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James Wellbeloved turkey and rice wet senior cat food is ideal for older or less active cats, ideal for cats aged 7 years and over.
Please note that all food items will be sent separately from other goods ordered.
James Wellbeloved Senior cat food with Turkey and Rice is ideal for lower active cats and cats that are overweight. Made with high quality ingredients and promotes healthy skin and coat with added Omega-3 and 6.
Composition: turkey meal (20.0%), brown rice, white rice, turkey fat (14.1%), maize gluten, potato protein, poultry gravy, pea protein, tomato pomace (2.4%), carrot, potassium chloride, chicory pulp, omega oil supplement, chicory extract (0.25%), calcium carbonate, sodium chloride, cranberry extract (0.05%), glucosamine (0.045%), nettles (0.025%), yucca extract (0.02%), chondroitin (0.005%).
Additives per kg: antioxidants: E306/Natural antioxidant, 200mg, Vitamins: E672/Vitamin A, 30,000 iu, E671/Vitamin D3, 2,250 iu, Amino acids: taurine, 2000mg. Trace elements: E1/iron, 40mg, E2/iodine, 2mg, E4/copper, 5mg, E5/manganese, 25mg, E6/zinc, 100mg, E8/selenium, 0.2mg.
Analytical Constituents: protein 31%, crude fibres 1.5%, fat content 20%, crude ash 6.5%, Vitamin E 600mg/kg, omega-3 fatty acids 0.4%, omega-6 fatty acids 4.5%, phosphorus (P) 0.8%.
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We regret that we cannot, by law, accept returns of any medication. If you return a medicine to us all we can do is dispose of it correctly for you as it cannot be resold.
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Of the three marks of Lent – prayer, fasting and almsgiving – almsgiving is often the most neglected. And yet, it's the only place where the Bible brings all three together, the inspired author puts the emphasis firmly on the last: "Prayer and fasting are good, but better than either is almsgiving accompanied by righteousness… It is better to give alms than to store up gold; for almsgiving saves one from death and expiates every sin. Those who regularly give alms shall enjoy a full life" (Tob 12:8-9). Why is almsgiving so powerful? Because it's prayer, and it involves fasting. Almsgiving is a form of prayer because it is "giving to God" – and not mere philanthropy. It is a form of fasting because it demands sacrificial giving – not just giving something, but giving up something. Almsgiving is prayer and fasting.
During our Ash Wednesday Services guest will be asked to support our local St. Mary's Society of St. Vincent de Paul Conference (SVdP). Participants will be given a SVdP Bag with a request for food and toiletries. Attached to the SVdP Bag will also be an envelope for a monetary donation. Download the instruction on how to participate.
Instructions: SVdP Food Drive
St. Mary's Basilica Society of St. Vincent de Paul Conference (SVdP) is dedicated to feeding, clothing, housing and healing individuals and families in our downtown community who have no where else to turn for help. As important, SVdP provides meaningful opportunities for benefactors and volunteers to serve their neighbors in need with love and compassion. St. Mary's Basilica SVdP has been serving our community since 1946.
For more information on St. Mary's Basilica Society of St. Vincent de Paul Conference visit: St. Vincent de Paul Society

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Following the discovery of human remains in Sathosa premises in Mannar, human remains were found in a pit excavated by the CEB in Aatchuvely. Tension prevailed in the area following this find.
When the CEB workers excavated a pit for planting an electricity post, on Soosaiappar Road, Pathameny, Atchuvely, a skull hands and leg bones had surfaced. Great tension prevailed in the area after the find.
On the Atchuvely police being informed of the find they immediately came to the spot and started their investigations.
During the whole area was under the control of the Army, and speculations were rife as to whose are the remains?


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Bowman's automotive experience includes two years as editor for Audi and Volkswagen customer magazines (via Contempo Media, publishers of Sharp and S/Style), and a few years with Motor Trend in Los Angeles.
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BLOOMSBURG, Pa. -- Volunteers at the Bloomsburg Food Cupboard sort food and get it ready for distribution. The food pantry depends on donations and recently got a big one from Bloomsburg University. Students donated more than $8,000 of their unused campus dining dollars to the Bloomsburg Food Cupboard.
"I think it's really great. It's nice that Bloomsburg opens up the town for us to have a college here so it's just nice to give back a little bit to the community," Krysta Hower said.
The donation allowed the campus dining service to buy more than $8,000 worth of food for the Bloomsburg Food Cupboard's weekend backpack program for the Bloomsburg Area School District.
"We have volunteers come and they pack a bag. It's a grocery bag. We send home breakfast, lunch, fruit, vegetables, snack, and bagels," Martha Sheehe said.
The students also cleaned out their dorm rooms and donated more than 3,000 pounds of their own food.
Students say they were happy to help.
"We can actually think of how much more useful it's going to be. If we can't use it, it's going to be donated to the food cupboard. It's going to be used very well either way," Emel Rasim said.
"It's extremely helpful. Plus, it's the kind of food that we don't really buy, like individual cereal boxes and all these individual ones which cost a lot more money," Sheehe said.
Over the last two years, Bloomsburg University students have donated more than $15,000 to the Bloomsburg Food Cupboard.


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Ireland could be a world leader in wave energy if companies secured investment, writes Conor Haughey
Some time ago a close friend of mine who is a professional yacht skipper said: "The wind is free, but catching it is fierce expensive." The same is proving to be the case for ocean energy.
The waves that constantly crash onto the west coast of Ireland represent a massive untapped resource of clean energy. The harnessing of this energy is proving to be both difficult and expensive.
A detailed assessment of Ireland's wave energy resource was carried out by the Marine Institute of Ireland in 2005. The study indicated that theoretically we have wave energy resources that are up to 18 times the total electricity requirements of the Republic. Obviously we can't harness every wave.
After we take out areas for shipping lanes, fishing and leisure pursuits the accessible wave energy resource is however estimated to be enough to supply as much as three-quarters of our energy requirements. If Saudi Arabia has been blessed with oil, Ireland has been blessed with ocean energy.
So why are we not exploiting this infinite clean energy? The answer is that we still need to work on the technology to develop commercially viable wave farms. This is both an opportunity and challenge.
There are over 100 firms worldwide developing wave energy converters.
But, unlike the wind industry the technology differs greatly from one to another. There are no industry norms. The company which comes up the winning technology that becomes the standard is set to reap huge benefits.
Against this background I set up my company Blue Power Energy in 2008.
I spent a lot of time looking at the industry and the different technologies which were being developed and I had an idea for a simple direct mechanical device that would help turn waves into energy.
I joined up with my friend Damien Browne and we engaged a mechanical design engineer to help us. The Hydraulics Marine Research Centre (HMRC) in UCC came on board to help us test our devices.
While many companies have successfully deployed wave energy devices and proved their survivability, problems have been encountered with their power take-off units This is the engine at the heart of any wave energy converter.
It converts the energy absorbed by the device from the sea into electricity which is suitable for grid connection. The efficiency with which it does this is critical to the commercial viability of the device. The results of tests showed very high efficiencies. We have since built and tested five prototypes all trialled in the HMRC. Having perfected our engine, we are now ready to fit it to a wave energy converter.
I believe the technology to successfully harness ocean waves will be developed within the next five years. I also believe that Ireland can have a wave energy industry within 10 years. Blue Power believes it can play an important part in the sector and we plan to raise €3m to fund our next stage of development.
The question for Ireland is bigger: do we want to be importers of the technology or exporters? Our aim should be to become a world leader in design, manufacture and deployment of wave energy converters.
An Irish company, Open Hydro, is well on its way to achieving this in tidal energy with their tidal turbine. We want to do the same for waves.
So how do we get there? In 2009 the then Energy Minister Eamon Ryan set aside €22m for ocean energy development and set the price that would be paid for electricity from ocean energy at 22c per Kwhr.
This was a great boost to the industry but this money has now been used up.
We have a new research and testing facility being built for the HMRC in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.
We have two offshore test sites: one in Galway Bay, and another is being developed off Belmullet, Co Mayo.
We have two Irish wave energy companies which are well advanced, Ocean Energy and Wavebob, and there are also international companies here like Aquamarine and Carnegie. Wave energy is gaining traction in Ireland.
So what do we need to create a successful wave energy industry?
I think if you asked any of the Irish companies they would say: money. I understand that when the budgets for health, education and social welfare are being cut back that we can't expect the Government to put money into wave power. It will have to come from the private sector.
There are however ways the Government can help. They need to enact the new foreshore licensing legislation and facilitate grid connections for wave farms on the west coast. There needs to be policy direction and one body responsible for permitting grid connection or planning for a super-grid to Europe. They could look at incentives to encourage private investment.
But more than this we need a political cheerleader for ocean energy within government. Like the Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond who has made ocean energy a "key economic priority". This political support has encouraged multi-billion euro energy players like ABB, Rolls Royce, Eon, GE, Siemens and the Swedish Vattenfall to invest in Scotland over Ireland.
There are lessons to be learned from the Orkney Islands, one of the remotest parts of Britain. Here the community, local government and business joined forces about 10 years ago to take ownership of the isles' future so they bet on ocean energy in both tidal and wave and it proved to be a good one.
The population is 25,000 and they have invested £20m of their own money. The British government committed £200m to accelerate their endeavour. There are now 250 people employed in the industry.
They have engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, trawler owners, deckhands and shipping companies as well as every major power and engineering company in the world now prepared to invest in a remote but booming community.
It's not too late for Ireland but we need to catch the wave before it's gone.
Conor Haughey is founder and CEO of Blue Power Energy
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Five men were brought to the police station for questioning. It was certain both robbers were present. To narrow the field, each man was individually interrogated about the identities of the robbers. The results were:
Alex: 1. At most one of Bill and Eddy is guilty. 2. Dave is guilty.
Bill: 1. Both Alex and Carl are guilty. 2. Eddy is not guilty.
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Five Years Later: The Best Music of 2013!
Five years is an eternity in the life of a record.
Five years is an eternity in the life of a record. When coming up with this feature, the question the Spectrum Culture staff pondered was this: ŌĆ£How well do these albums play NOW!ŌĆØ Not five years ago, but how have they aged in our memories. While some acclaimed albums of 2013 remain strong on our list, some critically-lauded ones didnŌĆÖt have the staying power. Modern Vampires of the City, Settle and mbv all didnŌĆÖt make the cut. This list is designed to give new perspective on things five years old. Thank you so much for reading!
10. Danny Brown ŌĆō Old [FoolŌĆÖs Gold]
Old is the curious midpoint between the drug-addled craze of XXX (2011) and the clear-headed experimentalism of Atrocity Exhibition (2016), containing nearly everything great about Danny Brown slammed into a messy, bloated album. The first side is a harrowing look at the systemic forces that lead to the drug addiction, violence and poverty surrounding him, the second a hedonistic party romp stocked with nearly every known narcotic. The switch between these poles happens almost immediately, as the somber promise of rehabilitation on ŌĆ£Clean UpŌĆØ gives way to an archetypical Danny Brown line: ŌĆ£Codeine in my cereal/ Always behind a smokey.ŌĆØ ItŌĆÖs like hearing a relapse happen right in front of you, where thereŌĆÖs no line between hopes of betterment and ravenous substance consumption.
While this could make Old an album that conflicts with itself in an unforgiving way, Brown is too careful with his sequencing and long-form vision to let this happen. ŌĆ£WonderbreadŌĆØ is a vivid description of a young Brown encountering hard drugs for the first time, and the confusion and discomfort he feels carry into even the most debased tracks. The gunshots that sound like fireworks on ŌĆ£TortureŌĆØ turn into the sound of popping synapses on ŌĆ£Kush Coma.ŌĆØ The structure of the album is purposefully disorienting and contradictory, placing the listener at will to the frequent one-eighties and skewed self-justification Brown goes through on these tracks. ItŌĆÖs the closest heŌĆÖs come to not just writing about his life, but actually making an album that feels physically related to it. The widely varying production moves from boom bap to trap to dubstep to cloud rap, neatly following the winding path the lyrical themes take. At the center of all the chaos is Danny Brown, the maniacally talented, cackling maestro of confusion. ŌĆō Connor Lockie
9. Bill Callahan ŌĆō Dream River [Drag City]
Repeated trips through the gentle soundscapes of Dream River, the unassuming fourth studio album released by Bill Callahan under his own name (his 15th overall, counting those records he released as Smog) reveal new, wonderful moments even five years later. That Callahan chose to start with the simple ode to drinking alone, ŌĆ£The Sing,ŌĆØ feels like an intentional misdirect, a joke to break the ice. But even after the ŌĆ£BeerŌĆØ and ŌĆ£Thank youŌĆØ section of the song, he turns his monosyllabic drink request into something else: ŌĆ£Giving praise in a quiet way.ŌĆØ
From here, Dream River settles into a looser framework and becomes moreŌĆöforgive me for thisŌĆödreamlike. Hypnotic hand drums, flute and violin are deployed tastefully, which combine with warm, rich guitar tones and occasional moments of shreddingŌĆöbut even that noodling is gentle enough that it never feels like showing off. CallahanŌĆÖs classic baritone helps tie the entire package together in a wholly arresting way, clear as a bell and almost comforting, to the degree that when he sings ŌĆ£All I want to do/ Is make love to you/ In the fertile dirtŌĆØ on ŌĆ£Spring,ŌĆØ it sounds seductive, rather than repulsive. Callahan hasnŌĆÖt released an album sinceŌĆöunless you count Have Fun with God, the inexplicably tasteful dub version of Dream RiverŌĆöbut he sure gave us something wonderful to unknowingly keep us company while we wait for the next one. ŌĆō Holly Dixon
8. Blood Orange ŌĆō Cupid Deluxe [Domino]
Cupid Deluxe is a prophetic album in many ways, even if Dev Hynes had no pretensions for clairvoyance. ItŌĆÖs an album that lives and dies on its reinterpretation of the past as it reintroduces its audience to the clean, funky guitars and smooth rhythms of ŌĆś80s soul and funk that were too often dismissed as cheesy and disposable by critics for years. ItŌĆÖs an album that embraces fluid definitions of gender and sexuality at a time when those definitions were only just entering the mainstream vernacular. Hynes may low-key be the most influential artist in modern pop at the moment, and that extends far beyond his work producing and writing for the likes of Carly Rae Jepsen and Solange. Cupid Deluxe is overflowing with ideas, all of which could be an album unto themselves.
Recent Blood Orange albums have had a unifying concept or idea to carry them, but Cupid Deluxe largely sacrifices this in favor of Hynes trying his hand at whatever he can. The album veers from Caribbean dancehall to new wave to smooth disco all in the space of the first three tracks. Lyrically, it offers little in the way of stridency, even as it occasionally delves into the queer experience in America. Everything on Cupid Deluxe, from the sexual frustration of ŌĆ£No Right ThingŌĆØ (ŌĆ£You canŌĆÖt see me/ When youŌĆÖre pushing me away,ŌĆØ sings Samantha Urbani following the introduction of the chorus) to the albumŌĆÖs seeming mantra introduced on ŌĆ£It Is What It IsŌĆØ and recalled on later songs. Later on, Hynes would use his albums to deliver relatively straightforward messages, but Cupid Deluxe is an album about feelings and experiences, intimate and messy at different turns. ŌĆō Kevin Korber
7. Daft Punk ŌĆō Random Access Memories [Columbia]
Outside of the then ubiquitous ŌĆ£Get Lucky,ŌĆØ Random Access Memories largely refuses to be date-stamped. Given the throwback nature of the album, the guest artists involved (namely Nile Rodgers, Giorgio Moroder and that staple of ŌĆś70s pop music, Paul Williams) and Daft PunkŌĆÖs particular brand of retro-futurism, it essentially exists out of time, sounding as though it couldŌĆÖve been produced any time between the late-ŌĆś70s and mid-ŌĆś10s. ItŌĆÖs quite a feat, one that goes beyond mere genre pastiche and shows the French duo to be both faithful to their influences and able to rightfully place themselves alongside the likes of Moroder and Rodgers. Furthermore, unlike the majority of modern pop albums, Random Access Memories plays like an album.
Sure ŌĆ£Get LuckyŌĆØ was inescapable in 2013, but it still manages to feel of a piece of the album rather than simply a massive single surrounded by a bunch of tepid filler. ŌĆ£Lose Yourself to DanceŌĆØ is just as strong and of a similar sound and feel to ŌĆ£Get Lucky,ŌĆØ but itŌĆÖs also not far removed from the autobiographically-narrated ŌĆ£Giorgio by Moroder,ŌĆØ a track that allows Moroder himself to expound on the evolution of his creative process within a context clearly heavily indebted to his achievements.
Ambitiously sprawling and yet intimately accessible, Random Access Memories stands as that rarest of 21st-century pop cultural artifacts: one that holds up more than a year later (five years in this case) and was clearly created to stand the test of time. ItŌĆÖs one thing to ape an era or cop a sound; itŌĆÖs another thing entirely to emulate and replicate music deserving of a place alongside its influences. Random Access Memories manages all this and more, making it an album that will sound as transcendent 50 years from now as it did five years ago. ŌĆō John Paul
6. Chance the Rapper ŌĆō Acid Rap [self-released]
For some, Chance the RapperŌĆÖs second mixtape was perhaps the most momentous and inventive hip-hop album since his Chicago forefather Kanye WestŌĆÖs The College Dropout (2004). Building on the acclaim of his self-released 2012 debut, 10 Day, Chance went full technicolor for this sophomore effort, Acid Rap, availing himself of a brilliant team of producers and collaborators to create a magical, carnivalesque sweep through the worlds of soul, funk, gospel, rap, pop and juke.
Propelled by his baby-talk, Dr. Seuss flow and yelped ŌĆ£ah!ŌĆØ ad libs, ChanceŌĆÖs album is virtuosic and sincere, awash in the joy of pure expressionŌĆöa major sound from an artist not signed to a major label. It is the sound of being young and defiant, of thinking you and your friends are the funniest, coolest people around, even if everyone else treats you like weirdos. Like a friendlier and less grotesque Tyler, the Creator, Chance made kids feel embraced and listened to, and despite not branding himself a ŌĆ£consciousŌĆØ rapper, he had an implicitly activist and socially-minded approach to music-making, aiming to raise up his community and not just himself.
Five years later, his music is still self-released and his star has only risen further. Looking back, the audacity of Acid Rap, a psych-soul-rap classic, is still palpable in its every heave and sigh, and in the flurry of scribbled lines pouring from ChanceŌĆÖs restless, ADHD-delivery. This album is the musical equivalent of a high-school yearbookŌĆöirreverent, nostalgic, outrageous, self-questioning, yearning. Chance is rapŌĆÖs Mad Hatter, and the tea party hasnŌĆÖt stopped yet. ŌĆō Dylan Montanari
5. Burial ŌĆō Rival Dealer EP [Hyperdub]
William BevanŌĆÖs intimate understanding of solitude made his early albums as Burial such essential records of the 2000s. And this decade has seen him expand deeper upon both format and message with EPs transcending his typical sample-and-breakbeat construct of late-night dubstep to deliver a more heartfelt expression of empathy. The elusive producerŌĆÖs 2013 EP Rival Dealer represents the creative peak of those efforts, fitting in his catalog as the most passionate Burial record.
Burial tracks had easily stretched to the 10-minute mark by the release of Rival Dealer, resembling less songs than extended meditations set upon the most experimental post-garage beats. But every stylistic cue of the three-track EP serves an important purpose to connect with the isolated and comfort the oppressed. The ghostly vocal samples, a definitive Burial signature, speak warmly and directly to listeners lost in the dark. ŌĆ£I wanna love you more than anyone,ŌĆØ sings a voice emerging from the intense jungle beat of the title track. ŌĆ£I will always protect you,ŌĆØ consoles another in the spiritually new age interlude ŌĆ£Hiders.ŌĆØ
As broad as those affectionate phrases stretch, Bevan doesnŌĆÖt leave any ambiguity in his messages. ŌĆ£I am who I am,ŌĆØ declares an anonymous voice in ŌĆ£Rival Dealer,ŌĆØ and the record invests its entire duration paving a path to self-acceptance. The EPŌĆÖs concluding excerpt of Lana Wachowski sharing her experience growing up as a transgender woman spells out the intentions behind his music the clearest out of any Burial track. Rival Dealer was the project that coincided with a rare selfie from the producer, who notoriously had been hidden from the public eye. The photo was a fitting gesture to pair with an EP that finds Bevan at his most sincere and compassionate. ŌĆō Ryo Miyauchi
4. The Knife ŌĆō Shaking the Habitual [Rabid]
Regardless of whether the sprawling, avant-garde Shaking the Habitual truly ends up as the KnifeŌĆÖs final album, it will forever remain the Swedish brother-sister duoŌĆÖs definitive statement. At the time of its 2013 release, Karin and Olof Dreijer hadnŌĆÖt released a proper studio album since 2006ŌĆÖs sublimely icy Silent Shout, and Karin had recently branched out into her brooding work as Fever Ray (an act which, itself, has undergone a metamorphosis in the eight-year gap between its first and second albums).
Shaking the Habitual opens by combining the sound of those two prior efforts on ŌĆ£A Tooth for an Eye,ŌĆØ a track that melds the glacial-palatial tone of Silent ShoutŌĆöKarinŌĆÖs repetition of the word ŌĆ£eyesŌĆØ in the chorus even sounds like ŌĆ£iceŌĆØŌĆöwith Fever RayŌĆÖs emphasis on atmosphere over rhythm. But the track also throbs with an eclectic mix of tribal-sounding electronic instrumentation that teeters precariously close to the shambolic while remaining barely constrained.
This type of compelling, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach works its dark magic over a 90-minute journey that sees bangers with sexual and political overtones (ŌĆ£Full of FireŌĆØ), protracted experiments in unnerving Lynchian atmospherics (the 19-minute ŌĆ£Old Dreams Waiting to Be RealizedŌĆØ and the sinister clatter of ŌĆ£A Cherry on TopŌĆØ) and brief and abrasive sci-fi-tinged interludes (the Atwoodian-titled tracks ŌĆ£OryxŌĆØ and ŌĆ£CrakeŌĆØ). While the album is memorable for the moments, such as those found on ŌĆ£Full of Fire,ŌĆØ that lend themselves to danceable rhythms, itŌĆÖs more impactful at its most unnerving, such as the metallic groaning of the hugely cinematic ŌĆ£Fracking Fluid Injection.ŌĆØ As vivid as it is strange, Shaking the Habitual will stick with you. ŌĆō Josh Goller
3. Run the Jewels ŌĆō Run the Jewels [FoolŌĆÖs Gold]
Before Run the JewelsŌĆÖ 2013 self-titled debut, Killer Mike was best known to non-rap nerds for his OutKast features, and El-P basically wasnŌĆÖt known to non-rap nerds at all. There was no reason at the time to suspect that their releasing music as a duo would alter this status quo; yet here we are five years later, and through a combination of consistently high-quality output, astute branding and an uncannily prescient relationship with the zeitgeist, RTJ have made themselves into the biggest underground rap group in the world.
Of course, not all the credit for this transformation can go to the duoŌĆÖs first album: 2014ŌĆÖs Run the Jewels 2 was sonically better-crafted, and 2016ŌĆÖs Run the Jewels 3 was politically sharper. But their progenitor still holds up surprisingly well. The eponymous opening track knocks like a sledgehammer: a scorched-earth statement of purpose that the duo have revisited, with tracks like RTJ2ŌĆÖs ŌĆ£Blockbuster Night, Pt. 1ŌĆØ and RTJ3ŌĆÖs ŌĆ£Talk to Me,ŌĆØ but never quite surpassed. And the albumŌĆÖs centerpiece, ŌĆ£DDFHŌĆØ (short for ŌĆ£Do Dope, Fuck HopeŌĆØ), feels timelier now than ever, its references to police brutality and vision of an authoritarian near-future capturing the deep malaise of ObamaŌĆÖs second term as vividly as RTJ3 captured the desperation of the early Trump era.
Perhaps the best thing about Run the Jewels, however, is how studiously it avoids the pitfalls of similar late-career supergroups. Mike and El-P, both of whom were 38 at the time of the albumŌĆÖs release, could have come off like curmudgeonly old heads; but instead they let their virtuosity speak for itself, rapping circles around kids half their age without turning it into a tiresome generational skirmish. RTJ is classicist in its political spark and lyrical focus, but sonically futuristic: El-PŌĆÖs beats on tracks like ŌĆ£36ŌĆØ Chain,ŌĆØ ŌĆ£Get ItŌĆØ and ŌĆ£Twin Hype BackŌĆØ are neither imitation trap nor boom-bap revivalism, but in a class entirely their own. Five years later, and with RTJ4 inevitably on the horizon, they still donŌĆÖt sound quite like anything else. ŌĆō Zachary Hoskins
2. Beyonc├® ŌĆō Beyonc├® [Columbia]
Just when she seemed content to be grandfathered into the pop canon with the domestic sigh of 4, Beyonc├® dropped one of the most ambitious blockbusters in pop history with nary a warning. Beyonc├® initiated the singerŌĆÖs pop culture apotheosis through 14 epic tracks that felt like emanations by which her divinity made itself known on Earth. Sex stories that exalt monogamy. Moments of startling vulnerability that cast her decision to settle down into doubt, foreshadowing the infidelity play of Lemonade (how many platinum albums have not one but two songs about postpartum depression?) Songs about being drunk, acting hateful, finding catharsis in a lover, comfort in a child. This is the album that minted the modern image of Beyonc├® in our minds: a walking meme of regal poise, human enough to get sweaty after sex but untouchable enough that ŌĆ£bow down, bitchesŌĆØ seems like a perfectly reasonable command.
Beyonc├® will probably go down in history as the artistŌĆÖs definitive statement over the slightly-more-praised Lemonade. That ŌĆ£visual albumŌĆØ has been ripped off to no end, but thereŌĆÖs still nothing that sounds much like this one. ItŌĆÖs an early harbinger of the merger of chart and alternative R&B, but while the latter term often denotes streamlined minimalism, Beyonc├® still has the power to stun through its sonic ebullience: the massive bass and bigger drums on its bangers, the meteoric piano chords on its ballads. And though itŌĆÖs synonymous with the surprise-release strategy it popularized, its progeny (DrakeŌĆÖs If YouŌĆÖre Reading This ItŌĆÖs Too Late, Kendrick LamarŌĆÖs untitled unmastered, EminemŌĆÖs Kamikaze) tend to be stopgap, haphazard, minor. By contrast, Beyonc├® is massive, monolithic by design, its one-color cover and itinerant sprawl evoking another definitive mid-career self-titled album to celebrate a milestone this year. ŌĆō Daniel Bromfield
1. Kanye West ŌĆō Yeezus [Def Jam]
It already seems so long ago that Kanye West used to be unambiguously received as a genius rather than a rap iteration of Syd BarrettŌĆÖs tragic burnout, but even in a post-cancelled era it is easy to be reminded of his vital talent by putting on any given track of his hyper-focused, ferocious Yeezus. In 10 tracks and 40 minutes, West offers the most cohesive document of his career, paring his earlier tendencies of excess into a grinding roar of industrial noise and squelching beats. The topic, as ever, is Kanye, with all current events and historical grievances filtered through the avatar of popŌĆÖs most magnetic narcissist. Whether using his wifeŌĆÖs fatherŌĆÖs connection to O.J. Simpson to make a crude joke about her romantic predilections or using Nina SimoneŌĆÖs bracingly political ŌĆ£Strange FruitŌĆØ as a core sample for a track about his own hang-ups, West invited heaps of controversy yet again.
Dig into the albumŌĆÖs abrasive, sandpaper surface, though, and you get one of WestŌĆÖs most unvarnished confessionals, the wrathful outburst to complement the somber grief of 808s and Heartbreak. He unleashes the closest thing to an ethos in the line ŌĆ£As soon as they like you, make ŌĆśem unlike you,ŌĆØ crystallizing his simultaneous push for respect and suspicion of acceptance. Setting aside the hypocrisy of WestŌĆÖs criticisms of over-expensive fashion in ŌĆ£New Slaves,ŌĆØ the track still remains a vicious attack on the way black culture is largely taken over by white curators who then sell it back to the community with a wild markup. ItŌĆÖs no wonder that Lou Reed was moved to tears over ŌĆ£Hold My Liquor,ŌĆØ given how much the trackŌĆÖs blunt, unromantic description of inner demons overwhelming West with self-immolating rage and anxiety resemble ReedŌĆÖs own acidic cries for help. WestŌĆÖs unpredictability crests in amusing fashion with closer ŌĆ£Bound 2,ŌĆØ which surprises precisely for its beautiful arrangement that underpins West honestly weighing his aversion to monogamy to his feelings for his current partner. It has to be the sweetest, most open-hearted song to ever include the line ŌĆ£Have you ever asked your bitch for other bitches?ŌĆØ ŌĆō Jake Cole


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The excitement the other day when I stepped into my first ever solar-heated shower was immense. When we restored our house, way back in 2002-5, I argued long and hard with the plumber about installing solar panels. He told me that they were useless – just cost money and did very little.
I tried explaining that I had lived with functioning, energy-saving solar panels (and I mean solar, not PV) in my childhood home from the late seventies. He was having none of that. Pointless. (Now I come to think of it, he may also have been telling me that I would never get permission from the regional cultural heritage overseers for panel installation in a very tightly controlled conservation zone like ours, but I chose to ignore that.)
Now that same plumber is only mildly enthusiastic about solar panels because he thinks they're old hat. Been there, done that. How about pellets? Or biomass? Or a nice heat pump? Well I've stuck with the solar that I've always wanted. And as the environment is so very sexy these days, even the cultural heritage department in Perugia is slightly laxer in its approach. I persuaded them that mine wouldn't be visible to anyone (not even – or do I mean especially not – to us) except perhaps to someone peering from way, way across the valley with binoculars.
I rounded off this adventure with a new condensing water heater too, but that is firmly switched off as the panels are more than enough for keeping the water piping. I will no longer have to grit my teeth – half at the waste of the world's resources, half at the waste of money – in that way I tend to do every time I watch L turning the tap to hot to rinse off something that could just as well be rinsed with cold. Why does this bother me? I should find more important things to think about.
With the same builders involved in town and country projects, this has slowed work on my project in town of course. Now I have a space there which is completely gutted – very exciting but dauntingly huge-looking. How will I ever find the money to furnish these voids? Stefano, my builder, is a potholer, and has been abseiling up and down the town walls in his harness, directing a chuteful of rubble from the garden to the bed of his truck parked below. I warned him that if any passing half-blind old blokes had heart attacks when they saw him plummeting down the walls towards them it was his fault not mine. He seemed to take that on board.
Right on cue, and exactly as last year, the final week of June ushered in heat. Is it the Infiorata for the feast of San Luigi Gonzaga in town that mystically shoots us from spring to summer? (And why is this rather obscure northern Italian Jesuit of the 16th century the patron saint of one of Città della Pieve's terzieri?) We've had a long run of 30°-plus days – some over 35° – and in the house the temperature upstairs is rising in small increments, to the point when even nights will be decidedly warm.
But the heat comes on the back of such murky weather – not particularly cold but very damp and very grey – that the vegetable garden is oddly patchy. Yes, this is partly due to my patchy attention to it. And to the fact that I have to move it – my Big Project for next year – because the trees around it have grown up to the point where much of it spends most of the day in the shade.
The climbing beans grew to about 30cm then stopped in protest at their shady conditions. The cucumber and courgette plants look like May. I think I might have some respectable onions in there but I don't dare pull them because I think they're the only thing coming between the healthy looking sweet corn plants I stuck in the same bed, and that same corn becoming a midnight snack for passing boar. It looks very much like onions put hungry animals off.
In the less shady extra vegetable space down by the house, I have already harvested some excellent garlic but my tomatoes are all plant and no fruit. The potatoes look sad, though I haven't tried digging to see what's beneath the unimpressive plants.
The only place, in fact, that I have things going like champions is outside the kitchen – purportedly a herb/flower space – where the cavolo nero which I planted last autumn and which languished in pathetic fashion through the winter when it was meant to flourish is now vast, and where a couple of pumpkin seedlings I stuck in there as a joke are rampaging over everything, looking ludicrously joyful.
All of which is a long way from what's going on in the outside world. The first shock of Britain voting itself out of the European Union has passed but the thought of it still makes me feel vaguely nauseous and seethingly angry. How anti-historic can you be? And how heedless of everyone's futures, especially those of younger people?
Obviously, there are people who voted out in the EU referendum on the basis of a clear-headed, well-informed deliberate decision. I happen to think they're wrong but I respect their choice. What has been unfolding post-vote, however, shows that many more voted on misinformation, prejudice and ignorance which often shaded into extreme intolerance.
As absolutely wedded to democracy as I am, I am constantly stunned by its fearful limitations. I think that people in the western world are becoming more and more blasé, and selfishly unmindful of the implications, the privilege, the responsibilities of democracy.
In the UK, they ask the public to vote on the name for a new research vessel, something in which to do crucial work, and the public thinks it's hilarious to opt for Boaty McBoatface. That's just childishness, and a scary inability to take serious things seriously. It's not a huge leap, I'm convinced, from that to voting for a man without a reasonable idea in his head and nothing to offer the country/world except the worst possible kind of lowest-common-denominator-pleasing bombast (Donald Trump), or to taking the UK out of the EU in the utterly mistaken, and odious, hope that this will rid the country of immigrants.
(In one Brexit debate I heard on the BBC – was it Any Questions? – the Green party's Caroline Lucas was fighting outers' contention that leaving the EU would allow Britain to 'take back control' from an undemocratic EU by arguing that it was only in EU elections that UK citizens really got to exercise their democratic rights, voting with a proportional representation system rather than the barely-democratic first-past-the-post system used in UK elections. Two little problems with her otherwise perfect argument: firstly, I have heard many many post-Brexit interviews with Brits who had no idea that European elections even existed and who have never bothered to vote in them; and secondly, auspicable as proportional representation may be, it's the only system which allows idiots like Nigel Farage to actually win a seat somewhere.)
I'm itching (pointlessly) for faster progress on my Italian citizenship application. And wondering whether I could collect yet another passport by applying for an Irish one.
Some historian I heard or read about somewhere during these feverish days, was searching the centuries for another paradigm shift as massive as this one potentially could be, and had to go back to Henry VIII's break with the Catholic church to find anything truly comparable. At first glace it seems like an exaggeration. But it has of course been magnified by history into something instantaneous and universe-shattering. The parallels are not entirely fanciful.


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TechFest will be held in August 22-23, 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Day 1
Will feature two keynotes speakers, in addition to many educational sessions and topics in the key tracks of Internet of Things (IoT), Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Healthcare IT, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and a mini trade show.
The evening of Day One will feature a tech and music dinner event.
Day 2
Will offer a special panel debate and discuss session on a topic to be determined, and our special guest speaker luncheon.
- The opportunity to meet and network with expert speakers from within our region, nationally and internationally, to further career paths, to implement or innovate technology for commercial and industrial settings.
- The opportunity to participate in forum discussions, hand-on training, and interactive sessions, including demos and trade show.
- The ability to share your issues, ideas, and action steps regarding your career, your company, and your community with others vested in technology solutions and facing similar challenges, missions, and objectives in their spheres of influence.
- A chance to unwind with others that understand how technology profoundly influences the work environment.
- The ability to jump between different tracks of thinking to stimulate new paradigms for your internal teams. TechFest will have five mini-tracks: Healthcare, Blockchain, Internet of Things, AI, and CyberSecurity.
- The space to envision and experience outreach channels for economic expansion within your company ranks after interacting at TechFest.
- The mindshare to delve further into the advocacy needed in Washington, DC regarding technology issues, including security, privacy, and public telecom infrastructure.
- All Business Professionals
- Business Managers
- Computer Forensic Specialists
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- IT Directors
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- Network Administrators
- Programmers
- Entrepreneurs
- Project Managers
- Security Auditors
- Security Systems Administrators
- System Administrators
- Web Developers
- Anyone Interested in technology!
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For the summit: Up to 400
- Mini-Trade Show Both Days
- Prominent Keynotes Each Day
- Regional Leaders in Each Track
- Primary Tracks on Day 1 and Day 2
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Icon Fonts Are Awesome for Your Site: Here's Why
You've heard of icons, and you've almost certainly heard of fonts, but what is an Icon Font? Today I'll show you what icon fonts are, and how you can use them to liven up your website. Let's get started.
What Are Icon Fonts?
Icon fonts are exactly the same as "regular" fonts — they define the look and feel of a piece of text. The big difference here is that icon fonts don't contain letters and numbers, but symbols and icons. You may be confused by this, as what good is a font if you can't write letters to your mom!
Icon fonts are primarily used to style websites. As they are vector based, they can be resized, moved, styled, and altered using CSS 5 Baby Steps to Learning CSS and Becoming a Kick-Ass CSS Sorcerer CSS is the single most important change webpages have seen in the last decade, and it paved the way for the separation of style and content. In the modern way, XHTML defines the semantic structure... Read More . This provides a huge advantage over traditional design methods such as images. The look and feel of a large number of icons can be changed with just a few lines of code. You don't have to edit any images, open Photoshop, or upload the new files — you just write code.
Getting Started
I'll be using Font Awesome for these examples, but the theory can be applied to many other font packs.
Here's the starter HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>MUO Icon Fonts</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
html {
font-family: helvetica, arial;
This is the minimum amount of HTML required to produce a webpage. I'll not be explaining the majority of it, as we've covered that in our guide on how to make a website.
The most important line is the following:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
This loads the Font Awesome stylesheet from its CDN. Without this line, your website would not know what Font Awesome is, so it's quite important. This stylesheet handles all of the hard work of embedding web fonts, and generally makes things much easier for you.
Font Awesome icons are defined by CSS classes added to i tags. These were chosen as they do not have any browser or default defined styling attached to them, so your icons won't get all messed up. Alternatively, you can add the classes to span tags, but that does clutter up your HTML.
Here's the basic usage. Put this inside your body tags:
 My First Icon
Here's what that looks like:
How easy was that? Let's break it down. There are two classes needed for Font Awesome to work. The first is called fa, which stands for Font Awesome. This is needed for any icon, regardless of which one you use. The second class specifies the particular icon you wish to use — this could be anything, a plane, a person, or credit card. This is also prefixed with fa, and as this is a cog icon, its name is fa-cog. You can view a list of all the icons in Font Awesome on their website.
Try changing the icon from the cog to any other one.
Going Deeper
Once you know the basics, it's time for some advanced tricks.
If you don't want to write your own CSS, you can use the styles built right into Font Awesome. There are many classes you can use to make icons bigger:

Another useful class to use is the fa-spin. This will make you icons rotate, and when combined with the previous size classes, you can produce some nice effects. Here's the code:

Here's the result:
It's easy to rotate icons — use the fa-rotate class:

The number at the end defines the degrees of rotation for the icon, but don't get carried away. You're limited to 90, 180, or 270.
One final trick you can do is stacking. The fa-stack class lets you combine two or more icons together. Here's the code:

Here's what that looks like:
Once you begin combining all of these various classes, the possibilities really are endless.
Custom CSS
Because icon fonts are just fonts, you can style them with CSS just like you would any other element. Using a little CSS3 can go a long way:
Here's the HTML for that icon:

Here's the CSS:
@keyframes move {
from { margin-left: 0; }
to { margin-left: 400px; }
.bike {
animation-name: move;
animation-duration: 4s;
This CSS is quite basic, but it has a large impact. This isn't a CSS tutorial though, so you may want to learn CSS 10 Simple CSS Code Examples You Can Learn in 10 Minutes Want to know more about using CSS? Try these basic CSS code examples to start with, then apply them to your own web pages. Read More if you want to know more about the inner workings.
You can do some special things if you really want to:
This stutters a little bit in order to reduce the file size for the web. Here's the HTML:

Here's the CSS:
@keyframes fade {
from { opacity: 0; }
to { opacity: 1; }
.person {
opacity: 0;
animation-name: fade;
#p1 {
color: red;
animation-duration: 2s;
#p2 {
color: orange;
animation-duration: 4s;
#p3 {
color: green;
animation-duration: 6s;
#p4 {
animation-duration: 8s;
Like the previous example, this uses CSS3 animations. An animation called fade is created, and each person icon implements this animation with varying timing. There's a lot of potential to go wild with these icons and CSS3.
That's all for today. You should now be able to use Icon Fonts to liven up your website! If you're not so sure of your skills just yet, check out these CSS template sites 11 CSS Template Sites: Don't Start From Scratch! There are thousands of free CSS templates available online, all embracing modern design trends and technologies. You can use them in their original form, or customize them to make them your own. Read More , or these YouTube channels to get started Want to Learn Web Design? 7 YouTube Channels to Get You Started YouTube has thousands of videos and channels for web design beginners. Here we look at some of the best ones for getting started. Read More with web design.
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Following recent challenges to the Council's Waste & Recycling Service, Councillors have agreed to spend £125K on improving the resilience of the service.
It was agreed at last Thursday's Council Executive meeting (29th November 2018) to use £125k from the waste reserve to recruit and train more staff ahead of the winter season.
Earlier this year a national shortage of HGV drivers, sickness and poor weather caused a number of issues for the Waste & Recycling Service.
In response, improving the service was made a priority, including rectifying missed collections and holding a successful recruitment day for additional staff in September.
A further report will be taken to an Executive Member decision session next month which will recommend a new driver apprentice programme to support the service long-term. If approved the Council will develop a driver apprentice programme within the waste team to train drivers as early as next year.
Councillor Ian Gillies, Conservative Leader of the Council, said:
"The past year has been a challenging one for our Waste & Recycling Service, with the city buffeted by a national shortage of HGV drivers.
"However residents deserve spot-on waste services for their council taxes and our intention is to use these funds to help smooth the transition between summer and winter services by retaining drivers and by making sure we have the personnel we need. It's all about resilience and forward planning."


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The NCC has published a Competitiveness Bulletin summarising Ireland's performance in the latest World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Index Report. This is an annual assessment of the factors driving productivity and prosperity across 12 'pillars' of competitiveness.
Ireland is ranked 24th out of 141 economies, a fall of one place from last year. Overall, Ireland scored 75.12 (out of 100). In terms of rankings, Ireland performs well in relation to labour market (6th), business dynamism (10th), and institutions (16th). Areas requiring improved performance are evident in relation to infrastructure (40th), financial system (42nd), and ICT adoption (49th).
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Training a Fearful Dog is challenging. Not only you have to battle dog anxiety, fear, but also their ability to understand you and be able to relax.
A lot of dogs are afraid of being touched, whether it be their legs, behind, feet, or even their face. But it is possible to help them get through that fear – and even learn to like being touched! So how can we do that??
Well, in this video, Enrique from DogWorx in Savannah, Ga, shares one of his secret training methods that have allowed him to help countless of fearful dogs. The Dog in the video, Scout, had a history of biting at the moment you touched his collar; he even bit Enrique during training. But with the training we share, you can see how quickly Scout became more calm, more confident, and even more accepting of being touched.
Change the state of mind, change the behavior! DogWorx is Savannah Georgia's premiere dog training service, which offers both board and train and in home dog training. We are experts in dog behavior modification, fixing dog aggression, human aggression, resource guarding, separation anxiety, fear issues, anxiety issues, leash aggression, leash reactivity, pulling on leash, jumping on people, counter surfing, stealing food, chewing and destruction, barking problems, running away, not listening, growling, snapping, biting, door bolting, cat aggression, cat killing, trash digging and more! Obedience training commands used are heel, sit/stay, down/stay, come, no, yes, good, okay and the "place" command. DogWorx behavior modification program is performed with the application of low-level, e-collar, off-leash, advanced obedience training.
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Cultural Equity on Australia's Borders – Social Capital within sight tho' politically out of reach.
By Karen McCarthy-Eastland
To reference this paper, please use the following:
Eastland, K. 2014. Cultural Equity on Australia's Borders: "Social Capital
within sight tho' politically out of reach." Pp. 1-33.
Includes Bibliography
"With War comes devastation and disconnection; with famine comes death
and disease. Innocence of human life is lost and the shattered remnants of
once great civilisations disperse across the face of the planet in search of
safety, in search of normalcy. This array of human life become psychological
captives, trapped in the memories of what once was, only to be criminalised
for wanting to be (Eastland, 2014)."
Hedging Australia's shores is Australia's future, and yet the Australian government continues to turn that future away. Disenfranchised persons seeking asylum in Australia are cultural equity (Jakubowicz, July, 2009) and social capital (Barker, 2008) requiring a social justice (Barker, 2008) from a government fighting an aging population. Rather than becoming a problem that Australia's government seeks to make of other countries, Australia should protect these people, because it is capable of assisting, and is in need of accommodating a demographically sound people, able to fill the projected 20 year void in Australia's working population (Statistics, October, 2012).


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Aye, it had been a hard year. I got some visits from Shieta every month. I always looked forward to those. My parents dropped me from the family. Alpha Pack had gotten into a few fights with Shang'an, I ended up getting put into Block-B (maximum security solitary confinement) for about a month total now. The members of Alpha Pack thought I was insane. I never did handle anger too well.
It was about five months into my second year of prison, my last year. I tried to stay out of fights so I wouldn't get my sentence lengthened. Alpha Pack was starting to worry about me. Especially since Shang'an was itching for a good fight. Jake came over to talk to me a few times. He as starting to get worried about me.
"Dude, what's wrong?" Jake asked.
"Nothing, I just…"
"Don't want any trouble?"
"Yeah. I'm almost done with serving my time. I don't wanna fuck it up now."
"I understand, I just need someone good to watch my ass during the big fight. Shang'an gave us a challenge yesterday. We're going to fight 'em in three days. Think you got it to fight?"
"I… I can't. I know I'm gonna end up fucking up."
"Dude. You're pulling out of a fight?"
"I… Yeah…"
"The others aren't going to be as understanding as I, you realize that?"
"Yeah. I know."
He started to walk away, shaking his head. I knew what he was thinking, that I lost it in me, that I had become a pussy.
"Jake!" I yelled.
"Watch your back!"
He smiled and walked away again. I knew I had just made a major choice. No one ever backed out of a fight before. I knew that Jake knew why I did, but I knew the others didn't. Things would be harder now than any other time.
I had watched and waited for three days. Shang'an left Alpha Pack alone for those three days and Alpha Pack did the same to Shang'an. I knew the fight was going to happen today. I didn't know when though. I was hoping I wouldn't get involved but somewhere I knew, I would. Maybe not intentionally, but I would. Damned sixth Sense (Yes, I believe in the sixth Sense).
It had been about an hour after lunch was served. Everyone was in the exercise yard. I knew if anything was going to go down, it would be here. I felt it. The gang members were at the opposite sides. The two most powerful gangs were slowly moving toward each other. I could feel the tension in the air. The two gangs, Shang'an made of mainly Chattans with a human or two and Alpha Pack made completely of Lupines. The leaders met.
"Rules?" Asked Hrunna, the Shang'an leader. He was a fairly powerful lynx and in for murdering three people.
"Aight, no weapons. No knives, clubs, anything except what's part of your body, and don't give me that shit about the knife bein' an extension of your hand."
"Cool. You want first shot?"
"All yours."
Hrunna lunged and Jake jumped aside. Jake countered with a well place uppercut to the jaw. Then all hell broke loose. The guards were caught with their pants down (so to say) and didn't know what to do. There had been fights before but nothing as big as this one. I tried to back away from the fight but it was sheer chaos. The fight was slowly spreading outward and I was stuck. Then I heard Jake cry out in pain. I looked and saw three Chattans holding him down while another beat him. That's when I snapped.
I don't remember what happened that made me snap. I just did. I lunged at them, grabbing the main attacker and shoving his muzzle into the dirt. I jumped off before one of his friends could kick me and hit his own friend. I spun around and landed a good kick to his face and spun again and landed one into his knee. The guy fell. Only two of them were left, and they had let go of Jake. I jumped over to the one on my left and landed behind him. He was a fast one, he kicked backward and him me in the chest. I lost balance and fell on my back hard. He and his friend jumped on me.
I could feel them beat and try to bite me. I held them off as best as I could and then I felt someone or something grab one of them off of me. It was Jake. He pulled on guy off of me and knocked him out. I tossed the other one off of me and got up quick as possible and leaped to the side. Suddenly, a loud crack of a rifle being shot sounded out. The chaos that had consumed the yard ended relatively quickly. I knew I was in for it, as well as Jake and the others.
I was sent to Block-B again. This time, it was for two weeks. The usually sentence was three days. This was extreme. Most of the other prisoners were sentenced to do extra chores and whatnot. Jake, Hrunna, and I were sentenced to three weeks of Block-B. The two weeks were maddening. We were in a dark room, alone, and fed twice a day with minimal nutritional value. The room was only five paces by five paces and had a hole in the corner of the room as a toilet. When we got out, we had the look, not the look that we were tough as hell or lost it, the blank look. Like we had gone through hell and back and our minds were blown. It took about a month for the gang to get us back into it. Hrunna, I'm not too sure he ever got back to normal. He always had this look in his eyes, like something snapped. Block-B was hard on a lot of people. Chattans never did too well, Lupines did worse.
Two months have passed now. I've been staying in my own corner of the place. I didn't hang around the gangs that much anymore. I talked to the Alpha Pack guys every now and then, but didn't really get into the business that much. Jake was starting to worry about me again. He was like a dad to me now. I guess me saving his life did something.
"Shaul, you haven't been hanging out with us that much lately." Jake said to me at lunch one day.
"Yeah, I got another three months now. I've been trying to figure out what to do when I get out." I said.
"I see… Got anyone?"
"A girl. You got a girl?"
"Yeah, I guess. I'm suppose to talk to her sometime this week."
"You keep her happy man. Trust me, if you don't your gonna regret it."
I smiled. "How bout you man?"
"Eh… I never did well with girls. Divorced. It wasn't good."
Divorce was a very big taboo, almost as much as homosexuality.
"What happened?"
"She cheated on me. I found out and divorced. Then went and beat the shit out of her lover."
"That why you here?"
"Assault and attempted murder. Altogether, about twenty years."
"Damn… Dude, when you get out, find me. You always have a place to stay as long as I'm alive."
He smiled at me. "Thanks, Lone Wolf."
'Lone Wolf'. The name fit me somehow. "You saved my ass. I owe you."
"You saved mine first."
A guard came by and told me that I had a visitor.
"Remember man, keep her happy!"
I was escorted by two guards this time to see Shieta. I knew it was her, no one else visited me anymore. When I got there she looked more beautiful than ever.
"Hey! Great news! I'm out in three months. I wasn't going to be held back!" I told her. She knew about the fight I got in.
"I'm glad. There's some bad news though. The Chattans and Lupines are really starting. On A'Blam, there's a war starting. At least that's what it said on the Viewer."
"Shit." Big mistake, Shieta hates it when I swear. "I'm real sorry. I'm just…"
"I know, I heard you got it tough."
"C'mon, you'll be out soon. Then, you and me can get off this cesspool and to a grass planet."
I couldn't help but smile. "I love you."
"I love you too. I have to go now. I'll see you in a few weeks."
With that, she left. She was smiling. I was happy. Three months, three fucking months and then I'm off to heaven. I new she had been saving up to get off this planet but I didn't think she was going to do it alone. I wish that she had told me she was working so hard. Damn, I'm going to show her the good life when we get offworld. I swear it.
I was escorted back to my cell by the same two guards. They took me to my cell. I had a lot of thinking to do. Tomorrow, right now I just want some rest…
My prison term was almost up. Two more days to go, just two more days. Jake knew it, so did the rest of Alpha Pack. I spent the entire day saying bye and getting in some good times with them. Tomorrow would be my last day with them. At the end of the day I started to get whatever I had ready to go. It didn't take that long. All I had were some pictures the guards let me keep. Less than 48 hours and I would be free.
It was my last day. I spent a good deal of it with Jake. We talked, rough housed a little, and hung out with the rest of the gang. Then I got the biggest surprise of my life. The entire Alpha Pack gang came over to my table during dinner with all their desserts piled up onto one tray. They had made one giant cake from their small pieces. This was something that was rare, inmates sharing their food. With the small portions we were served, getting a piece of food from anyone was hard and usually led to fights. I was honored and surprised by their kindness.
"To the man who saved my fur." Jake said to the group.
"Orrah!" The gang yelled out our battle cry.
"To Shaul! The Lone Wolf!"
It took the guards some time to get the group broken up. Jake and a few of my closer friends stayed at the table. The surrounding tables were cleared for Alpha Pack members.
"You're last night here, man." Said Jake.
"Aye, gonna miss you guys." I said, trying to figure out where I should start.
"We're gonna miss you too. No one to cover me during fights now."
"I'd have thought Crusher over there might be good at that." I said, pointing to the biggest Lupine in the gang.
"Yeah. He's good but a little slow. Besides, no one else here knows any good jokes. We're gonna miss that a lot."
"Heh, wanna hear one now?"
I leaned over and whispered the dirtiest joke I knew. When I got to the punchline he just lit up and fell on the ground laughing. The guards looked over to see what happened and then went back to their posts.
"That my friend, is fucking hilarious." Jake managed to say as he got up.
"Thought you'd like that."
"We're gonna miss you."
"Aye, lets just have fun and forget until tomorrow."
We spent the rest of the time joking around and telling jokes. Keeping a good sense of humor helped out a lot of the guys. I woke up a little early the next day. I knew I wasn't going to go until after lunch. I got back into my bed. I thought about what I would do now. I wanted to marry Shieta, but I wasn't sure if I was good enough now. I'd have to find a job I could do. I pushed the thought out of my mind. I didn't want to worry about that now, not yet.
"Don't worry about it now Shaul, not yet." I told myself.
It was time to get up now. I was ready to be free. I spent most of the day alone. I told Jake during breakfast so that I could think. He understood and so did most of the rest of the others. It was lunch now. I hadn't done nearly as much thinking as I wanted. I guess I'd have to take things as they came.
A guard came up to me and told me that it was time for me to leave. I asked him if I could talk to some of my friends first. I went to the usual spot that Alpha Pack stayed around. They were all there.
"I'm going now." I told them.
They all looked at me. "We'll miss you, man." Jake said.
"I'll miss you guys too."
"PACK! SALUTE!" Jake ordered.
The pack saluted me and gave the battle cry. "ORRAH ORRAH!"
I asked to see Jake alone.
"I'm gonna miss you man." I told him.
"Me too."
"Remember, you always have a place to stay as long as I'm alive."
He smiled. "Thanks, man."
And with that, I left. The guard took me to the main gate where Shieta was waiting. We hugged each other and kissed.
"Took you long enough." She said.
"I had some friends I needed to say bye to." I replied.
She smiled. "I have so much to tell you about."
"We have plenty of time for that. Right now, I just want to go home with you and catch up on some things I haven't been able to do."
We went to her house. It was a fairly nice place. It had two bedrooms, one bathroom, a nice kitchen, family room, and dining room. It's a very cozy place. I got showered while she made a light lunch and we talked. We talked all day and caught up on everything that we missed. Then, she told me about how she had saved up enough to move offworld. I was astonished at the amount she had.
"You made that much money!" I said, astounded.
"Yes. You and I always wanted this. We can go anytime."
I knew she had been waiting for me. She had more than enough money to start a new life on her own.
"Why didn't you already leave?" I asked.
"I wanted to be with you."
I kissed her. I never had anyone care that much about me. She started to massage the sides of my neck and from there she was in charge. I was in full submission. I don't know what she did, but whatever it was I felt better when I woke up.
"You're finally up." She said.
"Yeah. What did we do last night?" I asked.
She grinned and kissed me. "After breakfast."
She had become a damned good cook. I ate everything she gave me. Then we talked about where we should go.
"I always wanted to go to a grass planet." She said.
"How about Aurora or A'Blam?" I asked.
"Not A'Blam, too much fighting there."
"I guess you're right…"
I had always wanted to go to A'Blam, I heard it was a beautiful planet. It was full of vegetation and life. It had not been too developed by civilization. It had people living on it but wasn't overly developed. It was where the Lupines had originated from as well as the Chattans. The Lupines there still called themselves their original name, 'Loupian'. It was when the humans had come that we integrated the technologies together and spread outward. Despite the technology, the Chattans and Lupines had always preserved culture.
"When the fighting ends, I'm taking you to A'Blam." I told Shieta.
"Mmm…" Was all I heard as she snuggled up next to me.
"So I guess it's Aurora?"
A month had passed and we had finished with the plans to move to Aurora. We had everything we needed packed and ready to go. We even bought a house. Then the big news hit, the Chattans on A'Blam have declared war upon the Loupians.


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Introducing Multi-Enterprise Value Network in CRM
At the end of this lesson, readers should be able to:
- DiscussMulti-Enterprise
Value Network
- Discuss the five levels of collaboration inMulti-Enterprise
Value Network
Collaborative CRM seeks to integrate these networks to benefit the customer as well as the internal employees. Here, we want to look at some of the areas of collaboration that comes into focus which includes :
- Lead and opportunity management
- Order management
- Service incident management
- Integrated marketing portals
- Team collaboration.
Lead and Opportunity Management: This allows the organisation to direct their leads to potential partners who can help them to close deals faster. These are always done based on certification of the partner, geographical location and other business rules. The organisation can now monitor how far the designed partner succeeds with the leads.
Next generation system will allow vendors and partners to exchange leads and leads status information through process integration, rather than forcing visits to yet another portal.
Order Management:
This allows customers to visit vendors' website, access information and place their orders. The vendors' web site allows customers to choose partners that are close to them. This might be based on geography, price or other factors. When the customer
makes their choice, their information details are transferred to the selected partners' website. This is a great collaborative business, leveraging
post-sales service and support is a costly fact of life in any business.
Collaborative service systems helps to cement customer service processes across multiple channels. A customer service request can be tracked across departments or companies using a single web page.
- Integrated Marketing Portals; Effective portal tools use XML aggregate content streams from multiple parties then syndicate this information in the customer-facing portal. If the content changes at the source, it's changed in the portal automatically without requiring a slow and costly traditional web publishing process.
- Team Collaboration: After the organisation might have established relationship management process, they need to provide revenue through which stakeholders can interact with each other collaboration tools allows companies to manage this unstructured information via shared workspaces that can be used by customers, partners and employees. Using such systems can help an enterprise rapidly form teams and enable people to work faster and smarter.
At the end of this lesson we have be able to discover that:
- Multi-Enterprise Value Network has five levels of collaboration which are: Lead and opportunity management, order management, Service Incident Management, Integrated Marketing Portals and Team Collaboration.
- Lead management directs lead to qualified partners.
- Order management guides customers to appropriate partners where they can get an Organisation's products and services.
- Service Incident Management help to glue customer service processes together across multiple organisations.
- Integrated marketing portals use XML to aggregate content stream from multiple parties, then syndicate this information in a customer – facing ported.
- Team collaboration allows stakeholders in a customer-centric enterprise to interact in order to boost customer experience.
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It may be hard to know what the college applicant in your life needs, because they might just be too stressed to communicate it, or they might have trouble articulating it, period. Here are a few ways to understand prospective college students without having to understand, in detail, all the details of their lives.
Understanding means respecting silence.
It means realizing that maybe someone doesn't want to talk about how stressed they are, or how overwhelming their options are, or how little sleep they've had in the past week. Some students just don't talk about their college applications – it's how they cope.
If you think it might be a cause for concern, still don't pressure them; you might just make it worse. Just let them know you're there for them and maybe offer them an ice cream cone. Even if they aren't being quiet, offer them an ice cream cone. Please just always offer a college applicant an ice cream cone. They deserve it.
It means not asking loaded, close-ended questions.
"Oh my gosh, aren't you stressed?" "Are you worried you won't get in?" "Did you stay up all night putting the finishing touches on your application?" "Are you sick of having questions asked of you that set up expectations for your entire experience?"
Seriously, though. So many times during my admissions season, I heard people ask me or my friends questions that they could only answer "yes" or "no" to… And when it came down to it, one of those two options was usually eliminated, too.
The questions I heard were often pretty close to rhetorical. People expected to hear a certain answer, because they expect certain things of college applicants. And they might feel like they're being understanding or lighthearted or even giving the applicant a chance at commiseration with someone who's going through the same thing.
More often than not, though, these questions just make college applicants feel even more boxed-in than ever. Giving them space to breathe isn't just about whether you talk to them, but how you talk to them. Give them the opportunity to say what they need to say.
But understanding also means asking questions.
Wait, what? It's a little contradictory, but every applicant needs something different in terms of support. Plus, the issue with questions isn't the fact that the applicant is being asked questions, it's the weight and stress put on their answers.
One of the most stressful parts of being a college applicant is knowing you're going to be asked questions, and knowing, by a few keywords, what those questions will generally be.
For that reason, it's an intensely strange time in a person's life. All our lives we suffer through small talk when we see people we know but haven't spoken with in a while. We talk about the weather and our weekends.
But for college applicants, small talk is suddenly, somehow, agonizingly vague and uncomfortably specific at the same time! They can tell that the family friend who's over for dinner for the first time in months doesn't know all that much about them, but they know the student is applying to college, and they'll eat up that information faster than they'll eat mom's meatloaf.
Applicants know the questions are coming. It's like walking down the street and seeing someone with a pamphlet making a beeline for you. It's a common scenario but I don't think anyone has really figured out what to say.
Maybe the high school senior in your life really doesn't know how to express just how stressed they're feeling when even their answer has pressure on it. So ask. But don't ask what's wrong and don't ask a ridiculous close-ended question.
Ask what you can do to help. Ask what you can do to alleviate their stress. Ask if there's anything they need – it's probably best if you don't mention the stress at all, because believe me, they won't forget it.
And after you establish trust and support, you can start asking more explicit questions. Ask how the college experience is treating them or whether they feel like they'd benefit from relaxation. Ask them questions that will help them focus on things they're excited rather than nervous about.
Understanding means patience.
To be honest, college applicants are grumpy. They're excited and vivacious, but they're grumpy. They've got their eyes on the prize and their toes on the starting line, but they're grumpy. And that's okay.
Try to remember that 1) the stress will be over soon for the applicant and, indirectly, the people around them, far sooner than they realize. And 2) they have every right to be stressed. They deserve it. You'd probably be just as off-put if they weren't.
Being stressed during college apps is a fact of life.
But understanding doesn't mean colorful visual interpretations of stress.
Even though that's what expert advice-givers on the internet do. No infographics. No themed board games. (Although CollegeBoardGame Night is a bit of wordplay that's kind of hard to pass up.) No surprise party that gives them the heart attack they're already on the brink of.
Understanding doesn't mean taking their problems and externalizing them into your own experience. It doesn't mean trying to "relate" or to help them express anything. It just means letting things run their course, and knowing that you're not supposed to be able to fix everything.
Otherwise there would be a University of Fixing Everything that you could stress about getting into. But there is no University of Fixing Everything. There's not even a University of Vaguely Figuring Stuff Out. I've heard that there's a College of Making Life Decisions but I decided not to go there.
There are "professional" organizations out there that will give a college applicant much better advice than you ever could – it'll even include infographics. And even that usually isn't enough to alleviate stress.
The truth is, there's not really any way to change the college application process and make it less stressful and more applicant-friendly. College applicants are usually vaguely and painfully aware of that, and it can be frustrating.
It's important for the people around them to realize that, too. Applying to college is an inherently stressful process because it is meaningful. And people don't go through it alone. Sometimes that can be a really annoying thing, but if the people around the applicants take the time to understand how they feel, it can be invaluable.
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Owoseni, ex-Lagos CP, announces arrest of 24 'killer herdsmen' in Benue
The Benue State Police Command says 24 persons have been arrested and 19 of them are already in court following the New Year's Day massacre by suspected herdsmen.
Fatai Owoseni, Commissioner of Police in the state, made this known during a phone interview on Channels Television's Sunrise Daily on Thursday.
Owoseni said that there was relative peace in almost all the parts of the state as a result of the collaborative efforts of the various security agencies.
"A total number of 24 suspects have been arrested in connection with some of these cases, which border on culpable homicide, grievous hurt, and mischief by fire; the total number is 24. The number that have been arraigned in court are 19 while five of the cases are still being investigated," Owoseni said.
"At the moment, we are witnessing relative calm and all efforts have been put in place, structures have been put in place, to enforcing the curfew. And secondly, partnering and interacting with the different segments of the society to let everybody know that criminality is criminality, crimes are crimes, criminals are criminals, and they cannot be 'colourated' in any manner, either religiously, politically and ethnically.
"We all have a duty to face criminal elements and not to 'colourate' whatever they do and whoever they are.
"We are working assiduously to put all the bits and pieces of information and evidences we are gathering from our interrogation together, with a view to really ascertaining what could have led to that incident and the motive behind the incident, and as well promptly round up these criminals who committed the dastardly act, and ensure that they are brought to justice."
Owoseni, who was former commissioner of Police in Lagos State, was posted to Benue State Police Command after the New Year's Day attacks, to help calm things down.
He worked briefly with the head of the Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department at the Police headquarters, Abuja.


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One year without cable TV
It's been over a year that I've lived cable-free, and life is still good. In fact, it's getting better every day. Just about everything you could possibly want to watch is now available online.
This week, HBO released its "HBO Now" service. It's a bit expensive at $15 a month, but it does offer fans of popular shows such as "Game of Thrones" the ability to watch what they want, when they want, without a premium cable subscription. I signed up for a free one-month trial through my Apple TV, which also lets you watch the HBO content on your iOS devices. The interface is slick and the content is unique to HBO.
Netflix remains the market leader in streaming media content. Its digital library is vast. I watch most of the shows and movies (old and new) using their service. The ability to watch a program on my computer, stop anywhere, and continue watching on my iPhone at the exact spot where I left off before is a wonderful feature. I also like some of the Netflix-only content, such as "House of Cards" and "Lilyhammer."
I considered Amazon.com's Prime so-so until I switched from a built-in app on my DVD player to its tiny Fire TV stick. It's like a pack of gum with an HDMI plug that goes directly into your TV. The included remote works well and the whole experience is greatly improved. Amazon continues to add to its in-house content through its Studios division. I enjoyed the series "Bosch," which was a nice twist on the old "dinosaur cop in California" genre.
I still don't use Hulu because I can't stand advertisements. That's why I pay for content that is otherwise free over the air. But for folks who like network TV shows, it's still the best choice. There is usually a one-day delay from live broadcast to Hulu access.
The maturation of these streaming media services, and the introduction of industry heavyweights such as HBO, are welcome developments for modern consumers. Until these legitimate products were available, fans of HBO shows such as "Veep" were forced to go underground.
The Pirate Bay is still around, even though authorities keep trying to close it down. The same peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol is used in newer apps like Popcorn Time, which works rather like Netflix for pirated content. Apple is playing cat-and-mouse with the developers, trying to close it down. But as Apple's own iTunes demonstrated, give the people the option to pay a reasonable price for a legal version of the content they want, and the need for piracy is greatly diminished.
Scott Tilley is a professor at Florida Tech in Melbourne, Fla. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.