? TOURETTES: Let Me Entertain You (BBC3) was like The Voice meets Glee but with a lot more swearing.
Because each of the contestants in this singing programme suffered from the syndrome, which meant that they were prone to shouting out various obscenities or had an uncontrollable facial tick.
But their symptoms vanished once they got behind a microphone.
It was a remarkable show that showed Tourettes suffers as real people, rather than simply as the object of ridicule as is all too often the case.


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Today, I'd like to "speak" on the true value of hiring a copywriter. You see, the true value of a copywriter goes well beyond the fee you pay him or her to create your amazing content. And it can, in fact, be measured if you're into analyzing ROI (and you should be totally into analyzing ROI…)!
So let's take a quick look at what a copywriter's value really is and how you can measure that value, shall we?
Sure, you could write your own copy. For your website, your newsletter, your ad flyers, your brochures, your social media, your product descriptions, your…
But really, do you, as a busy business owner with a million things to take care of during a typical day, have the time to sit down and focus on writing these things? Probably not. Or, at the very least you don't have time to focus on writing them as well as they should be. Why crank out crappy writing??
Hand it over to a professional copywriter and not only save yourself some time, but also get quality copy!
I hit on this subject above. Now, I'm not saying that you aren't a good writer. There are plenty of good writers running businesses that have nothing to do with writing!
What I am saying is that when a person has a long to-do list, she can become so focused on knocking things off of it that quality suffers. I'm guilty of this myself. Usually when it comes time to cook dinner. Ask my kids. 🙂
In all seriousness, though, the writing on your website and marketing materials matters. It can literally make or break a sale or a new client interaction. Don't "squeeze" it in when you have the option of using a copywriter. It's what we do!
Consistency refers to how regularly you update your website, blog, newsletters, etc. Especially in the digital world, you need to stay in front of your target audience if you want to stay relevant. Loyalty isn't always easy to come by, and if your customer is looking for a product or service and can't find you or hasn't heard from you in a while, she may very well seek out another source. Sad, but true.
Consistency also refers to your brand. If you're doing all of your own writing, but the writing misses the mark in some way, then you are establishing your brand as missing the mark. I'm not just alluding to spelling errors or grammatical mistakes, either. If your writing is technically sound, but isn't engaging your audience and causing them to take the action you want them to take then you're missing the mark.
And if you're missing the mark you're pretty much wasting your time. It's like baking a pie every single day even though nobody ever buys that flavor.
Moral of Paula's story today: Stop baking pies that don't sell! Wait…no…errrr…yeah, something like that. 😉


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I'm having an issue when I'm multitasking with Brave. Netflix is open on the right and I'm watching a show… Additional tabs are open to the left where I'm working and browsing the internet… when I right click on literally anything the video coverage freezes, audio continues, video stops. When you release the right-click the footage catches up immediately with the audio.
It's extremely annoying… Any thoughts?


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The Menstrual Cycle
The Menstrual Cycle
Educational video on menstruation
by Emma Bryce
This might seem hard to believe, but right now, 300 million women across the planet are experiencing the same thing: a period.
The monthly menstrual cycle that leads to the period is a reality most women on Earth will go through in their lives.
But why is this cycle so universal? And what makes it a cycle in the first place?
Periods last anywhere between two and seven days, arising once within in a 28-day rotation. That whole system occurs on repeat, happening approximately 450 times during a woman's life.
Behind the scenes are a series of hormonal controls that fine tune the body's internal workings to make menstruation start or stop during those 28 days.This inner machinery includes two ovaries stocked with thousands of tiny sacks called follicles that each contain one oocyte, an unfertilized egg cell.
At puberty, ovaries hold over 400 thousand egg cells, but release only one each month, which results in pregnancy or a period. Here's how this cycle unfolds.
Each month beginning around puberty, the hormone-producing pituitary gland in the brain starts releasing two substances into the blood: follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone. When they reach the ovaries, they encourage the internal egg cells to grow and mature.
The follicles respond by pumping out estrogen. The egg cells grow and estrogen levels peak, inhibiting the production of FSH, and telling the pituitary to pump out more LH. That causes only the most mature egg cell from one of the ovaries to burst out of the follicle and through the ovary wall. This is called ovulation, and it usually happens ten to sixteen days before the start of a period.
The tiny oocyte moves along the fallopian tube. A pregnancy can only occur if the egg is fertilized by a sperm cell within the next 24 hours. Otherwise, the egg's escapade ends, and the window for pregnancy closes for that month.
Meanwhile, the now empty follicle begins to release progesterone, another hormone that tells the womb's lining to plump up with blood and nutrients in preparation for a fertilized egg that may embed there and grow.
If it doesn't embed, a few days later, the body's progesterone and estrogen levels plummet, meaning the womb stops padding out and starts to degenerate, eventually falling away. Blood and tissue leave the body, forming the period.
The womb can take up to a week to clear out its unused contents, after which, the cycle begins anew.
Soon afterwards, the ovaries begin to secrete estrogen again, and the womb lining thickens, getting ready to accommodate a fertilized egg or be shed. Hormones continually control these activities by circulating in ideal amounts delivered at just the right time. The cycle keeps on turning, transforming each day and each week into a milestone along its course towards pregnancy or a period.
Although this cycle appears to move by clockwork, there's room for variation. Women and their bodies are unique, after all. Menstrual cycles occur at different times n the month, ovulation comes at various points n the cycle, and some periods last longer than others. Menstruation even begins and ends at different times in life for different women, too. In other words, variations between periods are normal.
Appreciating these differences and learning about this monthly process can empower women, giving them the tools to understand and take charge of their own bodies. That way, they're able to factor this small cycle into a much larger cycle of life.
Infographic on the menstruation
Source: http://visual.ly/menstruation-and-menstrual-cycle-infographic
Fact Sheet
Information on menstruation by Womens Health Queensland. Topics include menstrual cycle phases, sanitary protection and common menstrual problems.
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User Experience Designer
Brenda Tootell is the founder of Freedom Products. She has a background in User Experience Design and is involved in the research, design and development of JuJu products. Brenda is passionate about providing individuals with sustainable product alternatives, improving the interaction customers have with JuJu products and maintaining environmentally conscious and socially responsible business practices. Brenda is a wife and mum to two teenage boys and a ball-crazed border collie. She loves getting out in nature, travel and good product design.


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The dark shadows of East Dallas
Cox Cemetery, White Rock Lake, the Mary Ellen Bendsten house at 4949 Swiss, Snuffer's … we explore our neighborhood's mysterious lore.
Cox Cemetery, White Rock Lake, the Mary Ellen Bendsten house at 4949 Swiss, Snuffer's … we explore our neighborhood's mysterious lore.
Sam Wade's store has everything from current movies to foreign films that require an accompanying rental of an international DVD player.
Vickery Place is an urban neighborhood. But 100 years ago, it was a 4-mile horse-and-buggy ride to Downtown.
The center's director, who lives in Forest Hills, brought her passion for birds, nature, wildlife and conservation to Dallas from the Chicago Zoological Society.
Texas state fair season is upon us, but you don't have to venture far from our neighborhood for gourmet fair food.
It will drop to an average of 72 degrees in Dallas by the end of the month, which means it's time to enjoy red wine again. Here are several reds to get you started.
A selection of live music, wine tastings, social events and other restaurant happenings in Lakewood/East Dallas.
Mark Sherbet's gargoyles aren't evil or menacing. He thinks of them as benevolent monsters, like the ones in his favorite childhood storybook, "Where the…
Stanley is making plans to build an electric car, and he is a finalist in a contest to win $20,000 toward creating the car he is designing: a kit car made of fiberglass.
The volunteers who help with each event are both women and men — somewhat unusual among local leagues, which are often made up entirely of women.
Wilke, who studied photography and illustration in Cincinnati and Boston, made the transition to fine art photography after suffering a stroke.
Interior designer Emily Johnson Larkin started blogging in 2007 as a creative outlet. Then House Beautiful and Elle Decor magazines listed it as one of their favorite blogs.


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Tough-tackling Americans likely to give Belgium a hard time.
Belgium were predicted to take this World Cup by storm by a few shrewd observers.
Marc Wilmots' squad, on paper, is as strong as any European side and they stormed through their qualifying group – only a late Wales equaliser in Brussels denying them a maximum haul. But they appear to have struggled a little with conditions in Brazil, though did win all of their group games albeit all by a single-goal margin.
What is certain is that they are a hard team to score against. Thibault Courtois, quite possibly the best goalkeeper in the world at present, has only conceded one goal so far, a penalty in their opening match against eventual Group H runners-up Algeria, and the likely return of Vincent Kompany and Toby Alderweireld after they was rested against South Korea will bring their defence back to full strength.
Chelsea's Eden Hazard and Spurs' Nacer Chadli should also earn a recall and the Belgians appear to have unearthed a useful striker in teenager Divock Origi, who scored a late winner against Russia in the Maracana.
The Red Devils do seem able to find extra when required, as was the case against the Koreans when Steven Defour was sent off before half-time, and are going to be very tough nut to crack in this tournament.
The USA lost their final group game against Germany but were probably value for a draw and Jurgen Klinsmann's team have plenty of energy.
Belgium will have to keep a check on the marauding runs of Fabian Johnson but Clint Dempsey needs help up front and it's unlikely Sunderland's Jozy Altidore will be fit enough to resume following a hamstring injury.
This doesn't look a game that's going to produce a lot of goals as both sides are stronger in defence than attack – under 2.5 total goals is 8/13. It would be no surprise should extra time or even penalties be needed with the draw in 90 minutes available at 12/5.
The match kicks off at 9pm UK time on Tuesday July 1st at the Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador.


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So you have heard the buzz regarding the e-cigarettes and are enthusiastic about quitting cigarettes and giving vaping a shot, right? However, prior to deciding to jump straight in and join the vaping team, it is vital that you thoroughly examine the facts. Vaping is still pretty new to the market, only having been used for around a decade or so. As it hasn't been part of the public as much as cigarette smoking, there's a whole lot that people don't know about it. Here, several aspects concerning the two habits smoking vs. vaping will likely be discussed to help you understand how they are similar or different.
This is one of the most important questions through the entire vaping and smoking community. Previously, left unanswered due to the insufficient research and statistics on the topic. Much has evolved within the the past few years, with many well-known researchers releasing papers on the subjected to shed some light on the theories of others.
Unfortunately, since vaping remains fairly new and studies are ongoing, vaping is oftentimes make the same category as smoking. Hopefully, eventually and once more studies are completed, vapers will like more freedom than their smoking counterparts.
Whether you're taking combusted smoke to your lungs or vapor, there are going to be some quite serious health implications that come with it. The implications of smoking are much more defined and outlined compared to vaping eventually. Here's an overview of the most common health implications discovered by researchers for both smoking and vaping.
The process of smoking includes the combustion of tobacco containing thousands of chemicals, 20 which possess a strong connection to causing cancer. We can always reference each of the 20 chemicals by way of a single name "carcinogens." because seeking to list out 20 chemical names takes to long. However, here are just a few of the harmful chemicals that people can consider carcinogens:
Nicotine – The addictive chemical, gives the user the desire to wish more. When people say they're dependent on smoking, they're hooked on nicotine. As mentioned above, many of the chemicals have a strong link with some leading health issues, including; cancer, heart problems and lung disease. You simply will not find these chemical elements along the way of producing e cig reviews. The combustion from the tobacco leaf starts the entire process of chemical reactions, which in turn creates smoke that is filled with the mentioned before carcinogens.
The key process of vaping removes the requirement to combust anything, removing a number of the harmless chemicals listed above. Studies on the vapor created from vaping suggest you will find a significant difference between the quantity of carcinogens found when compared with cigarette smoke. With over 20 chemicals seen in tobacco smoke compared to just a few in the vapor. Here are just some of the chemicals found in vapor:
Some other chemicals found are mostly related to the entire process of flavoring. Many of which are located to be food grade and typically safe to consume. This sends us on a road to ask the largest question within an area by which research xfzhdf not even available. Overall, these flavorings are created to be ingested rather than vaporized. Which leads us to your gray area up to now. The long-term effects are just not known.
The University of California San Francisco's Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education has identified nine chemicals within the vapor from e-cigarettes which can be on California's list of carcinogens and reproductive toxins. Not every these chemicals are normally found in every vape juice. It should also be noted that this warning is supposed to bring awareness to a few of the potential dangers and never to actively discourage users from vaping. Simply put, it shows there are still studies needed to determine exactly how safe vaping is compared to cigarettes.