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Two invasive species of tumbleweed have hybridized to create a new species of tumbleweed that University of California, Riverside researchers found has dramatically expanded its geographic range in California in just a decade.
The UC Riverside researchers believe Salsola ryanii is likely to become an important invasive species that could spread beyond California to other states.
"Given how quickly it has spread, this species has the potential to be a problematic invasive," said Shana R. Welles, who is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Arizona but did the tumbleweed research as a graduate student at UC Riverside. "We want to make sure people know that and try to manage this species when it still had a relatively narrow range."
Welles outlined the findings in a just-published paper co-authored by her Ph.D. advisor, Norman C. Ellstrand, a professor of genetics and a member of UC Riverside's Institute for Integrative Genome Biology. The paper, "Rapid range expansion of a newly formed allopolyploid weed in the genus Salsola," was published in the American Journal of Botany.
The new species of tumbleweed (Salsola ryanii) was first documented by California Department of Food and Agriculture scientists in 2002. Surveying throughout California, those scientists found the species in two areas of the state's Central Valley in 2002. It was also documented by a wider group of scientists in a third area of the Central Valley in 2009.
The UC Riverside researchers did their field work in 2012, collecting tumbleweed from 53 sites throughout California. They found the new species at 15 of those sites. They found it throughout the Central Valley, but also in coastal areas around San Francisco and as far south as the Ventura area.
The results strongly contradict predictions in earlier studies that Salsola ryanii would not likely become invasive.
Salsola ryanii is an allopolyploid, an organism with two or more complete sets of chromosomes derived from different species, formed via hybridization between two other invasive tumbleweed species: Salsola tragus and Salsola australis. (Allopolyploids are not rare among plants. For example, wheat and cotton are also allopolyploids.)
Salsola australis is invasive in California and Arizona and is likely native to Australia or South Africa. It was not recognized as a distinct species until 2000.
Salsola tragus is a problematic weed in 48 states, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and has been described as having the most rapid spread of any introduced species. Its native range extends from north Africa and western Russia, through Asia into northeast Siberia and northeast China.
The three species of tumbleweed are not distinguishable to the average person, said Welles, who earned her Ph.D. from UC Riverside in 2015. She used DNA testing to determine the species of the samples she collected.
The researchers believe the population expansion of the Salsola ryanii species is due to two reasons: dispersal of seeds from individual plants due in large part to the "tumbling" phenomenon and multiple independent hybridizations of the two original tumbleweed species. The researchers concluded: "Salsola ryanii has undergone a dramatic population number expansion in the decade since it was originally documented. We are not aware of any plant neospecies whose range spontaneously experienced such a dramatic expansion. Salsola ryanii has every indication of being just as invasive as its highly invasive parents."
Future research will further examine this issue. The research was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation.
Sean Nealon is a public information specialist UC Riverside.
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Buffelgrass – Pennisetum ciliare
Origin – Africa
Pervasive grass introduced for soil stabilization and livestock feed; Potential to severely alter Arizona's desert landscape due to fire-carrying capability; Regrows quickly and outcompetes to replace native plants in disturbed areas. Dispersal by windblown seeds and rapid spread along roadways into the desert and rangelands/pastures.
Yellow Starthistle – Centaurea Solstitialis
Origin – Eurasia, southern Europe
Displaces native and agricultural plants
in rangelands/pastures; Grows and spreads in dense, impenetrable stands; Toxic to horses; Introduced to southwest as contaminant in grain seed. Dispersal by livestock, roadways, contaminated seed, and vehicular travel.
Red Bromegrass – Bromus rubens
Origin – Eurasia, Mediterranean region
Weedy annual now common throughout southwest U.S.; Grows prolifically with winter rainfall; Substantially increases fine fuels on rangelands; Increases occurance and severity of wildfires. Dispersal by seeds spreading to disturbed areas along
roadways, rangelands, agricultural
fields and urban landscapes.
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I'm 26 and despite being picked on and such when I was in school, somehow I have managed to show no anger towards anyone at all. I don't let it ball up inside or anything, but I don't show it either.
I actually have two questions on this. First, why am I unable to be angry, even when I have the right to be. And second, could it mean there is something wrong with me if I don't express any anger whatsoever?
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Dirty Feet, Squashed Tomatoes
by Cassie Kellogg
I started biting my nails again.
Well, not right now.
Last month, I think, I started that again.
I look down. I see dirt. Crumbly dirt. Not wet dirt. The floor isn't dirty. I am. My feet are, actually. I don't have on shoes because I don't want to wear them for this. So my feet are dirty from walking to the back house from the main house.
That makes me sound rich.
I'm not.
The main house is small. I don't know about square feet or anything like that but I know it's a small house that only has three bedrooms and two bathrooms. It doesn't even have a dining room or a living room. It has a kitchen that flows into the family room where my baby brother's crib is set up and the tiny TV is perched on a sideways bookshelf and the couch has a dark purple throw that's stained with apple juice.
The back house is a one-car garage that my uncle built when he first bought the house. I turned it into a place to paint when Uncle Henry sold it to us.
I haven't painted in forty-five days.
I look over at the last thing I painted. I stopped because I realized no one had seen anything I'd painted, ever. There are canvas's propped against the walls.
The last one I painted was blue and grey. I wanted to mix the paints to turn it black, but I wasn't there yet.
My nail beds are bleeding now.
"Fuck," I say. And then I say it three more times.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck."
Mom used to say fuck when she thought I couldn't hear her. She would say it after she fought with my dad. She'd go into her bathroom and start washing her hands roughly, and when she couldn't get them clean she'd say it. I was usually there. I usually heard it, but still, she always seemed to be surprised when she'd turn around to see that I'd come after her.
"Maggie!" She'd yell like I was burdening her when all I was doing was standing there.
I used to start crying when she would say my name like that.
You know when a tired mom runs into an old friend in the grocery store at the worst possible time? When her kids are hysterically crying because she said "no" to the strawberry shortcake and she feels like shit because she'd just been screaming at the kids and now she sees this old friend who probably thinks she's an abusive parent and she wants to set the friend straight but she's still got to make the kids calm down, too?
That's how I felt, like an unwanted old friend butting in on someone's life when I have no right to do that.
She doesn't say fuck anymore. She doesn't say much of anything anymore. Well, at least she hadn't.
This time she was depressed for sixty-eight days. Sixty-eight days of deflection, and of disinterested stares when I'd try to cheer her up, and of barely eating anything, and of sometimes forgetting that the toddler needed to be fed too.
Day sixty-eight was last Tuesday. Today is Monday.
Today, she told me I should bring in something I've painted to hang on the wall. I told her I'd go get one, but that's not what I'm doing.
I've thought about it a lot.
I've thought about everything a lot.
I've thought about how even though the sixty-eight day stretch has broken, it'd probably only last about twenty days, if we were lucky. I've thought about how she told me last month that looking at my face made her want to vomit and leave.
I asked her what she meant, and where she wanted to go.
Her eyes became glossy like she was thinking of a place she would rather be and she finally said, "Anywhere else."
I've also thought about how I cried when she told me "Anywhere else," and how she responded to me crying by looking bored, bored, and just flatly said, "Don't act like you're surprised."
Maybe I should bring in the blue and grey painting. I think about it for a minute, only because that feels like my default. During the good stretches, when she's happy, I try to prolong it as much as I can.
Not for me anymore, but for June and Max. June shouldn't be raised by a mom who hates her; I can't do that do her. And Max is only two and a half. I have to protect them.
I used to have to protect them.
I don't now.
My feet are dirty. Is that how I'd like to be remembered? Dirty feet and sad paintings?
June always has dirty feet. She would go outside into the garden that dad grew during the summers and jump in the soil, like really jump. She'd ruined dozens of tomatoes (they were her favorite to jump on), but dad didn't care. Mom would yell at June and then yell at dad for not being mad and he'd just say to her, "Laura, you're missing the entire point!"
June would say it wasn't her fault, though, when mom yelled at her. She'd always look at her and say, "Maggie made me do it!"
That was her catchphrase. "[Enter person to blame here] made me do it!"
Someone always made her do it.
The garden thing though, well I did make her do it. I told her it'd be funny. It was for a moment. It made me feel like a kid again, like when you could jump on tomatoes and be happy to have tomato guts all over your feet and between your toes and things were still all right.
June is so different from us. If I am blue and grey, she is yellow.
June deserves all the yellow paintings.
Maybe one day she'll grow up and move far away and be happy. And maybe, when she packs to leave she'll come out here and look around and somehow just know, and she'll take all the yellow paintings.
I hope she does, anyways. They are for her.
My feet are dirty. I'm staring at them. Well, going back and forth between staring at my dirty feet, the blue and grey painting, and the crate on the floor.
What am I supposed to say right now?
What does anyone think to say right now?
All I can think is that I really should just bring the painting inside.
I don't.
Instead I remind myself of day three of the sixty-eight day stretch. Mom had been cleaning, but cleaning when she's depressed isn't regular cleaning. It's scrubbing until her body is aching and bleeding, yes, literally bleeding. Her nails were breaking and bleeding underneath the nail beds because she was scraping the ground trying to get something off that had dried onto the tile.
I did something that day.
I told her she needed help.
Really, I did that. I said that to my mom. I think I said this exactly:
"Mom, I think you need to see someone. I think you need some help."
She said this:
"Go kill yourself!"
I got this crate from the garden. It had cucumbers in it. I dumped them out onto the grass around the side of the house.
I press my toes against it, just barely.
I think when I do that I'll want to step back, or run away or something.
I don't want to, though.
Someone's crying. June, I think. It sounds like her. I think my heart breaks a little because June crying is the happiest sound I've ever heard. She cries in a good way, you know?
I mean, she doesn't cry because she hates herself, or because she just relapsed, or because her mom has been sleeping for twenty-seven hours.
June cries because she wanted five cookies and only got four.
June cries when she realizes it's gotten too dark outside and she has to come back in now and stop playing for the day.
June cries for all the things any normal person wishes they could cry about.
I don't go in. Not even after hearing June.
I should.
I know that.
But sometimes in life, I think I've learned, you have a bunch of things you should do, and the whole point is finding the one you should do the most.
And I think this is a thing I should do the most.
Do you remember when you were a child and you didn't even know that people died? I do. I remember when mom told me her sister died when I was four. That was when I found out the big secret: people die.
I still didn't get it then, of course, I was just four. But I found out that day that dying was a thing that people did.
I step up onto the crate. I move away the rope that I haven't looked at yet. I don't think I will at all.
Once I told someone that I thought I should commit suicide. It was mistake. They told me, "Then do it."
They didn't even ask why or anything.
I did tell them why, but only because I said, "You should probably at least act like you care."
So they asked why, and I answered: "Because I have counted the days that I remember being good and the days I remember being bad and the bad outweigh the good."
They said, "Your goodness isn't something you get to define."
They walked away after that and I still don't know what they meant.
The rope just rests on my shoulder, waiting.
June isn't crying anymore. That's good. She's good. Her good outweighs her bad.
I put the rope around my neck and wait to feel scared. I still don't. I still don't feel anything.
I look at the blue and grey painting and think that if I were to paint something right now I'd use those colors, but this time mix them until they were black on the canvas, because I'm there now.
I smell tomatoes and want to smile. Well, I want to want to smile, but I just don't want to. Like I want to want to live, but I don't want to.
I think of mom yelling at June over the squashed tomatoes and June saying, "Maggie made me do it!"
I've never said that. I guess because I couldn't. I just never could. My only job was to not say it, in fact. My job was to say the opposite. Because how do you really say that?
But my job is over now, I think.
So I say it,
"Mom made me do it," and kick my dirty feet forward.
Cassie Kellogg is currently an undergraduate student at Arizona State University studying English and Philosophy. She works as an editor for Canyon Voices Literary Magazine and as an Editorial Intern for Pants On Fire Press. Her hobbies include reading books, blogging about reading book, and drinking Dr. Pepper. This is her first publication. You can follow her on Twitter @cassiiekel or read her blog at howshereads.wordpress.com.


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In our Iceland Preview: World Cup 2018, we share our analysis about this Iceland team who are playing in their first-ever World Cup tournament.
Iceland Preview: World Cup 2018
Full Squad
Goalkeepers: Hannes Halldorsson, Runar Runarsson, Frederik Schram
Defenders: Kari Arnason, Holmar Eyjolfsson, Rurik Gislason, Sverrir Ingason, Hordur Magnusson, Birkir Saevarsson, Ragnar Sigurdsson, Ari Skulason
Midfielders: Birkir Bjarnason, Samuel Fridjonsson, Johann Gudmundsson, Aron Gunnarsson, Emil Hallfredsson, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Olafur Skulason, Arnor Traustason
Forwards: Jon Bodvarsson, Alfred Finnbogason, Albert Gudmundsson, Bjorn Sigurdarson
- Manager: Heimir Hallgrimsson
- Captain: Aron Gunnarsson
- Best Finish: First Appearance
Likely starting lineup
In what was their first ever outing at a major tournament, it'd be fair to say Iceland caught the imagination at the European Championships in 2016.
Not only did the world catch on to their tremendous Icelandic clap celebration and video clips of fanatical commentators go viral, the Strakarnir Okkar performed admirably on the pitch. Up until their loss against France in the quarter-finals, they drew with eventual winners Portugal, beat Austria and, most memorably of all, sent England packing.
It's a testament to the outstanding work done by the Icelandic setup that this team is now back-to-back participants at major tournaments. After the way they played in France two years ago, on their World Cup debut no opponent will be taking the Scandinavian outfit lightly; they are the smallest nation to ever feature in the competition.
Since the Euros there have been some changes, with Hallgrimsson taking over the ship Lars Lagerback had previously steered in such an exciting direction.
While Lagerback was welded to a 4-4-2 setup, the new coach has been a little more versatile against stronger opponents, with Iceland tapping into a 4-4-1-1 formation at times. This allows Gylfi Sigurdsson, undoubtedly the side's most accomplished performer, more freedom in the final third.
The worry for Iceland may be that with Sigurdsson further forward, they may get overwhelmed in midfield, whether that be technically by Argentina and Croatia, or physically by Nigeria.
Even so, this is a team capable of conquering long odds and although some nations making their World Cup debuts may be a little nervous, Iceland weren't daunted when they stepped out onto the field in 2016. They may not have enough to get through the groups in Russia, but you'd be foolish to say so with any great certainty.
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Key Man – Gylfi Sigurdsson
One of the merits of Iceland's tweak in formation is that it allows Sigurdsson to play in his preferred position at the hub of the team.
The concern for the coach and his team-mates is that it's difficult to assess what state the Everton man is in heading into this tournament in terms of form and fitness. After all, his season was curtailed in March due to injury and as such, he may not be in a position to play 90 minutes from the off at the World Cup.
For Sigurdsson that injury came at the worst possible time, as he was beginning to finally build some momentum as an Everton player in a No. 10 berth. Previously in the campaign he'd been hung out on the left flank and never looked comfortable in a team bereft of attacking impetus.
If he is fit come Iceland's opener then they have a game changer on their books, as Sigurdsson can alter a match with a swing of his wicked right boot.
When it comes to set-pieces the former Swansea man is deadly, while opponents would be well versed to prevent him from getting his head up and shooting within 30 yards of goal. All of Iceland will be desperate to see him at his best this summer and sprinkle the stardust that'll complement Iceland's rigid structure.
Iceland's Group Stage fixtures
Saturday, June 16
Argentina vs. Iceland, 9am, FOX, Telemundo, Sling Blue and fubo (7-day free trial)
Friday, June 22
Nigeria vs. Iceland, 11am, FOX, Telemundo, Sling Blue and fubo (7-day free trial)
Tuesday, June 26
Iceland vs. Croatia, 2pm, FS1, Universo, Sling Blue and fubo (7-day free trial)
Iceland's path to the final
If Iceland wins Group D, their Round of 16 game will be against the country that finishes second from Group C which will either be France, Australia, Denmark or Peru. If Iceland wins that Round of 16 game, Iceland will enter the quarterfinal stage with a game against the team that is victorious between the winner of Group B (Spain, Portugal, Morocco or Iran) and the team that finishes second in Group A (either Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt or Uruguay). If Iceland advances to the semi-final stage, it'll play the winner of the quarterfinal that comes out of the F1 vs. E2 versus H1 vs. G2 series.
If Iceland finishes second in Group D, Iceland will play the team that finishes first in Group C (either France, Australia, Denmark or Peru). If Iceland wins that game, it would be in the quarterfinal against the team that is victorious between the winner of Group A (either Russia, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay or Egypt) and the team that finishes second in Group B (either Morocco, Iran, Spain or Portugal). If Iceland advances to the semi-final stage, it'll play the winner of the quarterfinal that comes out of the E1 vs. F2 versus G1 vs. H2 series.
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Iceland World Cup shirt (home)
The home jersey is in traditional colors blue, red and white, representing the country's volcanoes, ice and water.
"Fyrir Island" ("For Iceland"), is printed inside the collar. The national flag is on the upper back.
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Iceland World Cup shirt (away)
The away jersey is white, representing the country's icy landscape. Mini dots of red and blue blend on the sleeves, as the lava of its numerous volcanoes blends with ice, adding to the water that runs throughout the island.
"Fyrir Island" ("For Iceland"), is printed inside the collar. The national flag is on the upper back.
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Iceland World Cup shirt (third)
The red third jersey is a nod to the fiery volcanoes that dot the island. Blue and white on the collar for the "ice that slowly melts turning into water." Mini dots of red and blue blend on the sleeves, as the lava of the volcanoes blends with ice.
"Fyrir Island" ("For Iceland"), is printed inside the collar. The national flag is on the upper back.
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We read and understood what polymorphic virus is and what does it do in the previous blog. We also found that "Windows restore" is one of the options we have to remove polymorphous virus. In this blog, we will see how we can perform Windows restore successfully.
Few things to know about Windows restore before we move on
Novice people may not be comfortable with the idea of restoration to remove polymorphic virus. Let us clear few points:
1. Windows restore utility deals with windows system files, registry files, and windows programs only. It doesn't touch, restore, remove or delete your personal files, photos, songs, documents, emails, or the like. This also implies that you cannot bring back your deleted files by restoration.
2. If you are unable to run windows restore from control panel, you can choose to do that from an installation disc. Make sure it is for the version of operating system you have.
3. This will remove polymorphic virus for you. You can select the restore point of the date that comes before the installation of polymorphic virus.
3. Check FAQs related to windows restore before you move on.
How to perform Windows restore to remove polymorphic virus?
1. Click-open the Windows Icon on the bottom left corner of your computer screen. In the search field, type "system restore."
2. Click on "system restore" at the top of start menu.
3. Click "next."
4. Choose the desired restore point from the list of restore points that appear. Make sure you guess it right. Keep in mind when the problem started or when the virus attacked your computer. Choose any date before that.
Note: You can also access System restore FAQs by clicking on the link "Is this process reversible?"
Note: If you check the box "show more restore points", you will have more options. You can also scan your computer for affected programs by clicking on "scan for affected programs."
5. Click Next. Now click "finish." Wait for the process to be finished and Windows to reboot automatically.
Congratulations! Your drive has been restored and virus has been removed.


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MANHATTAN (AFP) — Spirits shaken by coronavirus? Add some ice and pour out a "quarantini."
Or two, or three — alcohol sales are skyrocketing in New York, the epicenter of the U.S. pandemic, where liquor stores have been deemed "essential" even as most businesses closed.
Daniel Tallman of Manhattan's Sutton Wine Shop says sales have jumped threefold on some days, pointing to the closure of Broadway and the cancellation of the major college basketball "March Madness" tournament as turning points.
Such shutdowns were once unfathomable, and triggered a "that's kind of serious!" reaction, Tallman told AFP.
The New York State Liquor Authority confirmed a significant hike in alcohol sales, but declined to give specific figures.
"A lot of people drink wine with their meal and I think it's more of a habit," said Stefan Kalogridis, the authority's president.
Declaring liquor stores essential, he said, "was the right decision by the governor."
Evan Cuciniello, a sales associate at Ambassador Wines, said business has been "very good" — while customers used to buy two or three bottles, "now it's a lot of cases."
"Everybody wants to drink."
Coping mechanism
With bars and restaurants closed, more and more people are drinking at home — and sometimes attending virtual happy hours via online apps like FaceTime or Zoom to try and ward off loneliness.
But it's not all fun and games: one store manager, who asked to remain anonymous, said "business is booming" but people are "very stressed."
A lot of his clients work on Wall Street, he said, predicting that "when this is over, rehab clinics will make a lot of money."
On March 16, when New York closed schools, bars and restaurants and Wall Street collapsed 12.98% — its worst decline since Black Monday in October 1987 — sales at one online spirits service shot up 131%, said Lindsey Andrews, president of Minibar Delivery.
Addiction psychologist Andrew Washton said the current crisis has caused some of his patients to imbibe even more than before.
One has scheduled a time with friends to meet over the app Zoom, Washton said — "to basically drink and chat for an hour to get drunk."
Another is a lawyer who had been sober for two years and had just bought a house, anticipating his annual bonus.
But news that the company would scrap bonuses this year over virus-triggered financial struggles sent him into relapse, and he was hospitalized last week in detox.
"I'm a little surprised that the liquor stores are still open, psychologist Washton said.
"But I understand that the government is afraid of revolts if it closes them!
City on edge
New York state has surpassed 25,000 known cases of Covid-19, with 14,900 in densely populated New York City. At least 150 people have died statewide.
And with a peak in infections at least two weeks away, glasses likely will continue to raise.
"The whole world is anxious! We're here to relieve that anxiousness if we can," said Randy Ray, a wine consultant.
Andrews of Minibar Delivery said that while wine and spirits percentages are on the rise, beer actually has dropped slightly.
Except for one unlikely culprit: she said more people are ordering in Corona — the Mexican beer.
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As you've surely seen and heard by now, Tupac Shakur made his long-anticipated return the other night. This two-dimensional holograma-pac appeared at the Coachella Festival in California, dumbfounding a nation of both hip-hop fans and tech geeks. Indeed, it was awfully cool …
And yet, although I've now watched the performance, oh, a dozen times, I can't just settle on enjoyment and happiness and wonderment.
Why? Because while Tupac Shakur is, easily, my all-time favorite rapper, I also friggin' hate him.
A hologram? A stupid hologram? How about this—instead of existing as a hologram (aka: not actually existing at all), try not being dead. Try not (in the mid-1990s) living your laughably inane quasi-thug lifestyle, especially after you made it big and had all the money and the houses and the riches a person could need. I still don't understand what in the world Tupac Shakur was thinking, carrying weapons and hanging with awful crowds and all but daring people to shoot him. The man was a brilliant—absolutely brilliant—artist. He could rap. He could sing. He could act. But that wasn't good enough. He had to uphold an image, even if the image was bullshit.
Back in 1996, when Tupac Shakur was killed, there was all this talk about him being a prophet. The nonsense stemmed from his I Ain't Mad At Cha video, which showed him being gunned down outside a club. How, people asked, could he have known? He must have had a feeling. Must have been connected to a higher power. Must have … must have …
It took no Einstein to assume Tupac was destined to be shot. It was his lifestyle choice; his decision. He couldn't walk away, in the manner so many wise rappers (from Dr. Dre to Ice Cube to Ice T) do when there's no longer need to live the streets. Hell, Jay-Z came up as a drug dealer. It was his being, and the only way he knew. Once he found music, however, he stopped hustling. As any intelligent person would have.
But not Tupac.
There's a monologue toward the end of Tupac's awesome Life Goes On that, in my opinion, bastardizes an otherwise classic song. The rapper is talking to two of his friends who had died, and he says …
Life goes on homie
gone on, cause they passed away
Niggas doin' life
Niggas doin' 50 and 60 years and shit
I feel ya nigga, trust me
I feel ya
You know what I mean
last year
we poured out liquor for ya
this year nigga, life goes on
we're gonna clock now
get money
evade bitches
evade tricks
give players plenty space
and basicaly just represent for you baby
next time you see your niggas
your gonna be on top nigga
their gonna be like,
'Goddamn, them niggas came up'
that's right baby
life goes on….
and we up out this bitch
hey Kato, Mental
y'all niggas make sure it's popin' when we get up there
don't front.
Literally, Tupac Shakur is requesting that his pals "make sure it's popin'" in heaven. Again, whenever I hear this I want to cringe. There's nothing "popin'" about death. You're dead. You don't exist. You don't breathe, you don't think, you don't react and you don't respond. You're not drinking bubbly with half-naked honeys. You're as aware as my kitchen table. Which is to say, not aware at all. Knock, knock—you're dead.
I think that's what, ultimately, irks me about a hologram I initially loved. It only continues to support some notion of eternal Tupac life; that he somehow continues to be there; hovering and chillin' and popin'.
When, truth be told, he's not.


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Meet the Group Going After Hedge Funds
In late July in New York, a group of approximately 50 people stood outside the hedge fund BlueMountain Capital protesting against the firm's purchases of Puerto Rican debt. Protesters carried anti hedge fund signs and one even had a papier mache vulture, to represent BlueMountain's status as a vulture fund (a hedge fund that invests in weak debt, or debt that is about to default).
One of the group's leaders attempted to request a meeting with a BlueMountain representative, but he was denied. BlueMountain Capital declined to comment.
Meet the Hedge Clippers. Backed by a Strong Economy for All Coalition, a collection of labor unions and community groups, and founded in early 2015, the Hedge Clippers are an activist group solely targeting hedge funds, instead of broadly attacking Wall Street. The decision to just focus on hedge funds was "driven both by the actual economy and that a bigger portion of the pie was going to the hedge fund managers" said Michael Kink, the Executive Director of Strong Economy for All Coalition. "We continually saw hedge fund guys on the other side of the equation."
Even Donald Trump has jumped into the hedge fund managers discussion saying during an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity that hedge fund managers just "push around paper" and that they pay "peanuts" in taxes.
Read: Hedge Clippers Protest BlueMountain Capital Over Puerto Rican Debt Crisis
Indeed, the group's mission statement says "The Hedge Clippers are working to expose the mechanisms hedge funds and billionaires use to influence government and politics in order to expand their wealth, influence and power."
"Hedge fund managers aren't just making money, but they're also exercising political power," said Zephyr Teachout, a backer of the Hedge Clippers, and former New York Democratic gubernatorial candidate.
Some of the issues that the Clippers focus on as they relate to hedge funds include corporate tax reform, charter schools, minimum wage and the Puerto Rican debt crisis. In July, protesters stood outside Third Point Capital manager Dan Loeb's Hamptons house, where he was hosting a fundraiser for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (Third Point declined to comment on this story). The group, which included many public school teachers, were protesting Loeb's support of charter schools and Cuomo's acceptance of hedge fund money. Corporate and personal tax reform will be one of their biggest issues moving forward.
"The economy works if you're a hedge fund billionaire and doesn't if you're a waitress," said Kink.
Read: Activists Protest Outside Dan Loeb's Hamptons House
One of the first questions people ask about the Clippers is how they're different from Occupy Wall Street, the 2008 movement protesting economic inequality. "Hedge Clippers do have some organic links to Occupy" said Kink. While Occupy did open a national conversation on income inequality, the movement physically was difficult to sustain, as protesters camped out in a park.
The Hedge Clippers are taking a different approach to keep the conversation moving. Protests at various hedge funds or homes belonging to hedge fund managers are a key part of their strategy. But the group also assembles "Hedge Papers," lengthy reports criticizing hedge fund's involvement in politics. Unlike Occupy Wall Street which relied more on its physical presence to convey a message, the Clippers have a comprehensive research, policy and publishing team.
The group has put out reports on a variety of topics ranging from fast food workers to tax liens in Baltimore to New Jersey governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie for investing public pensions in hedge funds.
What might be the most surprising aspect of the Clippers is that, according to Teachout, folks who work on Wall Street have joined the campaign, showing that the group's message is spreading beyond its traditional base.
And ahead of the 2016 election, the Hedge Clippers will not be targeting a specific candidate but instead will be shedding light on where the campaign contributions originate from. "If we make those contributors toxic, then we can connect to those candidates," said Teachout. The Clippers have used this tactic already against Governor Cuomo for accepting contributions from hedge fund managers.
And hedge fund managers are ready to shell out for 2016. According to Federal Election Center records, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has received large contributions from Paul Tudor Jones, founder of Tudor Investment Corp, and Jamie Dinan, founder of York Capital Management, both past targets of the Clippers. Other candidates including Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina have all received donations from hedge fund managers.
What's coming up next for the group is an effort to go national. "We will have a more vigorous discussion of economic inequality and fairness," said Kink.


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Equality Statement
Equality Statement
At St Clement's C of E Academy, we are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity for all pupils, staff, parents and carers irrespective of race, gender, disability, belief, sexual orientation, age or socio-economic background. We aim to develop a culture of inclusion and diversity in which all those connected to the school feel proud of their identity and ability to participate fully in school life.
We tackle discrimination through the positive promotion of equality, by challenging bullying and stereotypes and by creating an environment which champions respect and kindness for all.
At St. Clement's C of E Academy we ensure difference and diversity are embraced and that all are treated with dignity and respect.
Equality in Teaching and Learning
We provide all our pupils with the opportunity to succeed and to reach the highest level of personal achievement. We do this by:Equality in Admissions and Exclusions
- Ensuring equality of access for all pupils and preparing them for life in a diverse society
- Using materials that reflect the diversity of the school, population and local community without stereotyping
- Promoting attitudes and values that challenge any discriminatory behaviour or prejudice
- Providing opportunities for pupils to appreciate their own culture and celebrate the diversity of other cultures
- Seeking to involve all parents in supporting their child's education
- Utilising teaching approaches appropriate for the whole school population which are inclusive and reflective of our pupils
- To work together with others to improve children's educational and wellbeing outcomes, and notes the rights set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- To promote positive attitudes to difference and good relationships between people with different backgrounds, genders, cultures, faiths, abilities and ethnic origins
Our admissions arrangements are fair and transparent and do not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender, religion, belief, disability and/or socio-economic background.
Equal Opportunities for Staff
All staff appointments and promotions are made on the basis of merit and ability and in compliance with the law. We are keen to ensure that the staffing of the school reflects the diversity of our community.


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Digital box, with Bluetooth® n.o 5441D, to be fixed on the wall. You coul open and control it by your smartphone, casual or permanent codes. You could see who visit you thought the Apps and notifications.
It´s has a hardware to get an easy installation. It has a great capacity to keep safe cards or keys.
The batteries could be replace easily. With a hard structure and a lined surface to protect the hardware, it works with a free App, Master Lock® Vault Home.
- Open and control with your smartphone.
- Master Lock® Vault Home App is designed to personal use and it allows until 10 lockers.
- You could access by traditional code.
- Program the access at the moment or to future.
- Give a casual or permanent access.
- It contains a hardware to get an easy installation.
- Play your App or web to track the use.
- Low battery warning.
- Battery replacement (CR123A pre-installed)


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Many species of spiders are common household and commercial building inhabitants in the southern United States. Certain common spiders spin webs over outside lights, in corners, crawlspaces, attics, garages and in basements. Under most conditions outdoors, spiders are considered beneficial because they feed on insects. However, they are undesirable to most homeowners when indoors, and the unsightly webbing spiders use to catch insect prey usually outweighs this beneficial behavior.
Spiders have eight legs as opposed to insects which have six.
Most spiders hide in darkened areas, cracks or other retreats that they construct out of silk.
Black widow spiders are found in North and South Carolina and contain venom that is toxic to a person's nervous system.
Brown recluse spiders are not as common as the black widows and are usually found in the western part of the state but have been reported throughout North and South Carolina.
Both black widow and brown recluse spiders can inflict a painful bite and the severity of the symptons depend on many factors including the area of the bite, the person's size and general sensitivity, the amount of venom injected, the temperature, a person's immune system, etc.
If you or someone you know is ever bit by a spider and requires medical attention, it is best if you can bring the spider with you for identification.
Spiders do not have wings or antennae and their bodies have only two regions as opposed to insects which have three body regions.
All spiders have a pair of jaw like structures, called chelicerae. At the end of each chelicera is a hollow, claw-like fang. Each fang has a small opening in the end through which venom is injected into the prey.
Spiders have spinnerets, located at the tip end of the abdomen which are linked to glands from which silk is spun for web making.
All spiders are carnivorous. Most spiders eat insects but a few of the larger species are big enough to prey on small animals like birds or mice. A spiders jaw has toothed edges used in breaking up the prey during feeding. Digestion starts before any of the prey is swallowed. Some spiders inject digestive enzymes into the prey before they start breaking it up, other secrete digestive fluids as they are breaking the food up with their jaws. The partially digested food is sucked into the spiders gut.
- Indoor management consist of removing webs and egg sacs and the actual spiders by vacuuming. Residual dusts and microencapsulation insecticides can be applied to cracks and crevices and spider harborages.
- Outdoor management consists of locating nesting and potential nesting areas and removing them. Insecticides applied around the foundation should help to reduce insect populations which in turn should help reduce the number of spiders.
- Thorough interior and exterior inspections are always vital to good spider management.


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SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Canada-based airline Swoop Wednesday announced it will offer nonstop service from Edmonton International Airport to San Diego International Airport from Oct. 31 through the end of next April.
The flight will initially operate twice weekly on Thursdays and Sundays and increase to three times weekly, with Tuesdays added between Dec. 21 and April 26. The service will be the first-ever nonstop flights between Edmonton and San Diego.
Established in 2018 as an independent subsidiary of the WestJet Group of Companies, Swoop is Canada's low-fare airline. Swoop's fleet consists of nine Boeing 737-800 NG jets that have carried more than three million travelers in their three years of operation.
"It's great news that San Diego International Airport will be getting a new carrier and a new international route in October," said San Diego County Regional Airport Authority President and CEO Kimberly Becker. "We were in talks with Swoop pre-pandemic and are happy they are still committed to providing nonstop service between Edmonton and San Diego. We anticipate this route will be popular for Canadians as they look to escape the snow and take in the Southern California sunshine."
Edmonton is the capital city of Alberta and is the northernmost city in North America with a population of one million. During the winter months, the Aurora Borealis is visible from Edmonton. Travelers can catch VIA Rail Canada at the Edmonton train stop and experience a train trip across the Canadian Rockies or take a drive to Jasper National Park, a world heritage site.
To view the schedule, fares, and flight times, visit flyswoop.com.
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Federal chief information officer Vivek Kundra made his case Thursday to House lawmakers for why agency CIOs need control over a portion of the technology budget.
In both his written testimony and in answers to questions from members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, Kundra said one key solution to the long-standing problem of failing IT projects is to give agency CIOs more budget flexibility.
"To deploy IT successfully, agencies need the ability to make final decisions on technology solutions at the point of execution, not years in advance," said Kundra in his written testimony. "Agencies need the flexibility to move funding between investments or projects within their portfolio to respond to changes in needs and available solutions."
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During questioning by committee members, he said as CIOs move their focus to execution and away from policy development they need to be in the position to make tough decisions on whether a troubled IT project continues. And one main way for CIOs to do that is by controlling the budget.
"If you look at how IT in terms of how quickly development moves forward but when we appropriate money for IT in terms of the budget cycles it takes two-plus years, and given Moore's law, IT is evolving so fast, agencies have to predict two years out what their projects are going to look like," he said.
Kundra has made adjusting agency CIO's roles part of his overall IT reform plan. As a part of the Office of Management and Budget's 25-point IT reform plan laid out in December, Kundra detailed how CIOs need to control the IT budget for commodity systems, such as e-mail, storage, Web hosting and other common services.
"Part of our reform agenda has been very much around making sure we are more execution focused," Kundra said "We are actually reengineering and fundamentally reassigning the roles of the CIOs across every major department. The President's Management Council is very focused on this. I've personally met with deputy secretaries and CIOs to talk about the reforms."
He added that the meeting talked about what was working and what wasn't working in their agency, and to make sure there is buy-in across the agency to meet these goals.
Additionally, President Obama attended a recent PMC meeting where the IT reform agenda was among the topics of discussion, Kundra said.
The role of the CIO has been a much debated and discussed issue since the Clinger-Cohen Act became law 15 years ago. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) last month asked the Government Accountability Office for a third review of the role of the CIOs since 2004. GAO is holding two sessions next week with former CIOs about their roles and responsibilities and what, if any, changes need to be made to the law.
Kundra points to the departments of Interior and Veterans Affairs as the models for how agencies should alter their technology executive's jobs.
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At VA, the CIO has budget authority over all technology.
"In three-and-a-half years, and from my view, almost solely because of the consolidated IT appropriation, the improvement of IT at VA has been in orders of magnitude, delivery of software, quality of metrics of availability, information protection, financial control and all the sort of things taxpayers ought to care a lot about," said VA CIO Roger Baker at a recent conference. "And by the way, we saved a couple hundred millions of dollars along the way. It all stems from the fact that a central CIO, who frankly cares a lot about customer service, has control over those things and can enforce enterprisewide policies that make sense."
In December, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued a memo mandating there be only one CIO for the entire department, who would have authority over the agency's IT infrastructure and procurement.
Kundra said the Department of Health and Human Services is going to issue a memo shortly redesigning the role of its CIO.
A request to HHS for comment on the memo was not returned. HHS CIO Mike Carleton wouldn't comment when asked about a forthcoming memo.
"One of the things I've been doing is taking the memo that came out of the Department of Interior and talking about it as a best practice that can be scaled across the board," Kundra said Wednesday at the IRMCO conference in Washington. "In the next few months, what you will see is a number of changes happen across the federal IT landscape from HHS to HUD and so forth."
At the hearing Thursday, committee members wanted to know how the problems that have encumbered IT projects could be solved.
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Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.), chairwoman of the subcommittee, said Kundra and OMB were doing a good job in trying to reform IT.
Congressman Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.), ranking member of the committee, asked if there were any best practices the government could implement.
"IT upgrades across the government agencies have historically been the bane of an appropriator's existence," Serrano said. "The number of agencies that have undertaken an IT upgrade and completed it on time and under budget can be counted on one hand."
Kundra said along with the CIO's role, other major barriers include the lack of qualified project and program managers and poor overall communications with industry to develop acquisition requirements.
The Office of Personnel Management and OMB are working to fix the program manager challenge by creating a career track and certification program. The CIO Council also is developing a collaboration platform so project managers can share best practices and lessons learned.
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy issued a "mythbusting memo" last month to help improve communication between the government and vendors.
As OMB works on the other barriers, Kundra is trying to make headway with lawmakers to expand the authorities for CIOs.
"We've been having a number of discussions whether it's with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee or the appropriators around how we need to make sure we are consolidating commodity IT under agency CIOs," he said. "Secondly, for multi-year projects, where we have multi-year funding, allows them to make intelligent decisions so that they are not making the wrong decisions because the incentives are not to halt projects because you have uncertainty around future funding."
Kundra said lawmakers are receptive to the idea of giving CIOs more budget authority.
"It is going to take some work and those conversations will continue especially in the coming weeks and months ahead," he said.
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The finalists have now been selected for the 10th anniversary year of The European Supply Chain Excellence Awards. And an impressive list of contenders it is too – see the list opposite. The judges were delighted with the high calibre of entries this year, which makes the task of judging all that more difficult. The next stage of the judging process – and one which elevates these Awards above all others – is already underway with site visits by members of the judging panel scheduled to take place through September and into early October.
Results from the adjudicators' visits to every finalist, wherever they are based in Europe, will be reported back to the judging round table in the middle of October. At this meeting, the final decisions will be made as to which companies will be stepping up to receive an Award. Previous winners have included: Dell, Cisco Systems, Ciba Vision, Johnson & Johnson, O2, NHS Logistics Authority, Computacenter, Sara Lee, Coca Cola, Argos, GlaxoSmithKline, Rexam Beverage Can Europe, Marks & Spencer, British Airways World Cargo, Jungheinrich, Diagio, Jaguar, Scottish Courage, Alcatel, Goodyear Dunlop, Nissan… and soon to be joined by some of our shortlist opposite.
We have included a number of new categories this year – Project Management, Environmental Improvement and Individual Contribution. But the highlight of the Awards evening will remain the announcement of the Overall Winner of The European Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2006. Last year it was Rexam Beverage Can Europe. Who will it be this year? You'll have to turn up and find out!


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It looks like The Paragon Chicago is up to the 32nd floor or so. That's not quite three-quarters of the way to the top, which is fine by me. The Paragon continues to be one of Chicago's prettiest under-construction towers, so hurrying to that 47th floor isn't something I need The Big Green W to do.
A friendly reminder that The Paragon is a joint effort by Murphy Development Group and CIM Group. The SCB design will deliver 500 new units to the South Loop upon its opening next spring.


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My husband was diagnosed with Chron's disease over a year and a half ago. He had symptoms for a few years before but things really started to get bad after we were married - in fact on honeymoon. He had surgery last year to remove sections of his bowel and ended up with a temporary ileostomy bag which was reversed in May this year. Throughout it all I tried to be supportive but it was a great shock and fairly traumatic for both of us, but obviously especially him.
After he had the reversal operation he got a new job and started staying out late with new friend most nights of the week. I became quite depressed and lonely, because of the shock of what had happened in our first year of marriage and I felt taken for granted by him.
Eventually he left me and has moved into his parents flat in London and has now buried himself in his work. He says the illness has changed him and he feels it has ruined everything. I have also found out that he has been struck off his specialists lists for never turning up to any appointments after his reversal operation. He is still meeting me once a week but I am finding it very hard to get through to him.
Obviously I love my husband very much but am now feeling lost as to what to do next as I haven't experienced Chron's myself. If anyone has any suggestions or advice I'd be really grateful.
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Straightpoint - know the load
For 40 years Straightpoint has manufactured and supplied cabled and wireless telemetry loadlink, load shackles, load cells, digital dynamometers, compression loadcells, crane scales, running line tensiometers and software solutions as well as a range of intrinsically safe load cells.
Safety, reliability and quality are paramount in the lifting and rigging industries and so Straightpoint designs and manufactures to the highest standards including ISO9001, DNV-GL Type Approval, ATEX and IECEx, whilst holding other accreditations and active memberships in key associations such as LEEA, AWRF, SC&RA and ASME.
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Crosby / SP's Orsak Presents at Offshore Safe Lifting Conference
Force measurement equipment manufacturer Straightpoint (SP), part of The Crosby Group, was among presenters at the API Offshore Safe Lifting Conference & Expo, which took place last month (September) in Houston, Texas.
The event, held at the Westin Houston Memorial City, welcomed decision makers from the U.S. offshore oil and natural gas industry, in addition to representatives of regulatory agencies and thought leaders from the energy marketplace. Aaron Orsak, business development manager at SP, delivered a multifaceted paper titled, "Advancements in Load Monitoring", which explored the progression away from mechanical dial scales and shone a spotlight on ATEX / IECEx products. He explained that ATEX and IECEx cover the use of equipment in explosive or potentially explosive atmospheres; the former is a European directive while IECEx is applicable in the Americas and globally.
Orsak said: "My intent was to walk the audience through a journey from the early days of analog pressure load indicating systems to cutting-edge, wireless technology and, importantly, explain how its application can benefit their use of lifting equipment in today's market. We looked at our products—the Loadlink plus and Radiolink plus, for example—but it wasn't a commercial presentation and we wanted to represent the technology beyond our own brand."
The conference—endorsed by leading organizations such as the Center for Offshore Safety, International Association of Drilling Contractors, National Ocean Industries Association, and Offshore Operators Committee—attracted a high-level, authoritative delegation that was concerned specifically with lifting as it relates to offshore activity.
Orsak said: "Other offshore conferences offer a scattered approach to operations, but this event is hyper-focused on making offshore lifting operations safer. That makes it an important concept with which to associate our products and thought leadership content. We want to engage upper management, engineers, project managers, and site lifting coordinators—all of whom were in attendance."
SP also displayed its wares at Crosby's product exhibit, where Orsak was on hand to take questions and showcase the equipment alluded to in his presentation, which he believes was listened to by up to 150 delegates. The two-pronged approach gave SP unprecedented exposure at an event where it had only previously been represented by regional distributors and dealers.
Orsak added: "It is a small product fair consisting of 20-25 exhibitors but attendance is focused and strong. I had several [visitors] stop by after my presentation to ask about different applications or to clarify the specifications and features of the products we offer. Some were surprised by the capabilities of the wireless range, battery life, and ATEX / IECEx-approved load cells. We'll certain return to the event; maybe next time we'll use a greater volume of case studies to demonstrate more lifting-related applications in this demanding sector."
- API, a national trade association representing all facets of the natural gas and oil industry, powered the conference and expo.
Caption: Aaron Orsak (center) with Crosby's Zachery Hayes (left), district sales manager—Texas Gulf Coast; and Ryan Clark, business development manager—oil and gas.
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Straightpoint, a UK manufacturer, has been providing load cells to companies around the world to ensure their loads are safe to lift, offload, pull or push for over 40 years. Straightpoint's products are currently being used within a wide range of industries such as oil and gas, shipping, construction, renewable energies, lifting and cranes, mining, staging, test and inspection, and military applications. Products are available to buy or rent. http://www.straightpoint.com


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Jeru the Damaja vocalized underground agony before RZA declared that R&B stands for "rap and bullshit," before Dead Prez blasted "monotonous material," and way before Immortal Technique announced that he would soil a Def Jam development deal. The seminal pro-black Brooklyn stalwart humiliated Puff Daddy, wrestled the Versace shades off Foxy Brown's busted dome, and brilliantly satirized cornball hip-hop. More important, he threw surreptitious jabs that put guilt-ridden sellouts in defensive postures despite their not being lambasted by name.
So imagine my reaction when DJ Knife from Fresh Produce alerted me that Jeru has signed on to DJ at Good Life this month. Personally, I'm always down for sample-heavy true school, throwback scratch tactics, and misanthropic rhymes galore. But my concern was for the dance-shoed boogie nighthawks who frequent Fresh Produce and who, I presume, don't enjoy spending Saturday evenings acting tough with their feet planted and heads nodding. Fortunately for them, Jeru isn't the incendiary hater that I had good reason to believe he was.
"This is what people don't understand about me," he says. Turns out he's been rocking DJ gigs worldwide for about three years now. "I might talk about wack MCs, but I also grew up on shake-your-ass records. Father MC had those songs, and I loved some of them. If it's corny, it's corny, but it depends on what your purpose is. My purpose on the ones and twos is for people to have a good time."
Although Jeru still rhymes — and he released a disc as recently as 2007 — he spends a lot of time criss-crossing planet hip-hop as a laptop jockey. He's not alone: J-Zone, Biz Markie, and Large Professor — who are renowned for rapping (among other things) — have taken similar career paths. It makes sense: they have the tools and the knowledge, and retreating behind decks is much more rewarding than retiring behind a desk.
"The first thing I bought when I got my deal 15 years ago was two turntables, a mixer, an amp, and big-ass speakers," says Jeru, who still lives in Brooklyn with his entire family's record collection. "Every day I would go buy records and just DJ at the crib. Back then, guys like PF Cuttin and Roc Raida were around. Roc told me to start scratching with both hands, and I took his advice, so I have to give him the props for teaching this to me."
Jeru isn't exaggerating about his vinylphilic habits — growing up in New York City, I often saw him fingering selections at Fat Beats on Sixth Avenue. He says that was his regular routine until he learned digi-wax technology like FinalScratch and Serato Scratch Live — developments that allow him to avoid the embarrassment of lugging record crates, and to drop needles on random pop gems that cats hardly expect to hear vibrating off his wheels.
"The club isn't the place for acting all tough and hard-body. In Europe, I always want to go to the jiggy spots, and everyone around me — with their backpacks on — is like, 'Nah — no way.' I have to tell them that underground rap is cool, but not for getting ladies."
That said, when Jeru steps through Good Life this Saturday, hardcore ice grillers could get their fix after all. "I might spin some Jeru songs at the end, but it would be cheesy to play them before that. You never know, though; sometimes I surprise everyone and grab the microphone."
JERU THE DAMAJA | Good Life, 28 Kingston St, Boston | May 23 at 9 pm | 21+ | 617.451.2622 or www.goodlifebar.com
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The peloton feels the sting of Belgian classics crashes
Several riders go down hard in E3 Harelbeke and Gent-Wevelgem
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GENT, Belgium (VN) — Why all the crashes?
That was the simple question posed from veteran Belgian journalist Hugo Coorevits to Gent-Wevelgem winner John Degenkolb (Giant-Shimano) after a weekend filled with lots of them.
"I was lucky to avoid the crashes. Every rider tries to improve, and more and more riders are closer to a good level, so that means everyone wants to be at the front," Degenkolb said. "It's dangerous, on these narrow roads, but that is the history of these races. I like it … I hope no one is seriously injured. Even the best riders can crash, even [Peter] Sagan had problems."
The opening days of the Belgian classics saw a spate of costly falls despite good weather, dry roads, and almost no wind.
Both E3 Harelbeke and Gent-Wevelgem witnessed costly pileups that will have implications going toward the major races at Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) and Paris-Roubaix.
Belgian superstar Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) dodged a bullet Friday when he fell in a pileup early in Harelbeke, landing heavily on his thumb. Boonen said he was racing in tears because the pain was so bad.
A team doctor said if Boonen had crashed next week, it would have endangered his Ronde-Roubaix chances.
On Saturday, Boonen rode 60 kilometers to test his thumb and still had some discomfort, but it was nothing he couldn't handle. He survived Sunday's Gent-Wevelgem, a good sign he should be OK for Flanders next Sunday.
"I still had some pain in my hand," Boonen said Sunday. "In the beginning, it was still sensitive. On the cobbles, it still hurts, but on the normal roads, it was acceptable. It was not something I was worrying about. I have some time left to recover from this."
Boonen will skip this week's VDK Driedaagse De Panne, adding, "Now it's recovery, concentration, and training, to tune things up for Sunday."
Far worse off was André Greipel (Lotto-Belisol), who crashed hard with 8km to go Sunday, along with Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Sharp) and Geraint Thomas (Sky). Greipel went from being poised to win Gent-Wevelgem to exiting with pain inside the Lotto team car.
A video camera mounted inside the Lotto-Belisol team car captured the disappointment of team directors. An upset Greipel later entered the team car, letting out a few expletives before calming down and requesting to be taken to the finish.
There was more bad news waiting there. Doctors discovered Greipel dislocated his collarbone and ripped ligaments in his shoulder. He was scheduled to undergo surgery, and will be sidelined for weeks.
A major crash Friday, which completely blocked the road with about 40km to go, shaped the outcome of Harelbeke.
Pre-race favorite Fabian Cancellara (Trek Factory Racing) was caught up behind the crash, forcing him to pass nearly the entire peloton in a desperate attempt to regain contact with the lead chasers. By then, it was too late to try to counter eventual winner Sagan, who had avoided the mishap.
"It was too bad that Fabian was caught behind the crash, because we were in good position the entire race except for at that moment," said Trek sport director Dirk Demol. "The most important thing is that there were no injuries, and we could see that Fabian is in very good condition. The way he could chase back was impressive."
Orica-GreenEdge, too, had more than its fair share of troubles. At Harelbeke, six of the team's eight starters crashed. Canadian Svein Tuft abandoned with a diagnosed concussion, while classics veteran Mathew Hayman injured his right calf and did not start Wevelgem.
Sky placed Thomas into the winning move Friday, but saw a spate of crashes take its toll Sunday. Omloop Het Nieuwsblad winner Ian Stannard crashed hard into a roadside ditch, while Thomas and Edvald Boasson Hagen fell later in the race.
Mild weather, wild roads
Riders pointed to a few reasons why there were so many crashes.
First, the mild weather and lack of wind meant there was no natural selection, meaning there was still a big group late in both races. Therefore, there were more bodies fighting for position late in the race.
With the Ronde and Roubaix looming, Harelbeke and Wevelgem also saw more riders and teams believing in their chances — so there was more bumping and grinding for position throughout both races. In the hyper-demands of the Ronde and Roubaix, the punishing pace and brutal conditions soon put everyone in their place.
Finally, route changes to both Harelbeke and Gent-Wevelgem saw the peloton directed onto a series of narrow farm roads that were barely wide enough for three riders to ride abreast.
"We saw these new small farm roads in the new parcours, and I am not sure that is such a good thing," Cancellara said. "It makes for a very nervous race, because everyone is fighting for position. You always had to be concentrating, to be at the front."
There's always a balancing act between trying to make road conditions safe, yet at the same time, keeping intact the historic traditions of the northern classics. Racing on bad roads is intrinsic to the essence of these races.
After an atrocious edition of Gent-Wevelgem in 2007 when dozens of riders suffered harrowing crashes, race organizers removed the cobblestoned descent off the Kemmelberg climb. Since then, riders have been rerouted down a narrow, paved road, this time without mishaps.
Yet there was a crash Sunday with just 8km to go on a relatively wide, smooth road, as the sprinters jostled for position. No one could blame road conditions for that crash.


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05.09.2019, Kaiserslautern: Can we use digital technology to make high-tech structures from waste material? The production of modern cross-laminated timber (CLT) walls creates a large amount of offcuts for windows and doors. These cutouts are of a high, certified quality and valuable building material, but too small for regular building applications. The Recycleshell uses digital technology to turn these small elements into a high-performance, column-free roof structures, that can be quickly and precisely assembled on site thanks to an innovative rapid-assembly concept using hardwood connectors instead of metal.
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It is inspired by the way nature designs structures: Material is expensive, geometry is cheap. The optimised shell shape, which loads the large number of joints predominantly in compression, is approximated with planar facets made from flat CLT plates.
On the 5th of September, a first recycleshell demonstrator was presented to the public in the Diemerstein Valley near Kaiserslautern. It is also the first project on the University of Kaiserslauterns new "timber construction research campus". Speeches were given by the University President Prof. Dr. Helmut Schmidt, State Secretary Dr. Thomas Griese, County Council Chairman Theo Wieder, Mayor Eckhard Vogel and Jun. Prof. Dr. Christopher Robeller.
The DTC recycleshell demonstrates an innovative construction system, that can be produced from the CLT cut offs (waste material), which result from window and door cutouts in large amounts. Furthermore, the system is assembled entirely with wooden connectors, a combination of beech wedge connectors and beech dowels – completely without metal screws or bolts. The form fitting joints also act as assembly guides, no substructure was needed for the rapid and precise assembly of the structure.
The demonstrator consists of 230 planar plate elements, its optimised shell form is essential for the construction system, since it loads the joints between the elements predominantly in compression. The element geometries and the direct output of the CNC production data has been designed and generated using a software developed by DTC.
The production data was calculated so that the components could be manufactured fully automatically, with millimeter accuracy and cost-efficiency using state-of-the-art CNC technology of our project partner CLTech GmbH. The assembly is simple, fast and precise, as with LEGO, with the help of special X-Fix beech wood connectors, which were combined with wood dowels. The construction works entirely without metal connectors between the plates.
The material-saving lightweight construction project at the interface of architecture, civil engineering, production engineering and computer science shows new ways of building, thanks to Building Information Modeling BIM and a completely digital process chain.
The 230 individually shaped panel elements and over one thousand individually calculated wood-wood connectors can only be automated by algorithms. For the first time, form-fitting fasteners made of beech wood are used in a free-form tensile structure, which enable a particularly simple, fast and precise construction.
Thanks to our competent and committed supporters from the authorities, industry, university and the town community of Frankenstein, we were able to realise a first demonstrator roof with this new construction technique in the Diemerstein valley near Villa Denis. It vividly illustrates the interesting and architecturally enriching potential of digital design and production processes – using renewable resources and recycled materials.
In a final step, the curved shell structure was covered by a green roof. Both special plants and a special installation system were used for this challenging application, together with our project partners Optigrün and Koch Landschaftsbau, who have particular experience with special green roofs.
Scientific Development:
– Digital Timber Construction DTC, Jun. Prof. Dr. Christopher Robeller
– Ministerium für Umwelt MUEEF / Holzbaucluster Rheinland-Pfalz
– CLTech GmbH Kaiserslautern
Production and Assembly:
– CLTech GmbH, Kaiserslautern
– Meisterschule Zimmererhandwerk MHK Kaiserslautern
Structural Engineering:
– Pirmin Jung Deutschland GmbH, Sinzig
Supported by:
– X-Fix, Sepp Schilcher
– Gemeinde Frankenstein
– Kreisverwaltung Kaiserslautern
– Hans Hundegger Maschinenbau AG
– Bezirksverband Rheinland-Pfalz
– Optigrün GmbH
– Koch Landschaftsbau
We would particularly like to thank for their support:
Werner Theis, Hannsjörg Pohlmeyer, Eckhard Vogel, Jürgen Gottschall, Tobias Götz, Sepp Schilcher, Karl-Ludwig Kusche, Marc Derichsweiler, Johann Brill, Ralf Lenhardt, Tobias Frank, Eva Saalfrank, Sebastian Dienst, Niklas von Haaren, Yang Liu, Dirk Schmitt, Karl Jung, Theo Wieder, Christopher Dandrade, Manuel Stürminger, Wolfgang Pritschet, Ingemar Kirchler, Marc Niewöhner, Stefan Lorenz, Kurt Sendldorfer, Bianca Neumann, Sabine Stenzel, Dr Anette Mechel, Peter Spitzley, Dr. Thomas Löber, Dr. Jens Brauneck, Doris Simon


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I took some time to join the guys over at the Ion Cannon Podcast to talk all things Sabine. This in depth review of the episode Trials of the Darksaber was a blast to record. There is so much mythology in this episode and getting to dive into the details of it was definitely what I needed.
I have so many thoughts and theories now that I did not have before and as you all know I don't like to speculate but I definitely participated with this episode.
I always have a blast recording with the Ion Cannon guys if you have never listened to their show then please give this one a listen.
You can listen to the episode here or just look for the Ion Cannon podcast in your favorite podcast client.
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I don't take Tucker Carlson seriously. No one should. Carlson's own employer, Fox News, even says as much about its primetime host.
So I was amused last week when a Google News alert told me that Carlson mentioned my name in his June 15 monologue. "Trevor Aaronson's book 'The Terror Factory' analyzed every terrorism prosecution from 2001 to 2013," Carlson told his viewers. "Aaronson found that at least 50 defendants were on trial because of behavior that the FBI had not only encouraged, but enabled. FBI agents were essentially the plotters in these crimes. They made the crimes crimes."
I've covered the FBI for more than a decade, and a lot of my reporting has focused on the FBI's use of informants and sting operations in the so-called war on terror. During the last two decades, the Justice Department has prosecuted 350 defendants on international terrorism charges that emerged from FBI stings. In many of these stings, informants or undercover agents provided all the money and weapons for terrorist plots, and sometimes even the ideas — raising significant questions about whether any of these people would have committed the crimes were it not for the FBI's encouragement. Many targets of these FBI stings were mentally ill or otherwise easily manipulated.
But Carlson didn't mention my book because he's suddenly concerned about the entrapment of Muslims in aggressive FBI stings. He used it to support a theory for which he has zero evidence: that the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol was some sort of FBI-engineered plot.
Carlson's claim fits an existing and well-established argument: that the FBI creates crimes through aggressive stings where no crimes would otherwise exist. But in the specific case of the insurrection at the Capitol, there is no evidence I've seen to support the claim. In fact, the evidence Carlson and others have presented is based on a misunderstanding of the terms that the FBI and the Justice Department use in court records.
Carlson's theory is based on a story published by Revolver News, a site that refers to Chicago as "Chicongo" and which the Fox News host described with a straight face as "one of the last honest outlets on the internet." The Revolver story focused, in part, on a 65-year-old Oath Keeper named Thomas Caldwell, who was indicted for his alleged role in the Capitol riot. In Caldwell's court records, the FBI identified two unindicted co-conspirators — termed Person Two and Person Three in the records — as having assisted Caldwell. According to the indictment, Caldwell wrote to another man who was indicted, Donovan Crowl, about how he was working with Person Two and Person Three around the time of the Capitol riot:
[PERSON TWO] and I are setting up shop there. [PERSON THREE] has a room and is bringing someone. He will be the quick reaction force. Its going to be cold. We need a place to spend the night before minimum. [PERSON ONE] never contacted me so [PERSON TWO] and I are going our way. I will probably do pre-strike on the 5th though there are things going on that day. Maybe can do some night hunting. Oathkeeper friends from North Carolina are taking commercial buses up early in the morning on the 6th and back same night. [PERSON THREE] will have the goodies in case things go bad and we need to get heavy.
Revolver's theory is that Person Two and Person Three are in fact FBI agents, and the Justice Department redacted their names to protect them and cover up for how the agents entrapped Caldwell, in a manner similar to the way we've seen FBI agents set up unsuspecting Muslims. Carlson has adopted this theory in full. "They were almost certainly working for the FBI," he said in his June 15 monologue, referring to these two unidentified people. "So FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the Capitol on January 6, according to government documents."
This may seem like a good theory, but anyone who commonly reviews these types of court records knows the FBI and the Justice Department do not describe undercover agents and informants as "unindicted co-conspirators." Agents are identified in such records as "undercover employees," and informants as "cooperating witnesses" or "confidential human sources." An "unindicted co-conspirator" is someone who takes part in the crime, but who, as the term clearly suggests, hasn't been indicted.
The theory put forward by Revolver and Carlson requires you to believe that the FBI and the Justice Department disregarded long-standing practices and policies to cover up for the fact that Person Two and Person Three were government agents. And in the very unlikely event that did happen, there's nothing in the records to suggest the Capitol riot occurred because of Person Two or Person Three.
There are a variety of potential reasons why Person Two and Person Three, in the Caldwell case, haven't been indicted yet, including the possibilities that the FBI has not found them or that revealing their identities in court records at this time would harm ongoing investigations.
Despite this theory being based on ignorance of FBI and Justice Department terms, it's had legs. The New York Times and the Washington Post, among other news media, felt compelled to publish stories addressing it. And since Carlson's mention of my book, I've received about a dozen requests to be a guest on conservative radio talk shows — an example of how the right-wing media echo chamber quickly tries to reinforce narratives, however dubiously constructed.
At the same time, I think it's worth noting that there's a reason for the cultural stickiness of the claim by Revolver and Carlson. It might be a conspiracy theory, but it's not exactly "baseless," as the Post described it. That's because there are genuine concerns that the sting tactics used over the past two decades against impressionable Muslims will be used against equally impressionable Americans with right-wing ideologies. In the supposed plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, for example, FBI agents and an informant played significant roles, raising the same question that surrounds so many supposed Islamic State and Al Qaeda cases in the United States: Would this plot have happened were it not for the FBI?
In addition, there is evidence the FBI is assigning informants to infiltrate groups based solely on right-wing ideology. And the increase in right-wing violence in recent years has prompted calls for new anti-terorrism laws that would give the FBI even more power.
I think the FBI's investigation of potential right-wing threats, and the degree to which the bureau replicates its abusive post-9/11 tactics, will be a critically important story in the coming years. How news organizations report on it will be a significant test.
But so far, there's no evidence to support the claim that the Capitol riot was an FBI-led plot.


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Bulldogs cap compliant for 2018 NRL: DibNov 9, 2017 - 9:46 AM Canterbury chairman Ray Dib has hosed down any fears over the club's spending woes after declaring their 30-man squad salary-cap compliant for the 2018 season.
Dib used a sponsors and members function on Thursday night to unveil a captain's circle mentorship program, as well as a rebranding of Belmore Sportsground.
But more importantly, Dib told stakeholders the spending spree that netted them marquee men Kieran Foran and Aaron Woods had been ticked off by the NRL.
The Bulldogs' chief financial officer Vince Costa met the governing body on Thursday.
"After meeting with the NRL this morning with Vince Costa, we have confirmed and are pleased to announce that the Bulldogs are salary-cap compliant for the 2018 season," Dib said.
"Secondly, I want to wish our new coach Dean Pay and all the players all the best with the off-season training and to let them know that everyone's behind them 100 per cent."
Dib's declaration came as Pay continued their pledge to bring back ex-Bulldogs players, but forming a captains' circle with all five premiership-winning captains.
Former stars George Peponis, Steve Mortimer, Peter Tunks, Terry Lamb and Andrew Ryan will mentor players at training and on match days.
They will also speak regularly with Pay, who had been appointed coach in September after the controversial sacking of Des Hasler.
"It is crucial that we tap into the great history and tradition we have here at the club," Pay said.
"There have been so many quality players that have passed through the club in recent years that we would be crazy not to take advantage of their experience and skills.
"The captains' circle will offer our current players a link to the past and will be a great addition to our coaching structure."
Pay, whose squad returned this week for pre-season training, vowed to bring back the Bulldogs' aggressive and physical playing style from their halcyon days during the 1980s and 1990s.
Stakeholders on Thursday night were given a tour of the club's facilities, refurbished with a hall of fame and a nod to their premiership-winning coaches.
One of the mottos painted on the walls in the gym reads: "It's time for the madness."
"It's more relevant to the Bulldogs than anybody else because we had some tough blokes that played the game, with 'Cement' (David Gillespie), Peter Kelly, those sorts of guys," Pay said.
"It's how you train - there's got to be a bit of madness about that. But there's certainly going to be a bit of madness about how we play, that's for sure."
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