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Here's another Free tutorial on how to make an Elastic Waist Boho Short Skirt. The 18" skirt is designed to be short and sassy with the bottom hem floating about 2" from the knee. All our cuts and hemming measurements below are figured at this finished length, but of course you could go shorter or longer with your panel height.
Sewing Tools You Need:
- Sewing Machine and standard presser foot
- Quarter Inch Seam foot; optional
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- ONE 2 yard package of Dritz® 2" Woven Jacquard Elastic
- TWO Dritz® Tassel Caps
- 2 – 2¼ yards of 44″+ wide double gauze or similar;
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- ONE small skein of standard weight yarn in a coordinating color for the belt
- All-purpose thread to match fabric and elastic
- See-through ruler
- Fabric pen or pencil
- Seam gauge
- Seam ripper
- Scissors or rotary cutter and mat
- Iron and ironing board
- Clips to hold the yarn while braiding
- Craft glue to hold the tassel in the tassel cap
- Large-eye yarn needle
- Seam sealant
- Small piece of cardboard for the tassel wrapping template
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Alice Bauer - Vocalist
Libor Šmoldas - Guitar
Taras Voloschuk - Bass
Ben Hague - Drums
Note: Line-up may vary slightly for individual concerts.
This international sextet focuses on authentic performances of both classics and neglected gems from the discographies of pioneering bebop drummer Kenny Clarke (1914-1985) and bassist Oscar Pettiford (1922-1960), either as leaders or sidemen. The project covers the "golden age" of bebop in the 1940s through cool jazz to the emergence of hard bop in the mid-1950s. In addition to Clarke and Pettiford, other Giants of Bop featured in the band's repertoire include Charlie Christian, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Fats Navarro, Tadd Dameron, Wardell Gray, Miles Davis, John Lewis, Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley and, for the band's "vocal edition", the singers Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae and Annie Ross.
The project is named after the Pettiford composition "Bohemia After Dark" and Kenny Clarke's iconic album of the same name (Savoy, 1955), which was also the recording debut for Cannonball Adderley, ushering in a new phase in the development of hard bop. While the title refers to the "Café Bohemia" jazz club that had opened in New York that year, an association with evenings of great jazz in Bohemia's capital city is hard to resist!
Band Web site: http://www.bohemiabop.cz

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The company says the positions will be at 157 stores throughout the state with a starting salary of at least $9 per hour. Alongside seasonal sales associates, cashiers and stockers, Walmart is also hiring seasonal department managers to help customers pick up online orders in stores across the country.
Walmart says employees initially hired as seasonal workers often continue on to full-time employment and progress within the company. In 2014 more than half of Walmart's nationwide seasonal employees became full-time workers, the company says.
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The NSA and FBI are major contributors to EPIC — the Electronic Privacy Information Center. But their "donations" aren't exactly voluntary.
A hefty chunk of EPIC's legal budget is taken from the pockets of the very agencies it sues, each time a federal judge agrees that the government was wrong to keep the information secret.
In the last 15 years, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has netted more than $150,000 from government agencies in attorneys' fees and litigation costs from its Freedom of Information Act cases.
It's a testament to how desperate the government is to withhold information from the American public. It's also a revenue stream.
Some members of Congress are concerned about all the money the government is spending this way. Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. sent a letter to the head of the Government Accountability Office in May demanding an independent inquiry into the amount of money the government spends litigating FOIA cases. "Withholding information from the public unless sued undermines the very spirit of FOIA and wastes significant taxpayer money in the process," they wrote.
When agencies deny FOIA requests, the only way to hold them accountable is to spend countless hours and dollars on fighting them in court — an option that an average American doesn't have. That's where transparency and civil liberties advocates like EPIC come in.
Just this April, the National Security Agency paid EPIC $31,000 at the end of a legal battle that lasted over five years. EPIC sued the NSA when it refused to release a secret Bush-era directive establishing cybersecurity policy — a document that the NSA eventually voluntarily disclosed.
In Freedom of Information Act cases, the government may be forced to pay attorney's fees in cases where the plaintiff "substantially prevails" on its arguments that disclosure of information is legally mandated and in the public interest.
But even in victory, EPIC's counsels are weary from litigation — and would prefer the government didn't waste its time and money fighting the law.
"The government's failure to meet the transparency requirements of the Freedom of Information Act, the failure to follow the law, imposes significant costs on both FOIA requestors and on the public," says EPIC legal counsel Alan Butler.
The NSA case is just one example. EPIC won $29,635 from the FBI this year from a case where it forced the Bureau to release 4,000 pages of information about Stingray devices that mimic cellphone towers in order to locate and intercept cell phone communications in specific geographical areas. In another FOIA case against the FBI, EPIC secured over $19,000 forcing the release of details on the agency's facial recognition database. "There can be little dispute that the general public has a genuine, tangible interest in a system designed to store and manage significant quantities of its own biometric data," ruled District Judge Tanya Chutkan in 2014.
Jeramie Scott, EPIC's national security counsel, says there was a lot of "quibbling" over the fees owed to EPIC, though the FBI ended up paying more than twice what he ultimately expected.
EPIC has also secured victories against the Department of Homeland Security in a case about body scanner devices and social media monitoring, a state police department coordinating with the FBI to limit information disclosure, and several other agencies.
And EPIC is hardly the only organization suing the federal government for its lack of transparency, and then getting paid back for it.
Seth Rosenfeld, a journalist who battled with the FBI over his FOIA requests for over 25 years, secured almost half a million dollars in two cases resulting in the release of 30,000 documents. Roger Hall, a military researcher, won $414,478 from the Central Intelligence Agency after a decade-long battle for the release of documents on Vietnam War POWs.
The American Civil Liberties Union was paid $1.65 million in attorney's fees midway through its epic case against the Department of Defense for refusing to disclose information and photos of soldiers torturing inmates from the Abu Ghraib prison, part of which is still pending, according to ACLU attorney Alex Abdo.
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The Future Is Here, and It Features Hackers Getting Bombed
Israeli armed forces responded to a Hamas cyberattack by bombing the group's hacking headquarters.
With an airstrike on Sunday, the Israeli military provided a glimpse of the future of warfare.
With an airstrike on Sunday, the Israeli military provided a glimpse of the future of warfare.
After blocking a cyberattack that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said was launched by operatives working on behalf of the militant group Hamas, the IDF carried out an airstrike in Gaza targeting the building in which the hackers worked, partially destroying it. The strike appears to be the first time that a nation's military has responded in real time to a cyberattack with physical force.
In a tweet, the IDF declared victory, saying: "We thwarted an attempted Hamas cyber offensive against Israeli targets. Following our successful cyber defensive operation, we targeted a building where the Hamas cyber operatives work."
"HamasCyberHQ.exe has been removed," the tweet added, in what appears to have been a macabre attempt at a joke using an invented file name.
For years, countries have used policy documents and strategy white papers to warn that they reserved the right to choose the method by which they respond to cyberattacks, either in kind through cyberspace or with physical force, said Catherine Lotrionte, an expert on international law and a professor at Georgetown University. Now, Israel has made those warnings concrete.
"You've got a physical operation against a building that was in response to an ongoing cyberattack or at least a cyberattack that Hamas was planning—that's the interesting part," Lotrionte said.
Key questions remain about the Israeli operation, and IDF officials declined to answer questions from Foreign Policy about the nature of the attack launched by Hamas against Israel.
In a press statement, the IDF said Hamas "attempted to establish offensive cyber capabilities within the Gaza Strip and to try and harm the Israeli cyber realm." These "efforts were discovered in advance and thwarted," and following the operation to thwart the cyberattack, "the IDF attacked a building from which the members of Hamas' cyber array operated."
The decision to bomb a Hamas hacking unit comes as armed forces are increasingly integrating cyberoperations into their militaries, and the Israeli decision to target such a unit was completely unsurprising to scholars and practitioners of cyberwarfare.
"It's no surprise that in a digital age marked by heightened risk of cyberwarfare a nation-state engaged in a noninternational armed conflict would regard the cyber-capabilities of its adversary as valid military targets under international law," said David Simon, a lawyer at the law firm Mayer Brown who worked on cybersecurity policy and operations as a special counsel at the U.S. Defense Department.
And even if the notion of bombing hackers appears surprising on its face, Israel was likely on solid legal footing when it did so, provided that the hackers were in fact carrying out an offensive operation on behalf of a militant group engaged in armed conflict with Israel.
Legal experts emphasized that the context of Sunday's strike was key in understanding Israel's calculus to carry it out. The strike came amid a renewed period of fighting that saw Palestinian militants fire hundreds of rockets into Israeli territory, with Israel responding with an intense artillery and aerial barrage of Gaza.
Militaries around the world have recognized cyberspace as a domain of military operations, and that leaves hackers participating in an armed conflict in a highly exposed position. "Hackers who are engaged in military attacks are legitimate targets," said Gary Brown, a cyberlaw professor at the National Defense University.
Militant groups such as Hamas have invested heavily in their online operations in recent years, using them as a way to poke at far more powerful, better resourced opponents. Cyberspace serves as a key way to distribute propaganda and gain intelligence about adversaries.
In one notorious example, a hacker working on behalf of the militant group Islamic Jihad pleaded guilty in 2017 to charges of hacking into the video feeds of IDF drones carrying out surveillance over Gaza.
Sunday's bombing is not the first time hackers have been targeted in airstrikes—though it is believed to be the first time hackers engaged in an ongoing operation have been hit. In 2015, a U.S. airstrike in Syria killed the Islamic State hacker Junaid Hussain, who had become a prolific propagandist and recruiter for the group.
Hussain hacked into the personal accounts of hundreds of U.S. service members and posted their personal information online and helped recruit the men who opened fire in 2015 on a cartoon exhibition in Garland, Texas. As he ascended the ranks of the Islamic State's leadership, he was singled out to be killed.
Hussain's killing arguably laid the groundwork for Sunday's strike, which experts argue sends a message to hackers engaged in offensive activity.
"It's kind of a wake-up call for people who thought they were going to be able to engage in cyberactivity with impunity," Brown said. "It now looks like states are willing to reach behind the lines and strike hackers."
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How We Honor Our Heritage
Have you thought about lately what you do with the treasures that others have buried inside you?
Quoting an often remembered parable "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field."
My mother's love language was acts of service. Without any conscious purpose I have spent the majority of my life pursuing the following professions, military, police, and education. All of which gave me opportunities to help, protect, and cultivate. Now I'm taking the time to consider what it means to be my mother's son.
One of her defining traits was fostering. Her grandmother showed her what that meant while raising her from infancy. As a child my mother practiced it with her cousins. As an adult she continued it with coworkers, friends and acquaintances throughout her life.
I am humbled by the daily experience where I engage in the same fostering my mother once did. This manifests as a cherished memory now. One I welcome with warm embrace. Thankfully, I have powerfully available visual cues to remind me of how my mother's spirit remains present in her absence.
It occurs to me that similar expressions will be born out in her other children, grandchildren, and those others whom she endowed with her loving legacy. There is a good sized list. My hope is that in the days ahead that we live without her, each of us still recognize how we operate as an extension of the seeds she planted within us.
What about you? Who do you think about? What do you remember? What do you see in your life that must have come from them? Will the idea of honoring the heritage they passed on to you bring you peace, comfort, or assurance? Will it bring healing and restoration? Will it help you bury your treasures in the right fields?
3 Things to Consider
Think about how those involved are working to make things better.
Every city has ghosts, but some have more than others. Detroit is one of those places. When you have a city with such an incredible and tragic past still reeling from issues and challenges that impact a vulnerable population, spirits will linger. The truth is that in order to really appreciate and understand Detroit, you need to go looking for them. They're not hard to find here – every building, park, street and community has a story to tell that goes beyond the surface. If you care enough to listen, the ghosts reveal themselves. Sometimes, they find you instead of the other way around. This is what happened to me on a recent Saturday morning. I was taking an aimless drive around the city, when I passed by a cemetery. The cemetery is a place that I can't resist visiting. Whenever I go to a new city, it's one of those places on my list of things to see. I've visited cemeteries in cities across the U.S., in Scotland, Germany, Armenia and Mongolia. They offer the best insight in getting to know where you are. They help piece together the story of a place that can't be told just by its current facade.
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We fix up homes in Detroit to award creative residencies to writers.
- Simplify your life.
- Watch your thoughts. What goes in, comes out.
- Surround yourself with positive people.
- Take time for yourself, even if it means saying "no" to others.
- Be grateful, laugh and celebrate life.
- Think more about what you have as opposed to what you don't have.
- Help others
Julia* grew up picking mushrooms and fruit in a small village in the countryside of Bulgaria. She loved this pastime and enjoyed doing it alongside her family—but she saw that everyone around her in the village was struggling. Julia* wanted something more for her life.
When she was offered an opportunity to pick mushrooms in the Netherlands for higher pay, she accepted. She was excited to do what she loved, with job security, and a hope for a better future.
But when she arrived, Julia* discovered that she had been deceived. She was thrown into a house crammed with other foreigners and forced to work from dawn to dusk for little or no pay. She had been trafficked for her labor, enslaved, and trapped. But, after some time, Julia* bravely escaped out of a window and ran to safety.
With the assistance of A21, she was safely repatriated home to Bulgaria. Since coming into our care, she has completed our aftercare program and found employment through our social enterprise, Liberty.
After all of the trauma and abuse she experienced, Julia* has continued to recover step by step. She's had a safe environment to work in, community to support her, and time to heal. Now, after two stable years of employment, with Liberty on her résumé, Julia* is able to bravely take steps toward a life of full independence
My journey of personal observations which I have made over the years to apply Bible reading in my life.
Psalm 130:7 O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption.
God redeems us from our sin and its consequences out of an expression of His love which is sacrificial and selfless. That is our hope when all else fails, it is our hope before self reliance, it is our hope in the beginning and in the end.
Application in my life
I read where the United Nations commission on global warming says that human life will be affected by rising surface temperatures, water will not be available to sub saharan areas of Africa and similar lands, millions of square miles of habitats along the coastline will be under water, and crops will not grow in areas where they currently do. People will migrate in order to survive and less food will be available to feed the growing planet's population. I did not feel very good about our future reading this. The experts predicted violence and unrest by groups of people in reaction to the climate changes.
Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines is an example of the increased harm climate change has already brought into the environment today, which is more violent and deadly weather than ever before. When I think about the bleak picture that this presents, verses such as Psalm 130:7 help to provide a calm that comes with the realization that although I may not be able to place much hope and confidence in governments or corporations or other people, I do have a God with whom my hope belongs. While I believe †he increase in greenhouse gases do to human consumption is partly the result of sinful behavior and unwise choices, I also believe we all have a responsibility to do what we can to fix it.
My prayer
Lord help use providence to deal with the consequences of global warming, provide us shelter and safety from the storms ahead, let us act wisely to minimize the harm that the destructive production of greenhouse gasses has brought upon us. Allow us to see Your vision for a lifestyle that is a blessing and not a curse, Amen
My Grieving Letter
Dear Fellow Sufferer,
I come to you with sad news of the death of my close relative. And while life does go on, I'll never be the same. I want to say now that fact is accepted. For her life meant so much to me that the loss will forever change how I approach my world. However, I need to recover and eventually arrive to a place where I am thriving. That will take time, effort and help from people such as you.
How can you help? Your tolerance with me when you see me feeling bad, your patience with any unexplained anger I show can help me heal. Seeing you, gives me a chance to lean on your strength. I won't ask you for advice. But when I of course do ask you, be assured that I won't heed what you tell me, or even appear to appreciate it. I will appreciate your reaching out to spend time, visits, texts, phone calls. And when I don't respond, I hope you use that as a sign. Seek me out when that happens because it will probably be when I am most vulnerable and need your help more.
Prayers are always welcome. If you ever feel prompted to share with me how loss has impacted your life I hope that you do. I believe it would benefit both of us. It may not seem like it by the way I look or act, but that's okay, remember I'm grieving, and that often isn't comfortable.
Let me close with words of gratitude and appreciation. Because each time you help me this way you will be acting out of love. That gift has more value than every other thing you might provide me. Thank you.
The idea for the grieving letter is from Recovering From Losses In Life by H. Norman Wright, who got the idea from Bob Deits, who wrote Life After Loss.
Jewelry For Justice
By Emma Borquaye, A21 UK Prevention, Awareness, and Education Coordinator
Marina De Buchi is a jewelry designer living in London with a passion to see human trafficking abolished in the 21st Century. At 20 years old, she is already active in doing what she can to help by giving 10% of all proceeds from her jewelry brand to A21.
As she lays out the dainty gold bracelets in front of me at the table, she talks through the meaning behind each one in The Freedom Collection;
"The bird is called beyond fear lies freedom, so you can look at it and know that you can get through whatever you are facing. The key says 'unlock your dreams,' but it can be unlocking freedom, unlocking anything! Whatever it means for that person."
Positive Thoughts | Positive Living with MS
I've shared this story before, but for those who don't know, when I was younger it wasn't a requirement to attend kindergarten. Because of that, my first classroom experience was first grade. I loved my teacher, I loved my school, I loved my entire first grade life. Well, most of it.Two weeks into the school year I was sent to the principal's office. Now you have to understand, I was a well behaved kid back then. Really, I was. For me to be in trouble was a big deal. My dad was a Drill Sergeant at that time in the military so I knew not to misbehave, and if I did misbehave…well, let's just say it would be better for me to pack my bags and go live in the treehouse.
Life changer…
This post from fellow blogger fortygirl is a personal account about facing a life changing event. While there are many such stories, I am struck by the honesty and the transparency of her writing. I hope we can call upon others for support through times like this.
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Why Silent Hill is Feminist Dark Comedy Disguised as Horror by Klingon Vanna White
What do Walking Dead's Andrea, The Borg Queen, The antihero female navigator from Pitch Black and the beloved beheaded dad from Game of Thrones, Ned Stark, all have in common? Did the title give it away like perchance, a spoiler? Well this movie is from 2006. If you're into horror you're adultesque so don't cry over spilled plot lines from a 9 year old movie. Maybe you should watch it now. I wrote this whole essay from memory. Maybe you're the kind of person who would enjoy pointing out all my mistakes to justify your existence. You're welcome. Let's get started.
In Silent Hill, pretty much every line, is spoken by a female character. Never once do you feel like you're being patronized in some Fried-Green-Tomatoes-Traveling-Pants 50 Shades of Grey FOR THE LADIES movie kind of way. (I haven't seen any of these movies but I know I hate them.) In fact you don't even fucking notice it until weeks later and you're all OMFG that movie passed the Bechdel text like 500 times and I didn't even know I was watching a lady movie the entire time!!!!
OH Silent Hill you are deep and you are funny as shit. And the people who think you're shit just don't understand your art. Silent Hill was written by three guys. I award Director and co-writer Christophe Gans an honorary uterus for spending 5 years begging Konami for the rights for this Dark Feminist masterpiece. I would give him two but sadly there's a lack of diversity that makes you feel like Silent Hill is in the Appalacian Mountains where everyone speaks neutral news caster American English. Ahem.
The film has four main feminine character archetypes, three of who enforce the Patriarchal status quo.
Rahda Mitchell of Pitch Black, plays Rose, the mother archetype as allowed in our Patriarchal society. Because, Maternal. Surprisingly she has a intense bond with her adopted daughter Sharon even though she didn't spring from her own lady parts.
Laurie Holden, plays a police woman Cybil, who accompanies Rose into Silent Hill to retrieve her adopted Satan Spawn. She is a civil servant who starts out acting as an enforcer of the Patriarchy.
Alice Krige, plays Christabella, a spiritual leader of the towns crazy conservative Christian cult who forces the residents into an even more extreme form of Patriarchy than they're already accustomed to. She signifies how religion can be perverted into an instrument of the Patriarchy via it's female acolytes.
Sharon is a creepy kid with sallow skin who sleep walks and says "Silent Hill". She's basically a cross between Wednesday Addams and every Japanese horror movie that has a little girl in it with long black hair. The entire film focuses around her break from patriarchy and becoming the living embodiment of Satan to do so - because really, it's the only way.
OH and Sean Bean plays a one sided Dad character - the kind that is usually given to the Mom character in most movies and played by a 30 year old actress who can no longer find jobs and isn't ready to be a victim on CSI.
So, all the conflict starts when Sharon becomes haunted by the place of her seeming origin and Rose, her mother, wants to help her by returning to the place. On the way to Silent Hill they get in a car accident and Sharon disappears (or does she escape?).
Rose pretty much loses her shit and strikes out to find her on foot. A siren goes off and she's attacked by a terrifying amount of needy children after chasing her daughter and wakes up in a bowling alley. She tries calling her husband but all he hears is static because that's what women's needs sound like to the ruling class. Annoying white noise. Meanwhile the cop, Cybil, catches up and apprehends her. Silent Hill is off limits and the reason why Rose got into the accident is because she was trying to avoid Cybil.
They try to leave but the road is blocked by a huge fissure. Cybil originally thinking that Rose is crazy starts to see the world as she sees it. They're trapped in a patriarchal society even more rigid than the one they were already accustomed to and blinded by.
The encroaching darkness of extreme patriarchy gives Rose and Cybil an example of their potential fate if they attempt to threaten the balance of power by pursuing them with a huge shirtless guy with a pyramid as his head (The Illuminati). He signifies brutal male power and the allmighty dollar. He rips a woman's clothes off, then tears her skin off, and throws it at them angrily splattering them with her blood. He would actually be kind of hot if there were a safe word and no dismemberment but this is not that kind of movie. (Full disclosure: I also have a Lord of the Rings Uruk-hai sexual fantasy. I also think Ronan from Guardians of the Gallaxy is hot but Lee Pace does nothing for me. Maybe I'm into cosplaying wrestlers. I don't know. If a cosplaying wrester was standing in front of me right now and said, "let's go at it", I'd be all "no you've ruined it already with the talking". That's the fleeting nature of fantasy verses reality, and yes, I'm not perfect.) Pyramid Head is a brute embodiment of patriarchal force and self-interested, unrestrained capitalism.
After being chased into a church by the approaching darkness of oppressive extreme patriarchy that threatens to skin them alive, they meet Christabella. She's slightly helpful in the search for Sharon, but after seeing a photo, gets pissed off at Rose and Cybil for trying to find her. Sharon is an upstart who has tried to upset the rigid balance of the patriarchy before and is well known by the town folk.
She promptly condemns Rose and Cybil as witches. Rose escapes to the basement where she avoids a large group of faceless women in sexy nurse costumes who threaten to cut her to shreds if she shines a light on them and looks at them like a piece of meat. She successfully meets her daughter's dark side and is treated to a weird expository as to how a little girl can become the embodiment of Satan. Society is so fucked up and sexist that the only way to stay true to herself is to become a super power of evil. She strikes a bargain with Rose to save her daughter's good side from the whack job Christians.
Meanwhile Christabella has captured Sharon's sweet docile side and has taken her to the top floor to burn her on an ill-advised contraption.
Yep. Christabella clearly seeing Sharon as the living embodiment of Satan, wants to do the sensible thing and burn her on the top floor of a building that has no working elevators and treacherous stairs. OH and no working sprinklers. The place is so dry it literally rains ash constantly. But first she burns Laurie Holden/Cybil and totally destroys her sexy civil servant look. I've never seen anyone look as good in a cop uniform as Laurie Holden. Maybe she is a witch.
Rose arrives and confronts Christabella who promptly stabs her in the heart because THAT'S what it feels like to be stabbed by a woman who acts as an enforcer of patriarchy.
However due to Rose's earlier pact with the devil, Sharon's dark side leaks out of Rose and materializes in front of the confused Christabella. Sharon turns into a bunch of barbed wire and weirdness and starts ripping the town folk apart in a fierce and bloody display of feminine rage. Rose saves the good part of Sharon and her two halves join into one after the carnage.
Rose leaves with the newly whole Sharon and takes her back home. Or does she? Rose is changed by this awakening and sees the world differently for the first time as an oppressive grey place. With all her power Sharon has managed to only change one town and she had to destroy it.
Throughout the film Rose and her policewoman companion encounter a world full of mystery and monsters. In contrast her husband and his policeman companion come to the same town to discover it empty and abandoned, giving the viewer the impression that having a penis dulls the mind, and makes you oblivious. Or maybe they don't see how extreme the problem is due to their self interest. Again this was written by three men so I can only hazard that this self-referential humor is due to their struggle with the terrible deadening burden of their penises daily, hourly, minute by minute. They must be enlightened. Even for males.
In the end all the Patriarchal trappings of Silent Hill are destroyed along with the people who upheld their power structures. Rose and Sharon return to the real world is as an enlightened mother with an angry daughter with dark super powers. Forever changed by their experiences, they see everything as the oppressive cold grey world it really is.
The father returns to a beautiful sunny world. Because, you know, penis.


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Staten Island Advance: Message from SI — don't cut our programs!
Outside PS 57 in Clifton on Thursday afternoon, parents, students and children's advocates sought to communicate a clear message to Mayor Michael Bloomberg: They won't stand for cuts to children's after-school programs.
More than 170 attendees sent out that message during a rally organized by North Shore City Councilwoman Debi Rose and the Campaign for Children.
"We are here today to say to the mayor emphatically that we will not, we will not allow our after-school programs and day care programs to be lost!" said Ms. Rose.


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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Defence Ministry allowed foreign media for the first time on Thursday to attend its monthly news conference in another step towards increasing transparency, though the briefing yielded little concrete news.
The ministry started the briefings in 2011, first restricting attendance to Chinese reporters, unlike other government departments, like the Foreign Ministry, where access is generally extended to the foreign press.
Growing military spending - slated at 808.2 billion yuan (S$163.16 billion) this year - along with increasing assertiveness over territorial rows - has worried the region over China's intentions, especially over a perceived lack of openness by the armed forces. "We hope that attending the regular Defence Ministry press conference will help you in your reporting in China and hope that you can help the world understand more objectively and more truthfully China and China's military," ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said as the outset of the briefing.
The ministry has invited eight foreign reporters from different foreign news organisations to attend, including Reuters, for an initial six-month period. Officials will then assess the briefings and decide whether other foreign reporters may be allowed in.
Mr Geng took 18 questions in just under 90 minutes, including on sensitive topics like the ruling Communist Party's campaign against pervasive corruption, though he gave no details on probes into two senior officers caught up in the crackdown.
China said last month it would court-martial one of its most senior former military officers, Xu Caihou, on charges of corruption.
Xu retired as vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission last year and from the ruling Communist Party's decision-making Politburo in 2012.
He has been under virtual house arrest for months while helping in the probe into Gu Junshan, sources have told Reuters.
Gu has been investigated for corruption since being sacked as deputy director of the logistics department of the People's Liberation Army in 2012, sources previously told Reuters. He was charged with corruption earlier this year.
Mr Geng said the probe into Gu was proceeding and repeated that the military backed President Xi Jinping's battle against graft and would tolerate no corrupt elements in its ranks.
Several questions dealt with military drills which have caused widespread disruption to flights in eastern China in the past few days, prompting public frustration.
Mr Geng said the military had worked with the civil aviation regulator to minimise disruption. The government, he said, was looking at how to "optimise" use of China's airspace, though he gave no details.
Mr Geng deflected any notion that the drills sought to send a message to Japan or other countries embroiled in territorial disputes with China, saying they were not aimed at any country. "These exercises are a routine arrangement in the annual training plan and the outside world should not speculate or read too much into it," he added.


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Past President Played Role in Key Environmental Study
In the 1970s, as more and more municipal waste combustion plants came online in the U.S. and Europe, environmental scientists on both continents began looking at the production of airborne dioxin from the facilities and the potential threat to human health. The dioxin, these scientists concluded, are released from the flues of the waste combustors when waste products made of polyvinyl chloride plastic, or PVC, is incinerated.
At the time, Charles O. Velzy was president of an environmental engineering consulting firm providing technical services to one of the businesses most impacted by the spate of dioxin reports – solid waste processing. He was also serving in the leadership of the Society's Solid Waste Processing Division and Research Committee on Industrial and Municipal Waste.
Velzy is one of several former ASME presidents who gave an oral history to the ASME History and Heritage Committee.
View a video clip from ASME's Oral History with Charles O. Velzy
"The dioxin issue first became of concern to ASME at the 1980 Biannual Conference of the division," recalled Velzy, who nine years later was elected the 108th president of the Society. "Many members in the division believed the issue warranted in-depth technical discussion."
While operators of the facilities were aware of the presence of dioxin emissions during combustion, many were not convinced that increases in the volume of PVC in the waste stream necessarily produced increases in emissions of the toxin.
"People in the industry were, of course, extremely concerned, as the initial reports lacked a research foundation and supporting technical data to carry out a comprehensive analysis and assessment," said Velzy.
Velzy in 1980 chaired an ad hoc committee under the auspices of the Research Committee on Industrial and Municipal Waste, which was tasked to provide the scope and framework for a comprehensive, science-based study into the dioxin issue. Subsequently, the consulting firm Arthur D. Little was contracted to do a survey designed to gauge the level of knowledge in the engineering community regarding dioxin, resulting in a report titled "State of the Art of Dioxin from Combustion Sources."
"The ASME Research Committee on Industrial and Municipal Waste believed that the Society could provide a service by bringing together all pertinent information scientists understood about dioxin – what it is, how it forms, how it is destroyed," said Velzy. "This foundational basis would then enable the scientific community to arrive at critical decisions, including how to control the dioxin emissions."
In 1995, ASME published The Relationship Between Chlorine in Waste Streams and Dioxin Emissions From Waste Combustor Stacks, an exhaustive technical evaluation compiling more than 1,900 tests of dioxin emissions from 169 waste-to-energy plants, cement kilns, biomass combustors, and medical waste incinerators from diverse locations around the world.
In carrying out the tests, engineers fed chlorine in the waste stream, and then measured the combustion emissions to determine a possible causative link between the chlorine content and the formation of dioxin in the flue gases. Eighty percent of the facilities in the study showed no statistically significant relationship between chlorine input and dioxin; the authors stated: "The hypothesis that fuel chlorine content and combustor flue gas dioxin emissions are related was not confirmed by the data analyzed in this study."
While the study was issued five years after Velzy's term as ASME president, the engineer from Illinois played a major role in laying the foundation for key studies, beginning in 1980 and continuing to his ASME presidency in 1989-1990. Velzy, in the oral history, looked back on a research endeavor that "was time-consuming, challenging and, at the same time, very exciting."
It also provided lessons. "The public does not understand the critical role of sound scientific and engineering analysis to assess oftentimes misconceived notions of environmental damage brought by certain technology," said Velzy. "The dioxin project demonstrated that there is a correct approach to dealing with environmental issues, one that is based on sound engineering."
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The Easiest Dental Marketing is a Great Location
Location. It's one of the biggest decisions you make for your practice, and yet one that doctors give surprisingly little thought to. Whether you're thinking about a move or locked into your current location for the next 20 years, here are some things to think about when it comes to dental marketing and your location.
Before you choose a location
If you're thinking about moving or building a new office, consider the impact of the practice location before you sign the lease or purchase the land. These factors may seem trivial now, but the long term implications are bigger for future dental marketing than you might realize.
1. Is this office location highly visible? Sure, it's more peaceful to have an office on a side street in a residential neighborhood, but your drive-by traffic can be severely compromised. Just like any business, visibility is important to a dental office. Be sure to choose a location with good traffic, where your office and dental sign can be visible day and night. You don't need to be on main street, but don't hide back in a large, generic office complex or on a quiet side street.
2. What are the signage regulations? Check with local municipal regulations regarding signage before you move in. I know of a gorgeous office in New Jersey that is only allowed a 2-foot wide sign, barely big enough for the practice name and definitely not visible from the street. Signage is a one-time investment and often brings in at least a few patients each month who walk or drive by, ensuring an excellent long term ROI.
3. Do the demographics of this community match my target patient demographics? It's important to be realistic about the community you plan to build a practice in. Not sure who is in your future neighborhood? Go to www.clrsearch.com (yes, it's a real estate site but when you type in the zip, you'll get all the demos you could ask for) and type in the zip for your proposed practice address and a few surrounding towns. Check out the total population count, education level, ethnicity, median income, unemployment and poverty levels for your area. You might be surprised at what you find.
If you want a high level restorative or cosmetic practice but your immediate zip code boasts a median income of $34,000 and only 23% of the adults have a bachelor's degree, consider a different community. Still want to settle your practice in this town? You may need to change your expectations for the type of dentistry patients will be willing to commit to.
I'm already in my location. What can I do?
So you're stuck where you are. Literally. No need to give up, there are things you can do to make yourself more visible, even if your office location isn't.
1. Get creative with your dental office signage. Dr. Charley Varipapa once had an office where the signage could only be a certain height off the ground, as per municipal regulations. Unfortunately, that limitation severely restricted the visibility of his signage to drive-by traffic. So Charley trucked in a load of soil and "raised" the ground. Problem solved.
Another office found their signage was blocked to northbound traffic by the neighbor's trees. They asked the neighbor if they could remove the trees (at the doctors cost) and then planted new trees in a more strategic location. Both parties were happy with the result. Don't assume you can't do anything – sometimes all you have to do is ask!
2. Make yourself visible with dental advertising. So what if your practice is in a small town miles from your target patient demographic – don't give up! Create "visibility" with radio, television, print, direct mail and web. Develop a marketing position for your practice by telling patients how you're worth the drive. Draw attention to the negative (you know they're already thinking it) and make it a positive!
3. Market to the demographics that live in your area.You want to do fee-for-service dentistry but you live in a community with highly skilled blue collar workers who rely on their insurance. Don't resign yourself to a life of silver fillings and crown of the year patients just yet. Instead, change your message. Imagine a postcard with side-by-side images of an ugly silver filling and a composite filling, captioned "what your insurance covers" and "healthier, and only $100 more." Show patients what a small difference there really is for significantly better care. Build value.
Clearly, location has far more impact on your marketing than you might have realized. The next time your real estate agent preaches "location, location, location!" you'll have a better appreciation for the statement!
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Are You Letting Age Get in the Way of Making Your Dreams Come True?
What better person to explore this question with than Veronica Young, reinvention power leadership coach, actor, and singer! In my weekly Little White Lie Live show Veronica shares her own Little White Lie – that she felt she was too old to start singing again after 10 years.
The voices in her head taunted, "Who's gonna want to see you? Who's gonna want to see you perform?" You can watch the show here:
Veronica realized that her dreams now are a little different than they were 20, 30 years ago. She's always loved being a singer, to share her feelings and influence feelings in other people through singing. That part of her dream hasn't changed. What did change was her early dream of being a superstar. But she shifted her thinking, "bit the bullet" and made her new dreams come true, started a country music band Crystal Whiskey with her partner Eric Anderson, performs regularly, and is loving it!
What made the difference – is it a matter of being realistic? Or realizing that our dreams change and we want to go after different things?
"I think it's a combination of both," says Veronica. "When I was growing up I wanted to be the next huge superstar, Christina Aguilera or whatever. Right now my passions are different – It's my coaching work, and performing to smaller crowds. I know now that success is really a frame of mind – what's successful for me. So when it comes to our dreams, WE always define what our dreams are. And if you want to go big, go big. If you don't want to go big … don't go big! Just decide and take the next step."
We in the LWL Movement talk about the effect that societal influences regarding age have on our confidence to go after our dreams. Let's say now we've decided and we're going to do it.
How do we get past those societal influences that tell us we're too old?
Veronica: "It's a matter of knowing who you are … knowing that you're fabulous. You ARE fabulous. It's saying to yourself, 'I can do this!' And doing the little steps that will move you out of uncertainty."
It all starts with making 'conscious choices,' meaning to search your soul to find out what the reality is for you, what is really important – and why?
Veronica recommends a technique called the 'Seven Whys:' "When you are faced with a choice to make or want to determine how you feel about something, ask yourself 'Why?' And then ask yourself why again. Then ask yourself why again. And why again – seven times. By doing this, you get down to the core of what your choice is all about. Then you can really, really make a conscious choice, because it's what you believe, what you feel, and you're going to go for it!"
Do choices get more difficult as we age? Can we make our dreams come true?
Veronica, at 60, believes her conscious choices are becoming easier because as she's gotten older she's realized that "my choices define who I am, and if I really know who I am I can make those conscious choices and move into that direction." She has shed all that past stuff of 'shoulda, woulda, coulda, supposed to, and why didn't you?' She gives us an example: "I saw a show the other day about what women over 50 should wear. I'm going, Really? I don't know about you but I still shop at Forever 21 because I love their clothes."
Amen, Veronica!
That's how this whole movement started. We got sick and tired of being told what we can and cannot do – we can be Forever 21 if we want to be!
Veronica leaves us with this inspiration: "Don't let age or past trauma or abuse define you. You're wise, beautiful and passionate. Youth is in your passion. Go and get it!"
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A new pilot plant for nitrogen recovery from agricultural waste and intended to tackle nitrate contamination in groundwater has become operational in February 2020 in Berge, Germany. The plant was designed and built within the framework of Circular Agronomics by project partners PONDUS Verfahrenstechnik GmbH and Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin gGmbH (KWB).
The plant will allow for a separation of nitrogen from the digestate high-carbon fraction and, subsequently, for an adequate soil improvement by means of carbon or by soil fertilisation with nitrogen. In particular, this approach will have a positive effect on the groundwater, since the nitrogen can be selectively applied.
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Join Baileys Harbor for a great community event including a Christmas Parade of Lights, arts and crafts, and a tree lighting ceremony!
Take a stroll through downtown Baileys Harbor and check out all the trees that the local businesses and families have decorated before the parade. Walk along the parade route on Highway 57 following Santa on a Fire Truck and visit him at the Town Hall. Show your holiday spirit and light up your float this year!
The Baileys Harbor Historical Society is also putting on a fun filled holiday event full of arts and crafts in the Town Hall.
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Saturday, December 7
10am-1pm: Hot apple cider along with buttons & crafts at the Baileys Harbor Library
10am-2pm: Door County North Rotary Club Holiday Fair at the Town Hall. Proceeds go to projects involving youth and the environment.
1-4pm: Ridges Sanctuary Wreath-Making Workshop/ $20 Fee includes materials for 1 wreath. Additional wreaths are $10 each at the Ridges Sanctuary.
2-4pm: Free Holiday Cookie Decorating at Knit Whits Yarn & Craft to Benefit Boys & Girls Club of Door County
4:45pm: Parade set-up at the Post Office/Bluff Rd. (Don't forget your lights!)
5pm: Light Parade and Caroling on Highway 57
5-6pm: Arts & Crafts by Baileys Harbor Historical Society at the Town Hall
5:30-6:30pm: Harbor Holiday Party with Santa at the Town Hall, hosted by the Baileys Harbor Historical Society
6pm: Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on the Town Hall lawn
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Building a port – background info on make
In previous diary notes (Changing the shell and DHCP (again)) I wrote that a symbolic link should be created when
building a port. This is not necessary. Perhaps it was once necessary because
that's what is done in the Compiling ports from
CDROM section of the FreeBSD Handbook.
A bit about make
One of the best features of the make process is the fetch process.
If the files it needs cannot be found, make will go and fetch the file for you. It
searches a list of file locations and uses the first location which succeeds.
If you
examine /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk, you'll find that it modifies the URL search
path and adds file:/crdom/ports/distfiles. This tells the make process
to search your CDROM. If the device is not mounted, the fetch will fail and the
search process continues with the next location in the list.
It is because of this search process that the following should be enough to build your
# #installer usually leaves /cdrom in fstab
# #which means you don't have to do much to mount it
# mount /cdrom
# cd /usr/ports/foo/bar
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Chelmsford's Riverside Retail Park is due to receive a huge makeover - meaning one of the city's busiest McDonald's is going to go through some changes.
The proposals include moving two units to another side of the car park, a makeover, and to make the flow of traffic better.
As part of the plans, the popular McDonald's restaurant is set to relocate and during the process it will have a large makeover.
The Riverside Retail Park revamp will see a new supermarket, retail stores and 'pop-up pods'.
For fans of fast food, the idea of the McDonald's closing - even if it is temporary - can be heartbreaking.
However, a recent planning document reveals how the new eatery could look and additional features it may be getting.
The changes coming to Riverside McDondald's
The site will move to the south of the car park, closer to the entrance and exit route on Victoria Road. It may even be two storeys high, according to planning proposals.
The drive thru will see canopies installed to sit above the two 'order boxes' protecting against all weathers.
There will also be a children's play area called 'play land'. This will include large cubes to climb through and a slide that wraps around.
The area is small but suited for a few children at a time. This can come in handy for families waiting for their order. It will also have activities on the outside, with noughts and crosses on move-able blocks.
There will be a seating area outside with several benches and tables and chairs for those wishing to dine al fresco style.
Cycle lanes will be found further down, to the west of the building, next to a zebra crossing which will offer safe passage from the retail park to the eatery.
What will happen to the old McDonald's site?
The fast food restaurant will be demolished and it will allow work to start on the new modern facility.
The owner also plans for two additional pod units in this area of the park, with Cycles UK, which sits next to the McDonald's site currently, confirming it has been offered one of the new pod units inside. In a recent planning document, it has been confirmed that Cycles UK will be relocating into Unit 8, one of the new pods.
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What is pharmacogenomics?
A type of personalised medicine
- People respond differently to medicines. Most respond well and their health improves. Some do not gain any benefits from the treatment, and a minority suffer from side effects.
- After you take a drug, it gets processed (metabolised) by your body.
- How the drug is processed and how you respond to it is determined, in part, by your genes.
- These genes affect the machinery that is responsible for processing the drug.
- Understanding how different genetics affect how a drug is processed can help doctors to more accurately determine which drug and which dose is best for individual patients.
- Pharmacogenomics is when scientists look at the genome of an individual to identify the genetic factors that influence their response to a drug.
- By finding these genes, medical researchers hope to develop genetic tests that will predict how patients are going to respond to a drug and the dose they should be given.
- In the future, doctors may be able to identify which drugs are best for their patients through the results of these tests.
- This will help them identify the drug that will best treat their disease and is least likely to cause side effects. This is personalised medicine.
- As well as reducing the risk of side effects, another huge advantage of using pharmacogenomics is that it allows for more efficient use of treatments.
- For example, some cancer treatment can be very expensive but may only be effective in a small subset of patients.
- With a better understanding of the disease and the treatment through pharmacogenomics, resources can be focused on treatments that are more likely to be effective in a patient, irrespective of cost.
We are all different
- The reason people vary in their responses to drug treatments lies in the genetic differences, or variation, between them.
- Following the Human Genome Project, research has focused on comparing human genomes to understand genetic variation and work out which genetic variants are important in health and the way we respond to drugs.
- Two types of variation are common in the human genome:
- Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs): changes in single nucleotide bases (A, C, G and T).
- Structural variation: changes affecting chunks of DNA which can consequently alter the structure of the entire chromosome. Structural variation can happen in a number of ways, for example:
- Copy number variation (CNV): when there is an increase or descrease in the amount of DNA. This can be due to:
- deletion: where an entire block of DNA is missing
- insertion: where a block of DNA is added in
- duplication: where there are additional copies of a section of DNA.
- Inversion: when a chromosome breaks in two places and the resulting piece of DNA is reversed and reinserted back into the chromosome (the opposite way round).
- Translocation: when genetic material is exchanged between two different chromosomes.
- Copy number variation (CNV): when there is an increase or descrease in the amount of DNA. This can be due to:
- SNPs are like changing a single letter in the metaphorical 'recipe book of life', while structural variation is the equivalent of whole paragraphs or pages being lost or repeated.
- Scientists have been aware of SNPs for a long time, but the extent of structural variation, in particular copy number variations, has only been revealed since it's been possible to sequence and compare many genomes.
- Structural variation appears to be quite common, affecting around 12 per cent of the genome. It has been found to cause a variety of genetic conditions.
Finding disease variants
- Humans share around 99.5 per cent of their genomes.
- The 0.5 per cent that does differ between each of us affects our susceptibility to disease and response to drugs.
- Although this doesn't sound a lot, it still means that there are millions of differences between the DNA of two individuals.
- For example, SNPs are common in the genome. It is therefore difficult to work out which single letter changes cause disease and which are passengers that have just come along for the ride and have no effect on health.
- So how is it possible to know which genetic variants cause disease and which are passengers?
- The way scientists look at disease variants is to compare the genetic makeup of a large number of people who have a specific disease with those that do not.
- This allows scientists to look for genetic variants that are more common in people with a disease compared to people without the disease.
- For example, if a particular genetic variant is present in 80 per cent of patients with the disease but only 20 per cent of the healthy population it could be a sign that that variant is increasing the risk of that disease.
- However, looking for a disease that is caused by variants in a single gene is the simplest example.
- There are many complex diseases where variants in many different genes might be involved.
- So, for this type of comparison to be effective very large groups of people need to be studied, usually in the tens of thousands, to find the variants with subtle effects on disease risk
- Researchers also try to pick individuals with similar phenotypes, in both the disease and healthy groups, so that the disease genes are easier to identify and study.
Challenges of pharmacogenomics
Although pharmacogenomics is likely to be an important part of future medical care, there are many obstacles to overcome before it becomes routine:
- It is relatively rare for a particular drug response to be affected by a single genetic variant.
- A particular genetic variant may increase the likelihood of an adverse reaction but it will not guarantee it.
- As a result some people with the variant may not experience an adverse reaction to a drug.
- Similarly, if an individual doesn't have the gene variant it doesn't guarantee they won't experience an adverse reaction.
- There are often a large number of interacting genetic and environmental factors that may influence the response to a drug.
- Even when associations between a genetic variant and a drug response have been clearly demonstrated, suitable tests still have to be developed and proved to be effective in clinical trials.
- A test that has succeeded in a clinical trial still has to be shown to be useful and cost-effective in a healthcare setting.
- Regulatory agencies will have to consider how they assess and license pharmacogenetic products.
- Health services will have to adjust to new ways of deciding the best drug to give to an individual.
- The behaviour of individual doctors will need to change.
- A lot of side effects are due to patients not taking their drugs as prescribed or doctors prescribing the wrong dose.
Some examples of pharmacogenomics working effectively, for example abacavir and HIV, show that these challenges can sometimes be overcome. However, in most cases, introducing the findings from pharmacogenomics is likely to be a complicated process.
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An East Sooke mother is raising concerns about a Sooke School District school bus plan oversight that's forcing her son to walk 45 minutes to get to his bus pickup spot for class at Edward Milne Community School.
Tina Acosta-Delgado was shocked when she found out that Logan, a Grade 10 student, didn't have a bus closer to his home after the latest school semester switch placed him into afternoon classes.
As the family lives along Cole Road in East Sooke, there's no option besides taking a stroll along East Sooke Road towards Boardman Lane near East Sooke Grocer and General Store, the farthest that the school bus route goes into East Sooke.
"I have no idea how you would have come up with this plan knowing there are kids that live way out here," said Acosta-Delgado in a social media post on Monday.
"I realize that it is a lot of gas you have to put out and sometimes it's an empty bus with only five kids [and] you must face some challenges, but [sic] why would you leave us stranded like this?"
On Monday morning, Acosta-Delgado said she skipped work to drive Logan to the bus stop. She doesn't feel comfortable with him walking along East Sooke Road.
She sent an email to EMCS and the Sooke School District bus transportation department on Nov. 23 asking for a solution, as Logan's five-minute walk to a bus stop had grown almost tenfold.
Lindsay Vogan, communications manager with the Sooke School District, said EMCS released its new routes for the current semester two weeks ago.
"We do a pre-release so parents can find little errors here and there if necessary," said Vogan. "This year has been super challenging in terms of bus schedules, due to the morning and afternoon class changes."
Vogan said students may switch from morning to afternoon semesters every five weeks. In fact, the school district has needed to operate double the amount of trips for the secondary schools.
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This is what you get when one political party entices and incentivizes people to force their way into our country (photos by John Moore of Getty Images)
(Daily Caller) An estimated 5,000-7,000 Central American migrants have stormed past the Guatemalan-Mexican border and are marching toward the United States, according to the latest reports on the ground from Mexico.
The caravan has now swelled to many thousands, bringing into question the funding and motivation of the diverse group of migrants walking, driving and traveling by railcar to the US border.
At the White House Monday, President Trump doubled down on the assertion that the migrants had been infiltrated by nefarious elements that mean the US harm. "Sadly, it looks like Mexico's Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States,†Trump said, "Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergency. Must change laws!â€
The most recent photos to come from the migrant mass traveling through Mexico show the sheer size of the caravan. Thousands of migrants stretch as far as the eye can see in some photos. All of the below photos were taken on the Mexican side of the border.
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No, the migrant caravan isn't walking the entire way through Mexico.
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With elections around the corner, PUBLiCUS Asia Inc. will present its Social Media Intelligence Report to guide candidates to better understand the dynamics of political campaigning today. Traditionally, air and ground wars dictate campaign strategies. Air war refer to TV and radio while ground war refer to sorties, door-to-door, grassroots.
"It is no longer just air and ground wars, campaigns need to navigate the digital terrain effectively in order to present a candidate effectively to its target audience", according to PUBLiCUS Founder/CEO, Malou Tiquia. "They are all interconnected and a winning campaign has to find the right mix to move voters to support their candidates", added Tiquia. Digital covers social media. It is the "collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration."
For a political campaign to be effective and competitive, it would need to embrace the so-called 360 campaign that integrates ground, air, and digital to cover 62 Million touch points. "You need to complement air, ground with digital. "A candidate who has just digital will not resonate well. You need digital to combine with ground at a minimum of air." A candidate who does heavy on air will spend much but conversion is not guaranteed. You need the three to be competitive."
This Social Media Intelligence Report (SMIR) will include the rankings of candidates for the Senate using the following variables: 1) Exposure, 2) Popularity, and 3) Virality. It will cover the months of January to May 2019 and will be in the public domain. Subscribers to SMIR will get an added variable which is Social Capacity. This variable reveals to the candidate how effective their strategies online are.
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- Evolution of Fe-Ti-V oxides from the main magnetite layer, Upper Zone, Bushveld Complex, South Africa: a comparison across the Western, Northern and Eastern Lobes
- Creator
- Iorga-Pavel, Adina
- ThesisAdvisor
- Prevec, Stephen Anthony
- Subject
- Magnetite -- South Africa -- Bushveld Complex
- Subject
- Mineralogy -- South Africa -- Bushveld Complex
- Subject
- Oxides
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/7357
- Identifier
- vital:21248
- Description
- The Main Magnetite Layer (MML) from the Northern, Eastern and Western lobes of the Bushveld Complex shows significant differences in textures and in mineral chemistry. The MML in the Eastern and Western lobes is massive, with rare, small and altered pyroxene inclusions. By contrast, the MML in the Northern Lobe is more heterogeneous, and it is made of anastomosed and sometimes imbricated, thin layers of magnetitite, magnetite-rich and silicate-rich rocks, where the inclusions in Ti-magnetite are more numerous and consist of mainly altered subhedral and anhedral plagioclase. The comparison of the maximum values of the oxides shows that the MML in the Northern Lobe has the highest content of V2O3 (1.97 wt%), TiO2 (22.49 wt%) and MgO (2.92 wt%), while the MML in the Eastern Lobe has the highest content of Cr2O3 (2.92 wt%) and Al2O3 (9.80 wt%), but lowest V2O3 (0.52 wt%). The lower TiO2 content and higher V2O3 content in the MML of the Northern and Western Lobes suggest lower oxidising conditions during the crystallization of oxides. The MML in all three studied lobes consists of two layers of magnetitite, suggesting that MML was formed by two separate magma influxes, probably on a diverse and complex type of magma chamber floor. The high TiO2 content in magnetite, together with the negative correlation between TiO2 and V2O3 suggest that the maximum V content should represent a "less evolved" and less oxidized melt. In this respect, higher concentrations V2O3 in magnetite can be expected in magnetitite layers with lower TiO2. It can be inferred that the Ti-magetite in the MML from the Eastern Lobe was formed from a more evolved (TiO2 and FeO enriched) and more oxidized (lower V2O3) melt, compared with the MML from the Northern and Western lobes. These findings can be used to illustrate: a) that high fO2 can be responsible for the relatively low V content in magnetite from Fe-Ti oxide ores and b) the vanadium in magnetite decreases significantly in more evolved cumulates, due to a decreasing fO2 with differentiation. Compositional profiles of Ti- magnetite along the stratigraphic height of the MML in the Eastern Lobe (composed of two layers, separated in the outcrop by a parting plane) depicts a cryptic variation with depth in each of the two layers, where each layer can be divided into four sublayers, labelled upwards as A, B, C (with C1, C2, C3 and C4) and D based on Cr, Mg, Ti, Al and V variation. Small scale reversals of the mentioned elements and the repetition of A, B, C and D sub-layers in each layer suggest that MML formed from two successive influxes of magma (indicated by relatively elevated values of MgO), which evolved by crystallization and cooling in a similar manner, to produce the A to D variation. Based on these observations and theoretical considerations, this study dismisses several models for the genesis of the MML: the immiscibility, the increased oxygen fugacity, the relative increase of H2O content of the melt, pressure variation within the magma chamber, magma mixing, and crustal rock contamination. The model proposed here for MML genesis involves the crystallization of both Ti-magnetite and ilmenite from a Fe-Ti-Ca-Al-rich melt (ferro-diorite) along its line of descent, and gravitational settling of oxides in a dynamic regime. The factor which triggered the crystallization of magnetite is a critical saturation of melt in magnetite (attaining saturation of magnetite and ilmenite in the melt after some silicates crystallized). The difference between the nature of silicate inclusions in magnetite and the nature of the magnetite floor, suggest that the Fe-rich magma was not in equilibrium with the cumulates from the present floor, but rather it was emplaced laterally on long distances, the melt being disrupted from its own cumulates. The absence of correlation between the Cr2O3 in magnetite and co-existing ilmenite can indicate than no in-situ fractional crystallization took place at the moment of magnetite accumulation, but rather that magnetite and ilmenite gravitationally accumulated and the grains mechanically mixed from a flowing magma. The model presented herein proposes a five stage model of MML formation: Stage 1 is represented by the intrusion of a Fe-T-Ca-Al-rich magma which expands laterally within a flat and thin magma chamber. Oxides start to crystallize within a dynamic regime of the magma. Stage 2 is given by the accumulation of oxides at the bottom of the new floor. Some plagioclase starts to crystallize (e.g. subhedral plagioclase in the MML of the Northern Lobe). Stage 3 is a short living static regime, where both plagioclase and magnetite crystallized, without fractionation, forming the thin magnetite-anorthosite layer separating the MML into two layers. Stage 4 is represented by a new influx of Fe-Ti-Ca-Al-rich magma which is emplaced above the magnetite-bearing anorthosite, flushing out the liquid which was in equilibrium with the anorthosite. The oxides started crystallizing in a dynamic regime, as in Stage 1. In stage 5, the accumulation of oxides produced the upper layer of the MML. Our interpretation is that the flow of the magma was more dynamic (probably more turbulent on long distances) in the MML of the Northern Lobe, compared to the MML in the Western and Eastern lobes, producing highly heterogeneous and imbricated thin layers of magnetitite and silicates. The presence of olivine corona around orthopyroxene suggests the incongruent melting of orthopyroxene, which points out towards a local re-heating of existing silicate layers, this being a strong argument for multiple injections in generation of MML. Massive crystallization of oxides produced the sulphur saturation of the magma and caused the precipitation of the igneous sulphides, which nucleated on the existing oxides. Later hydrothermal fluids (and/or late magmatic volatiles?) percolated the MML, producing chloritization of the included silicates, remobilization of igneous sulphides and precipitation of hydrothermal sulphides.
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