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What Are Advances?
An advance is a security survey of the entire travel itinerary. This includes hotels, restaurants, vehicles, transport, hospitals, doctors, and routes of travel. Advances are performed in advance of the arrival at each city, state, or country that our client visits. Advance work requires a high level of training.
There is no one advance fits all, and the amount of time it takes can vary depending on the level of external and internal threat, stability, and crime in the area. In some cases, protective agents will be on the ground, running advances days before the client's arrival.
Why Are Advances Important?
Advances are the most important aspect of executive protection because they can prevent harm from coming to the client. Not only does it ensure the safety of the client, but it also ensures their peace of mind, which is incredibly valuable when they're traveling to a place they've never been for an important business meeting.
What's Involved in Executive Protection Advances?
Understanding Potential Danger
Before traveling, billionaires and their executive protection teams should know and understand the danger of the place they're traveling to, especially any areas that are considered high risk. Traveling to a location deemed high risk can put the safety of the client in danger, increasing the risk of kidnapping, injury, and theft, unless advances are run beforehand.
An executive protection company does their due diligence learning all that they can about the area in which you're traveling and may even go there days beforehand so ensure the safety of the client.
For example, if there are riots or civil unrest, this is something an executive protection team will know beforehand so that they can avoid any potentially harmful situations once the billionaire lands. It also allows them to map escape routes that may be used in case a situation or violence breaks out.
Encryption may be another part of the pre-planning advances when a billionaire is traveling. Encrypted communication allows the client to communicate with the outside world anonymously. This is incredibly important if you're traveling to a country where you may not have the biggest fans.
Encryption keeps your data secure and protects sensitive information like your business communications, and most importantly, your location. Criminals won't be able to harm you if they can't find you. Your cell phone and email account will remain anonymous.
Making Travel Arrangements
Your executive protection agents will be familiar with the destination's security threats to ensure total safety and security. Making travel arrangements, an executive protection team ensures that the client is well protected no matter where they go.
Not only does this ensure that the client is safe on their way to important meetings or gatherings, it helps them get there on time. Route planning also involves escape route planning. In doing this, executive protection agents can get their client out of a dangerous situation should it arise much more efficiently and effectively.
Landing in an unfamiliar place, whether it be a state or a country, means that the client has very little knowledge about the area. Eventually, they'll have to make their way to a new destination, like a meeting or their hotel room. Wherever they go, a billionaire may be subject to threats along the road if routes haven't been mapped out.
Whether on foot or in a car, you never want to be stuck in a situation that could be dangerous. You'll need escape routes to ensure your total and complete safety. Executive protection agents know the area well from their advance work and will have multiple backup plans at their disposal to help you get to your destination without being harmed.
Without these arrangements in place, clients could be put in harm's way unnecessarily. However, with the right pre-planning, attacks and harm can be prevented.
Medical Emergency Preparation
While no one plans to have a medical emergency, situations do arise. Because of this, it's always important to have a plan in place just in case a client has a heart attack or has a health issue that needs to be dealt with as soon as possible. Part of advance work includes gathering information about the nearest and best facilities to ensure not only the client's safety but their health. Doing this advance work can be life-saving, and it's completely necessary.
Protection agents find the nearest hospitals to where the client will be at all times, so that no matter where you are, you have the route already mapped out should a health issue come up.
Your health and safety is the top priority, so if you have a medical concern that will require a specialist, your executive protection team will make sure they know the specialists in the area where you will be traveling to. They'll also send your medical records ahead of time so that there is zero wasted time once you've made it to the hospital.
Even if you don't have a medical issue, executive protection agents map out routes to the nearest hospitals to ensure that you can get the help you need when you need it.
It's also worth mentioning that executive protection agents have EMT training so that they can help get you through situations that are more minor before you make it to the hospital. This is another life-saving aspect of our work that we believe is incredibly important for each agent to have.
The key to executive protection is prevention, which comes in the form of doing advance work that can save lives. Being proactive instead of reactive is the key to ensuring the safety of our clients at all times.


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Nigerian rice farmers lost N22.4b to Guinea-worm
By: Chioma Umeha.
By: Chioma Umeha.
In a week time, Nigeria will formerly join the league of over 35 other African countries that have wiped out the guinea worm disease after it has received the World Health Organisation's (WHO) certification if there is no report of new infection.
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Precisely, between June 24 and July 14, the International Commission for the Certification of Dracunculiasis Eradication of WHO will be in the country to certify Nigeria free of the disease, also known as dracunculiasis, a debilitating parasitic infection that affects people living in remote, poverty stricken communities. Also called 'impoverisher' in communities, guinea worm outbreaks in South East alone cost rice farmers an estimated $140 million annually within a period of seven years, 1988 and 1995. This is an equivalent of N22.4 billion today. Reports from the Carter Centre's Guinea Worm Eradication Programme stated, "Disease outbreaks in south eastern Nigeria alone cost rice farmers an estimated $20 million annually in the late 1980s." Also, a similar report from the centre in 2008 said the disease still cost $20 million in lost income to rice farmers alone as at mid 1990s. "In the mid-1990s, guinea worm infections in part of the heavily populated region of South East Nigeria caused an estimated $20 million in lost income to rice farmers alone," the report said.
Reacting to what it cost Nigeria to eradicate the disease, Mr. Buki Ponle, member, NIGEP's steering committee, said the loss could not be quantified in monetary terms. In an interview conducted on telephone, he said a farmer with guinea worm has trouble working. Mothers cannot take good care of their children or carry them to clinics for vaccination. Children lose many weeks of schooling, and eventually drop out of school. Similarly, the World Bank estimated $1 billion in annual loss in production of marketable goods in the early 1980s due to the disease. Carter Center worked with the Ministry of Health to spare thousands of people from suffering from this devastating disease, beginning from 1988. Between 1988 and 1989, Nigeria was the most guinea-worm-endemic country in the world, reporting more than 650,000 cases in 36 states. For instance, the country conceived the Nigeria Guinea Worm Eradication Programme (NIGEP) in 1988 to spearhead the eradication campaign in the country.
This story was published in Newswatch Times on June 11, 2013.

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What's it like being a councillor?
Councillors spill the beans...
Why did you decide to become a councillor?
"I have previous experience of committee work having been the Director of a small training establishment in Bath. My main reason for joining the Council was to be more involved in local matters, to get to know more people in the village." Cllr Jane Purkiss
"I became a councillor because I wanted to learn how the Parish Council works and to engage with the community especially around my interest in health and well-being." Cllr Liz Anderson
"I was approached by an existing Parish Councillor a few years ago and asked if I would be interested in joining the Parish Council. At first I was a bit surprised to be asked but the opportunity came at a point in my life when I wanted to start contributing more to my community." Cllr Ash Cartman
How do you balance your work and leisure time with being a councillor?
"At times it can be difficult. The key is to only get involved with things that you care about and where you can make a difference." Cllr Ash Cartman
"Balancing work, leisure time, family time and being a Councillor is important so I have gone for clear boundaries and attempt to stick to them." Cllr Liz Anderson
"In between Council meetings and working group meetings, I also do the Parish Council's newsletter, Facebook page and I'm working on the new website. It's a lot of work! I tend to dedicate big chunks of my week to Council work, but I don't do Council stuff on the weekends." Cllr Ruth McAllister-Kemp
What is the most challenging aspect about being a councillor?
"With the Covid restricitions in place it's been challenging to get to know people, to understand the workings of the Council and particularly all the abbreviations that are used! Shorthand for those in the know and more difficult for beginners..." Cllr Jane Purkiss
"The first 6 months can be challenging as you get to know how things work and the history and background of key issues in the Parish." Cllr Ash Cartman
"The complexity of decision-making and discussions at meetings is challenging. But, I am very good at changing my mind in response to different information, which I think is a strength! Sometimes it is hard to represent community views amongst all the complexity." Cllr Ruth McAllister-Kemp
Describe three attributes a councillor should have…
"Be a listener. Be flexible. Be a learner." Cllr Ruth McAllister-Kemp
"Patience, sense of humour and team player." Cllr Liz Anderson
"Love of your local community, ability to see all sides of an argument, willingness to talk and listen to anyone about anything." Cllr Ash Cartman
"I think the best approach to starting out as a Councillor is to adopt a style of listening and learning and I have been trying to do this whilst also asking questions. I have had a couple of short outside walks with other councillors and this has helped the 'getting to know you' process." Cllr Jane Purkiss
What film, song or book title would best describe your role as a councillor?
"Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd" Cllr Liz Anderson
"It's all been quite a mystery initially and so one of my favourite books - The Mystery of Mercy Close by Marian Keyes sums things up in terms of being presented with a puzzle and slowing working it out... following clues and talking to people as much as possible in order to reach a helpful conclusion." Cllr Jane Purkiss
"Well it's not House of Cards for sure… more Neverending Story." Cllr Ash Cartman
"Driving Miss Daisy - it's about listening and appreciating people's life stories." Cllr Ruth McAllister-Kemp
How do you feel you make a difference to the community?
"Ask me in five years! Maybe facilitating bringing the community into the council via the Biodiversity Working Group, so making small inroads in biodiversity awareness." Cllr Liz Anderson
"I know that I am sharing information in an interesting way and, hopefully, building a picture of the council and our community as vibrant, engaged and committed to each other." Cllr Ruth McAllister-Kemp
"That's for others to judge! I hope I do make a difference in my own small way." Cllr Ash Cartman
"I have been interested in the village environment and in communication... hopeful that participating in these areas will have a good effect on local life." Cllr Jane Purkiss
Describe what a typical week looks like for you as a councillor…
"So that I can do good communications, I'm on all the committees and a couple of working groups. Monday nights are usually meetings, plus perhaps one working group meeting a week. I'll spend roughly 8 hours a week on communications, more when I'm getting the newsletter together. On weekdays, I check through my council emails and spend time replying - may take 5 mins, may take 50!" Cllr Ruth McAllister-Kemp
"Typical week would be reading emails to keep up to speed with things, attending any meetings (not each week though) and at the moment making sure that the working groups I am involved with have enough information to make progress on any activities." Cllr Liz Anderson
"There are about 2-3 Parish Council related meetings a month. On top of that it's keeping up to date on emails." Cllr Ash Cartman
"I can't answer this yet in any full sense. I tend to check emails every day in order to keep up (10 minutes) and I prioritise Monday evenings for Council meetings. Writing for the newsletter on occasions has been best done in the mornings with a clear head." Cllr Jane Purkiss


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Rheem to acquire Friedrich Air Conditioning
USA: HVAC equipment manufacturer Rheem is to acquire fellow US manufacturer Friedrich Air Conditioning.
Friedrich's owners, the private investment firm Monomoy Capital Partners, confirmed today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the company to Rheem.
Founded in 1883, Friedrich is a well-known manufacturer of room air conditioning, dehumidification and air purification products for residential and commercial applications. It is a recognised industry leader in high-end air conditioning solutions designed for single-room use in hotels and multi-family buildings. The company is based in San Antonio with manufacturing in Monterrey, Mexico, and distribution centres in Texas and New Jersey.
Rheem says the acquisition will expand its residential and commercial single-room AC solutions and has confirmed that Friedrich will continue as a standalone business unit within the Rheem Global Air business.


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The Magnetic North's debut album Orkney Symphony Of The Magnetic North was released yesterday, a record that we described as containing "timeless songs which rather than being of any genre - not even the hard-to-define 'folk' - seem to spring from the bare open horizons, low-lying islands and sea of Orkney, creating a unique bleak and windswept aesthetic." Now the band - Erland Cooper (previously of Erland & The Carnival), Hannah Peel and Simon Tong - have put together a storywheel to take listeners through the making of the record, where the band talk about their relationship to the Orkneys and the genesis of the album. Watch it below.
The Magnetic North are set to play a couple of dates in the UK in May and June - see below.
23rd - London, Wilton's Music Hall
28th - Orkney, St. Magnus International Festival


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Ambassador Elisabeth Millard
Senior Area Advisor for Europe and Eurasia
New York, New York
October 29, 2021
The United States is proud to have been elected to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) for the 2022-2024 term after reengaging as an observer state in February 2021. We approach membership in the HRC with humility and introspection, knowing that we must constantly strive to be as inclusive and rights respecting. Although the Council continues to have flaws, which we have noted since its creation, we believe our engagement with the Council results in better outcomes in promoting and protecting human rights around the world.
And while on the Council, we will continue to be a vocal advocate for the inclusion of civil society. Our NGO partners add an important voice, bringing unique perspectives to the Council chamber and translating our words into action on the ground.
During this last year as an Observer, the United States was proud to co-sponsor 41 resolutions and be a part of 40 joint statements during the three 2021 HRC sessions on crucial human rights situations and important thematic issues.
During the March HRC session, we galvanized 157 members of the international community to join us in acknowledging the corrosive legacy of racism – a scourge we contend with domestically and globally. Advancing racial justice and equity is a top priority of the Biden-Harris Administration, and we will seek to partner with all those who share that goal. Toward this end, the United States looks forward to engaging the new mechanism focused on systemic racism in the context of law enforcement established during the June HRC session. In that same session, the United States led the first-ever side event on the human rights of transgender women, highlighting the violence and structural, legal, and intersectional barriers faced by transgender women.
The HRC took another important step during the June session when it passed a resolution on human rights in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, which called for an immediate cessation of hostilities, the swift, verifiable withdrawal of Eritrean troops, and holding accountable those responsible for human rights abuses and violations. The resolution welcomed the joint Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)-Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRC) investigation and requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights present an oral update at the HRC's September 2021 and March 2022 sessions. Our joint statement, cosigned by 47 other countries, during the September session further underscored these concerns. We commend OHCHR and EHRC for their joint efforts thus far and welcome the release of a joint report reflecting the findings and recommendations of both entities on November 1. We encourage
Government of Ethiopia and all parties to the conflict to accept and implement the recommendations from the joint OHCHR-EHRC report to pursue accountability.
We also remain deeply concerned by reports of violence and human rights abuses, and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, which is particularly dire for women, children, journalists, human rights defenders, persons with disabilities, members of the LGBTQI+ community, and members of minority groups. The Council's September decision to establish a Special Rapporteur to monitor the human rights situation there created an important mechanism for documenting abuses and laying the groundwork for future accountability.
We are deeply disappointed that the HRC failed to renew the Group of Eminent Experts (GEE) for Yemen mandate in the September session which provided critical, independent reporting on human rights abuses and violations in Yemen. We strongly support the UN-led Yemen peace process, including ensuring women, civil society, and minority leaders have substantive input. Accountability for human rights abuses is vital to sustaining an enduring peace, and we will work in partnership with allies and civil society to seek accountability for violations and abuses in Yemen.
The HRC resolutions on Syria, co-sponsored by the U.S., continue to accurately describe the egregious violations and abuses Syrians have suffered over the last decade. We appreciate the OHCHR and the Commission of Inquiry's efforts to document abuses by the Assad regime and engage with courageous Syrian human rights defenders. We were pleased to see the resumption of a UN count of civilians killed in the conflict. We urge OHCHR, in coordination with relevant UN agencies and parties, to continue to engage on the issue of missing and arbitrarily detained persons.
While the HRC has taken important steps to advance respect for human rights around the world, we continue to oppose its biased approach towards Israel through a stand-alone Israel-specific Agenda Item. We also reject the creation of the open-ended Commission of Inquiry on Israel in May 2021. While no country is above scrutiny, we continue to advocate for the HRC to treat any potential concerns related to Israel in a proportionate way.
We also believe more can and should be done to ensure elected members of the Council embody HRC ideals. We remain concerned by the continued membership of states with egregious human rights records on the HRC, exemplified most recently by the reelection of Eritrea this year. While no country holds a perfect human rights record, and we all must work to improve the situation of human rights domestically and internationally, those governments which actively undermine human rights in their own countries and abroad should not hold a seat on the Council.
As a new HRC member, we look forward to working with international partners to protect, defend, and advance respect for human rights globally.


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American art had been drawing from Sunday newspaper funnies in various ways long before Roy Lichtenstein's painted comic books panels Popped onto the gallery scene. In 1950s New York, Robert Rauschenberg affixed Moon Mullins, Gasoline Alley, and Terry and the Pirates onto his paintings and assemblages, recontextualizing them with coded signals about his closeted desires.
But it was California that exploited the medium with the most adventurous vitality. Among the Bay Area beats, Jess out-ghouled Chester Gould with his postwar, mad Tricky Cad collages while Bruce Conner sculpted a sacred, profane altar to St. Barney Google. In early 1960s Hollywoodland, Kenneth Anger's revolutionary Scorpio Rising film included cutaways of kids from the Dondi and Li'l Abner strips, montaged and framed so they appeared to be having a transgressively gay old time. And Anger's boho buddy Wallace Berman took the medium on a whole other, transcendent trip.
Besides being one of Southern California's most significant midcentury artists, Wallace Berman was both the ultimate hipster and a pre-Pop proto-hippie. By the mid-1940s, nearly two decades ahead of Tim Leary's acid-laced Pied Piper patter, he'd already turned onto drugs while at Fairfax High, tuned in to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and dropped out of Chouinard Art Institute, now CalArts. His first solo show at L.A.'s Ferus Gallery in 1957 was busted for obscenity, but it also launched a career that soon earned him global recognition. Ten years later he was backing up the Beatles on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band's album cover designed by British Pop artist Peter Blake, along with the likes of Brando, Beardsley, Dylan Thomas, and Bob Dylan.
Five years ago I covered Speaking in Tongues, Wallace's joint show with Robert Heinecken at Pasadena's Armory Center, which was part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 – 1980, a monumental six-month series of exhibitions across the city. You'll find my Print interviews with curators Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon, here and here. And they've now gone on to create Wallace Berman: American Aleph, a major retrospective at L.A.'s Kohn Gallery. The show covers his entire career and demonstrates the ways in which his relevance far exceeds West Coast regionalism.
Wallace Berman: Untitled (BeBop Jazz Yellow Cover), 1940. image ©2016 Kohn Gallery.
One room is devoted to Wallace's artbooks and sculptures from that obscenely seminal 1950s Semina show at the Ferus. There are several examples of his famed 1960s sepia-toned Verifaxes, collaging imagery as wide-ranging as Janis Joplin, Yoko Ono, an astronaut, a rocket ship, a devotional statue, and a snake into photos of a transistor radio and other electronic communication devices. The work spans from his 1940s pen and ink illustrations to his lesser-known earthworks from the 1970s. Wallace died in 1976, at age 50, but during his far-too-brief existence on earth he was inspired by everything and everyone from jazz and Jewish mysticism to William Blake and Lenny Bruce. And then there were the comic strips.
In the show's catalog, Claudia notes how during Wallace's teen years Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers "inspired him to draw and instilled a lifelong passion for the grid as his preferred form of pictorial organization." And during a recent event at the gallery I spoke with Shirley Berman, Wallace's wife and the subject of many of his photographs on display. As we discussed Wallace's transistor radio Verifax of an old promo shot of Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon, inscribed "Portrait of Kenneth Anger," she explained how Wallace and Kenneth would bond over watching these action-adventure movie serials that were popular during the 1930s and '40s. She also recalled Wallace's love of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant which, like Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, possesses a mythological grandeur. Also, they both separate their text and images into discrete entities rather than employ cartoon balloons.
I also had a conversation with their son Tosh, which evolved into our interview below. We chat about the appeal of newspaper strips to his father's generation. Tosh, himself quite knowledgeable about the comics medium, also touches on Japan's manga and George Herriman's Krazy Kat as well as movie serials and men in outer space.
Meanwhile, if you're in the neighborhood be sure to get to Kohn Gallery before the show closes this Saturday, June 25th. And anyone anywhere can pick up the handsomely illustrated exhibition catalog designed by Lorraine Wild's Green Dragon Office, which includes essays by Claudia and Sam and a foreword by Tosh.
Wallace Berman: Untitled (Sound Series #3), 1967-68.
Michael Dooley: How do you view your father's relationship to comic strips?
Tosh Berman: I always had a retro taste in comics as a kid, and I think that came from my dad's love of comics. And we're not talking about comic books, but comics in the newspaper. He liked the serial form, including the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers movie serials as well as the continuing narrative in a comic strip. I think he admired the pen work or inking of someone like Alex Raymond. So he followed the artist more than the story, perhaps?
And there's obviously a grid-like obsession in my dad's work, and comics have a similar grid as well. I suspect that Wallace had very little interest in the narration of the comic strip but more how ima
ges are placed among each other.
What do you think appealed to him about the Flash Gordon strips in particular?
As a kid, he probably loved the outer-space fantasy aspect of the strip. But over time, Raymond's technique is quite thrilling to the eye.
Wallace Berman: Untitled (Portrait of Kenneth Anger), 1973.
Kenneth Anger: title card and still from Scorpio Rising, 1963.
Your father saw Kenneth Anger as Buster Crabbe.
Both Ken and my dad loved popular media of their time and day. Anger, I think, was more obsessed with those images. His love of Flash Gordon was known to my dad. So it was a combination of a tip-of-the-hat to Ken and to acknowledge their common love for a culture that Flash Gordon represented to both of them.
And what about Foster's Prince Valiant?
I think more for the artwork than anything else. Very detailed work!
I think he liked Krazy Kat as well. Good art, and that strip was kind of trippy for its time and age.
Wallace Berman: Untitled, c. 1968.
His West Coast contemporaries also utilized comics in various ways.
It's a generational thing. A lot of artists in my dad's generation loved comics, and I think not really the comic book, but the comics that appeared in the newspaper. All those artists are basically the same generation, so the main medium was the comic strip.
I think one can argue the influence of the comic strip on a lot of artists, but especially on artists from a certain era and time, and maybe place. Warhol, I'm sure, felt the same way about comics as my dad. Kenneth Anger again, same generation. I don't think the comic strip would be that great of an influence if the artist was born in the 1950s. So, right time, right place for these particular artists.
Right now, I suspect that there are a lot of Japanese artists who are influenced by manga; it's so much part of the Japanese culture. The comic strip in the 1930s were on the same platform as manga at its highest. Now I have to presume a lot of contemporary artists are probably more influenced by photography or cinema than comics.
And his own perspective on comics would be different today, as those serialized strips have evolved into graphic novels.
Overall, if my dad was alive I sort of doubt he would fall into the comic hole. What he would admire is the drawing skills of such artists. But I haven't the foggiest idea what he would think of the 21st century graphic novel. He wouldn't be against it, of course, but I'm not sure if he would have read them.
It's hard to say, really. Wallace was very much a contemporary man. He didn't look back that much or at all. So anything new would be of some interest to him. The sad part of someone dying so young is that they are still growing. And at the time of his death, Wallace was still moving onward and upward.
Wallace Berman: Untitled poster, 1967
Wallace Berman: Untitled (A1-Cosmic Burst), 1974.
Wallace Berman: Untitled, c. 1940s.
Wallace Berman: Untitled (Office Management), 1964.
Wallace Berman: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, 1964.
Wallace Berman: Second Annual Film Festival poster, 1963. image ©2016 Kohn Gallery.
Tosh Berman next to Wallace Berman's Veritas Panel (1957) in the Kohn Gallery's Ferus/Semina exhibit room. photo: M Dooley.
Curator Claudia Bohn-Spector discussing the Wallace Berman exhibit at the Kohn Gallery. photo: M Dooley.
Shirley Berman with photographer Ellen Berman (no relation) next to a wall photo of her husband at the Kohn Gallery's entrance to Wallace Berman: American Aleph. photo: M Dooley.
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Michael Dooley is the creative director of Michael Dooley Design and teaches History of Design, Comics, and Animation at Art Center College of Design and Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is also a Print contributing editor and author.


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The photo shows Mike Taylor presenting a bottle of wine
to guest speaker, Mal Loye
In 2003 he moved to Lancashire where he enjoyed further success before returning once more to Northants.
When he finished playing he held the roles of Batting Coach at Natal and High Performance Head Coach with Bangladesh.
In December 2016 Mal joined Derbyshire as Development Coach and he explained to the meeting what that role entailed and how it fitted into the new DCCC structure. He obviously enjoys working with the 2nd. XI and the Academy players very much and is very proud of the progress made by them.
This was a very enjoyable meeting in the presence of a knowledgeable and affable man. Anyone who scores 322 runs in a first class innings has to have been a pretty good cricketer too – and he certainly was that.
Lots of questions and warm applause confirmed the enjoyment of members present. A really good start to the season.
Many thanks Mal!
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|Savoy is a female silverfox-wolf hybrid I created in winter 2003. Originally she is quadruped (walking on 4 legs), but she also appears in her anthro form.
Savoy is often shown with her black fox friend Bentley. She is a charming cute lady, elegant like a vixen, but she can also howl like a wolf. She is a second character of mine beside Tani, who is my main character and alter ego.
I really like her look, as I have always wanted to have a blue furred character. Her pattern turned out quite complicated for a fursuit... ;) A million thank you goes out to Furvan and Tioh, without your help I would have not been able to finish the fursuit body! The more, also thank you to Nightfox and Jaryic for your help!
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Eden Summers books in order
Eden Summers is an Australian bestselling author of steamy contemporary romance novels, characterized with a healthy dose of humor.
Her books are never short of alpha dominance, smoldering traits and witty protagonists, since Eden finds them utterly irresistible.
On the other hand, her headstrong heroines also know when to get seductive, and when to unleash vengeance with a smirk.
Eden currently lives in Australia with her young family.
Genres: Contemporary , Erotica, Romance
Website: https://edensummers.com
Non Series
- Inarticulate (2016)
- Rush of Insanity (2017)
- Office Player (2018)
Hunting Her Series
- Hunter (2018)
- Decker (2018)
- Torian (2019)
- Savior (2020)
- Luca (2020)
- Cole (2021)
Reckless Beat Series
- Blind Attraction (2013)
- Passionate Addiction (2013)
- Undesired Lust (2014)
- Reckless Weekend (2015)
- Sultry Groove (2015)
- Reckless Rendezvous (2015)
- Undeniable Temptation (2016)
- Reckless Encore (2019)
The Vault Series
- A Shot of Sin (2015)
- Union of Sin (2015)
- Brutal Sin (2017)
Detailed book overview
Non Series
He may be quiet, but his silence is too loud to ignore.
From the moment she lays eyes on him, Savannah falls for the fact that the man wants nothing to do with her.
Keenan has a stare that is both cocky and conceited.
His juicy lips seem arrogant and in control.
However, behind his piercing eyes and general aura lies a touch of vulnerability that triggers Savannah's interest.
From his silence, she can tell that he is hiding a host of secrets dark enough to destroy her career and relationship with those dear to her.
Will uncovering his secrets come at a price?
First Release: 2016
Publisher: Eden Summers
Harper walked away from famous musician Judd Hart more than a year ago.
Although she felt deeply for him, they came from different worlds.
All they had in common was the passion for each other, and the ability to push each other to the point of insanity.
So why is she at his concert, craving for him?
Judd came to regret the fact that he let go of Harper.
So when he sees her amidst a crowd at his concert, he is determined to make her stay.
He'll do whatever it takes to hold onto her, even if it means holding her hostage on his tour bus until he wins over her heart.
First Release: 2017
Ebook: B07637RDVG
Love isn't for Dean.
He does however love women. And he does plenty of them.
Everything however changes when Beth comes along, distracting him from his womanizing ways.
Sharp and sinfully gorgeous, she is an employee, which makes her forbidden.
Beth always plays by the rules.
The thought of breaking them never even occurs to her.
That's however until Dean Sutherland comes along.
She isn't a rule breaker, yet he makes her want to shatter all her rules.
Drunk as a skunk, she accepts a ride home and enters his car.
And now they're doing coffee.
She never broke the rules—until now.
NB: This book was previously published under the title Concealed Desire.
First Release: 2018
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Hunting Her Series
The last thing that I was searching for was trouble, and yet it found me.
Huge, dark and irresistible, his kisses were enough to untangle me.
One touch from him was enough to make me lose my mind.
He is however hiding something.
He has a secret agenda, far beyond his passion; an agenda that goes beyond our encounters of passion.
I must get away from him as fast as I can.
I must run away from the lies.
But does running away make me the hunted?
Is he the hunter?
First Release: 2018
Publisher: Eden Summers
He protected me from danger and became my biggest threat.
He is my hero and my defender.
Huge, strong and determined, he lures me with his playfulness.
He has an arrogant smirk that is just as big as his attitude.
In his embrace I find warmth.
The only problem is that he isn't being honest.
Although he is my savior, he has secret motives far beyond his concern for my safety.
I can't give my heart to him. I can't be lured by his embrace.
He is not one to be trusted.
But does doubting my protector make me his target?
First Release: 2018
Publisher: Eden Summers
He is my archrival and my persecutor.
An infamous criminal, he conceals his hideous nature behind his seductive smile.
He is not only malicious but also ruthless and scheming.
He secretly follows me from the darkness.
I would love nothing more than to lock him up.
But he presents me with an offer that is too good.
It's a huge risk with a huge reward.
I can't afford being complacent.
I can't afford to trust him, even when I start understanding how he operates.
The devil never reveals his true self, only the side that he wants you to see.
And right now, all I'm seeing is hunger.
First Release: 2019
Publisher: Eden Summers
My life was a living hell. Redemption was just not for me.
Everything however changed when he came into the picture.
With him came a loyalty so vicious, and a promise of safety.
But I don't need to be reminded that I shouldn't give him my trust.
What he is promising is something that I let go of a while back.
Nonetheless, that still doesn't stop me from falling for him.
I desperately want him to rescue me.
But the most merciless men come with lips as sweet as honey.
That is something that I learned a while back.
First Release: 2020
Publisher: Independently published
Luca was my hero. He took me from the pits of hell and gave me redemption.
He was my salvation—at least that's what I thought.
I was looking forward to beginning a new chapter—starting a new life. But the agony wasn't too far away.
Not long afterwards, the demons followed.
They call it paranoia, trauma, or post-traumatic stress disorder.
No one is interested in hearing my truth.
Nevertheless, they will all learn. Everyone will.
In as much as I'm desperate to overcome my demons, it's a lot easier said than done.
Good guys always come last. Bad guys always emerge victorious.
First Release: 2020
Publisher: Eden Summers
I gave my heart to the foe.
I gave my heart to a person whose deeds would make the devil shy.
But it happened once, and I won't be repeating it again.
Things however never go as planned.
I'm soon plunged back into his life after falling into temptation.
Cole Torian desperately needs me, and I couldn't tell him no.
I risked everything for his sake. I put everything on the line for him.
Not even my heart, sanity or security was spared.
I took a huge risk for the sake of his gang of notorious criminals.
A price will be paid. Not everyone will escape unscathed.
First Release: 2021
Publisher: Eden Summers
Reckless Beat Series
He can seduce with a single glance.
While carefully looking at the multitude of delirious fans, rock star Mitchell Davies is inexplicably drawn to the stunning lady in the front row.
One look is all it takes for him to be hooked.
So when a public altercation leaves her vulnerable, Mitchell uses the chance to rescue her.
He is her hero.
Alana Shelton is determined to live life to the fullest, having undergone a harsh and strict upbringing.
Nothing however prepares her for the handsome stranger that will steal her heart.
Although the two fall in love, will their passion survive when their pasts return to haunt them?
First Release: 2013
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
When Gabi frivolously invited her online friend to her casual girl's night out on her birthday, the last thing she expected was for a sexy rock star to fly thousands of miles just to be with her.
Gabi holds a special place in Blake's heart.
She isn't just his online best friend, but also his refuge and source of inspiration.
She is also the only person capable of calming the devils inside him.
So when their passion intensifies, he endeavors to fight for his happily ever after.
Blake has overcome the demons of his past thanks to Gabi's help.
But will their love survive when the demons are reawakened?
First Release: 2013
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Singer Sidney Higgins has lived to regret having sex with Mason Lynch and Sean Taiden, two popular member of Reckless Beat.
Even worse is that the video Mason promised not to show anyone somehow ended up breaking the internet.
Now, she is just shattered and hopeless.
Mason may have been a douchebag when their sex tape got leaked, but now he's just a pathetic artist without his muse.
Desperate to revive his career, he endeavors to join forces with the same woman who wants to kill him.
As they work together, and feelings are revived, will Sidney and Mason fight for their love when a sinister figure from their past resurfaces?
First Release: 2014
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
A lot can happen in a single day in Las Vegas.
When you combine a rock band as popular as Reckless Beat, with women determined enough to steal the hearts of a number of the bad boys, only fireworks should be expected.
Patience will be tested, alcohol will be in constant supply, and endless scoffing will rent the air.
But when it's all said and done, commitments will have to be made.
Falling in love while in the spotlight has never been simple.
And when the past returns to haunt the present, things may spin out of control.
First Release: 2015
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Sean Taiden, drummer of rock band Reckless Beat, is tired of going by unnoticed.
Having had enough of being overshadowed by his bandmates, he endeavors to earn recognition by dancing in a music video of their song that pierces his already shattered heart every time he hears it.
Enter sexy choreographer Melody Jenkins.
Melody doesn't want anything to do with fame.
That's why she gave up her career as a pro dancer to start a low-profile studio.
He wants to be on top of the world while she is tired of it.
Will their conflicting ambitions come between the passion that they share?
First Release: 2015
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
"Leah Gorman's reality is turned on its head after one kiss."
Leah desperately needs to have a breather, having spent years of her life giving her all to rock band, Reckless Beat.
Determined to run away from the endless turmoil and overcome the anguish in her life, she moves to Las Vegas.
Why wouldn't she choose Sin City, when the thoughts of a sexy tattooed man with gifted hands constantly makes her heart skip a beat for all the good reasons?
Logan is her Mr. Right Now—at least that's what she thinks.
And when he is done, Leah will be left uncertain of what the future truly holds for her.
First Release: 2015
Ebook: B014EWILP0
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Ryan Bennett finally starts accepting that he is falling for Leah Gorman, now that his toxic marriage is out of the way.
She bears the promise of a blissful future, and he yearns for her.
One drunken kiss however threatens their friendship.
Leah isn't allowed to fall in love with any of the members of rock band, Reckless Beat—at least according to her contract.
Ryan has swept her off her feet, despite her efforts to ignore the feelings.
Will she choose to protect her career, or risk everything for the sake of fulfilling her happily ever after?
Whatever she decides, nothing will ever be the same again.
First Release: 2016
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Six kids, multiple tours, and several years later…
Rock band Reckless Beat is reunited for an encore.
Fresh memories will be made and secrets will come to light.
Furthermore, their teenagers' fears will leave them drunk as skunks.
Things will get out of hand.
An unnamed person may even lose a wager, and forgo the rights to name their child.
That is just how crazy it will get.
Humorous, seductive, and utterly insane, this is the Reckless Encore!
First Release: 2019
Ebook: B07YW68XHY
The Vault Series
He wears a lavish suit and cocky smirk.
He is not only her boss, but also her biggest craving.
The man is out of bounds, until she discovers his dark secret; one that revolves around the fulfillment of the darkest of sexual desires.
It was only meant to be one fiery and unforgettable night of passion.
But what happens when one is not enough?
She is on his payroll—forbidden.
All he could do is desire her from a distance.
But things change.
And now he is hooked.
Everything he struggled so hard to get is threatened.
A lot is at stake, yet they still desire the one thing threatening to destroy everything.
First Release: 2015
Publisher: Eden Summers
Tate Jackson didn't just make a mistake, he made a terrible mistake.
It all ended badly when his wife, Cassie, was assaulted, after he introduced her to a world of his darkest fantasies.
If only he had been more careful, he could have quickly removed her from the terrible adult club.
All this could have been avoided.
Nevertheless, Tate will stop at nothing to protect Cassie from another agonizing experience—even if it means leaving her.
Cassie doesn't blame her husband for what happened.
But what happens when Tate files for a divorce?
Will she fight for their love once she uncovers the truth?
First Release: 2015
Publisher: Eden Summers
Merciless, unsympathetic, and boastful of his terrible reputation, Bryan finds himself in a precarious position after his place in The Vault, his refuge, is threatened.
The secret club is like his home, and he won't rest until he recovers what belongs to him.
Desperate, he solicits the help of the very woman who got him into problems.
Pamela may have fallen for Bryan's gifted hand once, but she is never paying any attention to this self-righteous clown.
Everything however changes when he unexpectedly comes asking for her help.
He needs to put everything into place in the Vault, while she needs him to meet her desires.
It's a perfect hedonistic match, until they get entangled in an emotional web.
First Release: 2017
Publisher: Eden Summers


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Newport Beach Mayor Will O'Neill graduated from Stanford University (B.A. History) and then U.C. Hastings College of the Law (J.D.). He is a partner at a small law firm and previously worked for California Supreme Court Justice Marvin Baxter (Ret.). As Mayor and a City Council Member, Will has led on his city's pension reform, overhauled his city's civil asset seizure reform, reduced his city's overly-bureaucratic set of Council polices by over 20,000 words, and co-authored debt policies for a multi-billion dollar regional transportation agency. Will and his wife, Jenny, are raising two young children named Aubrey (7) and Sean (5).


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http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=8905 Chimera: In medicine, a person composed of two genetically distinct types of cells. Human chimeras were first discovered with the advent of blood typing when it was found that some people had more than one blood type. Most of them proved to be "blood chimeras" -- non-identical twins who shared a blood supply in the uterus. Those who were not twins are thought to have blood cells from a twin that died early in gestation. Twin embryos often share a blood supply in the placenta, allowing blood stem cells to pass from one and settle in the bone marrow of the other. About 8% of non-identical twin pairs are chimeras. Many more people are microchimeras and carry smaller numbers of foreign blood cells that may have passed from mother across the placenta, or persist from a blood transfusion. In vitro fertilization (IVF) is also contributing to the number of human chimeras. To improve success rates, two or more embryos are placed in the uterus so women who have IVF have more twin pregnancies than usual. More twins mean more chimeras. In Greek mythology, the Chimera was an awesome fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. The Chimera was killed by the hero Bellerophon mounted, in most versions of the tale, on Pegasus, the winged horse. Common Misspellings: chimaera
People that have two different sets of DNA are called human chimeras. It can happen when a woman is pregnant with fraternal twins and one embryo dies very early on. The other embryo can "absorb" its twin's cells. It can also happen after a bone marrow transplant, and (in a smaller scale) during normal pregnancy.
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Coalisland Canal Walk
This is a walk along the towpath of the Coalisland Canal.
The Canal was opened in 1789 to bring coal from Coalisland to Dublin via the River Blackwater, Lough Neagh and Newry Canal. Coalisland acted as an inland port with lighters carrying grain for the mills and provisions for the surrounding towns.
Between Macks Bridge and Moor Bridge the River Torrent is one side of the Towptath and the canal is on the other.
5 miles
OS Map
Sheet 19
Nearest Town
Route Shape
Route Type
Part Tarmac /Part unsurfaced
Grid Reference (Start)
Grid Reference (End)
Point of Interest
Seven locks including a staircase lock at Macks Bridge.
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Other Area
Route Description
The walk begins at the Cornmill in Coalisland town centre. The towpath is a straight walk along the 4.5 mile stretch.
However, it has three sections after about 1 mile walkers will have to cross the Gortgonis Road at Macks bridge to access the second section of the walk .A further half mile along this pathway will lead to the busy Moor road at McAliskeys lock ,once again you must cross this road to connect to the last part of the walk, the final 3miles will lead to the Reenaderry Road where the canal path ends , this is known as The Point where the canal meets the Blackwater river.
Getting to the Start (by Public Transport)
Translink - journeyplanner.translink.co.uk
Getting to the Start (by Car)
Take turn off for junction 14 on the M1 motorway and follow the A45 to Coalisland. Park at Cornmill carpark in the centre of Coalisland.Exit the carpark opposite Dorman's chemist, turn left and walk 100 yards until you come to the dam lock.
Dogs are allowed. Dogs are allowed but must be kept under control.
Refreshments are available in a number of cafes and restaurants in Coalisland. PublicToilets are also available in the town centre and have disability access.
Disabled car parking is also available at the Cornmill .
Lough Neagh Walking Guide
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Nashville Rock N Pod Expo organizer fires back at Vinnie Vincent's alleged reasons for not appearing
Nashville Rock N Pod Expo organizer fires back at Vinnie Vincent's alleged reasons for not appearing
Decibel Geek Podcast principal and Nashville Rock N Pod Expo 2 organizer Chris Czynszak has provided a response to former KISS guitarist Vinnie Vincent's insults and alleged reasons for pulling out of the Expo, which will be taking place at the Nashville Palace in Nashville, Tennessee, USA on August 25, 2018.
The public dispute between the two started when Czynszak went public on the Decibel Geek Podcast's Episode 323 (with was released on June 3, 2018) with his reasons why Vincent was not appearing anymore at the Nashville Rock n Pod Expo 2. Czynszak claimed that Vincent originally agreed to appear at the Expo without an appearance fee but then reneged on their original agreement by requesting a monetary guarantee and deposit which forced Czynszak to have to cancel Vincent's appearance.
Vincent fired back on June 4, 2018 alleging that there was no contract in place and that he was "insulted" by Czynszak to the point that he decided to pull out. Vincent did admit asking for a guarantee but didn't provide much details in that regard.
Czynszak has now responded to Vincent by addressing the guitarist's points with the following statement:
"To VVhom It May Concern:
Over the past few days, the cancellation by an artist at the Rock and Pod Expo has been covered by various podcasts and commenters on social media, with various takes on the events and circumstances surrounding it. While some of the posts have been on target with the details, others have been more emotionally driven.
First, the Rock and Pod Expo isn't a show, it isn't a get rich quick scheme, and it certainly isn't a money-making venture. It is, at its core and in practice, a podcast trade expo offered as an event open to the community of Podcasters and fans to meet and promote their shows and for artists to meet fans and promote their own sales. In this matter it was extended as a free opportunity for Vinnie to attend and be promoted by us at our expense to address fans and make money by selling his wares.
An appearance contract wasn't written because this was never a business deal. This was simply an offer to be a part of the Expo as just one stop on the hopeful comeback road. We were elated at the opportunity to offer up a slot for Vinnie to use; if there was anything at all we could do to help him make the comeback a reality, it was our pleasure to do so.
The issue over the offensive "avatar" had been rectified as we understood it after speaking with his management and forwarding the answers about its source from the site's administrator, so were taken aback when it was cited as an intentional attack on him and the cause of his cancellation. The tag was, in fact, an offensively worded label that's assigned as a part of the FRS programming of the site that denotes the level of user activity and was attached to dozens of users. While many boards simply rank users by the number of posts they've made as novice-expert, the rankings there were written as something the prior site owner deemed KISS relevant. It was apparently supposed to be humorous but wasn't, and since I only occasionally posted there I hadn't noticed it, to my error.
After this I was informed that a fee would have to be paid for Vinnie to show up and to contact management for numbers as a modification of the original offer to appear. Since we weren't booking talent for expo profit, and the overriding purpose wasn't dependent on a single appearance, this obviously wasn't an option. So, as much of a disappointment as it was, we dropped the plan for any appearance by him and prepared to move on with the other guests without engaging in negotiations with VV management.
While I greatly regret the loss to the fans of the opportunity to see Vinnie make a rare public appearance and our ability to help him in this comeback endeavor, I'm also shocked that the matter has been portrayed as it has. Yes, there was no appearance contract, we don't make any vendor sign one to show up and make sales, which is what he was in this situation. They're business professionals, if they aren't interested in operating their business we aren't in the practice of forcing them to do so. Yes, the user label that has now been permanently removed the site code was blatantly insulting and offensive, but apparently not so much that a sales guarantee wouldn't rectify any offense.
So in response, I feel that it is now in the best interest of all to go the way of others before me and cease all engagement with the party involved, and to simply wish him the best of luck in the future.
Regards, Chris"
At the end of the day, it appears that Vincent, no matter how he felt about Czynszak, was willing to appear at the Nashville Rock N Pod Expo 2 if he received more money.
The Nashville Rock N Pod Expo 2 will still be going ahead at the Nashville Palace in Nashville, Tennessee, USA on August 25, 2018 with featured guests including renowned producer Michael Wagener, singer Mitch Malloy, former Loudness singer Michael Vescera, Bang Tango guitarist Drew Fortier, Korn guitarist Brian "Head" Welch and many more.


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When a person gets through certain changes in life like a job transfer or a purchase of a new home, moving becomes a necessity. Moving is not a process that could be achieved with a rush rather it requires lot of foresight, planning and perfect execution. There are lots of chances for problems to occur that might frustrate you while moving or after making the move.
Have a look at the below tips which may help you to avoid problems while making a move:
Plan Early:
At once you are sure that you are all set to move, start your moving process from that very 1st day. It will be a good idea to buy packing materials and start packing the smaller and fragile things/belongings/chattels. This will help the movers to save a lot of packing time which in turn gives you the advantage of time saving.
Find the right movers:It is ideal to find the right Toronto moving company as soon as you start planning your move. Always select a reputed company offering reliable services at a reasonable cost. Make sure that the company has proper certification and insurance. Never select a company which demands the full payment in advance. Also it is better to fix the date on consultation with the company's experts.
Label your Belongings:
If you have managed to pack certain items make sure that you label your things with a 'fragile label'. This will make sense to the Toronto movers to handle those items carefully. Also make sure that you guide the movers when handling storage boxes with brittle materials.
Be the Organizer:
Before the movers begin their job it is better to suggest them your convenience in the moving process, this will help the movers to make packing or loading with confidence and restrict damages while moving.
Be ready when the movers come:
It is important to be ready when movers come to accomplish their task. Have the things as convenient as possible for the movers to pack and shift. This will ensure that the movers work at a brisk pace.Most people would not have experienced moving but moving is never a stressful experience if planned and acted accordingly.


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I'm usually not one for New Year's resolutions, but at the start of 2018 I told myself I would try to finish one novel every week.
I had a variety of reasons for making reading my New Year's resolution, but mostly it came down to the fact that I've always loved reading, and that books, it turns out, are the perfect panacea for a lot of the anxieties caused by modern technology.
Just this past week, I discovered an app called Libby that has helped make my New Year's resolution more achievable.
Available on Android and iOS, Libby allows you to borrow e-books and audiobooks from your local library. What's more, it's also an e-reader and audiobook player, all in one app.
At the moment, Libby supports 80 percent of all public library systems across Canada, including the Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Hamilton public libraries. Selection depends on the library system in question. In the case of the Toronto Public Library system, for instance, Libby users have access to more than 154,000 e-books and more than 21,000 audiobooks.
The app is free to download and use, with no in-app ads. All you need to take advantage of Libby is a library card, which in the case of most public library systems in Canada, is free; there's no need to create a separate app account.
If an e-book or audiobook is currently unavailable (it may sound unintuitive, but just as with physical books, libraries have limited e-book and audiobook copies), Libby allows users to place a hold. Once it's available the book is available, the app sends a notification to the user to let them know that they can start reading their newest book.
Users can also read or hear a sample of any book they're interested in, so you never have to borrow something unless you're absolutely interested in it.
It's even possible to download both e-books and audiobooks to your mobile device's internal storage, making Libby the perfect companion for underground commutes on the TTC or SkyTrain.
For those with multiple devices, Libby syncs your reading progress across each one, and if for some reason you also have multiple library cards from different public library systems (you badass), you can also add more than one card to the app.
Best of all, all of the app's functionality is tied together by an interface that is fast, easy on the eyes and intuitive.
In the short time I've had Libby, it has quickly become one of my favourite smartphone apps to date.
Download Libby from the iOS App Store or Google Play Store.


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Anthony E. Parent, Esq. is the founding partner of Parent & Parent LLP, the IRSMedic, a law firm dedicated to helping clients with a wide array of tax problems.
In founding the firm, he brought together a combination of his academic study, excitement about business, and his love of standing up to large government bureaucracies — effectively. He exudes an incredible passion for vigorously representing US taxpayers around the globe. He knows exactly the threat tax problems are to one's personal and financial security.
Anthony also has been on the forefront of the delivery of legal services by providing the results clients actually want; he has little time for pretension and wasted efforts.
Anthony and his father David G. Parent, Esq. graduated Quinnipiac School of Law together, and started their practice in 2004. He has also instituted both a Warranty and Guarantee for the firm's services.
His passion permeates throughout his firm and it comes through any of communications — he gives numerous trainings on video and podcasts. He is a voracious writer who is always seeking to simplify the complicated. The IRSMedic blog is enjoyed by thousands of taxpayers and tax professionals around the globe and is often the go-to resource to find out what the real, sometimes hidden, issues and threats are, with a sprinkling of usually subtle humor.
Anthony is routinely quoted on tax issues in the national broadcast media. In 2012, he co-authored a business bestseller compilation "Protect & Defend." He is currently putting the finishing touches on his first solo effort: "IRS Confidential."


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Vortrag | Diskussion
David Betz: warfare in the digital age
War does not change in its nature. Warfare, however, mutates constantly. Belligerents are forever adapting to potential new ways and means of war that technological and social change enables. The industrial and scientific revolution massively accelerated the 'machinification' of war, a development which ultimately doomed the European empires. Now, the digital age is here, some say it arrived half a century ago already. What has it changed in the conduct of war?
Since the end of the Cold War there have been many theories to answer this question: Regular war is out! Irregular war is in! Cyberwar is coming! Hybrid war is coming! The current Russo-Ukraine war suggests, though, that these theories are not completely accurate. Warfare in the digital age seems to combine old ways and means with a few new ones in a manner that is proving challenging. This too will be consequential. Perhaps empires are rising and falling again?
David Betz: Warfare in the digital age
Monday 29 August 2022 | 7 pm | Doors open 6:30 pm
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Thunderstorms passed through Yosemite National Park on Saturday, September 9, 2023, bringing 179 lightning strikes, a small amount of precipitation, and some...
Northeast of Yellowstone, find a brewery district, gluten-free pancakes, Montana's only zoo and historic charm in Billings, Mont., a city of 110,000. Here is a list of our favorite things to do before heading down the road to Yellowstone National Park.
1. Walkable Brewery Tour
Billings Brew Trail northeast of Yellowstone Photo: Courtesy Visit Billings
Reason to Go: Visit six breweries, two distilleries and a cider mill on this 1.5-mile stroll past outdoor patios.
Access: Start at Thirsty Street at the Garage with a Rimrock'd Amber and end with a Skypoint IPA at Montana Brewing Co.
2. Stella's Kitchen and Bakery
Photo by Mike Willis via Flickr
Reason to Go: Legendary among locals, this downtown breakfast establishment serves up traditional morning food with stellar baked goods and even gluten-free pancakes.
Quirky Fact: Pancakes here may be larger than your head.
3. The Northern Hotel
Photo courtesy Northern Hotel
Reason to Go: This elegant historic hotel has been voted "best hotel in Billings" for eight consecutive years. It features two fantastic restaurants: Bernie's Diner for breakfast and lunch and TEN for upscale atmosphere and innovative Montana cuisine.
Quirky Fact: Break all the rules and order the "Vacation Breakfast" at Bernie's – it's chocolate cake coupled with a chocolate milkshake.
4. Swords Rimrock Park
Courtesy Visit Billings
Reason to Go: Walk, bike or skateboard along the 4.5-mile, ADA-accessible pathway that runs the length of the city-owned park located along the top of the Rimrocks, a geologic formation.
Trivia: These sandstone bluffs surround the city and are estimated to be at least 70 million years old. On a clear day, five mountain ranges can be seen from the trail: Pryor, Big Horn, Bull, Crazy and Absaroka-Beartooth.
5. Pictograph Cave State Park
Photo courtesy Visit Billings
Reason to Go: See warriors and animals painted on rock walls by ancient people more than 2,000 years ago in Pictograph Cave just five miles south of Billings. The cave is 160 feet wide and 45 feet deep.
Quirky Fact: Archaeologists have discovered more than 30,000 artifacts, including tools and weapons here.
6. Pompeys Pillar National Monument
Courtesy Visit Billings
Reason to Go: On their return route after reaching the Pacific Ocean, members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition stopped here and Clark engraved his first initial and last name, along with the date, July 25, 1806, into the rock.
Quirky Fact: The rock is named after Sacagawea's child, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, also known as "Pomp."
7. Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Courtesy Visit Billings
Loren Kerns via Flickr
Reason to Go: See the site recognizing the June 25-26, 1876, battle where the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry fought Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in one of their final armed efforts to preserve their way of life.
Quirky Fact: Sixty miles from Billings, this is the third most-visited place in Montana.
8. Zoo Montana
Reason to Go: See wolves, grizzly bears, wolverines, Amur tigers and other animals, most of whom are rescues and all of whose natural habitat is at the 45th parallel. This means they can handle Montana's cold winters and hot summers. Dedicated to wildlife conservation, this zoo is the only one in Montana and oversees critical breeding programs. It also has great interpretive exhibits about the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, making it a nice tie in with your Yellowstone vacation.
Quirky Fact: Winston the Sloth is the zoo's newest celebrity animal who even has his own Instagram account.
For more information:
Billings Visitor Center
(406) 252-4016, (800) 735-2635
815 S. 27 St., Billings, MT 59107
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What is the importance of the European Energy Security and Diversification Act of 2019 for the United States, Poland, and other Central European countries?
By PAC Policy Intern Alexander Tantum
The European Energy Security and Diversification Act of 2019 (S.704) was introduced in the Senate on March 7, 2019 by Senator Christopher D. Murphy (D-CT), along with Cosponsors Ron Johnson (R-WI), Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Cory Gardner (R-CO). The bill remains in its early stages, with it being read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations on March 26, 2019. Even though the Act still has steps ahead for it to become law, it possesses a significant amount of potential with regards to helping Poland along with other Three Seas Initiative (3SI) and European countries. There are benefits to be had for the countries which are involved.
The goal of the United States in enacting the European Energy Security and Diversification Act of 2019 would essentially be to diversify the energy sources available throughout Europe along with the supply routes. The United States aims to accomplish this goal through diplomatic and political support to the European Commission along with governments of Central and Eastern European countries. Additionally, the bill details that the United States will assist Central and Eastern European countries through private sector investment in projects that will diversify energy sources and supply routes. Through the diversification of energy sources and supply routes, Poland along with other 3SI member countries will not have to rely on the Kremlin for oil and natural gas as they have had to do in the past. The Kremlin will no longer possess the ability to weaponize oil and natural gas and have a monopoly on those resources. By not being forced to rely upon the Kremlin, Poland and other 3SI countries will have better energy economies, and with that, better economies overall. With stronger economies and a greater ability to rely upon themselves, Poland and 3SI countries will only become more powerful and united. Through the European Energy Security and Diversification Act of 2019, the United States will also be able to carry out their own goals with regards to global energy security. Additionally, they will be accomplishing the goal of countering the Kremlin's overall influence in Europe and Eurasia. The European Energy Security and Diversification Act of 2019 has bipartisan support in the Senate, and would provide numerous benefits for various countries. Energy security will be vastly improved through this bill.


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Having a big lawn or garden area is not an easy task. You have to keep the place tidy and fit for living. Having a zero-turn mower that can keep your garden area clean in a comfortable manner will save much energy for you. Zero-turn mowers are a wonderful creation of humankind in terms of speed, comfort, and manoeuvrability, as they are ideal for keeping the lawn area clean. Though buying a zero-turn mower can be a challenging investment as they are expensive. However, for those who have big spaces to cover and always running low on time, buying a zero-turn mower will be a smart choice.
We have compiled the best top three products to provide the best options for the zero-turn mowers. Check them out below.
Disclaimer – This article may contain affiliate links, this means that at no cost to you, we may receive a small commission for qualifying purchases.
Best Overall
Husqvarna Z246 zero turn mowerNo products found.
- V-Twin Engine
- 2-Blade Mower Deck
- Cutting-edge design
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Premium Choice
Husqvarna MZ61 61 in. 27 HP Briggs & Stratton
- Amazing Ergonomics
- Comfortable Steering
- Removable Foot Pan
- Adjustable Tracking
Best Budget
RDJ Trucks – American-Shade Zero-Turn Lawn Mower
- Fit any ROPS
- Include a canopy
- Solid construction
We have researched the top best and the latest technology zero-turn mowers. Every product has different uses and features. It will help you to pick the one suitable for you.
1. Husqvarna Z246 zero turn mowerNo products found.
The Z246 zero turn mower is a highly-engineered model designed for professional lawn specialists and property owners. The speed and a high cutting capacity of this mode have pleased most of the users.
The overall design of the zero turn mower has aesthetics. However, its unique features and functionalities enable you to increase productivity.
The mower has two levers transmitting to motors attached to the rear wheels of the mower. The unit also includes a steering system. By pushing the levers down, you can move the mower in the forward direction.
Based on how much distance you have covered with the pushing and pulling mechanism, you can determine the speed. To turn to the right side, you have to manage the left lever.
The mower's deck remains fitted to a reinforced steel cutting deck. The flat-stock steel has added durability. Moreover, the manual deck lift has a spring assist system helping you to use the mower effectively. You will enjoy both comfort and balance while using this mower.No products found.
- Electric clutch
- Reinforced steel
- V-Twin engine
- Problem with the cutting deck
2. Husqvarna MZ61 61 in. 27 HP Briggs & Stratton Hydrostatic Zero Turn Riding Mower
For people who want to spend a fair amount of money and want to keep a zero-turn mower with all the fantastic features, this premium option is just for them. If you have a much bigger area, this machine gives the perfect performance with commercial grade.
With HP 27 and the Briggs' endurance, the engine provides exceptional reliability and powerful ground speed. The fabricated 11 gauge with the steel deck cutting provides stunning 54 inches and with unique features.
The deck lifting system supports fast and comfortable adjustment from the user's seat.
Another striking feature with clippings that can be mulched or discharged. All the discharges are collected in a 9-bushel triple bag. You will also get the bag attachment, and the mulching kit can be bought separately.
If you have a bad back and think that it can be stressful for you, this premium product is high- back seat and armrest. You also get soft padded grips for hand and vibration dampeners that makes mowing easy for long hours.View Latest Price
- The foot pan can be removable.
- Extremely comfortable steering
- Takes less time
- Ideal for a larger area.
- The price is high.
3. RDJ Trucks Made in The USA – American-Shade Zero-Turn Lawn Mower
Another fantastic product within the budget item is the RDJ trucks made in the USA. This machine is designed, manufactured by the Americans. The construction is of UV and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene with immense strength and lightweight aluminum. Also, it has a powder-coated frame for better protection.
The ABS material is exceptionally durable and is not at all recyclable. The plastic is not cheaper, so it will last longer than expected. You will get a canopy, and the installation part is elementary. You can do it yourself, and no help is needed. It saves you from extreme heat and other diseases from heat exposure.
Another exciting option that you get is a 3-year warranty. If you face any issue with the quality or any problem, it will be looked at once. If you are looking for a low-budget zero-turn mower with some great features, then you can choose this product.View Latest Price
- Great Canopy
- You will get it within the budget.
- Easy installation
- Removing the canopy may not be easy.
4. Ariens 915223 zero turn mower
Ariens 915223 is one of the versatile mowers with a user-friendly design. Due to the zero-turn ability, the mower enables you to manage obstacles (like trees and other structures) around it. When you have a big lawn to mow, you may invest in this model. This mower helps you with your mowing activities quickly and efficiently.
The most notable part of the mower is its 52-inch deck, which is more significant than the standard cutting path. Hence, you can choose this flawlessly designed mower to mow a large property. When you use a system with a small cutting path, you need multiple passes. However, with the IKON-X, you may accomplish the task in a single pass. Thus, you will save time due to this striking design.
The mower's deck includes a 3-blade design and a height adjustment selector operated by a dial. In other Ariens' models, the blade height adjustment process is time-consuming. Ariens has solved this problem by including a dial design.
Another essential feature is the foot-operated deck lift. You can adjust the cutting height up to 13 levels.View Latest Price
- Include EZT twin hydrostatic transaxles
- A user-friendly design
- Designed for professional and home use.
- Not perfect for small yards
5. Husqvarna Z254 54 in. 26 HP Kohler Hydrostatic Zero Turn Riding Mower
This Zero-turn mower works wonderfully in large areas and is capable of reaching the unreachable spots. The built quality, as well as the design, are both created to perform unbeatably.
This zero-turn mower's maximum speed is 6.5 MPH, which is ideal for edging the utmost and keeping the garden clean. With its air induction mowing feature, the air is drawn from the top and the bottom, so the cut is satisfying.
It is incredibly user-friendly and not at all hard to figure out the power buttons. You also get a manual to understand the full use. The installation is effortless and quick. You do not need any help as it can be easily alone.
Also, you will get headlights on the front, and the quality is top-notch. If you do not have the time to get your lawn cleaned, you can do it during the night-time without any hassle.
The steel cutting deck has the top finish quality so that you get professional type results while mowing.View Latest Price
- Kohler engine
- fabricated deck
- User-friendly
- The rear tires may not work on wet grass.
6. Husqvarna Z242F 42 in. 18 HP Kawasaki Hydrostatic Zero Turn Riding Mower
Husqvarna has been an excellent brand in terms of manufacturing zero-turn mowers with different budgets. This product is also a premium quality zero-turn mower that fits all the needs. The budget is also sufficient as per the features available.
For any unforeseen situation, this turn mower comes with a seatbelt so that it gives you full protection. You do not have to compromise with the machine as it is very smooth to use, and power buttons are easy to reach.
18 HP Kawasaki Hydrostatic Zero-Turn Riding Mower is very stylish. While using it, you can feel a sense of professionalism and understand how ravishingly it works. The machine allows the mower to do the cutting in a variant way to reach difficult areas.
There is a park brake system that activates itself immediately upon monitoring the direction of the steering. The high-tech airflow system and terrific performing blades offer a clean cut.
It is a bit expensive, but it is worth buying with all the features you are looking for.View Latest Price
- A perfect buy for household lawn areas
- Cleans any commercial space
- The machine is hydrostatic
- It is low in maintenance.
- Pricey.
7. Ariens Edge 42 inch 19 HP (Kohler) Zero Turn Mower 915245No products found.
Another exceptional zero-turn mower is Ariens Edge's innovative creation. It is an excellent product for managing the household lawn or commercial area. It is also useful for those who keep it clean every twice or once a week. It is an outstanding value for money and a perfect buy for those who want to have a satisfactory result.
The built quality is terrific and works smoothly on cutting the rough and tough grasses. Ariens Zero-turn mower promises hassle-free lifelong service to keep your garden area clean. The navigation power is extreme as you can access wet lawns without worrying about slipping.
The seat is comfortable and padded so that you get comfort while clipping the grasses. As per your need, you can also adjust the armrest.
Not only adjusting the armrests, but you can also change the height of cutting the grasses as per your satisfaction. You will also get the chance to adjust the height for cutting on the go.
The maintenance is also deficient and lasts longer than any other brands available in the market.No products found.
- Perfect for large estates
- Ergonomic controls
- Padded seat
- The cutting deck is not so expansive.
Zero-turn mower buying guide
We understand how tough it is for the first-timers to pick up the zero-turn mowers at once as costly. Also, there are some crucial factors that one should know and keep in mind before deciding on a zero-turn mower online. So, we have come up with a comprehensive buying guide for the online audience. Our buying guide will help you to look for the right checkpoints before you buy one. Check it out below.
Checking the safety belt
Many of the zero-turn mowers have seats so that the user can comfortably sit and get the clipping of the grass done quickly. It is advisable to avoid sudden accidents; the turn mower has a seat belt.
While checking the right turn mower for you, please ensure that there are various ranges of adjustment. It will be helpful for you if you get a wide range of adjustment for clipping.
As machines tend to be very uncertain, it is better to go with a famous brand that gives an extended warranty period. If you see any issues, you can return or exchange the turn mower.
Digital Displays
Some models come with digital displays and help you check the power and height adjustability. It is an excellent feature as it will be easier for you to select the right height.
Deck size
It indicates the cutting area of the zero-turn mower. Choose the mower of proper deck size to reduce your mowing time.
Engine power and size
The engine's size corresponds to the power of your mower. It is vital to have a big sized engine to manage any grass. Moreover, you can apply the mower on slopes.
Materials used for constructing the mower
The light-duty mowers may have stamped steel in the frame metals. On the contrary, heavier mowers have cast iron and welded parts. When you buy a braded zero turn mower, you will find manufacturers mentioned the materials.
Controls of zero-turn mowers
Some zero turn mowers have a lap bar that you have to push back and forth. The entry-level mowers have steering wheel controls. You will feel comfortable using these steering wheels. There are also joystick controls found in different directions. Moreover, you will find stand-up controls in the commercial-grade mowers.
Zero-turn mowers of different types
As landscaping specialists and property owners, you can invest in zero-turn mowers that ensure comfort and speed for the zero-turn radius. The turning radius of zero-turn mowers is zero degrees. That is why you can make quick and narrow turns to navigate a yard. The speed level of some models may be up to 13 miles per hour. However, we have categorized zero turn mowers in 4 different ways.
- Commercial-grade zero turn mowers
These commercial mowers can withstand rough conditions, and thus, you can use them comfortably for everyday use. The cutting width of these mowers can range from 34 to 72". With the Twin engine cylinders and 5-31HP, these commercial models are fantastic choices. The tank capacity can vary between 5 to 13 gallons. The mowing decks of these mowers are large, and you may need to invest a hefty amount to buy them.
- Semi-pro zero turn mowers
They are a blend of commercial and residential customers. When you need to mow a big yard, you can choose these mowers. The horsepower ranges from 16 to 25HP, while the cutting width can be 34 to 60". Moreover, the tank of these mowers can hold 5 to 8 gallons of fuel.
These durable semi-pro mowers are best for regular uses, and their design includes single-piece steel frames. The speed level of these semi-pro mowers can be up to 8 miles per hour.
- Mid-grade zero turn mowers
They have heavy-duty components with a cutting width of 34 to 60". These mid-grade systems have 16 to 25HP engine. Moreover, their tank capacity can be up to 4 gallons. Manufacturers use durable steel to design these mowers and weld the joints for higher strength.
There is a robust transmission integrated with the mid-grade zero turn mower. You will also find higher torque ratings, larger wheel motors, and bigger pumps to manage heavy loads. The deck height is adjustable with a foot controlling system.
- Entry-level zero turn mower
When you use the zero turn mower for the first time, you can choose this model. This reliable mower is affordable, as it has a small engine and gas tank. The speed can range from 6 to 7 miles per hour. For occasional weekend mowing, you may buy this mower.
Bottom Line
Zero-turn mowers are beneficial and time-saving machines that help you keep your lawn clean and attractive. Though it can be expensive, it is better you choose as per your requirements. Check out each mower's features very carefully, go through their pros and cons, and then decide on one.
Our list comprises all the prices so that you can see and buy the right one. If you are purchasing a turn mower, make sure the zero-turn mower you have chosen is long-lasting as you cannot buy them every year. It will be better if you can save some money and then buy the right one! We hope our list helps you to get a suitable zero-turn mower.


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Monday night Mayfest announced the first artist for the Dillo Day lineup. Anderson .Paak, a rapper and singer from the West Coast, and his band, The Free Nationals are officially performing at the infamous campus festival. Anderson .Paak began making music under the pseudonym Breezy Lovejoy in 2009. Three years later he released his debut album, "O.B.E. Vol. 1," and the following year he came out with an all-covers EP titled "Cover Art." According to .Paak's Wikipedia page, the inspiration for "Cover Art" were white artists of the 1950s who remade songs by Black blues and R&B singers, attain commercial success, and fail to give the original artists credit or compensation. Because of this the EP reworks rock and folk classes, transforming them back into soul, R&B, and hip-hop hits. A year following this EP, in 2014, .Paak released "Venice," his first album using the name Anderson .Paak. Before his music career really took off though, .Paak worked on a marijuana farm in Santa Barbara selling drugs on the side to support his wife and son. "Those years create so much character," .Paak said during a March interview with GQ Magazine. .Paak has used this character and growth to create soulful music. In doing so, his music garnered the attention of Dr. Dre and landedhim the opportunity to be featured on six songs in Dr. Dre's 2015 album "Compton." Dr. Dre isn't the only star .Paak has been working with. In addition to his six features on "Compton," he performed on two songs on The Game's 2015 album "The Documentary 2." He has also collaborated on material with ScHoolboy Q and 9th Wonder. In January of this year .Paak released his album "Malibu," which reached the Top Ten of the Billboard hip-hop charts. During the same month he announced via Twitter that he signed to Dr. Dre's record label, Aftermath Entertainment. "He's just blowing up, and we thought that would be the perfect vibe for a Dillo Day performance," Yumiko Mannarelli, Mayfest director of concerts, told The Daily Northwestern. Just last month .Paak & The Free Nationals took the stage at South by Southwest, an annual music, film, and interactive festival held in Austin, Texas, where they won the Grulke Prize for Developing US Act. The Grulke prize is an award handed out annually at the festival that has three categories. According to the South by Southwest website, The Developing US Act Prize is for "artists who are breaking new ground with their creativity and show the most promise in achieving their career goals." With such an impressive track record, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals are sure to put on an amazing show. Catch them May 21 at Dillo Day and if you can't wait, check out their Soundcloud, it's worth the listen.
Everything You Need to Know about Dillo Day Performer Anderson .Paak
- Tyra Triche
- 6 April
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Anderson .Paak is dope! I liked his additions to the Compton Album.
This is a dope publication Tyra! Congratulations! I'm so happy for you! Thanks for facilitating this!