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Rainbow Dash shuffled cautiously across the street. She repeatedly glanced over her shoulder to see if anypony was following her. After triple-checking that nopony was looking at her suspiciously, Dash spread her wings. Then, with a quick burst of speed, she flew down the road toward her destination: the Quills and Sofas shop.
As she went, Dash continued to scan her surroundings for signs of ponies watching her. Ordinarily, she could easily take in everything that was happening around her without sacrificing flight performance. But Dash had been feeling jittery all morning, so she devoted too much of her attention to deciding if Bon Bon really was just watering her flowers—as she appeared to be doing—or if she was actually some sort of secret agent cleverly spying on Rainbow Dash under the cover of caring for plant life. Consequently, Rainbow Dash lost track of where she was and crashed straight into a large sign sticking out over the street.
As she painfully extracted herself from the pegasus-shaped indentation she had made in the wood, Dash noted the image of a large white feather and a red couch in front of her. At least she had crashed into the right sign. Rainbow Dash awkwardly dropped the short distance down to the ground, still feeling a bit wobbly. She hoped nopony had noticed her unusual behavior.
Maybe that was the problem, Dash realized. She shouldn't be slinking around town like a pony afraid of her own shadow; that was Fluttershy's job. No, she was Rainbow Dash, and that meant acting with cool confidence. Nopony would suspect she was plotting to kidnap a princess as long as she maintained the level of awesomeness for which she was renowned.
So with a swish of her mane, Rainbow held her head high and strutted into Quills and Sofas. A bored look around the store indicated that it was empty of customers. The storeowner, whose name she couldn't be bothered to remember at the moment, trotted up.
"What can I get for you today, Miss Rainbow Dash?" he asked.
Dash casually leaned against a nearby couch. "Yeah, I'm here on official princess business today, pal. Twilight needs five boxes of quills delivered to her castle, and she sent me to get them for her."
The proprietor frowned for a moment. "That's strange. Last week she bought two boxes of quills from me."
Dash's hoof slipped, and she fell to the floor. Instantly picking herself up, and wishing that she hadn't fallen in such an uncool way, Dash grinned at the shopkeeper to hide the surprise she felt. "Did I say five boxes? Maybe that wasn't the right number."
"I should hope not," the pony replied. "I was worried that Princess Twilight had run out of quills days ago. She normally runs through them much faster than that. Perhaps we should send her a dozen boxes instead. That might last her a couple weeks."
"Um, yeah, sure," Dash nervously agreed. She had no idea Twilight ran through quills so fast, though she supposed that she should have expected it. This was Twilight, after all, the most obsessive list-maker in Ponyville. "So if you'll just give me the boxes, I'll deliver them to Princess Egghead—I mean, Egghead Twilight—I mean, just give them to me and I'll drop them off tonight."
"Are you sure?" the shop owner inquired. "We do have a complimentary delivery service."
"No, that's ok. I'll just take the boxes now so I can check that all of the quills are organized the way Twilight likes before they're delivered," Rainbow Dash said.
"Very well. I'll bring the boxes out, and you can take them whenever you want."
Rainbow Dash smiled to herself. This was easy. Now all she had to do was prepare some of the boxes for "delivery" later that night. She snatched the first box of quills as soon as it was brought out, ready to fly it to Sugarcube Corner for the next stage of the plan.
As she burst through the door, she heard a thump and a gasp of surprise. Worried she had hit somepony, Dash set the box down and cautiously peered around the door. Then she jumped backward when she saw who it was she had accidently whacked with the door.
Groaning, Spike slowly sat up. "You'd think that having a dragon hide would keep me from getting hurt," he muttered to himself, "but no, apparently any door in Ponyville can still leave a bruise." As he got to his feet, Spike noticed the pony in front of him. "Oh hi, Rainbow Dash."
Dash froze for a moment.
"I said, hi Rainbow Dash." Spike waved his claw in front of Dash's face. "Are you awake in there?"
Rainbow Dash jumped several feet into the air. She slowly lowered herself back down, though in her nervousness she never completely set hoof on the ground again. She remained hovering before Spike, her wings flapping agitatedly. "Hey there, Spike. Sorry, I didn't see you there. So how about this weather? Do you think it'll rain later?"
"Not if the weather pony spends her day assaulting innocent dragons," Spike deadpanned. "Are you ok, Rainbow Dash? You seem to be acting rather strange."
"Strange? Don't be ridiculous. I'm just as awesome as I ever was." Dash plastered a rather wide smile on her face. "So what are you doing here, anyway? Looking for a new sofa to put in the castle?"
"Actually, I'm here to order more quills for Twilight. I didn't buy enough last week, and we had to dip into our backup supply. So now I need to get extra quills this week to replenish our emergency stock. Twilight almost went crazy when I told her we were down to six boxes. She nearly declared a national emergency."
"Well, you see," Rainbow Dash started nervously. "There's been a bit of a problem. I was, um, just trying to buy myself a new quill, but it turns out they've completely run out and won't get any more until tomorrow. You should probably come back then." Dash quickly positioned herself in front of the box she had set down a minute ago.
"Really?" Spike asked. "I thought they learned their lesson after the last time they were out of quills. Twilight threatened to banish Davenport to the moon, so he promised to make sure he never ran out again."
"Yeah, well, a rampaging, um, hydra ate all of his quills this morning, so you'll just have to try again tomorrow." Rainbow Dash started pushing Spike away from the store.
"A hydra?" Spike's eyes went wide. "Should…shouldn't you guys be out fighting it or something?"
"Relax." Dash took advantage of Spike's distraction to pick him up and fly him several blocks down the street. "Fluttershy already talked to it and convinced it, um, to move to Manehattan. It won't be bothering Ponyville again any time soon."
"Uh, are you sure Manehattan is the best place for a hydra?"
"Of course it is. Well, you can just go home to Twilight and tell her to not order any quills until tomorrow." Rainbow Dash dropped Spike on the ground and looped around to fly back to Quills and Sofas to get the box she had left there.
Spike looked around. "Rainbow Dash? Why did you take me to the entrance to Sweet Apple Acres?"
Rainbow Dash was already long gone.


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Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Work in The Shantytown Anomaly Wins 2007 Rhysling Award
Congratulations to Rich Ristow, whose poem "The Graven Idol's Godheart" from The Shantytown Anomaly #2 recently won the Rhysling Award in the short poem category. The Rhysling is awarded by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Past winners include sci-fi greats like Ursula K. Le Guin, Bruce Boston, Theodora Goss, and many others. Congrats to Rich and to The Shantytown Anomaly editor J. Bruce Fuller for this huge honor.
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Thanks for the Congrats!
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I'm totally late on replying to this (like a year late, I know) but thanks!!!
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Two weeks ago I posted about the Priest Car Adam created for himself…and this week I caught him about to drive down the stairs in his Rocket-Powered Priest Car.
It's the truth that Adam has a lot of ideas and a lot of interests. One minute he's building his empire in Lego
the next he's celebrating Mass in our livingroom…
…and that's why I made the Play Mass Kit. (Click on the link to find the Play Mass Kit printable for a shortcut to ordering and assembling the pieces! It's FREE for subscribers.)
He was doing fine with his new Play Mass Kit, but I decided to make him his own priest vestment…a Chasuble.
I bought a metre of no-wrinkle white fabric, some ribbon and some ribbon-sized heat bond (iron-on adhesive).
I'm sure my instructions will reveal that I am not a real seamstress…I kind of architect my way through sewing, and it's not always pretty. I may or may not show the messy parts …or highlight my mistakes in the pictures. =)
I decided to make it 2ply, so I cut 2 pieces, using pretty much the whole 39″ x 52″ piece of fabric.
I sewed a hem around the entire outside and then turned it right side out (through the head hole I cut across the fold).
After turning it right side out, I sewed a couple of inches at the shoulder. I actually made most of the Chasuble while Adam was not home, so when I finally tried it on him, I realized a few things.
The shoulder needs to be more rounded and the garment needs only a short 5″ seam around the shoulders so that it hangs loosely.
The fun part was the ribbon! I ironed on adhesive to one side of the ribbon (cut to the size I wanted) and then I ironed them in place. I decided to reinforce the thinner ribbon, sewing it in place with a zigzag stitch.
I had wanted to add a neat little band of fabric around the neck to finish off the seam, but that was just beyond my sewing capabilities. I ended up folding and sewing a thin little seam around the neck…with a zigzag stitch.
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Students and staff at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville now have a new incentive to carpool to school and work.
The school is giving an opportunity for those who carpool to buy parking permits for the premium parking spots on campus, nearest to most buildings.
Each carpool needs to have at least two people, each of whom own their own vehicle.
"We're trying to reduce the emissions on the road," said Bob Vanzo, the director of Administrative Services.
Participants need to register with the Madison County Transit's RideFinders program, Vanzo said. RideFinders can check to make sure the carpool and its route make sense from a geographic standpoint.
Each participant also will be entitled to four guaranteed rides home each year. The program provides carpoolers a free ride home if they have to leave work or school early because of an emergency.
The members of the carpool would each need to buy an $85.50 carpool permit. The members of the carpool would then share one hangtag to place in the vehicle.
Staff parking permits range from $131 to $171 for a year. Student permits are $116 to $171 for the year.
Vanzo added that people who buy the cheapest permit, and split it among several people, would have to walk from the farthest parking lot in the middle of winter. He said issuing one permit per carpool group isn't something the school could do through its current parking software, but has looked into.
So far, three carpools have been registered, Vanzo said.
"It's early, people tend not to do this until the last minute (and) permits that people bought for last year are good until the first day of the fall semester," Vanzo said. "It's a program that will continue to grow once word spreads."
The school, with an enrollment of about 14,000 students, has about 3,500 students living on campus. There are an additional 2,500 people employed by the university.
"We have a lot of cars on campus," Vanzo said. "Not all are here at one time, but we have a lot of vehicles on campus."
Vanzo said the school does have a lottery for remaining permits in premium spots that students can sign up for.
"There's no sense to leave spaces empty if we got them to sell and they're always in demand," he said.
Vanzo said he believes most people would be interested in the program. "It will guarantee they will be in the first row."
Ridefinders recently challenged regional employers to designate preferential parking spaces for people who carpool or vanpool.
"We really see this as a simple gesture an employer could make. Ridefinders will provide signs and hangtags," said SJ Morrison, of Madison County Transit, which runs Ridefinders.
"It shows the employees and patrons that alternative transportation modes are important," Morrison added. "We think that preferential parking goes a long way."
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Geoscience Australia to provide roadmap to GSI in next year
Kolkata, Nov 9 (IANS) Geoscience Australia is expected to provide "short and long term roadmap" reports to the Geological Survey of India (GSI) next year so that it can zero in on hidden mineral deposits in India more effectively, an Australian official said on Thursday.
The Australian national agency, which has an MoU with GSI for capacity building, has been helping its staff in adopting modern practices and upgrading capacities to uncover new mineral deposits.
"Geoscience Australia will likely to provide short and long term roadmap reports to GSI in the next year so that the Indian agency can more effectively map the potentialilty of hidden mineral deposits in India," Geoscience Australia's Branch Head, Mineral Systems (Resource Division) Richard Blewett told IANS.
"The short and long term roadmaps are basically recommendations about how to go about to achieve the goals and it will set a 10 year vision to GSI," he said.
According to him, easy deposits have been found and there is a need to go underneath the surface.
"This would require a lot more technology and better geological understanding. So, what we are doing is teaching GSI's staff and the programme is basically training the trainers," he said, adding that the training programme was launched in last November.
Blewettt said three training workshops have already been conducted and three more to be done.
"I had a discussion with GSI officials yesterday (Wednesday). We are now focusing on how the learning from these workshops can be applied," he said here on the sidelines of a programme: "Australian investment in Mineral sector and Australia - India Mineral Exploration Partnership".
The Australia Minerals delegation led by the federal agency was here in the city.


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The ratings challenges facing NBC News were thrown sharply into focus on Friday, as the network received two pieces of bad news about their viewing figures.
First, there was the confirmation of the news that "Good Morning America" had beat "Today" for a full season for the first time since the early 1990s.
In response, "Today" sent out a press release noting that it posted more year-on-year ratings growth in the coveted A25-54 demo in the past week than "GMA" did.
The continued success of "GMA" is something of an old tale, though. A newer one is the pronounced falloff in the fortunes of "Meet the Press," for so long the dominant Sunday morning talk show. On Friday, ABC News announced that its Sunday show, "This Week," had beat "Meet the Press" in both key ratings categories for an entire quarter for the first time since 1997.
The victory was a tiny one--"This Week" had 2.532 million total viewers and "Meet the Press" had 2.513 million--but it was the capper to a trying few months for David Gregory's show, which has been seeing some of its lowest ratings in decades. "Meet the Press" managed to beat "This Week" for the 2012-2013 season, but the trends are going ABC's way.
(CBS News is sitting the prettiest on Sundays, with Bob Schieffer's "Face the Nation" coming in first for the season for the first time since the current Nielsen methodology was introduced in 1987.)
If there is a bright spot for NBC News, it is in the evenings, where Brian Williams managed to beat back Diane Sawyer's persistent challenges and come in first in the ratings for the season. Sawyer's "World News" came closer to beating "NBC Nightly News" than at any point since 2008, but it was not enough.


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Beauty is the beast in Dhonielle Clayton's latest book.
The Belles tells the story of Camellia Beauregard, a member of the Belles, a group of young women who control how people look, a precious commodity in their beauty-obsessed society of Orléans, where people are born gray until they're transformed. Only Camellia wants more than just to be a Belle, she wants to be the best — the one chosen by the Queen herself to serve the royal family and their court.
But as Camellia — and readers discover — her dreams aren't all they're cracked up to be. Especially, when the Queen asks her to risk her life to help the ailing Princess Sophia.
Given the book's focus on beauty (and its costs) EW caught up with Clayton to discuss her inspirations for her world and The Belles. Check out an exclusive excerpt and an exclusive cover reveal — plus a behind-the-scenes look at how it came together.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What inspired you to tell this story?
DHONIELLE CLAYTON: When I was a preteen I went through this stage where I was obsessed with magazines. I started cutting out pictures of beautiful people from magazines and pasting them on the wall. Like body parts, hair textures, hair shape, eye color, lips… All these things that I really loved that I wished I could have. That's where this came from. I write about things that bother me and this is something that Teenage Me was very bothered by: my body, it's limitations, and why it didn't look like magazines. I wanted to talk about a world where if you could change yourself down to your bones, what would it be like and what could you do?
Camillia is part of "The Belles." How did you come up with that aspect of the book?
The world came first. I wanted to write a girl who was very ambitious and didn't always know everything but felt like she did, and wanted to take risks. And I wanted to set up a hierarchy where she thought being the best and being chosen as the best would be the thing that she would want the most. But sometimes that doesn't work out and I wanted to deal with what happens when you have a goal and the aftermath of those expectations not being what you thought they were going to be… I also wanted to deal with female friendships because in the book they are sisters. Camillia wants to fix the Belles so they can function in a unit where they both love each other and compete. I wanted to talk about how groups of women can be divided and how they can be very strong when they come together. So that's something really important to me to get across to readers and explore in general.
What does all this, plus the idea of beauty mean to Camillia?
Her ambition is to be on top and being on top means making everyone feel like they're the most beautiful person. But that can be a very slippery slope because what if a person can't be pleased? What if what is beautiful continues to shift and change? It's the problem I had when I was a preteen. Other things would come into trend and looking like that means you're beautiful. So I was morphing myself and trying to figure out how to change my hair, makeup, clothes to continue to chase what was considered beautiful. That's where that comes form.
There's also a threat to Camillia within the palace?
There's Princess Sophia, who is the daughter of the queen and she is very much a complicated character who has many of the same beliefs I had when I was a preteen. She wants to change herself and be the most beautiful. She's a big threat. Because it's a fleeting thing to feel like you were the most beautiful. Trends keep changing. The threat is both physical, because when you meet Princess Sophia she is quite the handful, and also an emotional one where Camillia falls into this cycle where she cannot please everyone and what that means to someone who actually wants to do that and be the best and on top.
What were some of the influences you drew on to come up with Orleans?
I was thinking of New Orleans, but I also lived in France and Japan and so I was thinking of both of those places as well. Because what it means to be beautiful in both of those places is very intricate and fascinating especially in Marie Antoinette's court. So, there are nods to Marie Antoinette's court and also Japanese beauty rituals and customs and geisha. Also to New Orleans especially in the 18th or 19th centuries when you had these hierarchies based on blood and how much African ancestry one had and the different traits that one would carry. So, I looked at all those things and tried to build a secondary fantasy off of them because these are places I've lived and spent time and love and respect.
What do you hope your readers take away from this book?
I just want them to examine the media that they consume about their bodies. I really wanted to open up a conversation with women and girls in general about what they're willing to do to their bodies to chase an image and how that image is constantly changing and shifting which keeps us on a hunt. It's almost like a massive game that has been set up. We're playing where the deck is stacked against us and we continue to do whatever it takes. "If I just get one more wax, if I just run one more mile, if I just get this new outfit, if I just get this liposuction…" We're willing to do whatever it takes. I also wanted to talk about how we can not stop the cycle but examine it and think about the value we place on physical beauty and how it's fleeting. It's impossible to stay on top of things.
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Important notice: moving to a new ISP this week.
Monday, January 24, 2005 by John Stone
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: I'll be moving the servers that host this site and the forums to a new physical location and to a new ISP sometime this week, perhaps as early as today or tomorrow. Expect at least 2 hours of downtime while the servers are re-configured and moved to their new home. The IP addresses will all be changing, so if you can't reach this site or the forums after the move, it's because your ISP still has the old IP addresses cached in their DNS servers. The DNS "lag time" should be minimal: I've set up the DNS entries for all my sites so that other DNS servers should expire the cached entries once every hour. I'll post a note here when you are seeing the site on the new IPs.
5:56 PM UPDATE: The move has been completed. If you are seeing this message, then you are hitting the new IPs.
This week and probably next week are going to be extremely busy for me. I'll continue to update the site every day (and, of course, work out), but you can expect short daily updates for a while! Thanks for understanding.


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The extended controlled parking hours, brought in as a trial to see if it would reduce clubbers parking up on the residential streets, will now be made permanent after resident feedback.
As Councillors we first took up the issue around reviewing the Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) hours in the Bonnington Square area because of the large number of complaints from a wide variety of residents on the impact that ASB was having on their lives.
This is because clubbers park up on the residential street and return to their cars throughout the night and early hours – being noisy and turning on car stereos. We also have issues with drug dealing and people taking drugs away from the busier streets.
We listened to residents stories, and feedback to initial proposals to extend the hours of the CPZ, and also their concerns around how the changes could impact residents having guests in the evenings and the impact on businesses in the area. We therefore ended up with a good comromise of extending the CPZ 00.00 midnight to 8.30am (when the existing CPZ kicks in) – 7 days a week
The current experimental traffic order is fully enforceable having adequate signs/lines and remain in force till 3rd of March 2017. As local residents are aware, this order include Vauxhall Grove, Bonnington Square, Lawn Lane and Langley lane. Officers have reviewed the feedback and am pleased to inform you that there are no negative feedback from the statutory consultation. Officers have therefore instructed the traffic order maker to convert this order to a permanent order so we can make the permanent order on time before the expiry date.


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So this weekend was the Go! St. Louis Family Fitness Expo and Races. I participated in the marathon relay event and I just have to say that I absolutely LOVED being a part of a relay team. While my goal is to run 1/2 marathons as they seem like the distance for me, I can see myself doing the relay event at this race each year, even though it's the big spring race in St. Louis and the 1/2 here is a big one.
Being a part of the relay added a whole other level to the race and it was just fun to get to be a part of team and have accountability to others. I was a team-sport athlete all the way through college so I think being part of a team is just something that is ingrained in me.
First things first, however was the expo! I love race expos, there is a such a great vibe and the most of the vendors there are so chatty and friendly. I had a seminar for work that was close to the expo center so I went during the lunch break to check it out. It was at Chaifetz Arena, which is the arena where St. Louis University plays their basketball games (Go Billikens!). I really liked having it in the arena there, however parking there is a nightmare! No, I don't want to pay an additional $5 to park for the expo after I've already paid my $75 entry fee...thanks very much! I chose street-parking instead, but that meant about a 3/4 mile hike in some pretty brutal wind.
The expo itself was great though, the vendors were, as mentioned above, very friendly and chatty. I got some fuel samples (Sport Beans and Gu) some Zoom Immune Booster supplements, a pacer tattoo to help you keep your pace without having to do math or have an app for it, some awesome lime-green shoe laces and a variety of coupons for local running stores and future race entries.
Of course I couldn't go and only get free stuff though, now could I?! The two big race expos in STL during the year are also the time when some of our local running stores have their best sales. I was on the lookout for a pair of Ghost 6's and wouldn't you know that I found a pair...in my size...for $85!! Score!
I also snagged a Handana as I've been on the lookout for something like this for a while. The day before, in spin class, it was so humid that my hands were sleeping off the bike wheel and my towel fell off the bike twice. This worked really well for the race and was great at wicking away the sweat without absorbing it!
So leaving the expo about $100 poorer, I was ready for the race!
Saturday we took it easy, I did some kettlebell work and took the dogs for a long walk to stretch out, but I didn't do any running. I had been fighting off a sinus infection all week and hadn't really decreased the exercise at all, so I thought it best just to take it easy before the race. We went to see the new Captain America: The Winter Soldier in the afternoon (I'd recommend it, I thought it was really good!) and then did an early birthday dinner for my mom. I had pasta primavera in a light olive oil sauce which was delish.
I hit the hay by about 8:30 to prepare me for the 5 AM wake-up call. I will have to say this was the tricky part about doing the relay when I was up, dressed and out the door before 6 AM, but not actually running until about 10:30. This made breakfast and warming up a bit tricky. I had a Greek yogurt and a cup of coffee before leaving the house then brought a banana that I had about an hour before I ran. I probably could have used a bit more food, maybe some peanut or almond butter on the banana...but overall it seemed fine.
It was pretty cold at race start (about 36) and the wind was kind of nasty. I was happy that I was the jacket Sherpa as it meant that I could wear my teammates jackets over top of my own to stay warm!
All of the relay stations were close to stops on our light-rail system, the MetroLink and travel on the link was free for race participants. So after each leg, we'd hop on over to the other one to watch our teammates in. Since I was the anchor, I was ferrying a lot of bags and the like, which also meant no pic were taking of my teammates (so bummed about that!).
When it got to my anchor leg of the race, I was so pumped that I foolishly took off like a bullet. My goal was to maintain 10 min/miles as this is a pace I'm comfortable with for 6 miles, however I did my first mile in 9:02, second in 9:19 and the third in 9:36. However after that my time began to increase and the course got hillier, my fourth, fifth and sixth miles were all over 10 with the 5th being 11:38 and basically uphill for the entire mile. Overall I ended up with a 9:54 average and I was really happy with that.
Despite the fact that we hadn't really come up with a plan for meeting, Joe managed to get to the finish line a few minutes before I arrived there and snapped some pics. I really like this one.
After the race we walked around the post-race festivities for a bit, although none of the food really appealed to me as it was all "St. Louis themed" and pretty heavy stuff. We decided to head to a local Mexican place to get some lunch and I attacked the chips with gusto and had a celebratory margarita!
I went home and rolled, stretched and iced my left knee (arthritis from an old field hockey injury) and we rented some DVDs from Red Box and got take-out from my fave Crazy Bowls and Wraps after hitting up Lowe's for some stuff we needed for spring landscaping. I made a comment to Joe that it was so funny how you reach a certain age and life is waking up early to run and spending an afternoon at Lowe's. What would our 21 year-old selves think of it?!
I had also taken off work on Monday as it was opening day for our St. Louis Cardinals (big fans over here) and we had tickets to the game in the afternoon. I was glad because my legs were still a bit sore from my too-fast first few miles of the race, so I got some much needed walking, stretching, rolling, etc. in.
The weather was rainy and cold but the festivities were still in full swing downtown and we loved taking part in it. We met some of Joe's friends at a stadium bar for a pre-game drink then headed into the stadium early to watch the Opening Day festivities. One cool thing they had were a bunch of ice sculptures to commemorate the beginning of the season and our great season last year. Kind of cool, huh?!
The Cardinals won the game and we headed home. I hit the hay early as it had been a long day out in the wind and rain but it was great nonetheless!
Have you ever done a relay, and if so did you like it?
How do you fight the urge to head out fast when the racing adrenaline is high?
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SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea says it has test-fired a new anti-ship cruise missile, a move experts in Seoul see as an attempt to raise tensions ahead of joint military drills between the United States and South Korea.
The North's official Korean Central News Agency said Saturday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was on-site to observe the "ultra-precision" rocket being fired from a naval vessel in an exercise conducted by the country's East Sea fleet. The report did not mention the time or location of the exercise.
Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said North Korea was demonstrating its military capabilities ahead of next month's annual U.S.-South Korean drills, which Pyongyang says are a rehearsal for an invasion.


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I don't have a clue how I got Hep C. I live a clean life never did drugs, Never had unprotected sex. Just felt something was wrong. Lost all my energy went to the doctor and that's when I found out I had a hep C. Other than that I am extremely healthy my liver is perfect. Took a long time for me to get this medicine thank God I was approved. So my question to you guys is how soon should I get myself tested I'm already on my first week. No side effects, I feel fine, I have been drinking a lot of water like it was recommended by other people.
When should I get tested after I start my treatment of Harvoni?
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I too led & continue to lead a very healthy life but I got Hepc from a blood transfusion many years ago due to a health crisis at the time. Putting aside the reason why or how the virus was contracted, right now we have a cure and that is the priority now and it works! Most GI doctors who I assume you are seeing ... start taking follow up blood tests approximately a month after treatment begins with Harvoni! and then every month thereafter. however, that may depend on how many weeks you will be on it, 8, 12 or 24. Usually the doctor will give you a script for future blood tests. if not... you should contact him/her. Harvoni works very fast and is extremley affective. good luck!
Thank you for your feedback good luck to you too, I am totally excited about eradicating this nasty disease. Thank God we don't have to go through the old treatment. I read up on it and it seem daunting.
I have no interest in how people got HCV; I'm on 12 weeks of Harvoni and Ribavirin for HCV type 1a. I didn't need the treatment lecture again, the treatment nurse asked if I had any side effects? Absolutely none of any sort I replied, so they stocked me up and said come back for a viral load test 3 months after you have finished.
Now Gilead have a new treatment available (since late June?) that offers a 99%plus cure rate for ALL genotypes in 12 weeks.
My reply was to "cure" btw
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CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - A number of job fairs will be held over the next two days throughout the Lowcountry.
SC Works in Summerville is holding a job fair on Thursday, October 17 from 10 a.m. to noon for forklift operators. Applicants must bring along two forms of identification, and most of these jobs require two to three years of experience.
Forklift operators are also needed to operate stand up only clamp type equipment. A job fair for these positions will be held at SC Works Center in Moncks Corner on Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. You can also apply online at remedystaff.com.
Mau Staffing is hiring set up mechanics for second and third shift positions, as well as experienced manufacturing electricians. A job fail will be held on Friday, October 18 from 9 a.m. to Noon at SC Works in North Charleston. Between six months to four years experience is required.
Additionally, Phillips Staffing has a help wanted sign posted for material handlers.
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Miami songstress Teenear starts 2017, with a club anthem entitled "Last Night" with visuals to match. Produced by emerging Miami producer, Sipping Sake, this song paints a picture of a girl fed up with the short-comings of a broken relationship, caused by broken promises. The song is a woman's empowerment anthem. It's a track every girl can relate to and music fans will have it on repeat for weeks to come.
Building on the success of singles "Friday Night" featuring Sage the Gemini and "Streetlights.." Teenear aims to takeover 2017, with a slew of new releases. Gracing sites like Revolt, Vibe, Karen Civil and more, Teenear plans to continue generating buzz worthy content, including her forthcoming EP featuring Fetty Wap.
Keep an eye out on SlipNSlide's breakout artist, Teenear.


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St. James-Assiniboia
St. James-Assiniboia is a large community in the western section of Winnipeg. It is usually referred to as simply "St. James" and consists of the neighbourhoods of Old St. James, Deer Lodge, Silver Heights, Birchwood, Sturgeon Creek, Woodhaven, Heritage Park, Kirkfield Park, Westwood, Crestview, St. Charles. Prices in these areas range an average sale price of $102,500 to $615,000. Although Brooklands is a part of St. James, few people think of it as such, it is more often considered a part of the West End of Winnipeg. Homes in the Brooklands area range an average sale price of $52,000 to $285,000. A new addition to this area is The Oaks, which runs along the Assiniboine River. Prices in The Oaks range from an average sale price of $410,000 to $925,000.
It is primarily residential, but there is some industrial development in the Murray Industrial Park in the north central part of the neighbourhood and near the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport which is located in St. James. St. James lies immediately west of the Polo Park Mall area, Winnipeg's largest retailing district.
Schools and Public Centres
- St. James Assiniboine School Division: 9 elementary and 4 secondary schools
- Close to Red River Community College to the North
- Close to University of Winnipeg to the East
- Public Library
- Assiniboine Golf Club
- Across the river from Assiniboine Park and Zoo
- Living Prairie Museum and Park to the west
- 2 movie theatres
- 4 outdoor ice rinks
- 2 indoor ice arenas
- 1 outdoor pool
- 2 running tracks
- Home to Grant's Old Mill Museum, Air Force Heritage Park, and the Western Canada Aviation Museum
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REDLANDS, Calif. --A search is under way for a man who attempted to grab a 9-year-old Redlands girl as she walked home from school on Monday.The girl and her 7-year-old brother were walking near the intersection of Sixth Street and Colton Avenue around 2:30 p.m. when a man grabbed the girl by the shirt. Her brother was able to push the man away, and the two children ran home.
The suspect was described as a white male in his 20s. He was last seen wearing a gray backpack.
Redlands police believe the man is likely a transient. Officials combed the area where the girl was accosted, but they were unable to locate the suspect.
Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact Redlands detectives at (909) 798-7671.


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Eva Nine is the main protagonist of the WondLa series. She was artificially created in HRP Sanctuary 573 by Muthr, but was forced to escape after the Dorcean huntsman Besteel destroyed it and attempted to kill her. She possesses a unique ability to telepathically connect with all non-sentient life on Orbona. Throughout the WondLa trilogy, her personal dream is to find other humans like her, and to unite all life on Orbona.
The Search for WondLaEdit
Eva Nine is practicing her survival skills in the holography chamber of Sanctuary 573 when she is bitten by a snake and the program ends. After angrily shutting herself in her bedroom, Muthr calls her into the kitchen to help prepare dinner. That night, after dinner, while Eva is watching Beebo and Company, Muthr
Eva Nine has naturally blond hair, green eyes, and light skin. In the conclusion of A Hero for WondLa, she purifies herself in the Heart of the Forest, and her hair turns white as a symbol of her purity. She usually wears a climatefiber utilitunic, as well as a jackvest for added warmth.


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This year, the Interact service project will be donating to a California based organization called the Camellia Network. With 80 foster youth aging out* every day, the Camellia Network connects youth to individuals and companies that can provide much needed financial and emotional support.
The Camellia Network was founded in 2010 by friends Isis Dallis Keigwin and Vanessa Diffenbaugh, the latter being a foster mother herself. In 2011, these two women, along with the help of early investors, launched a very successful pilot program, laying the groundwork for the soon-to-be Camellia Network.
This organization provides foster youth who have aged out of the foster care system a unique way to connect to individuals and companies who can provide support and even career opportunities.Aged out youth register on the Camellia Network and build a profile, much like a Facebook account with photos, accomplishments, and a list of requested items ranging from a microwave to higher education aid. Anyone can view and donate to an individual's registry,* as well as post words of encouragement. Most profiles are updated frequently, so supporters can stay updated on their beneficiaries' progress.
As a result, the Camellia Network has helped 273 youth to date, helping foster youth on to a level playing field to succeed in their endeavors. Oprah has heralded it as "The Social Network that Changes Lives," and support from Chevron have helped in gaining attention to the foundation.
If financial donations are not feasible, just raising awareness for the issue of aging out and the Camellia Network are much appreciated. However, there are always going to be more foster kids who age out, and thus, the need will never lessen. Your support will give foster youth the tools they need to compete on the same level as their peers to meet their full potential.
And here are a few examples of foster youth on the network that we plan to help this year:
C. Cloud- "Christian Cloud" has received the Rotary Foundation Grant Scholarship for the 2014-15 academic year!
Kathleen – wants to be a doctor
Sibley – wants to be a chemical engineer
Olajuwon – wants to be a teacher overseas
Jordan- wants to be a probation/social worker


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Preaching Christ's Message Of Giving
12/06/2012 08:36AM ● Published by Aimee Cormier
Nativity's Father Ed Duhon On Supporting Others
By Barbara Gautreaux
Father Edward J. Duhon Jr. became the new pastor of Nativity of Our Lady Catholic Church in New Iberia this past summer. At 38 years old, Duhon has been an ordained priest for five years. He is friendly, laughs easily and is eager to learn all he can about his new congregation and the city he will call home for years to come.
Duhon gives credit to his family, especially his parents, the late Edward and Dorphi Duhon, for teaching him by example what it means to be unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others. In Duhon's word—altruistic.
The opposite of being self-centered, altruistic is charitable, generous, philanthropic, benevolent and unselfish. It can be used to describe the Duhons of the past, and pastor Father Duhon also.
Becoming a giving person is something Duhon describes as not only difficult but extremely rewarding, and the foundation of the teachings of Christ.
During this most giving time of the year, Duhon says choosing to be the person that thinks of others first can not only enhance society, it can also be an opportunity for grace.
Church Celebrating 50 Years
Duhon, or Father Ed as he is called by students and coworkers, says he has been blessed to now be the pastor of Nativity and its 1,300 families. He comes to New Iberia from Sacred Heart in Broussard, where he served as their associate pastor for two years. Three years before that he was stationed in Eunice. "Nativity is a hidden jewel of the diocese. I am so grateful to be assigned here. The staff, the parishioners, everyone has been so kind and patient."
Nativity is located at 130 North Richelieu Circle, near the northern border of Iberia Parish. The office staff consists of three employees, and Brenda Romero is the Director of Religious Education, providing Catholic education from the classrooms of Barsen Hall. "The catechism classes at Nativity serve 233 students in grades 1st-11th. It is an extensive program, almost another school that we operate," says Duhon. Classes are held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during the school year, served by 24 volunteer teachers. Romero says Right of Christian Initiation for Adults (the RCIA program for those seeking confirmation or baptism in the Catholic Church) is available Monday nights.
Father Mike Arnaud was the former pastor of Nativity and he is now serving at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Mire.
Nativity of Our Lady Church was the dream of Monsignor Herman J. Barsen, established in New Iberia in 1963. The church will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013. Duhon says he sees his new parishioners as having a strong historic tie to their church. "The founding families of this parish are still here. That is very rare for Catholic Churches in this area." Duhon appreciates the dedication that went into building a church, and hearing the stories of how it was accomplished.
"Pastors don't often get to meet the actual founding members of a Catholic Church, especially in South Louisiana where churches were formed more than a hundred years ago. So this is really amazing to meet the people who served at the temporary warehouse on Jane Street, or those that knew Father Barsen when he started the parish, and to hear the stories of how he got the land." Father Barsen died in 2005 at age 91.
Duhon says that Nativity's main worship building was created with a modern style of architecture, popular in the late 60s and early 70s. The tremendous roof is a symbol of the Christian Church's earliest followers. "Father Barsen wanted the building to resemble a Bedouin tent; a tent used by the people that lived in the Holy Land where Jesus lived. Bedouin tents would have a main center pole in the middle, stretching the canvas at the top."
Connecting a congregation to the ancient church in the Holy Land helps to focus believers on Christ's teachings that resonate throughout the centuries. Father Duhon himself has felt this connection when he traveled to the Holy Land in 1998 and in 2011. He says these pilgrimages brought him to such historic places as the Sea of Galilee, Nazareth, Jerusalem, the Dead Sea and the Sinai Desert.
"It fleshes your faith and brings it to life—this is where Jesus was crucified—this is where He was laid in the tomb. I was able to lead Mass in the location where Jesus was laid in the tomb," says Duhon. "That was such a heavenly experience for me. I have only been ordained for five years and I feel so blessed to have traveled to those places."
He says a pilgrimage is different from a personal vacation to a well-known location. "You definitely have a goal; you want to grow closer to Jesus through the people that you meet and the places that you go. You study on the past; you learn about who founded the church, and more. I encourage anyone to go to the Holy Land to experience all those things."
In November, Duhon participated in a more local, two-day pilgrimage to New Orleans with 8th-grade students from Catholic High School, teaching the next generation to grow closer to Christ's message of giving.
To Be A Giving Person
How did Duhon choose a life of serving both his church and his fellow man? His family, his education and his wanting to be different set the stage for giving and serving. "When I was young, I had my parents as a model and I just didn't go with the flow." Having friends that were interested in the same type of giving lifestyle helped him. "I wasn't as distracted by the materialist world. My friends had the same mindset as me and that also helped me to be a serving person," says Duhon.
At 14, Duhon began to feel that God was calling him from among men to serve his people. The Bible has several stories about people called by God to serve, who were scared or reluctant to serve. "I didn't like it then, that is the last thing you want to do that age," he says. Duhon is quick to point out that as a human he is, of course, sometimes selfish. "To serve one another is not just my job but who I am. It is my calling."
Duhon says for him, several components came together to create a life of service. "My family, they were very altruistic." He remembers as a child, a neighbor's house burned, and his mother gave the neighbor clothes and food for herself and her children. "My parents were great examples. We were not rich by any stretch of the imagination, so just to see my Mom and Dad focus their entire energies on their family was a great example. My dad going to work—slaving, and my mom slaving at home, just doing the best they could for their family."
Duhon says no person is immune from wanting materialist things, and human nature is for self-preservation. "It is difficult to serve others, serving is a burden," he says. "To give you have to will it. You have to have discipline about it."
To be able to give to others, Duhon says one must be sustained by attending church and realizing that society is all in this together—families, communities and the entire world. A materialistic society might think of a spouse and children as a chore instead of an opportunity, with day-to-day obligations getting in the way of a lifestyle focused on temporary pleasures. "Marriage is supposed to be about procreation of children and making sure that society continues. When people focus on themselves, what should be important becomes mixed up."
His message is that it is critical to attend church, to pray and worship. "It is so sustaining to come to church every week. It is necessary, just like prayer. God is not some peripheral role figure in your life. God is not in the trunk, He is the co-pilot sitting next to you. For you to go to church is the most important thing that you do during the week.
"That statement is a foreign thing for so many people. To have God and church the center of your week, not something that you hurry up and go to." Duhon says weekend extracurricular activities can strengthen the bond and enrich the family; however he continually refocuses on what is important for a life of giving.
"What more strengthens the bond of the family than the person who brought the family together? God's strength and gifts are needed by the family."
Duhon personally has an older brother and two sisters. He graduated from UL Lafayette with an Architecture Degree. He does not have a degree in counseling or psychology. This doesn't stop him from providing counseling services to many in and around Nativity. "Most of my job is listening and it does help. I sit them down and listen to their story and that helps them tremendously."
"Remember, we are not alone. We are one planet, one in Christ and we are all called to support each other," says Duhon.


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Date(s) - 26/10/2017
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Crown Estate (Estate Office)
This 1-day tractor driving course is designed for experienced users who need to utilise agricultural tractors (as opposed to compact tractors). The course also covers the safe use and operation of front end loaders.
Tractors are versatile pieces of machinery due to the ever expanding types of attachments available for them, making them valuable tools within many different sectors. It is important to use the tractor correctly to ensure that accidents do not happen, so gaining relevant training, and even updating your knowledge and skills if you are a more experienced driver, is invaluable. The course can last from two to four days depending on the experience of the trainees and the course being delivered.
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Approaching Storm Over St.Cloud
As seen on www.WJON.com. The sky was an intriguing blend of calm air and sunshine on the East side of this small approaching storm today, so I knew it would be a great opportunity to send the plane up hoping to catch a new aerial weather image. Although expecting turbulent downdrafts at any moment to bring my flight to an end, suprisingly, I was able to continue flying in relatively calm skies until only moments before the storm arrived. (North Jr. High is in the center-left foreground) Yes,... (continue reading...)
Flight Flash 2011 Stock Photo Now Available
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As Storm Retreats: A Rainbow Over St. Cloud
After some flight work away from St.Cloud today, I returned with only one charged battery remaining as a rainbow unexpectedly stretched across the sky over the city. I'd never photographed a rainbow from the air and was waiting for a chance to do this. There was only one fading patch of open sky allowing the sunlight through the clouds that was necessary to illuminate the rainbow behind this rainstorm, so I had to move quickly. Arriving home, I readied my flight and camera gear as the last... (continue reading...)
Flight Flashback:Two Years Ago Today…
On June 10, 2009, this image was captured from the air of the first connection of the spans of the Granite City Crossing and published on... (continue reading...)
In Memoriam.
On May 27, 2011, Amanda Franklin succomed to injuries received in a crash at an airshow in Texas on March 12. She is seen here in a performance at the EAA in OshKosh, Wi in July of 2009. She also performed at the Great Minnesota Airshow in St.Cloud, Mn in June of 2010. Amanda Franklin is among very few to know the courage and bravery of flight above the... (continue reading...)
Snow On April 20 In St. Cloud
The Mynah Bird HD2 went to work early today after an unusual, late-April Snowfall in St. Cloud that amounted to a beautiful Spring morning. The calm sky revealed a fluffy, bleach-white snow that covered nearly everything, and allowed for a crisp HD video image in the low-light minutes just after daybreak. Even at extremely low altitudes, the Mynah Bird found small clouds drifting between it and the Mississippi River, as the cold and humid air created a varied and low cloud cieling. In... (continue reading...)
Wings Of The Citabria
Last Friday evening my father and I accompanied my sister's husband, Craig Swan, to Flemming Field in St.Paul where his Citabria is hangered. It's a restoration project for Craig who is used to flying much larger aircraft, since he pilots a Boeing 747 for a living. This airplane was purchased in California and transported overland to Mn nearly completely dissassembled. Friday evening was spent attaching a wing and other parts to get a more complete feel for how the aircraft will be... (continue reading...)
Island Ice Writer Unveiled
Two weeks ago while photographing the Beaver Islands, the discovery of this image took me by surprise. A search on Facebook revealed that the owner of the signature is the gutsy Rob Stromme who carved his name into the snow along the open waters of the Mississippi. Here's what Rob had to say about it, " The story goes; I was born and raised in St. Cloud and one of my friends' and I's most favorite past times is going down to the islands, summer or winter, and just walk around and explore.... (continue reading...)
Mynah Bird Flies Again
Two years ago this weekend the Mynah Bird was designed and created for the purpose of capturing a forward looking HD motion picture view. It carried a relatively heavy camera payload with a very wide 16x9 angle lense. After a lengthy process of adjustments it eventually took to the sky but was later grounded due to the risks of carrying such a heavy and expensive camera in a forward looking configuation...Today, after two years, the aircraft returned to the sky again to resume it's... (continue reading...)
Calm After Winter Storm
An hour and a half before sunset tonight, the sky calmed enough to send up a flight to survey the changes that the heavy snow, wind, drifting and cold temperatures had brought to St.Cloud in the last day. The gusty Easterly wind put enough turbulence in the air to make for a very bumpy flight. The Mississippi river in St.Cloud was already flowing freely at this time a year ago. See last year's Flight Flash blog:... (continue reading...)


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The world's biggest oil trader says US oil production will peak in 2018
The best is yet to come for US oil production—but it will be a short-lived hurrah, according to Ian Taylor, head of oil trading giant Vitol.
US oil production has steadily increased throughout 2017 as US drillers regained their footing after the oil price crash. What started out at 8.946 million bpd of crude oil production in the first week of January has now reached an average of 9.561 million bpd as of September 29, according to the EIA.
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The Coalition Government is implementing fiscal consolidation on an historic scale, and there is widespread agreement that consolidation will continue well into the next Parliament. This Government has undertaken significant reform of the police and criminal justice system. In addition to a real terms decline of 23 per cent for the Ministry of Justice and Home Office budgets in this spending review, there have been substantial structural reforms across the system. Reform held a private roundtable to explore the challenges of continuing reform in the context of the expected further budget reductions as part of Reform's major research programme on "How to run a country".
Responsibility for probation, prisons and rehabilitation was moved from the Home Office in 2007 into the newly created Ministry of Justice. Both departments continue to work closely together and despite having non-ringfenced budgets that have taken a large share of the cuts, crime has continued to fall under this Government; proving that better services do not rely on increases in spending. The necessity and incentive for the departments to work together is that budget and structure decisions made in one, can directly affect the demand experienced by the other. To meet the continued pressures of evolving crime, such as cyber-crime, and further pressure on budgets, both upstream and downstream solutions must be considered across the criminal justice system. Prevention of crime, thereby reducing the demand on the public sector, will require less resource and provide savings and efficiencies across all departments.
These solutions could include more collaborative approaches across the entire public service sector, upgrading courts and smarter policing technology, more effective rehabilitation and different types of sentencing, including community sentencing and restorative justice. However, crime is evolving quicker than it is detected or legislated for, so there is a necessity to stay ahead of the criminal; technology is increasingly providing the means to do this and a higher degree of specialisation to tackle more complex crime.
Experience across public services has proven that what works to prevent increasing demand is: localism, multiplicity, multiagency and holistic solutions. These, together with shared services and economies of scale, must be considered in order to join up services at every level and across all departments. The Troubled Families programme is an example of this with 52,833 of the 120,000 most troubled families in England put back on track by local authority teams since April 2012. This kind of approach across the system could offer further savings across not just both but all government departments. A failure to take hard decisions now will have long term implications for the entire criminal justice system, and could compound existing problems.
With any large-scale changes there is a need to improve the skills and competence of the people delivering the services. Structural change may not be necessary, but a better use of skills and resources is vital. Information sharing across silos will remain key and reduce duplication of effort or in fact departments, perhaps unwittingly, working against each other as well as increasing understanding of the consequences of decisions. One radical example could be to give lay-magistrates and full-time judges responsibility for managing sentences. They would then be able to better understand the consequences of decisions that they might make and it would create a more supportive relationship between sentencer and offender, reducing the likelihood of reoffending.
Some argue that a long-term outlook to the criminal justice system means spending now to save later. Others point to the importance of piloting solutions, rather than risking sub-optimal outcomes. In its latest report HMIP praised the work of police forces to "rise to the challenge of austerity" but warned that, without considering how funding supports more efficient arrangements for local, regional and national policing services, the viability of some forces will be in jeopardy. Politicians must ensure effective policy making, resist making short-term decisions and not be dissuaded by conservatism, personal bias, ideologies or the media. Open policy making is often cited as the way ahead – these policies must not only be open but work across both real and perceived barriers and silos, to secure the most efficient and effective solutions. Good relationships, communication and a long-term, open outlook must become the default culture across government, ministers and civil servants alike.
A blog by Katy Sawyer, Researcher at Reform, following a roundtable seminar on the theme "Delivering fiscal responsibility: performance of Government Home Affairs and Justice" led by Jeremy Browne MP, Former Minister of State at the Home Office and Rt Hon Lord McNally, Chair of the Youth Justice Board.


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Post-Christian Europe needs followers of Jesus who understand that the Gospel is powerful in itself. We should not hold onto the privileges of old religious structures.
A Muslim man pushed the girl from a second floor. Police and doctors refused to help the family. "This is unfortunately very common in Pakistan", their lawyer said.
Journalist Pilar Rahola publishes a book in which she collects her five-year work on the persecution of Christians in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. "It was necessary to tell the world that there are people who die, not because of a random bullet, but because they are Christians".
How can Islamic radicalism be countered after the imprisonment of the Christian governor of Jakarta?
The first 5 countries of the list are all Muslim-majority lands. Italy ranks 7. "Religious freedom includes the right to express a full range of beliefs", USCIRF report says.
According to the US State Department annual report, "almost 80% of the global population live with restrictions to limit their freedom of religion."
Indonesian police have named the leader of the Islamic Defenders Front as a suspect. Rizieq Shihab mobilised thousands to put pressure on judges in a 'blasphemy' trial against Christian politician 'Ahok'.
"We believe Bhatti is innocent and will be freed by the high court, but it will take several years for his case to be heard by the high court", an advocate says.
The New Testament writers tell us that God's honour is not something so fragile that it needs to be protected by legal restrictions.
Freedom of conscience, freedom of speech and religious freedom are battles that are worth fighting.
'Ahok' is sentenced to two years of prison. The judges say the Christian politician "has caused anxiety, hurt Islam and divided Muslims." Islamic radicals increase pressure on Christians.
Conversion from Islam is impossible in many places and in the few locations where it is possible legally, there are social and cultural impediments to change.
The campaign was marked by violent demonstrations led by radical Muslims and a trial for alleged blasphemy. "Trust me, power comes from God and it too can be taken by God. Don't be sad", he told supporters.
Three churches have been banned for religious activities and another one was attacked in the last month. Banners against Christian candidate Basuki Tjahaja "Ahok" were rife all over Jakarta.
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, led the race with 43% of the votes. He is the first Christian who governs the city and is currently under trial for blasphemy charges.
Outside the heavily guarded court, those opposing Ahok chanted, "Jail Ahok, jail Ahok, jail Ahok now". Muslim clerics refer to the Christian politician as a "son of Satan".
Indonesia, the country with most Muslims in the world, sees the worrying rise of radical Islam. Christians fear demonstrations and new attacks on churches.
Another concern is the governmental regulation of religious groups to stifle the freedom to worship. The report also takes aim at the genocide against Christians carried out by Daesh and Boko Haram.
He posted a message on social media about the light of Jesus overcoming the "lie" of Islam and its prophet.
Nepal, Bhutan, and Myanmar have also enacted similar laws, with Nepal going so far as to include them in the recently adopted constitution.
"If you want to get rid of your neighbor, you find a way to accuse them of blasphemy, using an ordinary insult as evidence", a lawyer says.
Two church buildings burnt in the state of Niger. Rioters killed the believer "on allegation of posting a blasphemous statement about Prophet Muhammad on the social media." Troops try to control outbreak of violence.
Bishoy Garas was jailed in September 2012 for offensive Facebook posts found on a fake page opened in his name.
Opinions expressed are those of their respective contributors and do not necessarily represent the views of Evangelical Focus.


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Welcome kind readers to a grand new tale of high adventure and gruesome horror in the latest thrilling installment of "Terrifying TRUE Tales of the West"!
These events begin early in the spring aboard the Skyline Steamer; a Denver-Pacific passenger train trekking West over Rockies. Among the small throng of passengers sat our unlikely heroes. Raul Blackthorne, a weary veteran sat in the diner car. Doctor Etienne Vendredi, a co-traveler of Raul's for more than a few journeys loomed in the corner of the car, pulled a scarf over his scarred face.
It wasn't long before Raul was dragged into a card game and quickly began losing more money than he expected –and fast. Fortunately, a new player sat down – a young greenhorn full o' vinegar named Tanya, who faired a slight bit better at the table then old Raul.
While Etiene chuckled from his corner at the misfortune of his friend at the card table, a well dressed woman entered the dining car and immediately began gawping at his disfigurement – a hook in the place of a hand. Etienne grumbled at her rudeness, but also noted that despite the bourgeouse appearance of the young woman-a Miss Ernestine Smith –stains of grease and ghostrock on her fingers implied that she had some interesting hobbies. Fortunately for all embarrassed parties, Roscoe, Raul's faithful black mutt, bounded into the center of the dining car looking for affection or a meal.
Back in the passenger car, Tobias – a frayed and bleary eyed farmboy – was rudely roused from his sleep by a hellish young child. The farmboy's fixed the imp a fearsome glare of righteous anger and frightened the little hellion out of his continence. Satisfied, Tobias wandered back to the dining car.
Tala, A taciturn Comanche in native dress had entered as well; looking as rail thin and half dead-with a face etched by years of hard travel and eyes staring at something that wasn't quite there.
The gathering crowd of eccentric and well-armed travelers drew in the attention of Denise Merritt - a freelance journalist. She struck up a conversation with Tanya, which turned sour as Ms. Merritt began to doubt the young women's talent and experience. Tanya was left with a warning for caution when traveling in the West.
Unbeknownst to any of the other passengers, Raul receives a dark premonition a moment before disaster struck.
A sudden and explosive crash shook the train and turned the cars onto their side. Tala, following his oath, lept to the aid of Ernestine and Tanya, who had received minor injuries in the wreck. By laying his hands and muttering a chant, their cuts and sprains were removed. Then, with a shocking spryness, Tala climbed through the shattered windowpanes of the dining car to take in the damage.
The engine had disappeared into a chasm that was spanned by a tressel, now only smoke and wreckage remained. Then Tala spotted a gang of armed bandits emerging from the woods and advancing on the overturned railcar.
Tala leapt back down and warned the others of the trouble approaching. Tanya, Tobias, Ettiene, Raul pulled their pistols. Ernestine to the surprise of the her fellow passangers revealed that instead of a hand she wielded a gatling pistol grafted onto her wrist – which had been cleverly hidden in the folds of her sleeves.
There was a firefight! Ettiene and Ernestine dispatched a trio of bandits attempting to enter the rear of their car. Tobias and Tanya took out several more coming through the front. Raul climbed on top of the overturn car, blasting away at thugs in the woods beyond while bullets whizzed past. Tala, meanwhile took to scrounging the food spilled from the larder admist the gunplay.
Raul jumped over to the passenger car. Through the shattered windows he saw 3 more bandits had taken some of the passengers at gunpoint. With a fierce and withering glare, Raul unnerves the bandits enough for Tanya and Tobias to make easy work of 2 of them, leaving the 3rd fleeing for his life. Uttering words of biblical wrath, Tobias strikes the fleeing bandit blind.
Back in the dining car, Etienne and Ernestine had the last bandit nearly overcome. The robber chuckled ruefully, dropped something and fled. Etienne put a final bullet in the villain. Ernestine stepped out to inspect what had been dropped. Etienne, seeing it first and reacting quickly dragged Ernestine back inside the car and underneath a table as the stick of dynamite exploded.
The posse recovered from the blast and began accounting for the other passengers and crew of the train. Tala climbed over the ravine ledge and found the remains of the engineer and fireman. Tobias said prayers for the slain bandits. The passengers were minimally injured, but several crew members were missing – furthermore, so was the baggage car and the caboose.
Tanya had restrained the last remaining bandit, suffering a gutshot and struck blind. Tanya and Raul questioned him, only finding out that he belonged to the Clarkson gang and that the missing baggage car and caboose wasn't part of the plan. Once they were finished questioning him, Tala addressed the injuries of the bandit.
Etienne asked the cook - the only remaining crew, if he had anything that belonged to the porter – one of the missing crewmembers. The cook produced a borrowed deck of cards and Etiene cast his eye to see if he could locate the owner. He had a vision of someone or something moving quickly through the forest. Etienne inspected down the rail of the track, which was on a slight grade downhill from the accident and could spy nothing.
One of the passengers, a well-dressed Yankee was particularly upset about the missing baggage car. She introduced herself as Laura Giles and offered a small reward to the posse if they were to find and recover it. Tobias, without so much regard for her offer began walking down the rail – Ernestine rushed to join him as the sun began to set.
How will the posse survive in the harsh wilderness as darkness begins to fall? Will they discover the fate of the missing train cars, and find out what happened to the rest of the crew? Find out in the next month's Terrifying TRUE Tales of the West!
J.P. Malarky.


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Colouring book comes to life as AR gets creative
Researchers at the Game Technology Center at ETH Zurich are using augmented reality (AR) to enhance creative activities; including a colouring book that brings the characters to life when viewed on a smartphone or tablet. Matthew Stock reports.
Colouring in is often a child's first opportunity for creative expression. But with all the distractions from digital devices, how do you keep kids interested? By bringing their creations to life in front of their very eyes. UPSOT SOUNDBITE (English) DR. FABIO ZÜND, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF GAME TECHNOLOGY CENTER, SAYING: "You can just colour any any figure you like in a traditional way with colour. But then looking at our app this figure comes to life and the colour is transferred to the 3D model in real time." Augmented reality, or AR, mixes the real and digital worlds. A collaboration between ETH Zurich and Disney Research has developed a number of AR prototypes. Using these character cards, a child can experiment with sound - building and manipulating a virtual band. UPSOT And this app is designed to make art galleries more fun, letting kids tweak and manipulate the artworks. At the moment they're just research prototypes, with no current plans to release commercially. But the team believes AR's potential is growing rapidly. SOUNDBITE (English) BOB SUMNER, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR AT ETH ZURICH, SAYING: "We're using augmented reality to enhance creative activities; that fits into our wider research mission which is really about exploring game technology as a means to understand human behaviour... I really believe in the wider scope, augmented reality is going to touch nearly every business worldwide." AR caught the public's attention with the release last year of the smash hit game Pokemon Go. More recently, Facebook chief Mark Zukerberg has said the social networking hub is the obvious place for businesses to experiment with the format.


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The Directors at Prosaw are pleased to be able to be a support Steve Bird's season in the Kia National Championships of Motorcycle Trials. We hope that their financial support will assist him in have has a fantastic and successful campaign in 2018.
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What do Lola Greene, Sharon Sonnenschein, and Annette Weiss have in common? On March 26, these volunteers kicked off the Memory Book Project in Co-Op City, along with Project Manager Gail Gumora and Director of Engage Rabbi Brian Fink. This effort, which is designed to help seniors narrate the stories of their lives, promises to be an exciting ongoing project, creating memory books and recordings for all participants.
Given a few operational glitches (getting lost in the maze of Co-Op City and trying to quietly conduct interviews, surrounded on one side by an exercise class and the other side by a poker game with the clickety-clack of casino chips), we quickly revised our plan of conducting individual interviews and switched to a "group" format instead. Although not as in-depth as we would have liked for this first outing, we were able to talk with about a dozen seniors who were more than happy to share their memories in about an hour. Those who shared their stories included:
- MARGARITA AND JULIO ESQUILIN, who have been married for 55 years and love each other even more now than when they first met.
- LILY ROSADO, who still thinks that "life is an adventure and every day of my life I learn something."
- VIVIAN MELENDEZ, whose advice to younger generations is "get an education, work hard, and the benefits will show themselves."
- CARROLL BROWN, who proudly wore his army cap and told of receiving 17 medals for his service during the Korean War.
- NORA SINGER, the descendant of Crypto-Jews from Seville, Spain, who fled to Puerto Rico and came to the US at age 24. Working for a millinery shop modeling hats, she met her husband, a Romanian Jew, and became orthodox to honor her mother-in-law, "my role model, who taught me everything I know about Judaism."
If you would like to be part of this on-going project, or can suggest an organization that would like to participate, please contact Rabbi Brian Fink at 646.505.4408 or email@example.com.