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When a small band of environmentalists sued to stop a major California city from celebrating Independence Day, the increasingly radical environmentalist movement managed to perfectly crystallize its agenda.
In 2010, 2011 and 2014, a California environmentalist group sued San Diego and two community charities, demanding fireworks be banned from Independence Day celebrations. The suits claim 20 minutes of aerial fireworks will destroy La Jolla Cove and all life in it.
Even stupider, this tactic successfully shut down San Diego's 2010 New Year's Day fireworks celebration. Of the four lawsuits, environmentalists successfully banned fireworks in three.
That's right. No spleen-splitters. No honkey lighters. No hoosker doos. No hoosker don'ts. No cherry bombs. No nipsy daisers (with or without the scooter stick). Not one single whistlin' kitty chaser.
Just snakes and sparklers.
If they're feeling generous.
The environmentalists also walked away with $250,000.00 in cash.
Yes, environmentalists actually believe a small fireworks shows can destroy the planet, and they will sue you and take your money if you express disagreement.
But the real issue here is bigger than a small fireworks show.
You see, environmentalists don't hate fireworks.
You see, environmentalists don't hate fireworks.
What they despise with a poisonous rage is the concept they celebrate – that government's power is limited and may be exercised only with the consent of the governed.
While they sue to stop a celebration of the Declaration of Independence, their comrades in Washington are battling to eradicate the concept of government that the Declaration of Independence so eloquently defends.
Stymied on Capitol Hill by popular opposition to boondoggles like last year's cap-and-tax bill, the Obama administration is increasingly using the unchecked power of regulatory agencies to write and enforce federal dictates, going around Congress to impose the most radical, expensive and job-killing of environmentalist schemes.
Obama is in open defiance of a core tenet of the Declaration of Independence — its statement that government must derive its "just powers from the consent of the governed."
And Americans have good reason to refuse to give their consent to Obama's destructive environmentalist agenda.
In all, job creators spent $1.75 trillion to comply with federal regulations in 2008. That's $15,000 per family just to follow rules that are often written by career political activists in Washington. Since businesses earn revenue from consumers, that $1.75 trillion comes directly from the pocket of cash-strapped consumers.
The costly onslaught of radical rule by regulatory declaration is coming down even harder under Barack Obama's aggressive environmentalist agenda, as many utility customers, for example, are now finding out.
"Utility giant American Electric Power said Thursday that it will shut down five coal-fired power plants and spend billions of dollars to comply with a series of pending Environmental Protection Agency regulations," The Hill reported yesterday. "The company's dramatic plan to comply with the regulations could give Republicans and moderate Democrats ammunition in their ongoing fight against EPA's efforts to impose new regulations aimed at limiting greenhouse gas emissions …
"The company, one of the country's largest electric utilities, estimated that it will cost between $6 billion and $8 billion in capital investments over the next decade to comply with the regulations in their current form … The costs of complying with the regulations will result in an increase in electricity prices of 10 to 35 percent and cost 600 jobs, AEP said."
That's a 35 percent higher utility bill, essentially a massive federal energy tax, invented and levied on consumers with no vote or even consideration by Congress.
Fully aware that the rule was so fanatical that Congress would reject it, the Obama administration ordered its EPA bureaucrats to impose it instead.
This begs a serious constitutional question: Why are laws no longer made by lawmakers?
That's what Sen. Rand Paul is asking. His REINS Act (S. 226) requires any proposed federal regulation with an economic impact greater than $100 million to be considered and approved by both chambers of Congress as a resolution and then signed by the president before it can take effect.
In other words, America's government must derive it powers from the consent of the governed.
Environmentalists may sue to outlaws fireworks, but the thought of letting Americans have a say in laws and regulations affecting them is sending greens into orbit.
That's why BetterEconomy.org, a grassroots-supported citizens' group advocating rational energy and environmental policy, is making a recorded vote of the Senate and House on the REINS Act a top legislative priority.
Citizens have a right to have a say in the passage of laws and regulations through their accountable lawmakers, as well as to know whether their elected representative is one of those environmentalist lawmakers opposing that founding principle.
So, who is fighting to block a recorded vote on the REINS Act and deny Americans something as fundamentally proper as their right to have a voice in their government?
The same sorts of people who are suing to shut down celebrations of the document that states that government must draw its "just powers from the consent of the governed."
Backed by the Obama administration, Public Citizen (which opposed the Senate's cap-and-tax bill because it didn't make family electric bills high enough to stop the use of electricity) is one of the leftist special interest groups now on the warpath against Sen. Paul's REINS Act and groups like BetterEconomy.org.
The group says that allowing lawmakers to make laws, rather than unelected D.C bureaucrats, "would replace a process based on expertise, rationality and openness with one characterized by political maneuvering, economic clout and secrecy."
No word on whether the members of the group warmed up and stretched before engaging in the logical backflips it takes to describe the closed-door meetings of unelected bureaucrats as "openness" while claiming the public debate and vote of accountable lawmakers before C-SPAN cameras is "secrecy."
America's founding belief that the only proper form of government is one that serves with the consent of the governed is a threat to environmentalists' unpopular and far-out agenda. Not only are they suing to stop our celebration of that declaration, they are waging an aggressive war to expand the power of regulatory agencies and relegate representative government to the history books.
Don't let them snuff out our freedoms, or our celebration of them. As environmentalism continues to impose heavy costs on the pocketbooks and freedoms of Americans, Sen. Paul's REINS Act is a simple and common sense move to restore our founding principles.
Donny Ferguson is President of BetterEconomy.org, the nation's most effective grassroots-powered opponent of the radical environmentalist lobby. This column originally appeared in The Daily Caller on July 1, 2011. It has been updated to reflect recent developments.


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The Eastern Curlew
Harry Saddler
Affirm Press, $29.99
Both Harry Saddler's earliest encounters with the migratory shorebirds of the title, on islands off Victoria, ended with the birds flying away. He's followed them ever since, in particular on the crowdfunded journey that informs the latter part of this book. The East Asian-Australasian Flyway is the path the birds take on their 10,000-kilometre journeys between Australia and their breeding grounds in Siberia; it passes through the Yellow Sea, encircled by China and Korea, where increasing population pressure on its habitat has contributed to the birds' current critically endangered listing. Saddler flies to China, then Korea, finding the curlew and its fellows in both their natural and increasingly urbanised settings. Through it the bird is both its real, striking, extravagantly long-beaked self, and a symbolic citizen of a changing world. Saddler's gentle, reflective book is both celebration and lament.

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Gydo Pass, Western Cape
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
31. Out of Africa
Gydo Pass, Western Cape
3 comments:
- Charmi said...
Hi Julian
I trust that you are well and have started your journey in South America. Billy and I also hope that you got the tent, and that it will work for you. It was great meeting you, and I really wish you well for the rest of the journey. Will chat again.
Billy & Charmian Riley
- Monday, September 21, 2009
Julian, I discovered this blog thanks to a post on the HUBB motorcycle forum and I must say that I have been moved and inspired by your journey. It has given me great pleasure to follow your frank and honest commentry of the adventure through Africa. May I wish you all the very best for a safe and rewarding spin through The Americas.
- Monday, October 05, 2009
- Francis Dominé said...
Bon voyage à toi et ton vélo;
Je pars à vélo sur Jérusalem depuis Bruxelles, ce 02 mars ;
Thank you
Francis Dominé - Belgium
- Monday, February 15, 2010


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The Juncker plan and the multiplier effect
On 25 November, the European Commission unveiled the mechanism for its plan to support investment projects totaling at least €315bn over the next three years. Marie-Hélène Duprat explains (Senior Advisor to the Group Chief Economist).
On the surface, it's an ambitious plan to address the drastic lack of investment in EU countries—a 15% drop in investment since the global financial crisis. The idea of the Juncker plan is that €21 billion of public money will be leveraged to attract private investment worth 15 times the original amount. The Commission hopes that the guarantees and seed money will encourage private finance to enter strategic investments in a range of infrastructure projects across the EU, from transport to energy to internet broadband.
The Juncker plan provides for the creation of a new European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), which will rely on €16bn of funding in the form of guarantees drawn from the EU's budget (of which, €8bn will come from existing unused EU funds) and €5bn of equity funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The resulting EFSI totaling €21bn is set to be operational in June 2015. Individual member states will be able to provide additional capital to the Fund and their contribution will not be taken into account for the Stability and Growth Pact assessment. The plan also provides for the establishment of "a project pipeline" of proposals for investors, backed by a technical assistance programme to channel investments where they are most needed.
The EFSI will serve as credit protection for new potentially risky projects. These guarantees will allow the EIB to provide €63bn worth of financing (multiplier of 1:3) in the form of subordinated debt. This safety buffer is then expected to catalyze private investment in the senior tranches of the same projects, with a multiplier effect of 1:5. Under this mechanism, the Fund could thus eventually yield €315bn of additional finance (multiplier of 1:15), of which €240bn would be directed to strategic investments and €75bn to SMEs and midcap companies.
The €315bn plan would amount to 2.4% of the EU's GDP over the next three years which, even if it were to materialize, would make a small dent in the massive investment challenge facing Europe. The main question, however, is how such a narrowly-financed scheme can generate an increment to private investment of the scale being targeted. While a leverage ratio of 15 to 1 seems overly optimistic, the focus on investment is a welcome step in the right direction.
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Mount Hermon Station (GNIS FID: 609317) is a populated place located within the Town of Northfield, a minor civil division (MCD) of Franklin County.
The elevation of Mount Hermon Station is 364 feet. Mount Hermon Station appears on the Northfield U.S. Geological Survey Map. Franklin County is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours).
Franklin County: Subdivisions (MCDs) | Cities & Towns | ZIP Codes | Features (airports, churches, hospitals, etc.)
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BOUNDARY MAPS: Town of Northfield | Franklin County
| Northfield, MA (1.9 miles ENE)
Turners Falls, MA (6.4 miles SSW)
Millers Falls, MA (7.1 miles S)
Hinsdale, NH (7.1 miles N)
Greenfield Town city, MA (7.2 miles SW)
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Brattleboro, VT (12 miles NNW)
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Satans Kingdom, MA (1.9 miles NNE)
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Changes at The Weather Channel ~ Very disappointing!!!!!
Memberposted: 1533585657
What happened to the meteorologists we were all so used to seeing every day. Now they have a blonde chick with big B—- and a short skirt doing the morning weather, Really what happened to Jeremy Logos and some of the other great meteorologists. When I turned it on this morning I felt like she thought we couldn't read the screen, stop wasting our time and bring back the Real Weather Channel. Of course Tony is still there, no shocker. Looks like I need to rely on my NOAA Alarm System from now on. Very disappointed!! At least the other bought humor to the program.1
Memberposted: 1533647156
How long has it been since you watched before? Jen, Stephanie, and Kelly have all been around for awhile. I have no idea who these Tony and Jeremy people are you speak of, and I've been watching for well over a year.1
Memberposted: 1535577311
@stephanieabrams, @kcass, and @dewpointdiva have been at The Weather Channel for at least ten (10) years now. Moreover, they should be in what I call the "TWC Hall of Fame". The Weather Channel must hire more female meteorologists to improve overall. Comprende? #girlpower 😀
Memberposted: 1534623181
Obviously you have made changes and most of them disappointing changes.
I understand you have been bought by NBC, and it is having its own problems.
We very much miss Mike Seidel's outdoor weather reports. California and states west have been burning for months now. Therefore, you cannot state there is nothing to cover, which you did tell me in a previous email. The east coast has had flooding problems – bad ones.
Wish you would tell the truth about Mike Seidel, but I doubt you will.
We have tried the other weather channel and plan to watch that in the future. You need a new manager or something because you are going downhill.
More later – maybe.
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I didn't know TWC was bought by NBC. Well, that explains a lot. Every time a company (esp. a large one)buys or merges with another, it's never good for the consumer/viewer.
Okay, I get why it's gone downhill now. 🙁
Memberposted: 1535286141
The Weather Channel was acquired by NBCUniversal in 2008 from Landmark Communications. In 2015, IBM bought the digital division of The Weather Company which includes the app and website. In 2018, Entertainment Studios acquired The Weather Channel from NBCUniversal.
NBC does not currently own The Weather Channel, Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios does.3
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That is correct–we are no longer owned by NBC. We would love to know what would make our coverage better for you. Feel free to email us at firstname.lastname@example.com!
Memberposted: 1535585415
What would make your coverage better would be to put the local on the 8s back to normal and replace the local on the 8s logo below the time with the weather channel logo (which really that's where it should be).3
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I totally agree. I'll send an email to tell them everyone's feedback about the Local on the 8s change.1
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Hey Meowsway–I think you may be confusing The Weather Channel with something else, possibly a local news station that provides weather. We recommend checking out The Weather Channel 🙂1
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A more disappointing change is the reduction of the local forecast by two-thirds and replacing TWC's logo with a Local on the 8s logo. No TV channel would ever mess up their logo for their viewers.1
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Does anyone know when I can actually catch Local On the 8's now that they've cut it down? It's more like "Local if You're Lucky"… so frustrating!!!1
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Hi @summerdaze! You can catch full screen Local on the 8s at the :18 and :48 marks of every hour, and at the bottom and sides of your screen during every other "8" mark.
We're sorry the new layout is frustrating to you! We are currently collecting all feedback and figuring out how to improve the experience for viewers. Thank you for telling us about your concerns!
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Well, that's what everyone's complaining about – two full-screen local forecasts per hour is not enough. Before April, it was six full-screen forecasts per hour. Others have complained that the bottom sides of the screen you're mentioning are invisible, which is a big reason why the majority of TWC viewers oppose this change.
In another thread I complained that the :18 and :48 full-screen forecasts play right after local commercials (your cable provider replaces national commercials with local ones, especially about politics). I hate those commercials.
As they say, actions mean more than words, so hopefully you do take our feedback seriously. Thank you!1
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Thanks for your reply Haley, but ArsenalFan is right, 2x is not enough! Also, everyone's flat screen is not large, so the info on the side & at the bottom is too tiny to read. I have senior family members who say they can't see it.2
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How does my idea of using the on screen Local on the 8s format during long-form except for :18 sound? That way, you could make your viewers happy with full-screen Local on the 8s on all the 8s during live weather, and the on screen format could be used during long-form since that would give us more than what's normally shown during long-form, since there is a local radar on the sidebar, since it always was accepted that Local on the 8s aired less often during long-form than during live weather, while you're at it, how about show full screen Local on the 8s at :18 and :48 like how it was prior to December 29, 2014? I always thought dropping the :48 was a bad idea and that only affect the 8pm-5am et weeknight timeslot and the 12pm-5am et timeslot on weekends. Please, please, please consider listening to us for once! You're going to lose money if you continue not to, especially if people stop watching because they don't have 20 minutes to wait for a real LF due to having to get to work on time.
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What does "long form" mean? 🙂
Otherwise, I get what you're saying. Personally, I get my local weather from other networks now, like CBS or FOX. It comes on around the same time each day, even if severe weather is going on somewhere else. They still cover LOCAL weather, which is still going on…
Not only do they have MICROCLIMATES which is common in a big city, they show the sunrise/sunset times which I'm obsessed with.
Esp. since we change the clocks tonight, leading to much shorter days for awhile…..:-(
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I am with other's. I tune in to "hear" my 8's on the hour not read it! If I wanted to read my weather forecast I would get on the internet and read it..1
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Clearly agree. The full-screen forecast shows more detailed forecasting for the next 24 to 48 hours. Reading the forecast is not clear enough.
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The info size at the side & bottom of the screen was a non-issue until you cut back the frequency of the full size "Local". Cutting it down to 2x is way too extreme!2
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TWC staff's intrepretation: We still have two full-screen Local on the 8s forecasts, at :18 and :48. We're trying to alienate viewers because we want them to wait a half hour.
Viewers' intrepretation: We want all six LOT8s forecasts to be full screen, because that's important to every viewer. A side bar forecast looks terrible for many reasons.
The Weather Channel thinks that the sidebar LOT8s forecasts are actual LOT8s forecasts when they're just repeating the same thing over and over.
So do something before your channel's ratings are low.1


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A new strategy to tackle the issue of long-term treatment efficacy in cancer patients has been developed by researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute in collaboration with international biotechnology company, Genmab.
Cancer cell
The collaborative work has been published in the journal Nature Medicine and demonstrates the novel approach to treating cancer — targeting different cell groups within single tumours based on their respective characteristics.
Previous work, led by Prof. Daniel Peeper at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, had revealed that treatment resistant melanomas (which often carry a mutation in the BRAF-gene) start producing another protein called AXL. This protein actually sits outside the tumour cell, making it a potentially ideal target for treatment. "Therefore, we set up a collaboration with the international biotechnology company Genmab, which had developed an advanced medicine against AXL," Peeper explained.
The potential treatment — an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) — comprises an antibody coupled to a cytotoxic molecule and is called HuMax-AXL-ADC. This product specifically binds to tumour cells expressing the AXL-protein and then kills them. The researchers who developed this strategy found that multiple types of AXL-high tumours can be effectively eliminated in this way.
However, one of the PhD students from the Peeper laboratory, Julia Boshuizen, discovered that in the melanomas that were resistant to BRAF- and MEK-inhibitors although there were numerous AXL-high cells there were also considerable numbers of cells with little or no AXL. As these cells with little or no AXL were still sensitive to BRAF- and MEK-inhibitors, Boshuizen can up with a strategy to combine the treatments.
"We compared the resistant tumour with a bucket of marbles in two colours: yellow ones that have little AXL, which are sensitive to BRAF- and MEK-inhibitors; and red marbles that express lots of AXL and fail to respond to BRAF/MEK-treatment," she said. "If you wipe out the yellow marbles only, the red ones remain, and vice versa. So, to get rid of both colours, we thought it may be a good strategy to combine BRAF/MEK-inhibitors with HuMax-AXL-ADC."
Using this combined approach, the team was able to demonstrate that melanomas resistant to the standard treatment were still highly responsive to the new AXL-medicine in mice. Additionally, they found that BRAF/MEK-inhibitors stimulated the production of AXL in tumour cells, rendering HuMax-AXL-ADC even more effective in a combination treatment. Moreover, as both groups of tumour cells were eliminated when using this combination treatment it was found to be beneficial in the longer term.
As a result of this work, Genmab is currently testing HuMax-AXL-ADC in patients with a number of different types of tumours, including patients with melanoma, to assess the safety, side effects and the first signs of efficacy.


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Our History
The group was founded under the title of 'Keele Boy Scouts' way back in 1932 by a group of local lads who met in an outbuilding of the Sneyd Arms Pub in Keele Village (barely 100 yard from our current meeting place!) Back in 1932 Scouting was only for boys and the uniform consisted of wide brimmed hats, long socks and short shorts, you may not have recognised a Cub Scout (or Wolf Cub back then) if they had walked past you! However our sense of adventure, having fun and helping others have been there since the beginning and are as strong now as they have ever been.
During the years of the Second World War the group became dormant as many of its leaders and older boys went off to fight for their country. After the war the group continued and when Keele University opened in 1949 the group became based on campus and were officially affiliated with the institution. This was a big change for the group as the name was changed to '94th University of Keele' and the Necker was changed to adopt the University colours of Red, Black and Gold that we still proudly wear today. The group remained happily based in various meeting places on Keele University campus for the next 46 years enjoying all the green spaces, woodlands and facilities it has to offer.
In 1995 times were changing and spaces to meet on campus were becoming increasingly restricted so the group moved its meeting place to St. John's Primary School in Keele Village (our current meeting place). Although the name changed to '94th St. John's Keele' we kept the University colours for our Necker to show that we were still very much a part of Keele University's past and future.
94th Keele celebrated our 75th anniversary in 2007, the same year as Scouting as a whole celebrated its centenary, and recently the Cubs100 in 2016 marking 100yrs of the section.
We have a small dedicated team of volunteers who work tirelessly to make the activities as fun and engaging as possible, although more help is always needed and greatly appreciated!.
In 2017 we celebrated the group's 85th birthday!
The 10th of October 2018 marked the first ever meeting of a Scout Troop at 94th Keele.
The group currently has a running Beaver Colony, Cub Pack and Scout Troop.


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Mustang Jon
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Myrtle Beach checking in. Been her for a little over three years now. Still looking for a good place to go shoot. Low Country Preserve is a bit of a drive. Also looking for a place to buy reloading supplies. All the LGS I've checked with all told me reloading supplies don't sale so they stopped carrying them.


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Old generations always hate on the new
More people are talking about generations now than ever before. For this reason I talk about it a lot with my parents, who showed confusion to when distinguishing the generations. Many people can't seem to agree when the Millennial Generation ends, but my parents strongly agree that it was before 1999, because they couldn't see my 19-year-old brother as a lazy Millennial like the media portrays them. I couldn't help to think why Millennials are experiencing so much hate recently, but it turns out, they are not alone.
For as long as there have been different ages, there has been anger between the old and young. Both believe that the way they live is the right way. This usually involves the older generation hating the inventions of the younger. Even Socrates felt this hate towards the new trend, the written word. Socrates stated, "This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves." That's right, Socrates thought writing would make the future generations forgetful and idiotic.
That was centuries ago, and this generational anger still persists in modern times. An article from the New York Times in 1904 complained about the new invention sweeping the nation, telephones. The article complains that people are on the phone so much that their right ears were becoming deaf from lack of use.
During the same decade another invention, the automobile, came under fire. Many people hated this new invention, calling them "speed demons" and "death cars." Many cities tried to get them off the streets through legislative action, believing the streets belonged to the people and horse buggies, not the new metal contraptions.
That was over 100 years ago, what hate did the currently ever-angry Baby Boomers get? Baby Boomers in their time got a lot of hate about two things: their music and their political views. Many people believed that rock and roll music led to drug use. An article from the New York Times was published on this theory. The story quotes a man saying how drug-influenced music is "the real religion of young people today."
In addition, though they seem more fragile than the average Millennial, many Baby Boomers were civil right activists for their time. They were born during the height of the civil rights movement and many took action during this time, receiving much backlash from generations before.
Older generations have always showed hate towards the younger generations. More people are aware of it now with social media bringing hateful articles to light, but it has always been here. Maybe people just get more grumpy as they get older. However, it is more likely that these people are just afraid that the world is changing and that they will be left behind, and they are trying their best to avoid that.


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por Manel Clot,
Barcelona, abril 1988 (unicamente en inglés y francés)
In these last years, and because of the work of several contemporary artists, we have often been referring to one specific way of conceiving and, as a result of this, interpreting their painting from an open and wide point of view, making a special mention of its integrative qualities and not at all exclusive, standing out its synchronic condition, not only with regard to nowadays, but also with the presence of the images and its configuration. This is a pictorial option including different situations in the same plane, imaginary or not, and being far from separating them, it joins them together juxtaposed, creating richer and richer spaces, more complex, more suggestive. All this concurrence of circumstances is denominated 'tolerant painting' because of its capacity of understanding and, over all, to its will of doing from the virtual eminent scene that the picture is, a new surface on which things live together, words and situations, all of them linked and ordered after the specific disposition in the different spaces we can find on the canvas.
Some of these qualities can be observed in Carles Gabarró's recent work. His new paintings are clearly connected to the previous work, which was much more anchored into the presentation of vestiges and allusive remains, - an idea more metaphorical than obvious -, though they are showed as a succession of scenes in which the complexity synthetic is ineluctable, and for this reason all of a series of elements, more or less grammatical, raise in units through which the artist builds polymorphic scenes, which, in one way or the other, they keep referring to the same idea that made Carles Gabarró's painting come out: the memory of things, melancholy, the tragical feeling, the recent pastime, the signs as an object substitution and, finally, the allusion to man's moods and to his circumstances, from the past and the coming ones. A11 these wishes imply some sort of attribution to certain assumptions determined as romantic, to those deeper ones, but far from being considered just as fashion, they seem tune up better with what is supposed to be our existence in the world now.
The images casting whom we must face to while looking at these paintings is not a repertoire taken out unitarian and directly from reality or even from its different and possible deformations, nor a scientific reproduction of devices, nor a taxonomic and prosaic inventory, but a careful synthesis in each one of these presences. It is a meaningful operation thanks to whom things we are able to see refer more to the 'word' whom it is designed in the language with than to its own physical status. We are under the metaphor's control or even under the half burned allusion, a control implying not only personal registers and unique -association, meaning, remembrance and work-, as levels of fineness affecting the global view on their symbology, lighter in some cases and closer on the rest, understanding this is a necessary global view to be able and look at these pictures, thanks to their symbiosis of elements and to their particular configuration, for the detaching operations must always be made 'a posteriori'.
Because of this, 'things' lose their material importance and the likely anecdotes typical of this condition, because this is not interesting for us, and there they appear, dressed up with a new or new meanings given by the pastime and so the uses they have been surrounded to. I don't only talk a bout these as possible tools or things endowed physically, but to all the test marking their linguistic line. They have been building their paradigmatic character as a store of feelings, as a well of meanings and as a warehouse of different meanings, affecting somehow to its historical functionality or to its contemporary function. To work with any possibility between this wide range of registrations means to operate in the levels of the rhetoric and the imagination, understood as disciplines notas simple aesthetic speculation, which will lead usto emptythe final appearance out. Evidence must give way to allusion, reference and to fineness; not to cry out, but whisper.
The election of figurative elements conditions, somehow, its own disposition on the canvas and the final configuration on the painting. This can be watched comparing Carles Gabarró's present work with the paintings he made two or three year ago, on which one can hardly watch the possibility of compartment that nowadays and on his newest 'dead natures' paintings, he seems to have developped. This compartment, which is only a particular necessity of order means an important linking in the internal dynamic of Carles Gabarró's work with the use made by the figurative and visuaI recourses, not only referring to the iconographic aspects but also to the way of painting each of the parts. It is possible to find here, having always in mind the global idea of landscapes which is a virtue on this artist (a series of 'seascapes', 'human' 'ideological' and even 'dead natures' ones, remembering the 'vanitas' he loves very much), because it is possible to find spaces limited by visuaI walls cutting the picture into scopes needed one to another, on which the figurative presences in every one of these hold a permanent dialogue as if we were doing a sequence in which parts refer to the whole thing; at the same time we also find an other zone in which an apparent unity is built because of different manipulations related to thetechnics used as much asto the elements represented, which are not exactly what they apparently look. They work as organs related to worlds which are smoothly far from reality.
There are two main subjects which seem to be the center in the artist's reflections: 'dead natures' and 'seascapes". They are an idoneous way to structure his worries, not only the formal ones, being able to think about what the world really means, its circumstances, the artist's own condition, as a person and as an artist he is, and the respective implications on it.
Under those points of view, Carles Gabarró's paintings make me use this special terminology, treated on a very personal way, comparable to some of the positions that triumphed in the 'romanticism time', as far as man's fate and his luck is concerned, leaving away any hypothetic speculation referred to closeness, receiving direct influence from what their figures are and what they mean, somehow much to do with biological references better than biographical, to the hidden lines gone with the thought, memory and man's own status as an individual, through the recurrence to what we could call the vocabulary -always personal- built on the virtue of a new syntactic reinvention and, finally, humanist.


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A volleyball player from Haryana's Rewari village has accused her coach Gaurav Deshwal for raping her for over 2 years.
Teen girl in her written complaint wrote that the coach raped me at Gurgaon, Rohtak and one other location.
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Scientists are working on the Archimedes Palimpsest digitally produced 700 years old Vaishnava palm-leaf manuscript again with modern imaging technologies. The project, led by PR Mukund and Roger L. Easton Jr., professors Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, are digitally preserve the original writings known scientists Sarvamoola-granthas teachers attribute Sripad Madhvacharya (1238- 1317). The collection of 36 works contains his comments on the Sanskrit scriptures and conveys an exposition of his philosophical system (in people Dvaita Vedanta, known for his output from the previous system Sripad Sankaracharya Advaita Vedanta stress).
Mukund became involved in the project as his spiritual teacher in India, the problem of knowledge is expressed and asked him to find a solution. This has been studied for Mukund a personal goal, the Sanatana Dharma and taught and understood for the importance of the document for future researchers. The accuracy of existing printed copies Sarvamoola-granthas is unknown. Mukund sought the expertise of RIT colleague Easton, the Dead Sea Scrolls was ready, and is currently working on the Archimedes Palimpsest. Easton, Chester F. Carlson Professor of Imaging Science Center RIT brought Keith Knox, principal investigator for imaging at Boeing LTS, as a consultant. Mukund added Ajay Pasupuleti, a doctoral student in microsystems at RIT, and the team was formed.
The document is difficult to handle and read the result of centuries of inappropriate storage techniques, preservation efforts failed and degradation due to improper handling. Each leaf of the manuscript is 26 inches long and two inches wide (66 cm x 5 cm) and tied together with a cord threaded through twisted two holes. Heavy wooden covers sandwich the 340 palm leaves, cracked and chipped at the edges. Time and misapplication of oil have aged palm leaves dark brown, obscuring the Sanskrit writings.
It is literally crumbling to dust, says Mukund, the Gleason Professor of Electrical Engineering of the RIT. After Mukund, 15 percent of the manuscript is not found. The book was never opened again, unless there is a compelling reason to do so, Mukund says, because every time they do, they lose. Then there is no need to open the book.
The scientists traveled to India in December 2005 in a monastery in Udupi Matha as India is stored to evaluate the document. Supported by a grant from RIT, the team at the monastery in June and spent six days imaging the document of a scientific digital camera and an infrared filter to enhance the contrast between the ink sheet and palm oil. Images of each palm leaf, back and front, were captured in eight to ten sections, then processed and digitally stitched together.
"The picture is very simple," said Easton. The leaves, or what remained of it, was placed on a movable table. As Assemblyman, Pasupuleti spent hours a day. Stitch also has the table a short distance, take a picture and then repeat the process each image a square of two inches (5 cm x 5 cm) summer leaf covers over 7900 digital output images. - Supervised work largely by Knox, several image processing algorithms using Adobe Photoshop and custom software Knox.
This is a very important application of the same types of tools that we have used in the Archimedes Palimpsest, Easton said. Not coincidentally, it was also one of the best projects in my career, since the results are of great interest to many people in India will be.
The images processed Sarvamoola-granthas be stored in a variety of media formats, including electronic media published books and on silicon wafers for long-term archiving. Etching writings on silicon wafers was the idea of Mukund Pasupuleti students. This process, called aluminum metallization for providing an image on a wafer through a negative of the image and to transmit the deposition of metal on the silicon surface. Pasupuleti After each wafer can contain the image of three leaves. More will be needed to store the entire manuscript hundreds of these units. As File, silicon wafers are both durable fire and water resistant, and can be read with a magnifying glass.Mukund and Pasupuleti return in late November to India to give printed and electronic versions, the monastery in Udupi in a public ceremony in Bangalore, the largest city in the region of Karnataka Sarvamoola-granthas city. We think we were fortunate to have the opportunity to do so, Mukund said. It was a fantastic and profoundly spiritual experience, and all came off clean.
Based on the success of this project financing image Mukund other sampradaya Vaishnava manuscripts Dvaita-in Udupi region written since the time of Sripad Madhvacharya sought. the existence of approximately 800 palm leaf manuscripts, some of which are in private collections is calculated.
Each palm leaf manuscript of the sacred, the Sarvamoola-granthas been detected in several sections, processed and digitally stitched together. The blurred image showing the state of an original sheet of text, sewn together, but it's not. The sharper image shows a stitched and processed page after images modern technologies are applied. Images were taken by Roger Easton, from Rochester Institute of Technology, and Keith Knox, Boeing LTS a Sensys scientific digital camera and an infrared filter device.
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Two faces of global trade
The undeclared tariff war over steel has again underlined the perils of global trade. As steel workers in three continents are finding out, globalisation can open new markets just as easily as it can take them away. The recent experience of Chinese steel workers also shows how the same global connections that destroy jobs can usher in new ones.
The root cause of the trade war - a steel glut in China - originated in 2008, when Beijing introduced massive stimulus spending to stave off the global recession. China's installed capacity of steel production rose from 644 million tonnes that year to 1.14 billion tonnes in 2014.
Now with the world sliding into another economic down drift, China is sitting on half of the world's steel production. Its effort to unload its stockpiles has triggered competitive price- cutting, threatening all producers. As China champions subsidised production, the rest of the world's ire has naturally fallen on Beijing.
Earlier this year, the US imposed whopping 265 per cent duties on Chinese steelmakers. The European Commission followed suit, imposing 22 to 36 per cent duties on Chinese and Russian steel imports.
In late July, China retaliated with its own anti-dumping duties on steel imports from Japan, South Korea and the European Union. As New Zealand initiated an anti-dumping investigation, Beijing has threatened to cut dairy imports from the country, while Mexico is getting ready to impose anti-dumping duties on China and Taiwan. Now India has joined in by imposing duty on imports from China and five other countries.
Cut-price steel causing unemployment has emerged as a lightning rod for discontent about globalisation and was a factor in the British decision to exit the European Union. Some 11,000 jobs in the United Kingdom were in danger as Tata Steel, reeling from the effects of Chinese dumping, considered closure.
In the US, steel workers, who have already suffered due to Chinese inroads, now face massive layoffs. These disaffected blue-collar employees have formed the army of discontent propelling protectionist Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's candidacy, and even forced Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to change her tune on trade.
Ironically, it is not just China's trade partners which are suffering from the downside of globalisation. The poster child of successful globalisation, China, too, faces serious threats of social instability resulting from its steel glut. If it gives in to international pressure and cuts back capacity, around one million workers would lose their jobs. China has, instead, chosen to use its deep pockets to keep many zombie steel producers alive, which has emerged as a long-term systemic threat to China.
The administration of President Xi Jinping, seeking to seize the initiative, has promised to shut down zombie factories, lay off redundant workers and set up a 100 billion yuan (S$20.2 billion) special fund to compensate, reallocate and retrain the newly unemployed. But it has not yet mustered the courage to take the momentous step, cutting only 30 per cent of the steel capacity that it had promised to trim this year.
Fortunately, China's deep engagement with the globalised world also offers solutions and not just problems. The country's cab-hailing start-up and an Uber rival, Didi Chuxing, managed to buy out Uber's mainland business as well as attract a US$1 billion (S$1.35 billion) investment from Apple Inc. This massive increase of capital and market share has not only brightened the company's prospects, but it has brought succour to the ailing steel mills.
It has added over half a million redundant steel workers and coal miners to its pool of 14 million drivers. The same workers, who might otherwise have joined the anti-globalisation camp, now have reason to feel more optimistic about their prospects in this connected world.
• The writer is consulting editor of Yale Global Online, published by the MacMillan Centre, Yale University.


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Over the past week I was in Newport Beach to deliver a speech to the Family Office Association on risk. This got me thinking that I should do a series of articles on risk as well for Wall Street Rebel
Most investors whether they are professionals or individuals do not spend enough time on risk. At best, maybe 5% of their time is spent on this subject. The reality is that this number should be more like 25% especially as the stock market moves from "risk off" to "risk on". So as we get started on this review of risk, let's define it.
Risk is the possibility of loss or injury. If you are skiing a double black run after an ice storm, then the risk could be high to your body. If you are buying high growth stocks with P/E ratios of 40 or higher in a stock market that is no longer advancing, then the risk could be to your portfolio and losing money.
No one likes to lose money and that is why we have to spend time on risk. It is interesting that sometimes, risk is not a clear and present danger and then suddenly it appears, almost like a switch being flipped on.
In September, the research of Phil Erlanger told us that the switch was about to be flipped to "risk on". Why? Quite simply the percentage of Type 4s was rising in a stock market that was hitting new highs on the S&P 500. Once the Type 4s for the the market get above 10% it usually time for the fireworks to start.
What is a Type 4? First, it is a stock that is lagging the return of the S&P 500. So if the S&P 500 was up 10% and the stock we were looking at was up 4%, then that would be a laggard. This is the first criteria of a Type 4, a technical pattern is lagging the S&P 500.
The second criteria is that no speculators are shorting the stock. Either they think that the company in question is executing or they think the sector and or the market are too strong to try and short.
September saw many stocks become Type 4s in Phil's work and as such we put our clients on notice. Time to move portfolios from "risk on" to "risk off". The great thing about tracking the Type 4s is that when they begin to rise typically we have time to make adjustments while others are still buying stocks. In other words, we get to sell before a panic starts.
The chart above shows several times over the past few years when the percentage of Type 4s rose with a rising S&P 500 and what happened afterwards.
This indicator is pure money and worth the price of admission to Phil's research. One can not afford to be blindsided in a market where in a matter of several days one could see their portfolio drop between 5% and 10%.


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When nearly every part of a house has some sort of remodeling done, we call it a complete home makeover.
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This recent home remodel in San Diego shows how dramatically you can change the look and feel of your home, both inside and out. In this home, we remodeled every room, converted it to an open floor plan, remodeled the kitchen and bathroom, installed a new roof, added solar panels, upgraded the electrical panel, re-piped, redid the fireplace, and added an outdoor living area.
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This project included roofing, painting, rebuilding a second story composite walking deck, building a composite patio, installing a skylight, a kitchen remodel with custom cabinets, two bathroom remodels with tile to the ceiling, tile floor installation, refinish of existing hardwood floor, acoustic removal, interior texture and paint, exterior paint, windows, stucco, doors, new concrete and turning a game room into a master bedroom with a walk-in closet and bathroom.
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Father/Son Retreat
Come and enjoy the beautiful New England Spring at Camp Northfield for our annual Father/ Son Retreat. There will be Bible preaching, great food, and father and son activities.
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Ladies Retreat
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Man Camp
Men don't retreat, they camp! Join us at Camp Northfield where we will enjoy great food and hear from Pastor and Retired Game Warden of Pennsylvania Jack Lucas.
Speaker: Pastor/ Retired Game Warden Jack Lucas
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We care so much about what we're putting into our bodies, seeking out natural, organic, GMO-free foods and supplements but what about what we're putting on our skin? These five Vancouver-based brands are free of chemicals and fillers and are jam-packed with natural, plant-based ingredients that have incredible medicinal benefits for our skin. They are all products you can feel good about, and, bonus, they actually work.
Pinkhouse products are so natural, you could eat them (not that we recommend trying that, but just saying). The ladies behind this Vancouver-based beauty brand aim to educate other women on the impact of the ingredients they are putting on their bodies and to promote health within the beauty industry. The name Pink House is inspired by their family home, which was filled with pink, inside and out (including their grandmother's pink Cadillac parked outside) and makes perfect sense as it's a true family affair.
Just after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, Karen Sjoberg and her sister Tracy Olesen founded Pink House. During her treatment process, their mission became clear: to create clean beauty products after learning about all the toxins in the products they were using daily and lack of truly natural brands to invest in. Heartbreakingly, Karen lost her battle with cancer in 2015. To honour their mother's legacy, her daughters Tegan Klenner and Lindsay Sjoberg joined their aunt in business and now continue to create products that are always 100% natural, always affordable and actually work—and, on top of that, are made with a whole lot of love.
Their products are made with outstanding ingredients, without a hefty price tag to ensure they're accessible for everyone. Fan favourites include the Face Fix Serum made for non-greasy blemish repair and jam-packed with vitamins and antioxidants, with natural sun protection. The Pink Mask, made with Australian pink clay, is all about evening out the skin tone, thanks to the bergamot and healing the skin, thanks to the frankincense. If you're looking for truly natural products with zero icky or controversial ingredients, these are it.
You may know Woodlot for its beautifully-designed, naturally-scented candles with an unmistakably minimal aesthetic that has graced the tabletops of many design-forward homes and businesses since launching in 2014 with soy and coconut candles infused with essential oils. Two years ago, owners Sonia and Fouad brought the natural healing properties of essential oils into a skincare line. All of their products are 100% natural, GMO-free, and eco-friendly and the ethos of the brand is to replace toxic products with natural and effective ones by using ancient methods of hands-on craftsmanship and ethically-sourced, natural ingredients, which will have an impact on many generations to come. The result is an at-home, spa-like experience.
Their skincare line is comprised of gentle-yet-effective products that are as effective as they are calming. The nourishing cleansing balm, filled with essential oils and moisturizing shea butter, gently removes dirt and make-up without stripping the skin, leaving it baby soft. It also doubles as an overnight spot treatment for existing blemishes. This balm also works great with their gentle almond and quinoa-based Fresh Face Exfoliant for extra-smooth skin.
Follow that with the nourishing facial toner made with calming rose water and moisturizing hyaluronic acid, and finish off the routine with their nourishing facial oil made with a powerful blend of oils that create a vitamin-rich, moisturizing blend that creates a radiant complexion. The green tea face mask is the perfect weekly addition to any skincare routine, leaving you refreshed. They also recently launched their own line of pure, potent, plant-based essential oil blends, perfect for you diffuser, humidifier or the bath.
More than simply a natural skincare brand, CEREMONIE is all about the ritual that comes along with taking care of your skin and overall mental and physical wellness. Founder Mimi Young is both a shamanic and neuro-feedback practitioner. Her shamanic work is to enhance people's sense of purpose in the world, and her neuro-feedback work helps people enhance their brain health by building neurological resilience.
She refers to her unconventional holistic skincare products as plant medicine. By combining shamanic practices with her training in aromatics for skin and the latest in skin science and botanical healing, she has turned plant-based skincare into a spiritual experience—what she describes as the intersection of ancient and frontier healing.
All of her products are handmade in shamanic ritual—meaning she's in an active trance while the products are made to order. Favorites include the Ritual Complete Facial Elixir, which replaces traditional moisturizers and serums with ultra-absorbent plants such as camellia flower, chamomile, rosehip, carrot and yarrow. Don't forget to repeat the mantra, "I am beautiful from every facet," while applying. The unique Sacred Smudge Mist offers a smokeless alternative to the conventional burning of sacred plants in the indigenous ceremony. The blend includes a variety of Canadian trees, such as red cedar, douglas fir and pine, and is intended to purify both your physical space and spirit—the perfect blend to use during meditation.
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Their newly-launched face and hair-care line includes the Exfoliating Face Wash that's made with Canadian glacial clay and fruit-derived AHA'S, making it perfect for removing grime and dead skin, revealing a smoother, brighter, younger-looking complexion. It's also antibacterial which helps reduce blackheads and acne.
Their classic, must-have staple is the Park Ranger Beard Oil which is about as close to nature as your beard can get. Made with a woodsy base of cedarwood and patchouli is complemented by resinous tones of cedar leaf, spruce, and lemon. It's deeply hydrating and absorbs easily into your beard and skin without leaving behind any greasy residue.


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Zimbabwean police tortured some of the 46 rights activists facing treason charges after their arrest last week at a meeting to discuss the mass protests in Egypt, a lawyer said on Thursday.
He said that during interrogation police had taken turns torturing some of the activists.
"They were brutalised all over the body and under their feet and buttocks with broomsticks, steel bars and other blunt objects," he said at a procedural hearing on Thursday.
Police did not respond to the allegations, but were expected to present their case in court later.
Munyaradzi Gwisai, a university lecturer and former lawmaker from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party was arrested on Saturday along with 45 others at a meeting to discuss the uprising that led to the ouster of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.
Those arrested included members of the audience and some passers-by.
The group has been charged with treason, which carries the death sentence in Zimbabwe.
Gwisai said in court that state security agents had beaten him up when he gave what they deemed to be unsatisfactory answers on the activists' alleged plot to overthrow President Robert Mugabe, who has been in power since 1980.
"While under recordings I was given particular instruction that I must admit that I had said, 'Abaixa Mugabe' (down with Mugabe) and that he must be removed. I did not utter those words, but I also explained President Mugabe is an elected leader and can be subjected to the will of the people," Gwisai said.
"Whenever I gave a reply which was not satisfactory I was asked to lie on my stomach and I should have received 15 to 20 lashings," he added.
"I suffered incredible pain, it was sadistic and a tragedy for this country."
He said the meeting had been a "scholarly and intellectual debate."
Their lawyer said some of the activists who were on life-prolonging anti-HIV drugs had been denied access to their medicine.
The prosecution said on Thursday the activists' meeting had been convened "to organise the removal of a constitutional government by unconstitutional means.
"In their speeches, the accused highlighted that there was a long-serving dictator, authoritarian leader, general poverty, unemployment and capitalist practices where the general populace of Zimbabwe was suffering," prosecutors said in their charge sheet.
The arrests have drawn international condemnation, including from the US State Department, which said Mugabe "did not learn the right lessons" from the popular revolts in Egypt and Tunisia.
The hearing continues on Monday.
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Two people escaped injury Tuesday when an airplane ran off a runway on takeoff at the Hollister airport and crashed into a small grass bank.
The accident happened around 1:30 p.m. at the Hollister Municipal Airport. Neither of the two people on the plane, including the pilot and mechanic, were U.S. residents, said Hollister police Capt. Carlos Reynoso. The Australian pilot declined to comment at the accident scene.
The two men reported to police investigators that the Beechcraft 18 aircraft lost power on takeoff. It skidded off the runway and stopped when it struck the small mound on the northwest end of the airport.
There was minor damage to the airplane to the front-right wheel.
The Federal Aviation Administration was set to follow up Tuesday with its own investigation.


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Earlier this week, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell promised a new Obamacare bill would be delivered by tomorrow morning and that a vote would be scheduled for next week. Of course, we've heard that story many times in the past so only time will tell whether there's any truth to it this time. We have our doubts.
But apparently Rand Paul (R-KY), who has just published an op-ed on Breitbart, isn't a fan of what he's hearing about the new bill which he says is more or less a capitulation by Republicans to simply "keep Obamacare."
I miss the old days, when Republicans stood for repealing Obamacare. Republicans across the country and every member of my caucus campaigned on repeal – often declaring they would tear out Obamacare "root and branch!"
What happened?
The Senate Obamacare bill does not repeal Obamacare. I want to repeat that so everyone realizes why I'll vote "no" as it stands now:
The Senate Obamacare bill does not repeal Obamacare. Not even close.
Of course, it's not terribly surprising that Paul, the Senate's lone "Libertarian-ish" politician (as he once described himself to a group of Harvard students), is opposed to the Senate's new bill which he says does very little to strip out Obamacare's burdensome regulations, taxes and/or taxpayer-funded subsidies to privately-owned insurance companies.
Now too many Republicans are falling all over themselves to stuff hundreds of billions of taxpayers' dollars into a bill that doesn't repeal Obamacare and feeds Big Insurance a huge bailout.
Obamacare regulations? Still here. Taxes? Many still in place, totaling hundreds of billions of dollars.
Insurance company bailouts? Those, too. Remember when Republicans complained about Obamacare's risk corridors? Remember when we called the corridors nothing more than insurance company bailouts? I remember when one prominent GOP candidate during a presidential debate explicitly called out the Obamacare risk corridors as a bailout to insurance companies. Does anyone else?
Now, the Senate GOP plan being put forward is chock full of insurance bailout money – to the tune of nearly $200 billion. Republicans, present company excluded, now support the idea of lowering your insurance premium by giving a subsidy to the insurance company.
Just like the "Obamacare mandate," which we've argued will undoubtedly be used as a basis to force Americans to buy other products they don't want and/or need in the future all for the benefit of the "greater public good," Paul notes that arbitrarily choosing to subsidize the purchase price of a privately marketed good sets a very dangerous precedent which can be applied to a "limitless" number of products in the future.
Remarkable. If the GOP now supports an insurance stabilization fund to lower insurance prices, maybe they now support a New Car stabilization fund to lower the price of cars. Or maybe the GOP would support an iPhone stabilization fund to lower the price of phones.
The possibilities are limitless once you accept that the federal government should subsidize prices. I remember when Republicans favored the free choice of the marketplace.
As we noted nearly a month ago, Paul is part of a 4-person consortium of conservative Senators, the others being Ted Cruz (TX), Ron Johnson (WI) and Mike Lee (UT), who have vowed to oppose any Senate bill that stops short of fulfilling a promise made to the American public to "repeal Obamacare and lower their health care costs."
I was first elected in the heady days of the Tea Party Tidal Wave, when tens of thousands of citizens gathered on the central city lawn to protest Big Government, Big Debt, and a government takeover of health care.
This citizenry won in four elections. Each time, the GOP establishment told conservatives, "We can't repeal Obamacare until we have all three branches of government." Finally, in 2016, that came to pass. Republicans now control all three branches of government.
And . . . the best that is offered is Obamacare-lite: keeping the Obamacare subsidies, keeping some of the Obamacare taxes, creating a giant insurance bailout superfund, and keeping most of the Obamacare regulations.
Shame. Shame on many in the GOP for promising repeal and instead affirming, keeping, and, in some cases, expanding Obamacare. What a shame.
Something tells us that Rand Paul is still a 'no' vote...


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Valentine's Day crap has filled the stores.
I say crap because most of these things really don't represent admiration or love, they are meant to when given as a gift on Valentine's Day I suppose but really?
As cute and soft as giant teddy bears are, what the hell is a grown women supposed to do with that.
It's not that I haven't appreciated the odd stuffed toy as a symbol of "love" but I really deep down don't want the burden of storing the dam thing.
Since I am single I won't have to worry about this. *Sigh*
I figured if I'm going to be mad at a day I should at least know something about it so I looked it up and this is all coming out of me as a result of reading about the history of Valentine's Day.
When Valentine cards were all handmade and it was chocolates or flowers exchanged.
Not over sized singing monkeys.
I also read about different Valentine's Day customs.
This one made my face go screwy:
In�South Korea, similar to Japan, women give chocolate to men on February 14, and men give non-chocolate candy to women on March 14 (White Day). On April 14 (Black Day), those who did not receive anything on the 14th of Feb or March go to a Chinese restaurant to eat black noodles (???�jajangmyeon) and "mourn" their single life.[50]
�^�Domingo, Ronnel.�Among Asians, Filipinos dig Valentine's Day the most.�Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 14, 2008.
Wow, I guess being single really does suck.�
I don't know about the black noodles but I may simulate my own 'Black Day'.
Instead of waiting to mourn my single life though I'll do it on February 14th when I'll genuinely be in the mood to mourn.
Thank you, South Korea for I will now refer to you when defending my legitimate pout.�


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Animals should live happily in the nature. They're the gift from God, which we must preserve their existence carefully. We often find animal abused on TV News, newspaper or even internet. Burning dogs, killing small powerless cats only for happiness or even nurturing monkeys to be tortured later. Here are some animal fights, which often happens in Indonesia. They are used as real amusement. Legal or not? However, some of them are parts of culture which held periodically. With weak laws, Indonesia is a heaven for animal fight lovers.
1. Dog
It is not curious to see dog fight. Many people like to watch this attraction, since it's entertaining and tensive. Two poor dogs fight each other in the cirque until they meet their limits. It often happens when the fight ends with death. The lost dogs will absolutely die. In fact, the winner will be alive only for a short time. Sooner or later, it will die too due to infection and great injury. `Bali Bloody Summer` can be a good example for this matter. At first, they take care of dogs, train them regularly to get a great performance as a result. Before fighting. They usually don't feed them to make the animals hungry and aggressive. This attraction spurs audience, which sometimes gamble to make the attraction more pleasure
2. Horse
It is one of South-East Sulawesi culture to conduct horse rivalry. It is held regularly in a year: In the independent day (17 August), Eid-Mubarak or even when the inhabitants host important guests. The local occupants call this attraction "Pogeraha Adara", which means "horse power compete". They select big and powerful horses to fight. This attraction is a legacy from the home-grown empire when they received important visitors. The horse must win to get a group of female horses as gift.
3. Rooster
One of the most famous animal fight is "Adu Ayam Jago" (Rooster's fight). The owner installs irons to rooster's paws. Base on the folklore, two kingdoms speculated two cocks as heroes. As one rooster failed, they had to give a half of property to the opposite kingdom. Nowadays, "Adu Ayam Jago" is held only for a luxuriant recital to replenish boredom. The owner always praises to his hero as it produces a lot of money.
4. Sheep
Fighting Sheep is held with accompaniment as a ceremonial in certain months of June, August and December in Garut, West Java. The history began from the government era in about 1815 – 1829. When a functionary used to come to his friends to see his sheeps. He put an interest to incite sheeps in a fight. The winner was trusted as a supreme sheep, which had to be proliferated to get excellent ancestries. Many people come to the area only to watch this addictive presentment.
5. Dogs VS wild boar (Crazy Cross Over Animal Fight)
Many people in certain places love to watch the fight between dogs and a wild boar. Since an adult wild boar has a bigger body and stronger power. It must come together with two or three dogs. All in all, for the residents, gambling a great amount of money is a shortcut, which can fix one's financial problem and reduce stressed coincidentally.


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Sony, IBM, Others Back Green Patent Initiative
A consortium of CE industry heavyweights came together in an alliance announced Monday that will make it easier for them to share patents for intellectual property that helps the environment. According to the Wall Street Journal, the initiative is called the "Eco-Patent Commons," and is inspired by open-source software programmers who have done similar things in the past. Charter members of the Eco-Patent Commons include IBM, Nokia, Pitney Bowes and Sony, and together they will start by donating about 30 patents. Two of the originals are an IBM-developed method for protective-packaging material for electronics that can be easily recycling, while Nokia is contributing a method for recycling obsolete cell phones. The project will be administered by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
For more on the initiative, visit www.wbcsd.org/web/epc
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Volume 1 Chapter 3 (Part 3)
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A spring night in the fourth month.
Fluttering snow filled the whole sky.
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The sparkling and resplendent snowflakes danced on the jade stage, whirled about and smiled gently. They leapt out from the lapel and sleeves of the man dressed in snow-white who was playing the zither, revealing the most blissful smile.
The snowflakes beside the man dressed in snow-white seemed to have a life of their own. They were reluctant to leave him, brilliantly leaping on the tips of his eyebrows and the corner of the mouth.
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Indoor Localization Competition
The Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition is a well-known annual benchmark for assessing many approaches to indoor localization. The purpose of the competition was to bring together real-time indoor location technologies and compare their performance in the same space. The competition had nearly 50 competitors in 2D and the more challenging 3D category. Each team…Read More at In The Scan


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The World's Biggest Sleep-Out For Homelessness
DC Thomson Media has raised an incredible £26K for Social Bite!
On Saturday night, 45 staff members from across various departments of DC Thomson Media took part in the world's biggest sleep-out, Sleep in the Park!
As hosted by the social enterprise, Social Bite, the event aimed to raise money and awareness for homelessness across Scotland. And our very own Celebrity Editor, Hannah McLaren, took part on behalf of My Weekly.
More than 10,000 people spent the night sleeping rough in parks across Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow – where the effects of austerity are felt the most. So far, an incredibly £3.6m has been raised – £26,000 of which was collected by DC Thomson Media alone.
Donations made to Social Bite will tackle homelessness in Scotland from every angle. The money raised will feed those who are starving, employ those who are out of work, build sustainable and comfortable temporary homes for those who are bouncing between hostels, B&Bs and sleeping rough, and fund vital academic studies to determine the root of this problem and how the government can best intervene.
Josh Littlejohn MBE, co-founder of Social Bite expressed his gratitude to the thousands who took part.
There are 11,000 homeless households in Scotland. When I think about all of the amazing different people, sleeping out throughout Scotland tonight, the one thing that strikes me is that homelessness isn't insurmountable. Scotland is a small enough country, a compassionate enough country and a collaborative enough country, where nobody has to be homeless here.
My Weekly's Hannah also shared what she thought of the night.
"It was eye opening to experience this level of prolonged cold through till morning. But this was only one night and we weren't truly sleeping rough, just sleeping uncomfortably. It's important to remember that what we'd call an experience is an unfortunate way of life for those who are without a home. We got to walk away before the sun even came up.
"But everyone in Dundee took the event very seriously and tried to get some sleep on the frosty ground. And the relief to get home and into bed was sobering.
"After hearing at the event from those who Social Bite and partners have helped, it seems the money donated really will benefit the cause."


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Monday, March 16, 2009
Grab your popcorn, please take your seats...
So grab some hot buttered liver snaps, take a nice long walk and remember, theater management frowns upon pee-mailing during the feature film. No need to shove. There are plenty of seats for everyone...
25 comments:
- NAK and The Residents of The Khottage said...
I'm getting so furry nervous...
Same thing fur Joey!
It has all been soooo much fun!
PeeEssWoo: And I thought judging BIS at MANGO Minster 2009 was tough work!
- March 16, 2009 at 10:31 PM
- Lorenza said...
I am so ready!
It is going to be pawesome!
Have a good night
Kisses and hugs
- March 16, 2009 at 10:38 PM
- Lucia said...
Ciao Petey and Mango!
I'm so 'cited for the show to begin that I can't stop tailwagging!!!
Tanti baci!
- March 16, 2009 at 10:53 PM
- Joe Stains said...
I am sooo nervous!! I have been studying and practicing, check out my blog.
- March 17, 2009 at 12:00 AM
- NESSA the hovawart said...
Hi, Petey and Mango,
can't wait...please hurry:-)
Kisses and hugs,
- March 17, 2009 at 2:28 AM
- Martha said...
We're not ready - we still have to get our dances right!
Our costumes aren't right! Lorenza has still to take Martha's in after the tummy tuck!
We don't know our lines yet!
We will go lie down - can't cope with all this pressure.............
Martha & Bailey xxx
PS you sure had fun visiting Asta - what do you mean you had left your wallet when you saw an outfit for Rosie????
- March 17, 2009 at 4:13 AM
- Morgan in Pittsburgh said...
I can't wait to see this!
your pal, Morgan
- March 17, 2009 at 4:15 AM
- Suzuki said...
Eeek. I'm starting to get stage fright!
Big licks to you
- March 17, 2009 at 5:26 AM
- Molly the Airedale said...
We love popcorn! We are ready and waiting!
Love ya lots,
Maggie and Mitch
- March 17, 2009 at 5:43 AM
- Dexter said...
I sure look good, huh? Bae Bae likes to ride on my large and rock hard head just like Girl Girl did.
P.S. Can't wait for the big event!
- March 17, 2009 at 6:33 AM
- Abby said...
Hi, Petey & Ummm...Mango & Bae Bae, too...
Can't wait to see the show...
Abby xxxooo
- March 17, 2009 at 6:37 AM
- Scooby said...
Thanks for the booty link Petey.
- March 17, 2009 at 6:45 AM
- Dughallmor Beagles said...
Limbering up as "she" types....excited and nervous all at the same time....can't wait!
Let's hope the applause is relentlessly huge :D
Our kilts are itchy....and Alfie has lost his sghean dubh....probably showing off with it for Mason Dixie....do you think Lorenza has a spare?
Rosie-Posie is worried that she'll mess up when she sees Petey in his kilt....have smelling salts at the ready incase of on-set swooning!
Slobbers xx
- March 17, 2009 at 8:02 AM
Oh boy, I can't wait! The show looks like it's going to be great! (And I hope Maggie and Mitch drop some of their popcorn.)
See ya!
- March 17, 2009 at 9:17 AM
- Gus said...
Sleeping under starry skies
There my Furry Rosie Lies
Let the Tennis balls surround us
Let the doggies cry above
In this Valley there'll be love
- March 17, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Toffee said...
mmmm...hot buttered liver snaps....but Mango...would you mind not sitting in the front row? Riley is a little wee man and cannot see over your relentlessly hooge head...
- March 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM
- Scruffy, Lacie and Stanley's Place said...
Petey...Mango comparin' his head to a rock is the truest thing I've read in these comments so far...
Petey...these kilts are killin' me....the boyz all want theirs way too long...and half of them have lost their pin or whatever official name you call that clippy thing....
Barkin' at ya...
- March 17, 2009 at 10:51 AM
- Arran, Arthur and Mum said...
I can hardly contain my excitement!!!
- March 17, 2009 at 12:54 PM
- Petra said...
Oh my dogness, it looks like I'm back just at the right time. I can hardly wait for the show to begin and popcorn is one of my favorites!
Thanks so much for thinking and praying for my family during the illness and passing of my grandpa, Petey.
- March 17, 2009 at 1:00 PM
- LuLu and LoLLy! said...
TWO PAWS UP! Love, your PaLs, LuLu and LoLLy!
- March 17, 2009 at 1:44 PM
- Eric said...
Petey. I've just left a comment for you on your last post. Sorry I was late. Been wagging my wig wag at dress rehearsals. Thank dog Toffee's only got eyes for me.
Excellent work Petey.Excellent.
Eric xxx
- March 17, 2009 at 3:23 PM
- Simba and Jazzi said...
We can't wait.
Simba and Jazzi xxx
- March 17, 2009 at 3:45 PM
- BenTheRotti said...
My sword is definatley bigger!! My on screen wife declared it so!
I have the pawfect trick to calm Khyra's nerves.. not sure I can share it so publicly though!
I'm having a great time..
Ben xxxx
- March 17, 2009 at 4:03 PM
- The Black and Tans. said...
Taffy has been practising hard. It has been hell!
Just wait till you see my wordless Wednesday post!
- March 17, 2009 at 5:05 PM
- ♥♥ The OP Pack ♥♥ said...
Ha roooo rooooo - that's a great pic.
Tail wags, the OP Pack
- March 17, 2009 at 7:49 PM