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A thunder storm rocked Oahu last night and knocked the power out across the island around 7 p.m. But just before the outage occurred, I set my Flip Mino on our lanai and aimed it north into the night's sky. I was able to capture some of the amazing lightning show that entertained us before we sat around in the dark. I've condensed it down to a minute and half. Check it out!
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Check into your hotel with the rest of the day free to explore France's vibrant capital city. Tonight, meet your Tour Director and fellow travelers.
Paris is a world-class city with more familiar landmarks than perhaps any other city in the world. During your included sightseeing tour with a Local Guide, view the famous sights. Later, feel like a French aristocrat on an optional walking tour through the expansive Palace of Versailles. This evening, join us for an optional welcome dinner.
Depart from the "City of Light" and travel towards the unique beauty of Mont St. Michel. This 8th-century abbey is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that creates an inspiring scene as it stands sentry on a small island just a kilometer off the French coast. Later, drive along the shoreline on your way to the fortified seaside resort of St. Malo for a walking tour.
Travel towards Carnac, known for its STANDING STONES erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany—one of the most extensive Neolithic collections in the world. Visit one of the sites with a Local Guide and learn about the mystery of the Carnac stones. Then, head for Nantes, located on the Loire River. Visit the CASTLE of the Dukes of Brittany, and the CATHEDRAL of St. Peter and St. Paul, which took 457 years to complete and features a unique external pulpit.
Two coastal towns are on the agenda today. First, stop at picturesque La Rochelle. Situated off the Atlantic Coast in the Bay of Biscay, it is known as La Ville Blanche (the White City) due to its luminous limestone facades that reflect the bright sunlight. Next up: historic Rochefort with its naval beginnings that date back to Louis XIV. Continue to Bordeaux.
Built on the banks of the Garonne River, Bordeaux is a flourishing port town known as the "Pearl of Aquitaine." A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is home to 362 historic monuments, some dating back to Roman times. Join your Local Guide for a walking tour featuring all the important highlights, including Esplanade des Quinconces, one of the largest squares in Europe. The afternoon is at leisure or you may join an optional excursion.
Drive to Arcachon today to see the amazing DUNE OF PILAT the highest sand dune on the continent. Then, sit back and enjoy a scenic drive through the Landes of Gascony, the largest maritime-pine forest in Europe. Later, arrive in Biarritz, and ancient fishing village turned trendy seaside resort. Spend the night in Bayonne.
Leave France and cross into Spain's Basque Country. Visit San Sebastian, one of just two designated European Capitals of Culture in 2016 and a foodie hotspot! On to Bilbao, where you'll discover a colorful tapestry of architecture, history, natural beauty, and tantalizing cuisine. Enjoy free time for leisure activities—maybe a visit to the world-famous Guggenheim Museum, considered one of the 20th century's great architectural masterpieces. Later, head to the port city of Santander, a renowned tourist destination for Spanish elite in the 19th century.
Enjoy a whole day at leisure to do as you please! Maybe enjoy a relaxing day on the beach or discover the local bodegas serving the typical pinchos.
Heading inland, stop in Burgos, former capital of the unified Kingdom of Castile-León for five centuries. Visit the magnificent limestone CATHEDRAL of Santa Maria, dating back to the 13th century. Continue on to Salamanca. Be sure to spend some time wandering around the Spanish-baroque Plaza Mayor, the heart of the city and widely regarded as one of the most beautiful squares in Spain.
Journey to pretty Segovia, set on a rocky hill. Visit its landmarks, awe-inspiring Roman AQUEDUCT, and gothic CATHEDRAL before heading to Madrid.
Not only is Madrid capital of Spain, but because it is situated 2,180 feet above sea level, the Spanish rightly say it is the nearest thing to Heaven. This morning, enjoy the city's main highlights on the included guided sightseeing tour. Consider also joining an optional excursion to one of the many important sights surrounding Madrid.
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New Zealand's champion harness racing driver Blair Orange is one of the horsepeople being interviewed by police after raids around New Zealand into alleged race-fixing.
Orange broke the New Zealand record for wins by a reinsman in a season when he won the national premiership with 232 winners for the season, breaking Dexter Dunn's premiership rein.
• Harness racing race-fixing, corruption probe prompts police raids
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At a press conference this afternoon, police said charges and arrests are expected to be made later today after an on-going investigation into race-fixing involving a number of stables.
Police Detective Superintendent Tim Anderson said police have been working with the Racing Integrity Unit since April last year.
Anderson said police executed search warrants in Christchurch, Manawatu and Invercargill and more would be carried out later this week.
Several people will be appearing in court this week, he said.
Police are believed to have gone to the property of Orange's boss, Ken Barron, in Canterbury this morning as part of raids at several stables in Canterbury and Southland, while at least one person, including one who is not a horse trainer, has been questioned in Manawatu.
Orange is believed to be speaking to police.
It is unlikely Orange has been involved in any betting on races himself as such activity is easily traceable but the police investigation, codenamed Operation Inca, would be into whether he participated in any driving in races where results were affected by collusion between himself and other reinspeople. Or whether he profited in any way from other people betting on race in which he was involved.
Races are usually overseen by stewards, who work for the Racing Integrity Unit, which also has its own investigators. The police investigation is said to have been sparked by information supplied by the RIU.
Several of the horsepeople questioned have had their phones and computers seized, which could be so police can investigate betting records, although these are also held by betting agencies such as the TAB and easily obtainable by police.
Christchurch racehorse owner and punter Graham Beirne is also among those whose homes have been raided in the investigation.
"I'm a suspect, put it that way," Beirne told Stuff from Bali, where he is on holiday.
"The police have been to our place this morning but I'm not there. All I have to say is one word: nonsense.
"I don't know where it's coming from. If they are talking race fixing, it's nonsense, " he told Stuff.
Ongoing investigation
Anderson appealed for anyone with information about the race fixing to come forward: "If they have suspicions someone is race fixing or match fixing ..."
The detective said he could not go into any specific details about the allegations due to the investigation being ongoing.
"With any serious crime investigation, which this is, the termination stage is just one stage ... there is still a prosecution stage to go so I would say we are about two-thirds [through].
"We treat race fixing as a very serious offence which is why our police organised crime group has been involved."
Police would be speaking to "a lot of people" and a number of arrests were expected over the coming week.
He said he couldn't speculate on whether the race fixing was more widespread. "In this case we had a certain number of individuals."
Police also wanted to send a strong message that race fixing or fixing the results in any sport would not be tolerated.
Police also visited champion trainer Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen's All Stars Harness Racing stables at Rolleston just outside Christchurch this morning.
Purdon was not extensively questioned or arrested and is not believed to be a suspect in any of the race-fixing allegations.
Purdon told the Herald that he had not been questioned by police.
"They [police] had a look around here but they weren't that interested in me."
Purdon said he had no issue with them looking over his property.
He was unaware that a major investigation had been under way.
Police officers left the property shortly after midday.
"They drove to their main aim, but I'm quite confident … well, they seemed quite happy when they left. I'm quite confident there's nothing there that I need to worry about," Purdon said.
Rasmussen was still being spoken to by police this afternoon, Purdon said.
But he added: "As far as race fixing goes I know there's nothing involved there, but I'm quite comfortable. But as I say, they weren't that interested in me."
Police also visited a property at Woodend Beach, 25km north of Christchurch, this morning, where a number of trainers operate.
The Herald understands police were seen at a property run by trainers John and Robert Dunn.
When spoken to by the Herald this afternoon, Robert Dunn said he'd just arrived in the city. It was a planned trip, he said, and "I just happened to hear things had happened earlier this morning".
While police are still questioning a number of harness racing licence holders it is also suspected non-licence holders are being questioned, almost certainly in relation to betting activities.
While police also searched properties for performance-enhancing drugs, that are often legal but banned in racing, that is not believed to be the main or even major part of today's raids.
Police confirmed that officers had today conducted search warrants at eight properties in Christchurch, one in Invercargill and another in Manawatu.
Several people were now speaking to police.
"Today's warrants were the result of a long-running investigation by the National Organised Crime Group into alleged corruption within the harness racing industry," Anderson said.
He said the investigation began with information supplied by the Racing Integrity Unit.
"Police have been working in partnership with the RIU and other relevant organisations throughout the investigation."
The investigation was ongoing and police expected to provide further details in the coming days, Anderson said.
New Zealand Racing Board chairwoman Glenda Hughes said allegations of race fixing were disappointing but showed "the racing integrity system is working".
"The actions taken today resulted from information received by the Racing Integrity Unit [RIU], an independent body charged with maintaining integrity in the sport," she said.
"That information initiated a co-ordinated and careful investigation between NZ Police and the RIU.
"The value of having an independent integrity body focused on investigating and prosecuting any alleged impropriety is reinforced in this action."
Racing Board chief executive John Allen said: "Those involved in the industry and the Kiwi punters who support it must have confidence in the integrity of the sport.
"I am confident that our integrity systems work and that where alleged breaches of our rules and of criminal law are identified, they are investigated and prosecuted appropriately."


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Global cyber security and risk mitigation expert NCC Group has opened its first dedicated automotive cyber security assessment, research and training facility, as part of its ongoing commitment to raising security standards across the industry.
The new facility in Greater Manchester provides the company's specialist automotive team with a dedicated space to carry out its cutting-edge research, perform training and complete practical security assessments on client vehicles.
Current security concerns in the automotive sector range from vulnerabilities in telematics and infotainment systems, to V2X technologies and autonomous sensors. The facility will ensure NCC Group's automotive specialists remain at the forefront when it comes to the latest vulnerabilities and advanced threats in this area.
The facility is owned and operated by NCC Group's Transport Assurance Practice, which performs research-driven security testing and provides expert advice and guidance on cyber security resilience across the automotive, maritime, aerospace and rail sectors. The Practice also provides security assurance and escrow services to vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers.
Andy Davis, Transport Assurance Practice Director at NCC Group, said: "Consumer demand for the newest functionality often results in manufacturers developing new features without proper consideration for the potential security implications. Furthermore, where vehicles are constructed using a variety of components from different manufacturers, the number of vulnerabilities grows significantly.
"With the rising popularity of connected cars and the growing trend for automation in the automotive sector, cyber security is an increasing concern. It's important that the issue of cyber resilience is addressed if we are to detect and defend against evolving threats and that is our specialist automotive team's primary focus. The new facility means that we can continue to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to identifying and helping to mitigate automotive vulnerabilities."


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Police release video of Gurdwara shooting incident
"He (Page) was on a mission and he had to be stopped," Oak Creek police officer, Sam Lenda, who shot at Page told reporters at a news conference in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, after the police released the portions of the video of officers responding to the August 5 shooting.
Police Lt Brian Murphy, a 21-year officer, who had stopped to tend to a victim outside the temple, is also seen being ambushed by Page in the video as there was exchange of fire between the two.
Murphy who was injured during the incident is now recovering.
"There's no question in my mind that Lt Murphy prevented the gunman from taking more lives," Lenda said. Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards told reporters that Murphy was hit by 15 bullets, not nine as reported earlier.
Twelve bullets struck Murphy, and three bullets struck his bulletproof vest, Edwards said.
At a joint news conference with the police, Oak Creek Mayor, Steve Scaffidi, praised the police officers and said that they handled themselves in a professional and heroic manner. The police is yet to determine the motive of Page for the shooting, who died of self-inflicted injuries.
The 40-year-old Page, an ex-army veteran, went on a shooting spree killing six Sikhs on August 5 at the Gurdwara, before dying of a self-inflicted gun shot wound.


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This lovely home in Cottages of Camp Creek will surely help you find your own state of Nirvana! This Scenic 30A vacation home features traditional décor, hardwood floors, veranda style balconies, and plenty of room to relax and unwind.
Nirvana is host to two floors of living accommodations, spanning 2,364 square feet. With five bedrooms and three bathrooms, this vacation home has accommodations for up to 10.
The first floor of Nirvana features the en-suite master bedroom with double vanities and whirlpool bathtub and access to a private balcony with lounge chairs. A truly quiet escape after a long day at the beach. You will also find the second and third bedroom that share a bathroom.
On the second floor of Nirvana, discover the remaining two bedrooms, fully-equipped kitchen, living room, dining room, and access to an open-air veranda. The living room, dining room, and kitchen are seamlessly tied together through an open floor plan. The kitchen offers stainless steel appliances and a large island with seating for three.
The balcony is accessed from the living room and offers partial views of the gulf! It is the perfect spot to enjoy a meal waterfront with a dining table with seating for six.
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According to the a press release posted by the walkout organisers on Medium, more than 20,000 Google employees and contractors in Google offices located in 50 cities worldwide walked out for real change on 1 November at 11.10am.
For immediate release: 20,000 Google employees and contractors participated in "global walkout for real change" in 50 cities worldwide on November 1, 2018. https://t.co/cOGmohJaEw #GoogleWalkout
— Google Walkout For Real Change (@GoogleWalkout) November 2, 2018
Additional offices across Europe (including Paris, Madrid, and Munich) have also walked out to demand real change.
Yesterday, Google offices around the world staged a series of walkouts to "protest sexual harassment, misconduct, lack of transparency, and a workplace that doesn't work for everyone".
According to the Twitter account @GoogleWalkout nearly 17,000 employees from 40 global offices participated in the Google walkout.
We crunched the data (because that's what Googlers do). Nearly 17,000 employees from 40 global offices participated in #GoogleWalkout, and we haven't finished counting all the offices yet… pic.twitter.com/xCOnQakH0A
— Google Walkout For Real Change (@GoogleWalkout) November 2, 2018
Employees participated in the walkout on 1 November at 11.10am, to demand for five real changes:
- An end to forced arbitration in cases of harassment and discrimination.
- A commitment to end pay and opportunity inequality.
- A publicly disclosed sexual harassment transparency report.
- A clear, uniform, globally inclusive process for reporting sexual misconduct safely and anonymously.
- To elevate the chief diversity officer to answer directly to the CEO and make recommendations directly to the board of directors. In addition, appointing an employee representative to the board.
We, Google employees and contractors, will walkout on November 1 at 11:10am to demand these five real changes. #googlewalkout pic.twitter.com/amgTxK3IYw
— Google Walkout For Real Change (@GoogleWalkout) November 1, 2018
From the Twitter feed, Human Resources understands that in the United States Googlers in the HQ at Mountain View, California, as well as various cities across the country (New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Cambridge, Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, and more) participated in the walkout.
Employees walking out in Toronto, Montreal, London, Zurich, São Paulo, Dublin, and Sydney were also featured on the twitter feed @GoogleWalkout.
Closer to home, the BBC reported that the first walkout happened at Google's Singapore office.
Employers and contractors were instructed to leave a flyer at their desk stating the reason for the walkout.
Google employees and contractors will be leaving these flyers at their desks tomorrow. #googlewalkout pic.twitter.com/rqFbXzavZQ
— Google Walkout For Real Change (@GoogleWalkout) November 1, 2018
When Human Resources reached out to Google Singapore for an official statement on the walkout, we were directed to a video featuring CEO Sundar Pichai's comments at the New York Times' DealBook event yesterday.
The transcript of Pichai's comments are as follows.
Obviously it's been a difficult time. This anger and frustration within the company, we all feel it. I feel it too. At Google we set a very, very high bar and we clearly didn't live up to our expectations. And which is why we felt it was important to express our support for the employees today. And the first step you take in these things is to acknowledge and apologize for past actions, for the pain they caused. We sincerely did that to the company.
Secondly, words alone aren't enough and you have to follow up with actions. And to be very clear, these incidents are from a few years ago and we have evolved as a company. As CEO, it's been very important to me, personally meaningful to me, that we draw a hard line on inappropriate behavior and we have done so for the past few years and the last couple of years, as you mentioned.
We have taken hard action, 48 people terminated, 13 senior managers, none of them involved any pay package of any sort. But moments like this show that we didn't always get it right and so we are committed to doing better. We are listening to employees, that's partly why today is important and I think there are concrete steps coming out in terms of what we can do better. I want to acknowledge the women who step up and do this. I think it shows extraordinary courage. And we want to figure out how to support them better and it's a process and I'm committed to doing better. And I want to make sure Google sets the bar for something like this.
What led to the walkout?
The walkout follows a report by the New York Times alleging that Andy Rubin – known as the "creator" of the Android mobile operating system – received a US$90 million (approximately S$123 million) payout after he left the firm, despite what Google considered a "credible" allegation of sexual misconduct. Rubin denies the accusation.
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Remember when you first learned how to write paragraphs? For me I think it was seventh grade, and the approach we were given was to craft five sentence long paragraphs: the first sentence set out the topic (or thesis); the next three sentences gave further detail supporting the thesis; and the last sentence summarized the content of the paragraph.
By the end of seventh grade, we were starting to write essays. An essay consisted of five paragraphs: the introduction, three supporting paragraphs, and the conclusion. Each of those paragraphs were themselves five sentences long, following the same structure.
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Knibbe Automotive (pronounced kh-nib-ee) is a Calgary-based, family-run business established by John Knibbe and his immediate family. It has expanded to include John's "extended family": the amazing staff at both locations.
Knibbe Automotive's first location opened in 2004 with a total of four staff (including John, his wife, his son, and one automotive technician). Many customers had already known John from his many years at Honda where he was one of Canada's top salesman for over 10 years. Many more customers came to appreciate John's professional and honest approach to cars, helping Knibbe Automotive expand from a staff of four to almost 20 employees.
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In year 7 students have 3 lessons of Spanish per week. Year 7 Spanish starts by revisiting some of the basic details that students may have covered at primary school, which also acts as an important foundation for those who have not studied Spanish before. The course moves on to look at school life, family life, the home, free time and life in town. Most students are expected to achieve National Curriculum Level 3-4 by the end of the year. As the course covers the immediate future tense and briefly looks at the past tense, some students may be able to produce work that is level 5-6 standard. In the final term, students also start French in preparation for studying the language in year 8.
Autumn Half-Term 1
Units 1 ¡Vamos! & 2 En el instituto
Students study basic details, such as introductions, numbers and the alphabet. They then move onto looking at school life.
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A unit based on family life, physical description, character eyes and hair.
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This unit focuses on where students live; describing their home and the activities they do there.
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Students learn to discuss free time activities, what sports they do and what they are going to do. Students also learn to tell the time.
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Unit 6 – En la ciudad
This unit focuses on what the local area is like, how to discuss the weather and use a variety of tenses (present and future).
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End of year assessment and Introduction to French
Students spend the final half term preparing for the end of year assessment in Spanish as well as studying basic details in French to prepare them for year 8.


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I'll be honest, pasta was one of the hardest things for me to give up......until zucchini.
So, today I decided to try my favorite summertime treat -- Keto style! I have to say - it was instant pleasure!
Keto Italian Pastaless Salad
1 Zucchini spiralized and cut so that the spirals are more like elbow pasta
40 grams of pepperoni cut in triangles
100 grams of mozzarella chopped in small cubes
1 tomato chopped into small cubes
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In Conversation With Fashion Blogger Liv BlanksonBy Style Counsel / July 21, 2017 / Blog / 0 Comments
We sat down and interviewed the lovely fashion blogger Liv Blankson. We talked all things pink puffas, what to bring to a desert island as well as where she likes to shop!
How would you describe your own personal style?
I would describe my style as clean, sleek and diverse.
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Puffas and Pink!!! Maybe even a pink puffa? — River Island, I'm looking at you.
Who is your style Icon?
I wouldn't say I have a particular icon, I'm just forever inspired by the things and people around me, both physically and digitally.
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I'm hoping it will be the return of white, as I have to admit, it's my favorite 'colour' although it's probably the least practical! I'm also excited for layers this season however, I'm not of the heavy knitted kind!
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Some peculiarities of the technological and production implementation of space-rocket complex for machine-building development
|1Gorbulin, VP, 2Shevtsov, AI, 3Shekhovtsov, VS
1National Institute for Strategic Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2Regional Branch of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
3Yangel Yuzhnoye State Design Office, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
|Kosm. nauka tehnol. 2013, 19 ;(4):03–07
|Publication Language: Ukrainian
One of important directions of activity of ракетнокосмічної industry there is application of her technological and productive base in interests of development of machine-building complex of country. Thus a spectrum of possible directions of such application potentially is wide enough - from the use of own developments of space-rocket industry (of space vehicles of the different having a special purpose setting to the use of present project, technological and productive base for creation of civil high-quality products of machine-building profile and development of new technologies, materials, equipment, pilot options and technical systems. The aim of the article is consideration of modern наробок in this sphere, determination of problem questions and directions their decision.
|Keywords: technological and production base of space-rocket complex


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Soft Power, Hard Power
I've long been taken aback by the readiness of some leading left intellectuals to downplay the role of state violence in the enforcement of social hierarchy and class rule inside the United States. Perhaps you know the argument: thanks to the relative strength of the free speech tradition, outwardly democratic politics, and the related heroic struggles of activists from the abolitionists of the 19th century through the trade union and Civil Rights militants of the last century, the American power elite relies less on force than on "the manufacture of consent" to keep to the citizenry down. It's called "taking the risk out of democracy" through the "soft power" of propaganda, spectacle, messaging, diversion and illusion: thought control. It comes with a great and brilliant irony: free speech, "democracy" – insofar as it can meaningfully exist under capitalism (which is not very far) – and civil liberties are mixed blessings in hierarchical and imperial societies like the United States because they incentivize those who hold wealth and power to invest heavily in the sinister manipulation of popular hearts and minds. And where else have the art and science of mass consent-manufacture been more advanced than in the nation that first and most powerfully developed modern advertising to advance monopoly capitalist mass consumerism – the United States?
I've made the argument myself, with the requisite footnotes to Alex Carey and to Noam Chomsky, who has made it a central part of his intellectual legacy. I've tended to advance the Carey-Chomsky thesis with two key qualifications, however. The first is an insistence that the vast entertainment component of the mass media – almost completely ignored in Chomsky's voluminous writings and interviews – is every bit as central, if note more pivotal, to the "manufacturing consent" process as the news and public affairs content Chomsky has always emphasized.
The second is the observation that state violence continues to hold a central place in the enforcement of "homeland" inequality and oppression combined with a nagging suspicion that the soft power functions to soften the population up for hard force when push comes to shove.
Destroying Occupy
Take the dismantlement of Occupy Wall Street in the fall and winter of 2011. We know that the multiple metropolitan repressions and evictions of the Occupy movement across the country were coordinated with assistance and advice from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. In coordinating this suppression, federal agencies including the U.S. Naval Intelligence Service worked with the Federal Reserve and numerous private banks and businesses including the "corporate security business" to function as what the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund called "a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and corporate America."
"It has become increasingly clear," the liberal economist Jeffrey Madrick wrote in the spring of 2013, "that Occupy Wall Street…was undone by a concerted government effort to undo it…the coordinated and disproportionate actions of the NYPD, the FBI, and Homeland Security represent a campaign of suppression without which Occupy might well have evolved into something more formidable, even in the cold of New York City's winter."
The state violence was quite pronounced in some cases. In Oakland, California, a chilling police state attack was described by a downtown security guard who witnessed a massive, Nazi-like police rush on 100 or so hundred peaceful Occupiers on October 25th, 2011:
"It was terrifying to see …. There were helicopters flying about and with high beams on the camps…the beams were moving across every which way…there were young people in these camps and children, infants in a lot of the tents and this was just….they shot…tear gas into the middle of the camp, and at the time…the police…moved in and the first thing they hit was the information tent, and they just started just tearing everything down… this was a military type operation, the way they moved in. It harkened back to old footage I had seen of Nazi Germany where you know you had the Nazis, the SS going in and picking up innocent people. It had that tenor. …the helicopters, and the lights, and the loud speaker, all those were all intended to create panic and terror for the people inside…. They had these vehicles that looked like armored boxes, black…the thing that stays in my mind's eye is in the middle ground with the lights from the helicopters, the police moving in and just stomping on these tents, and moving in one layer, after another, moving in deeper and deeper."
Oakland's exercise in militarized policing (ordered by a "liberal" Democratic mayor) put a U.S. military veteran (Scott Olson) in intensive care with a fractured skull and inflicted numerous other injuries.
Then came the tear-down of the original Occupy Wall Street camp in lower Manhattan's Zucotti Park. Under the cover of martial law and a media near-blackout, the glorious camp that had attracted national and global attention (I spent hours taking in its remarkable spirit one early October day) was trashed, storm-trooper style. Activists were tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, baton-whipped, and hauled away.
The repression in New York City continued into the following year, reflecting authorities' determination that no such populist uprising would raise its head again in the nation's leading metropolis. The NYPD declared lower Manhattan a "special security zone" to justify driving Occupiers off whenever they tried to establish new protest sites. At one point, then original OWS sparkplug David Graeber and his fellow activists were contained by two large steel cages and watched over by an NYPD SWAT team as they gathered on the marble steps of the Federal Hall, where the Bill of Rights (including the First Amendment guarantee of Free Speech) was signed.
In the fall of 2012, Chris Hedges reported that 25 military veterans were detained at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza in New York City. "We don't want to arrest you," police said to the veterans, "but the Occupy movement messed it up for you because we can't allow another one." There was "a decision by the security and surveillance state," Hedges told the Real News Network, "to essentially seize all public space, to make any kind of protest within public space impossible."
"Whatever the internal faults of the Occupy movement," Hedges noted, "the Occupy movement was destroyed. The state was quite rattled by the Occupy movement and is determined not to allow a movement, a mass movement like that to rise up again."
Not-So Non-Lethal
The nation's ever more militarized police departments are loaded up with an array of so-called "nonlethal crowd-control technologies" designed to abolish the right of public assembly. The terrible tools include things like the "Long Range Acoustic Device" (LRAD) – a sonic cannon that can cause total hearing loss for protesters who refuse to disperse at authorities' command. Drones are now routinely deployed against protestors inside the U.S. (Along with dozens of other opponents of the eco-cidal Dakota Access Pipeline [DAPL] in Iowa, I have now been drone-surveilled at close range).
It is true that protestors are not murdered in U.S streets by government gendarmes. At the same time, the proscriptions against sheer mass and bloody repression here have incentivized American authorities to develop more subtle, technically sophisticated forms of state coercion that prevent or discourage citizens from assembling and protesting .The legal and cultural ban on outwardly murderous rule in the nominally free and democratic U.S. has compelled elites and their servants to develop new, less provocative ways to "incapacitate" angry and active citizens – more quietly sinister methods of repression that are deadly for democracy: penned-off "free speech zones" and "frozen zones" (where protestors are denied access to those they seek to influence), "rubber bullets" that hurt and harm but do not generally kill, "concussion grenades" that disorient and confuse without generally shattering skulls, tear gas and pepper spray that sends protestors running, Tasers that stun but do not generally kill, sonic canons and other acoustic devices that make your eardrums feel like they are splitting, and perhaps – someday soon to be deployed in freedom's "homeland" – Raytheon's perfectly named "Silent Guardian," which noiselessly seems to cook human skin and eyeballs and has the capacity "to inflict limitless, unbearable pain." It's all quite lethal – to democracy and free speech.
LRADS were on quiet display – along with much more chilling to behold – during the mass protests staged against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit that occurred in Chicago in the spring of 2012. From Friday May 18th through Monday, May 21st, 2012, the downtown and South Loop of Chicago were placed under proto-totalitarian multi-dimensional para-militarized police-state occupation. Heavily armed, high-tech federal, state, county, city and private security forces from across the nation were omnipresent and ubiquitous in the gleaming center of "global Chicago." At almost every step in and around the city's downtown and South Loop, I beheld black-clad, baton-wielding and vest-wearing agents of repression, high-speed police vans and cars speeding around corners and occasionally into crowds – an intimidating, vast "security" presence that seemed more than vaguely dystopian. Except for many thousands of militarized police, the Loop was nearly a ghost town by the Friday preceding the main protests. City, federal, state, and media helicopters hovered above the central business, hotel and restaurant district and swept the lakefront, monitoring real and potential protest. Police cars and vans swept around corners with sirens blaring to descend on real or imagined dissenters. Everywhere you looked, it seemed, men in paramilitary black were getting out of shiny white vans and black SUVs.
From Ferguson to Standing Rock
Flash forward to Ferguson, Missouri just more than two years later, when the police killing of the black teenager Mike Brown sparked mass Black and civil rights protests. In response to legitimate Black anger and protest over yet another fatal shooting of a young black man by a white police officer in the U.S., predominantly white police from Ferguson, other jurisdictions, and (above all) St. Louis County went into paramilitary and anti-insurgent mode – reminding some observers of Israel's repressive tactics in Gaza and the West Bank. The police donned helmets, shields, flak vests, gas masks, and shields, using armored vehicles as they dispersed crowds with tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRADs. SWAT team members brandished high-powered assault rifles, aiming their deadly military-issue weapons at unarmed fellow civilians. Much the same basic scene – with large-scale deployments of militarized police in response to mass protests following police killings of Black men – has since been re-enacted in Baltimore, Milwaukee, Baton Rouge, and Charlotte.
The current leading hot-spot for militarized police-state repression is southeastern North Dakota, where militarized local, county, and state police and National Guard units have attacked Native American water- and climate-protectors and others resisting the eco-cidal Dakota Access Pipeline. As Sarah Lazare reported on AlterNet last October, "Military-style checkpoints. Low-flying surveillance planes. Invasive strip searches. These are just some of the repression tactics that have targeted the thousands of Indigenous people and supporters who, heeding the call of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, mobilized to North Dakota to stop the…DAPL." Advanced military technologies have been on display and deployed throughout the ongoing repression: automatic rifles, MRAPs (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles), Humvees, armored police trucks, tear gas, mace, pepper spray, flash-bang (concussion) grenades, smoke grenades, Tasers, bean bag rounds, rubber bullets, and more. The Native American journalist Brenda Norrell and other writers at Censored News have reported that Morton County (North Dakota) police criminally tortured Native American activists, placing hoods over the heads of arrestees, and forcing at least one young woman to remain naked in jail cell for an entire night.
The National Guard and police from multiple jurisdictions in North Dakota and from other states, including Minnesota, were sent in to assist the Morton County Sheriff's Department in quelling the protests beginning last August. In September, the North Dakota Governor's Emergency Commission borrowed $6 million from the state-owned Bank of North Dakota to cover the costs of repression, including the compensation of out-of-state gendarmes.
The Standing Rock protests have become something of a regional cop magnet. As David Lindorff recently noted on CounterPunch, "many of the 'law enforcement' thugs attacking the peaceful water protectors are volunteers from neighboring states' police departments – people anxious for a chance to play 'cavalry' in this latest iteration of American's murderous history of Indian Wars."
On Wednesday, November 3, 2016, the day the Chicago Cubs finished off the Cleveland Indians – the team with the offensive racist name (on par with "The New Jersey Negroes") and revolting Red Sambo logo – in the baseball World Series, police dressed like U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan shot, sprayed, and beat real Native Americans fighting to protect safe drinking water, ancestral lands, and livable ecology. You can see film footage of the assaults here. You behold, in the words of filmmaker Josh Fox, "a line of peaceful water protectors in the water, up to their waists, freezing cold." Above them stand police in riot gear, equipped with shotguns. The gendarmes blast the pipeline fighters, journalists, and medics point-blank at close range with streams of mace and pepper spray and rubber bullets. You see a female journalist zapped while she interviews an Indigenous activist. You see a military sniper (certainly with real bullets) perched on a hill above the vicious scene.
The LRAD has been deployed in Standing Rock, compelling savvy water protectors to use military-level earplugs.
The state violence intensified three weeks ago. As Lindorff reported, "National Guard troops and the Morton County Sheriff's Department, bolstered by volunteers from various other police departments conducted an all-night attack using…flash-bang concussion grenades, rubber bullets, mace, teargas and three water cannons — this at a time the temperature on the prairie had fallen to a low of 22 degrees Fahrenheit…The casualties of this one-sided battle against peaceful protesters on a bridge were enormous, with some 300 of the estimated 400 protesting water protectors, both native people and non-native supporters, injured, 26 of them seriously. There was evidence that police were aiming rubber bullets at protesters' heads and groins to inflict maximum pain and damage, with eight of the injured hospitalized, including a 13-year-old girl shot in the face, whose eye was reportedly damaged." Sophia Wolansky, a 21-year-old woman from New York City, had to be evacuated to a Chicago hospital after a sheriff's deputy hit her directly in the arm with a flash-bang grenade, "blowing away the flesh and muscle and reportedly some of the nerves and bone of [her] elbow joint."
"This," Wolansky's father said, was "the wound of someone who's a warrior, who was sent to fight in a war," Wayne said. "It's not supposed to be a war. She's peacefully trying to get people to not destroy the water supply. And they're trying to kill her." Concussion grenades, Lindorff notes, are not supposed to target human beings.
Is this, to use Lindorff's phrase "Wounded Knee III in the making?" We may know by December 5th. That's the day that Barack Obama's Army Corp of Engineers (ACE) has given the Standing Rock pipeline-fighters to leave or face final eviction by police-state force.
Obama has refused to use his power to stop the police-state violence. He told MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell last fall that "We're going to let [the Standing Rock situation] play out for several more weeks."
One day before the deadline, thousands of U.S. military veterans are going to Standing Rock to intercede on behalf of the pipeline fighters and their cause of saving livable ecology. It will be interesting moment – to say the least – in the history of the American military police state.
The Empire Strikes Home
Surprised by all this militarized police-state violence in the "homeland" of your beloved "land of liberty"? We shouldn't be. A report issued by the Army War College in late 2008 informed U.S. authorities that "widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security." The likely sparks for such civil unrest included another major terrorist attack, "unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disaster" (emphasis added). Later reports by Barack Obama's Department of Homeland Security lectured government officials on their duty to identify and monitor military veterans, leftists, right-wingers, sovereign citizens and to classify them all as dangerous "extremists" and "terrorists." (See John Whitehead's excellent recent Counterpunch account and sources here).
Clearly some strategic thinkers in the American "security" state are not content to rely only on Chomskyan-Careyan-Walter Lippmanesque consent-manufacture and/or (Antonio) Gramscian ideological and cultural hegemony to maintain proper control over the populace. Brute force – with its properly lethal/non-lethal updates and permutations – remains very much part of the state-capitalist tool box and not just in the imperial hinterland.
By some reports, the quasi-fascist President Elect Donald Trump is considering imperial General David Patraeus – the former head of U.S Central Command, former commander of U.S. and multinational forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and former CIA Director – to head the Department of Homeland Security. How perfect a statement would that be? The Empire strikes back on its own domestic populace.
Make no mistake: armed force state repression is alive and well in the United States. The Iron Heel lives, updated and refined for the current age. It did not simply pass into the dustbin of history with the Ludlow Massacre, the Palmer Raids, Kent State, COINTELPRO, the murder of Fred Hampton, or Wounded Knee II. It has hardly been rendered obsolete by the soft power of the mass media and other modes of propaganda and thought and feeling control, including carefully staged quadrennial electoral extravaganzas that tell people that democracy consists of getting to mark a ballot for five minutes or less once every four years and then going home to let rich people run the world (into the ground). Millions of non-white Americans, it should be noted, confront armed state power not just when and if they protest but on a routine and daily basis in and around the nation's large number of poor and highly segregated Black and brown ghettoes, barrios, and reservations and in the nation's vast, globally unmatched number of prisons – very disproportionately inhabited by people of color. It is not uncommon for Black Americans to confront SWAT teams breaking down their doors over relatively minor drug and other crimes. (I expressed shock when a defense attorney recently regaled me with a story about a SWAT raid on a Black woman holding her baby in her arms in her own apartment. She was wanted for questioning on a traffic offense. The attorney laughed at my incredulity. "This is routine now" she said.)
And the repression is richly bipartisan. It is enforced by government agencies headed by slick, smooth-talking Democrats like Bill Clinton or Barack "Let it Play Out" Obama as well as by gendarmes under the command of more outwardly thuggish Republicans like George W. Bush and Donald Trump.
The Dispensable Silk Glove?
Free speech and the democratic tradition? How powerful are they really in this era of global corporate media, rampant vote fraud, and corporate political duopoly – in an age of transnational hyper-capitalism where the concentration of national and planetary wealth and power dwarf individual and popular voice on a seemingly dystopian scale? What does free speech really mean in an ever-more union-free nation where one places not only one's job but also one's health care and often one's family's health care at risk by saying anything deemed controversial by one's employer – and where we are always just one more major terrorist attack away from draconian restrictions on even minor dissent? Where public opinion is largely irrelevant to not-so "public" policy that continues year after year to follow in accord with the interests of a Deep State financial and corporate oligarchy that gets what it wants over and against majority sentiments regardless of which party holds nominal sway in the surface-play marionette theater of electoral and parliamentary politics? Where surveillance is ubiquitous, historical memory is nil, and a President Elect can talk in at least semi-seriousness about taking away the citizenship of someone who burns a U.S. flag? Where professors and high school teachers are reasonably frightened to tell elementary truths about class, power, race, and empire, among other topics that must be treaded around carefully if one doesn't want to be reported to right-wing thought-monitors? At a certain point the potency of our vaunted free-speech and democracy traditions can be knocked down so low that the masters feel gloriously free to dispense with them altogether, tilting the balance from hegemony through consent to hegemony though force. An at once softened-up and beaten-down populace no longer garners the silk glove around the iron fist.
Trump: Clown Cover?
Donald Trump, scheduled for Inauguration in less than two months, embodies the tension between soft and hard power alluded to at the beginning of this essay. On one hand, he owes much of the notoriety that allowed him to triumph to his many years as a clownish "reality television" star – the blustering boss of "The Apprentice" and "Celebrity Apprentice." He is a product of the mass entertainment media complex. As was the case with the former grade-B Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan during the late 1960s, the mention of his name as a serious political candidate has long and until quite recently elicited chuckles, eye-rolls, and disdainful amusement in liberal and left circles.
On the other hand, Trump's campaign persona and policy promises have oozed with racist, white-nationalist, sexist, nativist, and eco-cidal violence. He encouraged the beating of Black protestors at his ugly Make America Great [Hate]Again rallies. His racially toxic neo-Nixonian calls for "law and order," a "national stop and frisk law" (his draconian response to Black Lives Matter[BLM]), mass deportations, a giant military build-up, and national greatness (lost but restored) carry more than a vague whiff of repressive, Iron Heel fascism. Will the trivial Trump of Celebrity Apprentice and the New York tabloids prove to have provided juvenile cover for the rise of Herr Trump the remorseless crusher of dissent? Will he warm War College and white supremacist hearts and pad Big Carbon pocketbooks by declaring BLM activists, pipeline-fighters, prison-state opponents, serious trade unionists, and immigrant rights activists "terrorists"? We will find out soon enough.
Veterans are Key: Standing Rock Showdown
"Buy a gun," an Iowa City radical tells me as Herr Trump's installment looms closer: "we know how this movie turns out." Well, shoot, there's nothing wrong with equipping and training oneself reasonably and responsibly for self-defense against right-wing vigilantes these days. That would seem almost like a necessity now in communities of color. But, of course, we the people are not going to take on the militarized American police state with small arms and have the slightest chance of prevailing. Force matters, of course, but to defeat that police-state we will need – among other things – people inside to defect and turn against it, to stand down, to refuse to target citizens even with so-called non-lethal repression tools and methods. And that means difficult moral and political work. Nobody is more equipped to reach out and do that work than the many U.S. military veterans who are now key members of the movements for social justice, peace, equality and sustainability. And that's why the coming remarkable gathering and confrontation in Standing Rock in two days – with two thousand veterans going to serve as human shields for the water-protectors while wearing the uniform of the U.S military – is potentially of great historical significance


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Possible Contenders
Steve Buscemi "Boardwalk Empire"
Michael C. Hall "Dexter"
Hugh Laurie "House"
Kyle Chandler "Friday Night Lights"
Jon Hamm "Mad Men"
Tom Selleck "Blue Bloods"
Bill Paxton "Big Love"
Jeremy Irons "The Borgias"
Gabriel Byrne "In Treatment"
Peter Krause "Parenthood"
William H. Macy "Shameless"
Sean Bean "Game of Thrones"
Timothy Olyphant "Justified"
Ray Romano "Men of a Certain Age"
Denis Leary "Rescue Me"
Joseph Fiennes "Camelot"
Wendell Pierce "Treme"
Patrick Dempsey "Grey's Anatomy"
Andrew Lincoln "The Walking Dead"
Simon Baker "The Mentalist"
Charlie Hunnam "Sons of Anarchy"
This is a tough race, with old timers and newcomers battling it out for only six or seven spots. Jon Hamm, Hugh Laurie, Michael C. Hall, Bill Paxton, Gabriel Byrne, and Kyle Chandler, all are returning to the race, but not all of them will make the cut. Not with the likes of Steve Buscemi and William H. Macy whose showy cable roles will most likely get nods for their new series. Jeremy Irons could also get in with his Oscar-winning status and popular The Borgias. Tom Selleck is no stranger to this category going back to his Magnum, P.I. days, but the competition looks to be a lot stiffer this time around. On a personal note, I would like to plug the great performances of Peter Krause, Timothy Olyphant, and Wendell Pierce, which will most likely be overlooked.


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text: Now that I finally retired my wife and I are planing one of our bucket list rides. We are starting in Newport Oregon at the intersection of 101 and Hwy. 20. There is a highway sign that reads BOSTON 3,365 miles. We leave the last week of May as Hwy. 20 goes through Yellowstone Park and the plan is to ride Hwy. 20 all the way. What I'm looking for is points of interest CLOSE to hwy 20 that does not mean long detours. If you fellow spyderlovers have any suggestions I would greatly appreciate them. This includes Tourist traps, Great Food places and Historical markers. We have ridden to and through Yellowstone 3 times in the last three years but once we get to Greybull WY. and head to Casper it's all new territory. Hwy. 20 goes through Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Albany NY. Before ending at Fenway Park. We will return thru Niagara Falls heading west to Michigan so we can ride ride the tunnel of trees and across the Mackinac Bridge before heading to Door County to visit my 102 year old mother-in-law then down to Chicago again to start on Route 66 all the way to Santa Monica then 101 home. I have been on most of this route in bits and pieces as I have spent nearly 30 years as a traveling construction superintendent but my wife always stayed home and guarded the fort. We are planing on taking 2 1/2 - 3 months as when I was working it was always rush rush to the next site. Now we are planing on taking our sweet time, 200- 250 miles a day, no Iron butt rides this time out. So as I was saying if you have any points of interest, NEAR this route please feel free to pass them on. This trip is kind of sentimental for me as my dad did this on his Harley in 1937-1938 with his friend in a side car.


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We love Intricate Icings. There is no doubt they are one of the best cake boutiques in Colorado. Not only do they create incredible cakes, they also make dessert buffets, cupcakes and cookies. We had the privilege of working with them to plan their open house party in July. Guests enjoyed fabulous appetizers, wine, champagne and endless amounts of outstanding desserts.
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It has been a while since my trip to the CILIP Conference in Brighton, and I believe this is the moment for me to express my experiences about this journey. Firstly, I would like to thank the Information School of the University of Sheffield for providing me this opportunity with a student bursary. It was my great pleasure to attend the CILIP Conference.
This was not my first time attending conference. I was impressed to see so many admirable professionals and their brilliant ideas during the conference. Also, I felt welcome from the first day I arrived in Brighton. There was a city travel event on Tuesday evening before the conference. Even though I was the only student in our group, I made some new friends during the city travel. By the end, we spent a wonderful time enjoying the sunset at the lovely coast. At that moment, I was anticipating the next day's conference.
No doubt, I couldn't be more satisfied with my experience. Having the opportunity to be a member of CILIP during my studies can be considered as an advantage for my further career. This event proved to be very challenging, but it also offered exciting and new opportunities to learn from library and information professionals. Aside from a positive impact on my development, this also has an impact on a rather personal level. This particular conference experience provided me with an advantage in the field of work, as well as the possibility of being able to practice what I have learned from the Information School.
One of the many different perspectives offered during the conference, keynote speaker Helen Dodd from Cancer Reach UK highlighted the strong similarity between GDPR and the information life cycle. She concluded five steps to 'collect, store, use, share, dispose' for organisations to use their information. She announced that the implement of GDPR does not restrict the development of organisations, but is an opportunity for them. As she explained, 'GPPR presents an opportunity to bring us closer to knowing how we use our information, and how we can use it better!' For organisations, tackling GDPR is a first step in reducing risk, which provides a foundation for even more interesting, innovative work. Especially, she mentioned that GDPR activity in terms of core library and knowledge services skills: data processing reviews are information audits. As a data science student, her speech was really inspiring to me in my studies and advised me on how to progress my future career. After her speech, I couldn't help myself but to meet her in person, and showed my gratitude.
Attending the CILIP Conference also provided me the opportunities to expand my social network. I completely understand that the power behind networking is quite a strong element in this conference. It does not just involve getting to know people, but it also allows people to practice personal learning. This conference was also a perfect platform for me to show my communication skills. As one of the student representatives, I got the chance to introduce my programme to people at the Information School exhibition stand. It refreshed what I have learnt from the class and shared my experience to prospective students.
To sum up, it was a wonderful experience for me to enhance my knowledge and skills, and to build my personality for attending the CILIP Conference in the future. Again, thanks to Information School of Sheffield for providing me this opportunity. It was a priceless opportunity in my life.
He Liu
MSc Data Science student


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We have had a slow start as far as Joiners go, we have seen some nice jobs being reported from around the traps. The reports I hear from Christchurch seem to suggest that although quoting is very active the rate of success is not so active!! I guess the reality is that there has been a huge amount of repair and new build going on and so new wooden joinery could face some challenges in the coming years. In Auckland its a mixed bag as again a very active quoting market is not seeing as many acceptances. Some thinking around the shortages of building trade skills meaning that jobs are being delayed and held up could mean we are not going to see a lot of growth??? A common theme I hear is that political uncertainty has help things up. The lack of a clear direction in terms of house pricing has meant speculators are not as sure of where to put their money. All these things mean decisions are slower and when combined with trades being short of people to do the work. its a mixed bag. Some Joiners report 8-10 week order files others heaps, then we hear of others who are holding onto margins saying they are scratching for work.
The shutters on this job done on Great Barrier Island were supplied by The Renall Door & Window Co in Carterton.


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Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin
2012 Academy Award Winner, Best Documentary. The football Tigers of Manassas High School in North Memphis attempt to become the first team in 110 years to win a playoff game in Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin's sports documentary. A stirring, finely crafted human-interest story about underprivileged lives touched by the rewards of shared experience.
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I was having a conversation with some friends recently about the immense diversity of the things we each do on a computer over the course of a day – same computer screen, wildly different mindsets. For example, we typically use a completely different set of mental constructs in order to, on the one hand, play a first-person shooter, and on the other hand, to read our email.
But why, we wondered, should these two worlds be so separate and distinct? Why not read your email the way you play a first person shooter? After all, haven't you ever felt a surge of pent up hostility upon receiving that annoying spam message yet again – the one you thought you had filtered out for good? Wouldn't it be great to have some way to channel those emotions?
In my mind I am imagining my email inbox divided into dungeon levels. On the one hand, there are the relatively gentle levels, where we might encounter most professional and personal emails. And then there are the other levels further down – the ones where we keep all the aggressive spam that we have captured, but have not yet deleted from our hard drive. When you enter these levels, and find yourself face to face with your sworn enemy, it may be best to go out with guns blazing.
What would we call our game? How about "Mailbox Assassin"? Or "Email Nemesis"? Or maybe just "Going Postal"? Can anyody think of another likely name?


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Ave Maria Bortz
(since 2001)
Email: email@example.com
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BIRTHPLACE: Chicago, IL
COLLEGE DEGREE: M.A., Cal State University Fullerton; B.A., University of San Diego
CLASSES TAUGHT: Economics
INTERESTS OTHER THAN TEACHING: Huntington Library – Japanese Garden Docent and reader in western history San Marino Historical Society.
I LIKE TEACHING AT SOUTHWESTERN BECAUSE: I enjoy the opportunity to teach students from all over the world and I feel that I have learned a great deal from them. The warm collegiality of faculty, staff and administration is a real plus.
MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY: To teach is to touch the future. I am always surprised to hear from past students about the effect that my classes had on them later in life. Often it is the life lessons (about responsibility, commitment and perseverance) that stay with them longer than the content of the classes. I believe that teaching is a privilege that demands both my best effort and that of my students. And, finally that it is a lot of fun!