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When talking to my friends who are moms, I have come to the realization that I'm pretty lucky that my girls are pretty good sleepers. My oldest almost always falls asleep within 5-10 minutes of laying down and then sleeps soundly through the night. My youngest takes a little longer, but once asleep, she does pretty well.
The tradeoff, however, is that they both wake up at the crack of dawn. At the latest. For the past 6 years, I have been awakened between 5:30 and 6 a.m. every morning. (And no, it doesn't matter what time they go to bed at night. They could go to bed at 7 p.m. or midnight and they'll still be up with the farm hands.)
Now, for many of you, you see this as a benefit. The early bird gets the worm, and all that. Here's the thing. I've spent nearly 40 years on this earth waking up between 7 and 8 a.m. Usually later. When we first moved to California nearly 15 years ago, my boss finally gave up trying to enforce an 8 a.m. start time. Try as I might, I couldn't get in before 8:20. And it's not because I'm a night owl. I've always gone to bed between 10 and 11 p.m. at the latest. My peak hours are between 10 am. and 1 p.m. What kind of bird does that make me?
In any case, the bottom line is that it has been a rough adjustment. Every morning is a rude awakening. And this is perhaps why I like my morning cup of tea bold and brash. Take no prisoners. A brew that kicks you in the teeth. Rise. And. Shine.
It is for this reason that I love what 3 Teas has delivered into my cup this morning. Organic Assam, pure and simple. Dark and malty. Mornin' Sunshine!
And while I am dragged into each day, mentally kicking and screaming, the truth is that I am more productive, I get to start my work day earlier, which means I get to end my work day earlier, which means I get to spend more daylight hours with my girls.
I get it now. They've been conspiring all along.


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Zuckerberg Wants Free Internet For All, XP Upgrades Halt PC Decline, And More… [Tech News Digest]
Also, New Zealand ISP gives its customers what they want, Isis discovers the power of branding, GameStop sets out to ruin video games, a potato salad is successfully funded through Kickstarter, and we all watch the 72-minute-long trailer for the 720-hour-long movie.
Zuckerberg Argues For Free Internet
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is calling for "basic Internet services" to be free and available to all. He makes his plea in an editorial for The Wall Street Journal, arguing that as the Internet will "help drive human progress" it should be accessible in the way 911 is accessible regardless of a phone plan.
This is a nice idea, but Zuckerberg doesn't explain what he means by "basic Internet services," and only briefly touches on how we, as a society, can make this happen. Big ideas are surely nothing without detailed plans.
His timing also sucks, coming the week after Facebook was found to have conducted secret experiments on its users Facebook Conducts Hundreds Of Experiments, Google Bans Porn, And More... [Tech News Digest] Fallout from the "right to be forgotten," Yahoo kills several unheard of services, Google launches Project Ara beta, Lindsay Lohan sues Rockstar over GTA V character, and Tetris gets played on a T-shirt. Read More . Why not address that issue Don't Be an Experiment: How to Control Your Facebook News Feed What determines what is and isn't a top Facebook post? How often you interact with a person, topics you're interested in, how many likes or comments the post attracts, and – apparently – psychological experiments. Read More before trying to change the world!
The PC Isn't Dead After All
You are running Windows XP with Java. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU/
— Ed Bott (@edbott) July 4, 2014
If Gartner's latest predictions are to be believed, the humble PC isn't dead after all. PC shipments slumped by an alarming 9.5 percent in 2013 Dead PCs, Gmail Stalking, Bitcoin Overstock, Kindle Kiosk [Tech News Digest] Desktops are declared dead, Gmail stalkers love Google+, Overstock starts accepting Bitcoin, scanning irises for passwords, Snapchat apologizes, Amazon starts selling hardware from a vending machine, and two companies fight over the right to pin. Read More , but the latest forecasts suggest only a slight decline of 2.9 percent in 2014. The decline in 2015 is expected to be even smaller, but shrinking declines do not represent a revival.
The reason behind this lessening drop? People upgrading from Windows XP Upgrade From Windows XP to a Modern OS in 7 Simple Steps It's time to say goodbye! Microsoft is ending official support for Windows XP on April 8 2014. Are you at risk? If you are still running this ancient operating system, it's time to upgrade. Read More . "Business upgrades from Windows XP and the general business replacement cycle will lessen the downward trend, especially in Western Europe," said Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner. "This year, we anticipate nearly 60 million professional PC replacements in mature markets."
Our readers may disagree; many are steadfastly refusing to move on from XP Windows XP: What's Happening To It Now? Windows XP may be dead, but it's not yet gone. Over 27% of computers connected to the Internet still run Windows XP. Here's exactly what "end of support" means for Windows XP systems. Read More , while others are switching to Linux. Neither of which requires a new PC.
New Zealand ISP Adds VPN To Its Service
i can't wait to finally say 'today, im a new zealand citizen'
— ?a?e? (@katiewatie46) July 8, 2014
An ISP in New Zealand called Slingshot has added a VPN to its service in order to allow customers to watch streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu. The cleverly titled "global mode" reroutes traffic so that it looks like Slingshot customers are based somewhere other than New Zealand.
Netflix hasn't yet launched in New Zealand, and Hulu is only available in the U.S. There are also plenty of other geoblocked services Slingshot customers will now be able to access by default thanks to using a VPN The Best VPN Services We've compiled a list of what we consider to be the best Virtual Private Network (VPN) service providers, grouped by premium, free, and torrent-friendly. Read More .
As this is straddling the line of legality, Slingshot suggests "global mode" is only intended for international guests staying in New Zealand. Of course it is.
Isis Rebranding To End ISIS Confusion
Mobile wallet app Isis is being forced to change its name to differentiate itself from ISIS ( the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant). Isis CEO Michael Abbott says the name has "become synonymous with violence," hence the need to rebrand. A new name has yet to be chosen, but we humbly suggest avoiding rebranding as "Al-Qaeda."
GameStop Keen On Exclusive Content
Any company that takes Gamestop up on this is publicly admitting its utter contempt for its customers.
— Jim Sterling (@JimSterling) July 8, 2014
GameStop has plans to offer more exclusive content for people pre-ordering video games from its stores in the future. This could mean GameStop "getting involved at the time of game development," partnering with developers to insert content in games which will only be accessible to those who preordered through the retailer. Because what the games industry really needs right now more locked content included on discs.
Crowdfunding A Kickstarter Potato Salad
An absolute idiot/enterprising genius (delete as appropriate) has successfully crowdfunded the making of a potato salad. Zack Danger Brown asked for just $10 but has raised $35,000 at the time of writing with 25 days left on his campaign. We suspect Kickstarter may now be regretting its decision to soften its rules Google End-To-End Encryption, Slender Man Attempted Murder [Tech News Digest] Google goes End-To-End, Kickstarter softens campaign rules, Sony kills the PSP, Chrome goes 64-bit, Slender Man attempted murder, Todoist For Business, and teens reacting to 90s Internet. Read More .
72-Minute Trailer For A 720-Hour film
And finally, Ambiancé is a new film set to have a running time of 720 hours. That's 30 days. Swedish director Anders Weberg has put the first trailer — lasting 72 minutes — online, with further, longer, trailers promised in 2016 and 2018. The full film will be released on December 31st, 2020, when it will be screened once in its entirety and then destroyed. Why? We honestly don't know.
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Mumbai: India's space agency announced that the country's Chandrayaan-2 mission to the Moon would launch on July 15.
The announcement was made by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Dr K Sivan during a meeting at the agency's headquarters on Wednesday.
"The launch of Chandrayaan-2 onboard GSLV ( Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) MkIII-M1 is planned on July 15, 2019 at 02.51 Hrs from Sriharikota," he said.
He added: "Soft landing of Vikram lander on lunar surface is likely to be on September 6 2019."
Speaking about the difficult task of conducting a soft landing on the Moon, Dr Sivan called it "15 terrifying minutes."
Earlier during the day, members of the press were given the opportunity to view Chandrayaan- 2 orbiter and lander at ISRO Satellite Integration and Test Establishment (ISITE), Bengaluru.
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It's better at home. Eating well doesn't just happen in restaurants anymore. Instead of dealing with the inconvenience of going out to eat you can now have an exceptional dining experience prepared in your own kitchen. For you and your guests, we can create a plated or family-style meal using the freshest local ingredients. We handle all shopping, prep, cooking, and cleanup. View some example menus from previous events. You can also add In-home Cooking Classes or Wine Pairing to this experience.
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Learning the foundation of classic French cooking gave me the blueprint I could use to begin my professional culinary career. In 2009 I attended The French Culinary Institute in lower Manhattan and was taught a curriculum that emphasized fundamentals and technique. While at FCI I completed an externship at Andrew Carmellini's TriBeCa restaurant Locanda Verde, getting my first taste of a high-quality, high-volume NYC landmark. After graduation from FCI I began as a line cook for Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten at the James Beard Award-winning ABC Kitchen. As I progressed through all of the kitchen stations I gained an appreciation for using only the freshest seasonal ingredients, prepared simply, with a focus on healthy eating. My experience in New York prepared me well for my journey to Charleston in 2012. At FIG I was given the opportunity to expand upon what I had already learned. I helped in the opening of their sister restaurant, The Ordinary where I watched a restaurant grow from day one. In addition to cooking I learned lessons in planning, organization, and communication that would be useful throughout my career. The idea for this business came to me when I was teaching cooking classes at The Daily in the summer of 2016. Those experiences were one part technical instruction and one part dinner party. I really enjoyed the direct interaction with guests whether we were talking techniques, recipes, or the best places to buy their favorite specialty ingredients. It's better at home. I want to bring the restaurant experience to you, in your home using your kitchen. No reservations, no downtown traffic and no more cramped, noisy dining rooms. There's no reason you can't eat as well at home as you could in a restaurant. Together we can make that happen.
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Billie's (Kaley Cuoco) new theory that her sister's kidnapping was a demonic conspiracy leads her to contact victims of various magical kidnappings, including Dalvos (guest star Sean McDermott), a partner at a powerful company who, unbeknownst to Billie, is a demon posing as a human. With the stress of trying to find her sister while her parents are visiting, Billie discovers the power of projection when she inadvertently transforms her parents into cold-blooded assassins, who are then hired by Dalvos to kill the CEO of the company. Meanwhile, Piper (Holly Marie Combs) tries to deal with Leo (Brian Krause) being gone; Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) gets a bad case of writer's block; Paige (Rose McGowan) finally connects with Henry (guest star Ivan Sergei); and Billie learns that her parents never stopped searching for her sister.
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If we cannot see symbolism as a powerful media for delivering a message, we are truly lost.
If we cannot see symbolism as a powerful media for delivering a message, we are truly lost.
No two ways about it, Rick Santorum had a good night. Not only did he sweep Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri but he also got off the best line of the night.
"I don't stand here to claim to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney. I stand here to be the conservative alternative to Barack Obama."
A slap to the side of the head of Romney while pushing him aside and casting himself as the one and only true conservative who has the creds to take on the Kenyan guy – and he did it with a single sentence. Impressive.
Is there more to this Santorum fellow than any of us give him credit for?
Not really. He's still the bigoted, narrow-minded, gay-bashing, religious zealot you always knew him to be. The only reason people are still talking about Santorum at this stage of a Republican primary is that he's fortunate enough to be running at a time when the GOP decided to put on a clown show instead of a true presidential nomination race where thinking adults articulate intelligent ideas based on strong conservative ideals.
Instead, the GOP has offered the likes of Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich who have embarrassed themselves and insulted the intelligence of Americans with…
- Wanting to do away with the minimum wage. (Bachmann)
- Wanting to build a 20 foot high electrified fence at the border that would kill Mexicans attempting to cross it. (Cain)
- Wanting to eliminate Dept. of Education/Energy/Health and Human Services, the Federal Aviation Administration, IRS and implement a $1 trillion budget cut in the first year. (Paul)
- Wanting to deregulate the oil industry further because the Gulf oil spill was simply an "act of God". (Perry)
- Wanting to colonize the moon. (Gingrich)
You could fill pages with stuff like this. Whatever world Republican candidates are hoping to make better, it sure as hell isn't the one we're living in.
And into this field of misfits, loons, pretenders and grifters comes a Rick Santorum whose main appeal is to social conservatives who agree with Santorum that:
- women who get pregnant by way of rape or incest should be forced by their government to give birth to the baby because that pregnancy is a "gift" from God.
- homosexuality is on the same level as adultery, bigamy, incest, bestiality and pedophilia.
- contraception endangers the country and should be banned.
"Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be."
Fear not. Rick Santorum will not be the Republican nominee. While he may be the anti-Romney flavor of the week, he lacks the the organization and money to take on Mitt Romney nationwide. He also lacks the support of the Republican establishment which is putting its money on Romney. They understand that selling Romney to the masses in a general election will not be an easy task but selling a hardcore crazy evangelical like Rick Santorum would be an impossible task.
Enjoy the moment, Rick, as fleeting as it may be.
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CRYP will host a free youth volleyball camp at the Cokata Wiconi (Center of Life) teen center this month. The Wakpa Wasté Volleyball Camp for 7th to 12th graders will take place on Thursday and Friday, July 12-13, with 7th-8th graders playing at 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 9th-12th graders playing at 1-3:30 p.m.
Lauren Schad will lead Volleyball Camp, which was made possible through the support of Nike's N7 Fund. N7 reflects the company's ongoing commitment to bring sport and all its benefits to Native American and aboriginal communities in the United States and Canada.
Schad, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, has an impressive resume. Not only was she on the 2012 South Dakota Class AA All State 1st Team and the USA Collegiate National Team in 2015 and 2016, she was part of the professional French League A team in Chamalières, France, this past season.
And this 2018 Nike N7 Ambassador, who earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of San Diego, has been signed to the French League A team in Nantes for the upcoming 2018-19 season.
"We're honored to have Lauren join us for this free, two-day volleyball camp," said Jerica Widow, CRYP's youth programs director. "To have someone with her level of experience and success teaching our children is a wonderful thing, and it will be even more special for them because she is a Lakota woman from Cheyenne River."
All participants must have permission slips to participate. For more information, and to register for the camp, please contact Youth Programs Director Jerica Widow at (605) 964-8200 or via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
To learn more about the Cheyenne River Youth Project and its programs, and for information about making donations and volunteering, call (605) 964-8200 or visit www.lakotayouth.org. And, to stay up to date on the latest CRYP news and events, follow the youth project on Facebook (/LakotaYouth), Twitter (@LakotaYouth) and Instagram (@waniyetuwowapi).
The Cheyenne River Youth Project, founded in 1988, is a grassroots, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the youth of the Cheyenne River reservation with access to a vibrant and secure future through a wide variety of culturally sensitive and enduring programs, projects and facilities that ensure strong, self-sufficient families and communities.


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The Battle for Equality Is a WIRED Issue
Serena Williams isn't just a tennis champion and singularly great athlete; she's been a leader in the fight for equal representation and pay in her sport.
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The Ladies Section
A very warm welcome to the Salisbury & South Wilts Golf Club Ladies Section
Salisbury & South Wilts Golf Club currently has 71 full playing members in the Ladies Section of all ages and handicaps who come and enjoy playing golf on our 2 challenging courses - the Cathedral & the Bibury. The Club has been in existence since 1888, although it was not formally instituted until 1898. From the beginning South Wilts welcomed ladies and on the 8th December 1900 the Ladies Section was formed with a membership of seven. The start of the ladies section, its growth and prosperity, can be directly attributed to the energy of Miss Vera Pinckney who was Lady Captain no less than 17 times between 1900 and 1924. The first Lady Captain was a Miss Maud Miles who was appointed at a meeting of the Ladies Section on Thursday 29th November 1900.
Competitions are held regularly throughout the year and are usually held on Tuesdays and Thursdays and also at the weekend for those who cannot play during the week. The competitions comprise of Medals and Stableford competitions.
The main competition of the year is the Ladies Club Championship. This is a 36 hole competition held over 2 days open to all lady members with an active handicap.
Ladies afternoons are usually held on the first Monday in the month, teeing off at 12 noon. We play nine holes followed by tea. This is a good opportunity to meet other lady members and will also help new members by playing with experienced ladies, to understand the etiquette and rules of golf.
Also, as a means to encourage newer members to play and perhaps improve their game, there are a number of ladies available to arrange a game with. Their names are on a list in the Ladies locker room. These games are often played on the Bibury Course, where a more relaxed environment may be enjoyed.
Whatever your experience; come and join us for some social golf and good company.


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Last week youth rates came into effect. Youth rates will primarily affect service industries like retail and hospitality, due to the mass youth labour which supports them. However, in the same week New Zealand made a big deal about an MP lording his privilege over a waiter, a cut in wages for young people (many of whom will be wait staff) was met with overwhelmingly centrist crap.
Despite the divergent research on the effectiveness of youth wages in enticing employers to hire young people, and despite the fact that it's fundamentally awful to pay someone less based on their age, a surprising number of otherwise pro worker's rights folk argued this was a good 'foot in the door' for youth.
I realise that youth wages affects all industries and all young workers given the new youth rate. But I want to focus on hospitality because evidently we care heaps when a waiter gets bullied by an MP, but not when their wages suddenly reflect a prejudice we otherwise legislate against in our employment law.
Hospitality is an industry where, at 16, you can find yourself being called in for a "trial" shift for free at a popular CBD café. You called last week when you were searching for work given your babysitting gig was starting to taper off. You've never worked in a café before, and you were honest about this, but you said you were reliable and a fast learner. After a dozen or so calls, this one guy finally said they we're open to hiring you, so here you are at 7am on a Saturday with your best jeans on and your shiniest pair of flat shoes. Sensible shoes, because it's a big day ahead.
Nobody really notices you or introduces themselves. It doesn't even seem like a shock to them that you've been taken behind the counter by the duty manager, a girl in her early 20's who seems exasperated by your presence, and made it clear that no one told her you were coming in. You get briefly shown how to do basic counter service stuff, introduced to the kitchen staff, and given an apron.
For the first few hours of the morning, it's just serving people muffins and scones from the counter and it seems to be going well. Then you get called into the kitchen to help with brunch prep. You've never used an industrial cream-whipper before, but you're instructed to whip a huge batch of cream and "not to fuck it up".
The head chef is a woman in her 50's who looks at you like your sub human and, when she comes to check on you a few minutes later, exclaims the cream – which is soft but has stiff peaks like your mother showed you – is "butter". She screams at you, in front of all 6 kitchen staff, to leave the kitchen. When your duty manager comes to see what the fuss is about, she is informed by the chef that you're a "moron" who's a liability to the kitchen and, as you stand with the corners of your eyes starting to sting and your nose starting to itch, your duty manager tells you to get back to the counter food with a little too much glee in her voice. You will later find out this is her first position of power.
Somehow though, you make it through the day. When the lunch rush hits, it is a blur of steam from the coffee machine – which gets so hot you burn yourself three times while trying to pin orders to the side, while being yelled at by a woman demanding to know where your soy comes from. The barista, who insists his orders are pinned there and not on the cooler side of the machine, laughs at you in front of the woman when you say you're unsure and will check with him. He won't give you a clear answer, and she hisses "thanks for nothing" at you as she stalks away.
At the end of the day, at 6pm, after you have climbed inside the huge glass food cabinet to clean the tiny grooves of the display front from the inside ("get the new kid to do it, they're small enough!") it's time to go home. Your feet are throbbing so hard they eventually become numb. Nobody gives you any feedback or instruction on how your free trial shift went, so you quietly ask the duty manager. She says coldly that you can come back tomorrow because they're short staffed, and they'll give you a time card. You're hired.
Over the Christmas holidays, you will work that job 9 hours a day, at least 5 days a week. You're not given a contract. You're not even sure what one is, or why your parents keep going on about you getting one. You don't want to cause any trouble.
You will never, ever be as busy as you were in the weekday lunch rushes. Never. No matter how far you graduate up the corporate ladder, you will never have a job that is as physically gruelling, as fast-paced, or requires you to multitask to that degree.
One day, when helping in the gourmet produce section, you will slice your hand open on the ham shaver. It wasn't labelled. No one had told you about it or showed you how to use it properly, but you were yelled at by the café owner (on one of his brief but terrifying visits) to urgently serve the line of customers wanting ham.
Another day you will walk swiftly into the kitchen to put something away (you get yelled at if you walk too slowly) and you will fall on the freshly mopped slate tiles, straight onto your back, and lie in shock until someone comments they should probably get around to getting a 'wet floors' sign and offers you a hand up. You are sore for 4 days and will have a temperamental back from then on, but nobody tells you about ACC and sick leave is frowned upon.
Lunch breaks aren't really allowed. Sometimes you can grab 15 minutes to eat a half-price sandwich in the dish room with the dishwasher who relentlessly hits on you.
Eventually, the end of the holidays approaches. You approach the owner's wife to ask whether you could continue with your weekend shifts, but explain that in a fortnight you can no longer work weekdays except for helping with clean up. She is non-committal.
The next day you arrive at work at 7am and find a line of twink has covered your name on the list. When you question the duty manager, she informs you that you're no longer needed. You're stunned and just want to leave from embarrassment, but you manage to spit out that you really need a reference to show for your time there. You're told to come back later.
You do. But everyone is too busy to write you one. After all, you're just that school kid.
It is scary starting out. It's hard, for a number of reasons, to be a young person in the workforce. Even in a workplace dominated by young people, being on the lowest hourly rate because of your inexperience or your status is already commonplace. New workers already get treated like crap.
Industries which rely on youth labour do not need any more excuses to keep young people at the bottom of the heap. Youth rates allows for institutional discrimination and exploitation. It encourages the continuation of treating young people and their work as expendable and less valuable.
When two workers are standing with throbbing feet and coffee grinds in the cracks of their hands after a grueling day serving your goddamn lunch, and they clock out with their time cards at the same time, how the fuck is it fair for one of them to be paid less than the other simply because there's a few years difference in their age? It's not. And no amount of bootstraps, "foot-in-the-door" rhetoric can convince me otherwise.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to get me and my temperamental back a cup of tea.


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The 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is approaching and area firefighters are preparing to pay tribute to their fallen brothers in a very unique way.
Fire service members will participate in a Memorial Stair Climb at the Maryland Trade Center, a high-rise building in Greenbelt, Md., the morning of the 10th anniversary. Each servicemember will carry the photograph and biographical sketch of a firefighter who was lost in the attacks.
In addition, many will use air packs or carry hoses while others will be in full turn-out gear. Some will even be accompanied by rescue dogs.
The 9-11 Memorial Stair Climb is limited to firefighters. However, an additional event has been added so that everyone has the opportunity to pay homage to the fallen heroes. A 3-mile run/walk will be open to firefighters and members of the community.
The untimed route is designed to equal 110 stories -- the height of the World Trade Center's twin towers.
Prince George's County Fire Chief Marc Bashoor and other members of the Fire/EMS Department will participate in these events.
Registration will cost you $25, and all proceeds will be donated to the National Fallen Firefighter's Foundation.
Fire service members can register for the stair climb online here.
Members of the community and fire service can register for the run/walk here.


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Will SquishPic be 64-bit compatible for macOS operating systems?
Yes -SquishPic is a 64-bit compliant application.
More information about 64-bit requirements and Apple's Operating System:
Apple has announced all new applications will be required to be 64-bit and macOS 10.14 Mojave will be the last Operating System to support 32-bit applications.
2018 Update
At WWDC, Apple announces macOS 10.14 (Mojave) will be the last macOS to support 32-bit applications.


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Meet some of the anti-Muslim conspiracy theorists shaping Trump's immigration ban
A viral video warning of a Muslim plot to take over the world has drawn nearly 2.7 million views — and it was produced by a group with close ties to the Trump administration.
The video, posted in April 2015, stars Ann Corcoran, who became radicalized against Muslims after learning more than a decade ago that some African refugees would be resettling near her rural Maryland home, reported Vox.
"This process of Muslim colonization is called the hijra," Corcoran says in the video, using the Arabic word for migration. "Mohammed told his followers to migrate and spread Islam, in order to dominate all the lands of the world … and that's exactly what they're doing now."
She started a blog, Refugee Resettlement Watch, which she used to promote viciously anti-Muslim and racist viewpoints until linking up with Frank Gaffney and his Center for Security Policy — which has helped shape President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
Gaffney appeared at least 34 times on the Breitbart radio program hosted by Steve Bannon, who is now Trump's chief strategist and the reported author of his executive order banning travelers from some majority-Muslim nation.
According to the New York Times, Gaffney's work has been cited in speeches by Michael Flynn, Trump's national security advisor.
Kellyanne Conway, an advisor to Trump, did polling work for the Center for Security Policy, which awarded Sen. Jeff Sessions — the attorney general nominee — its annual "Keeper of the Flame" award last year for his efforts against the "totalitarian threat" posed by radical Islam.
Gaffney was banned from the Conservative Political Action Committee in 2011, after accusing two board members of secretly aiding the Muslim Brotherhood, and took part in shadow events hosted outside the conference by Breitbart News.
But Gaffney, who has been labeled "one of America's most notorious Islamophobes" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, was invited back to CPAC two years ago — when he hosted panels featuring anti-Muslim activists Walid Phares and Clare Lopez.
Last year, Gaffney sponsored a CPAC panel featuring English white nationalist Paul Weston and Lars Hedegaard, a Danish anti-Muslim activist.
Trump has cited a shoddy poll conducted by Gaffney's group to justify his campaign promise to end Muslim immigration.
Gaffney and Corcoran boast close relationships with several key members of Trump's administration, including Bannon and CIA director Mike Pompeo — who was the featured speaker at CSP's annual conference in 2015 and has appeared at least two dozen times on Gaffney's own radio program.
They're also close to a number of congressional Republicans — including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and David Vitter (R-LA) and Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Steve King (R-IA), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Mo Brooks (R-AL) and Jim Bridenstein (R-OK).
Gaffney and Corcoran — who are part of a broader "counter-jihad" conspiracy movement — have spent years promoting anti-refugee propaganda that has shaped Republican policy and now an executive order that has sparked nationwide protests.


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If you find yourself in Southern California, you need to utilize Irvine golf deals. Consider Irvine tee times at Rancho San Joaquin Golf Course situated in downtown Irvine, California. The Rancho San Joaquin Golf Course tee times are flexible, available all year, in addition to providing some great weekday Irvine golf deals with two separate twilight tee times.
The par 72 course was designed by William F. Bell and opened in 1964. The Rancho San Joaquin Golf Course's 18 holes consist of r rolling hills, wide fairways, and three lakes, with a scattering of tiered greens. You will experience Bermuda and Kukuya seeded fairways and Poa seeded greens. The back tee length measures 6,431 yards with a rate of 70.5, and a slope of 126.
Rancho San Joaquin Golf Course affords a Southern California Golf Learning Center, thus the course is a superb practice facility containing seven chipping to putting greens, 65 lighted driving range stalls, and seven practice bunkers. RSJ Golf Course's amenities include a club house, snack bar, pro shop, plus instruction with any of the four PGA professionals on site.
Since Rancho San Joaquin Golf Course is a public course, reviews are mixed concerning playability and management. Many golf reviewers state to schedule five or six hours for threesomes and foursomes. One golf reviewer suggests bringing a book to read between holes. Frequent RSJ players recommend weekday mornings for a smoother experience.
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All The Evidence Avengers 4's Title Is Annihilation
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Is the title of Avengers 4 actually Avengers: Annihilation? When Marvel first announced their Phase 3 slate, Avengers: Infinity War was envisioned as a two-part movie. That slate changed a lot over the years, especially in light of Marvel's deal with Sony to bring Spider-Man into the MCU. One of the most interesting changes, though, was the decision to give Infinity War – Part II a different title. Surprisingly, Marvel then refused to reveal the new name for Avengers 4, with Kevin Feige claiming it would spoil Avengers: Infinity War.Naturally, this has led to intense speculation among fans as to just what the title could be, especially following Avengers: Infinity War's cliffhanger ending. Given the marketing campaign for Avengers 4 is sure to kick off soon, it can't be long before that title is officially confirmed.Related: Avengers 4: All The Rumors, Leaks & SpoilersAt the beginning of October, there were rumors the title could be Avengers: Annihilation. These were initially treated with more than a little skepticism, but as time has passed there have been growing rumors that this may be right. Here, we'll run through all the evidence.The Avengers: Annihilation Title RumorsThe title of Avengers: Annihilation was first guessed by CBR back in April. They suggested that the title could be lifted from a popular comic book event from 2006, in large part because the villain of that arc – Annihilus – was driven by a desire for universal balance. His motives are fairly similar to those of the MCU version of Thanos. As circumstantial evidence, they pointed out that from March 2018 Marvel Comics began to republish the Annihilation event. There is a precedent for the comic book publisher to make sure trades of a story are out in the year or so before a story is adapted for the big screen.That title guess was largely forgotten for months, though, lost in the chatter online following Avengers: Infinity War. It resurfaced again in October when MCUCosmic reported that sources had claimed the title was Avengers: Annihilation. This was allegedly verified by multiple sources; it was also suggested that Mark Ruffalo's joke-spoiler on Jimmy Fallon was a troll from Marvel about the leak to draw attention away from Annihilation.Related: Mark Ruffalo's Bleeped Avengers 4 Title Is The Last AvengerThe Russo Brothers' Picture Hints At Avengers: AnnihilationThere is some supporting evidence for this rumor. The first is a cryptic photo released by the Russo brothers accompanied with a simple comment: "look hard." Given the Russos appear to be quite enjoying stoking the rumor mill for the title, this was generally assumed to be a clue, and attentive fans combed over it. The most obvious detail was the double-A, which some suggested could mean the film was called Avengers: Assemble. That was deemed unlikely, given that was the title the first Avengers film released to in the United Kingdom, and attention moved elsewhere. But, in light of the rumors, that double-A really stood for Avengers: Annihilation.This idea does seem rather odd, though. Even Marvel insiders who know the title, such as co-president Louis D'Esposito, have admitted they don't quite understand what that image is supposed to mean. That would be unlikely if the meaning of the image was as simple as a double-A. Still, it is possible D'Esposito was just joining in with the trolling of fans.Annihilation Would Be A Spoiler for Avengers: Infinity WarThe cliffhanger ending of Avengers: Infinity War saw Thanos emerge triumphant, erasing half the life in the universe with just a snap of his fingers. Although it's generally believed there'll be a time-jump between the events of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4, the sequel is expected to continue that story and reveal just how the surviving Avengers either undo or avert the snap.Related: What The Title of Avengers 4 Definitely ISN'TIn April last year, Kevin Feige suggested that a major reason for withholding the new title of Avengers 4 was the fact that it would spoil Infinity War. In March, shortly before Infinity War's release, the Russo brothers confirmed that fans should be worried about how Infinity War would play out in light of Marvel's reluctance to reveal Avengers 4's title. This fits with a title like Annihilation, which would almost certainly have led to speculation online that Thanos would emerge triumphant. However, though, this would also be true with many of the other main contenders, such as Avengers: Endgame.Annihilation Wasn't Spoken In Avengers: Infinity WarWhat makes End Game an unlikely Avengers 4 title is that it was spoken in Avengers: Infinity War. Speaking just after the first part's release, Joe Russo said that the 2019's film title was not spoken in its direct predecessor, which rules out the likes of End Game and No Time At All. What it maintains is Annihilation; that word isn't spoken once in the two-and-a-half hour movie, which would make it eligible to include (although has popped up in previous MCU efforts).As for what the title could be, Anthony Russo's subsequent comments also line up with Annihilation: "It's certainly grounded in the narrative that we have been following throughout the MCU – very well grounded…"Page 2 of 2: More Evidence Avengers 4's Title Is AnnihilationAnnihilation is Close (Sort Of) To Avengers: ForeverWhile most of the official title discussion for Avengers 4 has been focused on what it won't, there has been some positive confirmation. One of the most popular titles straight after Infinity War was Avengers: Forever (due to its time travel plot and "4ever" styling), and while the Russos shot it down, they said that – at the time – it was the closest anybody had gotten."Annihilation" isn't exactly a synonym for "Forever", but it is a similarly grandiose term of near infinite scale, so fits better than most of the other options.Avengers: Annihilation Would Be Named After A ComicOne thing most Marvel Studios movie titles have in common is that they're based on a comic book: The Winter Soldier, Age of Ultron, Civil War, Ragnarok, and even Infinity War were all major comic events before they became blockbuster films. This tradition persists despite most of these having very little in common with the stories on which they're based – Captain America: Civil War saw Iron Man and Cap fight, but most of the surrounding narrative was changed, while Avengers: Infinity War itself was a mix of several stories and original ideas.Read More: The MCU Isn't Pretending To Adapt Marvel Comics Stories Any MoreSo, while Marvel movies are slowly moving further and further away from their comic source, they still tend to nod in that direction with their titles. As already established, Annihilation was a comic arc from the 2000s, so while we may not be seeing Annihilus in the MCU (yet), the precedent is there for his big event t0 be used. A Second Rumor Suggests Avengers: AnnihilationThe most recent evidence is a rumor from the Russian social media site vk.com. It showed apparent concept art of Iron Man using his proton cannon, and alleged that the first trailer for Avengers: Annihilation would be released in November, scored by a new rendition of Twelve Titans Music's song "Dust and Light" (which was used in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies trailer).This makes sense – the November trailer drop is in line with Marvel's normal marketing approach – but it's unclear exactly what information was presented to the trailer group who posted this leak. They could easily have just been told when the trailer would drop, and added all the hashtags related to the film; that would have included #Annihilation.-By now, there's a lot of circumstantial evidence backing the suggestion that Avengers 4's title is Annihilation. However, while that prospective title has definitely become the front-runner, it's yet to be officially confirmed – and a lot of the evidence is very much open to interpretation. All that means the Annihilation title is still firmly in the rumor category. What we can say with some certainty, though, is that the truth will come out soon, most probably with the Avengers 4 trailer drop at the end of the month.More: Avengers 4: Every Update You Need To Know


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Aussie artist UV Boi has released the new MTNS-featuring track "Show You" off of his new Luv EP, and there are very clear cut reasons why it is the leading single. You'd never know, but the Brisbane-based artist produces direct from his bedroom, every layer of soulful vocals and stunning synths.
"Show You" doesn't disappoint, and lives up to the idea of finding love in an online world, pulled direct from the Luv EP concepts. "I miss you, tell me, how to take your heart back," MTNS sings and you can feel the anguish. During the song, you can feel the phases of a relationship ebb and flow, almost as if you're waiting for an online love to answer. The full Luv EP can be found here.
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Founded in 1979, JYSK is an international line of stores, selling products for the home. JYSK has more than 2,500 stores in over 50 countries and has over 22,000 employees as well. They are owned by Lars Larsen, a Danish tradesman who owns several companies.
Steps involved in the JYSK hiring process are:
Application: You can go through the JYSK application process by filling an online application form along with submitting your CV. Other methods of applying can be done with an employee referral or recruiter.
Telephone Interview: You will then obtain a confirmation that your application was received and reviewed by the hiring committee. You may be contacted over the phone to discuss the following steps and be invited for an in-person interview.
In-Person Interview: If the selection committee deems candidates as qualified, they will be invited for an in-person interview by a hiring manager and/or a member of the selection committee. The interview process differs for each job and may include one-on-one or panel interviews which are often conducted by about 10 people, such as various faculty members. Applicants may also be asked to prepare a short presentation on an explicit topic.
Test: Taking psychometric pre-employment tests, such as the PLI exams, may be required during the recruitment process. The hiring team use these aptitude tests as a way to evaluate candidates' cognitive abilities.
Aptitude tests give employers more insightful information about each applicant, allowing them to choose the right candidates for the vacant positions. One of the various aptitude tests which may be administered is called the Predictive Index Learning Indicator (PI LI) test. This assessment intends to measure applicants' cognitive abilities and skills needed within the work environment. The three reasoning skills assessed are the numerical, verbal, and non-verbal reasoning.
Furthermore, the Predictive Index (PI) Behavioral Assessment seeks to evaluate the core personality and important qualities needed in an employee. Test-takers' are evaluated and specific traits are scored, such as extroversion, formality, patience, and dominance. Assessments such as this one help determine applicants' potential attitude within the office and their behavioural tendencies.
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Here Here at Noise Pop 2009
Interviewed by Meghan Logue
Ryan: My name's Ryan and I play guitar.
Jason: My name's Jason and I play guitar.
Mike: My name's Mike. I play trumpet and things.
Carlos: I'm Carlos and I play drums.
Pat: I'm Pat and I play bass.
Brendon: I'm Brendon and I play trumpet and accordion.
Christian: I'm Christian and I sing and play piano and acoustic guitar.
Brendan: And ukulele.
Meghan: That's only mildly overwhelming. So you guys have a full on horn section that travels with you all the time. And have you all been in the band from the very beginning?
Ryan: Not really.
Meghan: Can I have one of you describe your sound in six words or less?
Ryan: Good Indie Pop Music.
Brendan: You got two more words! Damn good!
Mike: Talking heads.
Meghan: So why so many members? How did that come to be?
Ryan: Christian likes putting craigslist ads up!
Carlos: We really wanted to be a softball team, but we sucked.
Ryan: We decide to stick to our guns and play music.
Brendan: We hocked all our softball gear and bought intstruments.
Christian: We wanted to be something different than a five piece guitar bass whatever kind of band.
Ryan: It all kind of started with Christian and the first record. It was really epic sounding so he needed this many people to make his music come to life.
Carlos: Christian had to call in backup.
Brendon: We need a lot of sounds.
Ryan: We need backup!
Meghan: So you guys have just released Boy With An Orange or that's coming out?
Christian: No, that was a while ago. That was something I did on my own and then put the band together. It took a while for us to all learn the songs. Then we played some shows and realized that we all wanted to write songs together. He came on a little while ago because Pat had a baby and ditched us for shows and found out he played trumpet, brought him on for trumpet. So now we're alright. It's completely different than what it was before because it's all of us writing songs.
Meghan: So you're writing new stuff now.
Ryan: Yeah, tonight is all new stuff.
Meghan: Are you trying to throw that all together on an album for people to love?
Christian: Yeah, we've started recording. We're probably going to do a 7" in another two or three months before the rest of it's done.
Meghan: Where are you guys recording?
Christian: At this guys school, for free, in the middle of the night.
Meghan: Where do you go to school, Carlos?
Carlos: I went to school at Ex'pression.
Meghan: Oh, really! In Emeryville. That's nice and local.
Carlos: When I was a young buck.
Christian: We go in from midnight to eight and do whatever we want.
Meghan: So Carlos, this is a question for you. Are you acting manager in addition to being the drummer?
Carlos: Yes.
Christian: He's way more affordable.
Meghan: How is that working out for you?
Carlos: Now that we're on that topic fellas.... No, it's cool. I'm kind of anal.
Christian: He keeps it all down and he's really got it together.
Carlos: It's just better to have one person control everything than to have seven people try to figure the logistics out. It's cool.
Meghan: What are some of the extra duties you perform?
Carlos: Oh man! Wash his car, babysit Pat's baby, booking, setting up interviews, studio time. We're going on tour so I did a lot of the booking there and the bands, logistics.
Ryan: Collecting the money.
Carlos: Collecting the money, yeah!
Christian: That one time we never picked it up.... remember, Bottom of the Hill?
Carlos: That's true! I got embarassed....
Jason: That was Noise Pop last year!
Carlos: That was Noise Pop last year! I was too embarassed to go pick it up because I wrote them emails three times and I kept forgetting to show up.
Meghan: They probably still have it sitting in an envelope in an office somewhere. You should at least think about it.
Ryan: We're going to give it to charity because that's what Here Here does.
Carlos: Transferring it to a bar tab doesn't count as charity, Ryan.
Meghan: Charitable action towards you guys.
Meghan: What do you guys do for day jobs?
Christian: I'm a waiter at the Cliff House.
Brendan: I work with little kids. Somebody was stupid enough to put me in charge of children.
Pat: I solve problems.
Meghan: What kind of problems?
Pat: I do building code consulting.
Everybody: Ooo! Ah!
Meghan: Carlos?
Carlos: I'm an A.V. tech.
Mike: I work in a pharmacy.
Carlos: Drugs!
Jason: I'm a telephone man.
Ryan: I'm a home stager, so I'm unemployed right now. But when they're selling homes I'm a home stager.
Meghan: That sounds like fun. You hang out at houses and keep them clean?
Ryan: No, I do props, kind of like interior design.
Meghan: Fake furniture?
Ryan: No, real furniture. We work with realtors. It's just a marketing thing so people sell stuff faster. High end houses.
Meghan: So you guys are currently unsigned, correct?
Everybody: Yes.
Meghan: Are you working to become signed?
Pat: Hopefully.
Meghan: Where are you in that process? Tell me a little about that.
Brendan: If it happens, it happens.
Christian: We're just trying to play music and if that happens, we'd like it.
Meghan: Can you tell me some difficulties of working as an unsigned band?
Jason: Not having tour support.
Carlos: Day jobs!
Christian: Next week we're going to L.A. and Monterey, two shows, and for us to even make that happen is kind of hard. Renting a van, getting everyone to get time off of work and everybody has real jobs except for this guy.
Ryan: I'm unemployed.
Meghan: Well, you have this to do!
Ryan: Exactly. That's what I tell my parents.[laughter]
Meghan: I'm sure they feel the same way. Last question! What's next for Here Here?
Brendan: Going to the bar!
Christian: Finishing the album.
Carlos: Playing the show tonight.
Christian: We're going to L.A. next week. That's the first time we're doing that.
Meghan: That's exciting.
Christian: We're going to put a new record out and we're trying to get that going and really start coming out after that, trying to get our name out.


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There's a race going on for states to file or join new lawsuits against President Trump's second executive order temporarily halting entry into the U.S. for some people from a few terror-plagued countries. The new actions promise to be rehashes of the states' earlier suits against Trump's original order. Washington State, for example, which managed to stop the first order, has gone so far as to argue the new order and the now-rescinded original measure are identical, and has asked a judge to simply apply his emergency stop to the new order as if nothing has changed.
But the first state to file suit against the new order, Hawaii, has taken a new tack from the suit it filed on Feb. 3 against Trump's original order. The new Hawaii suit, which will come before a federal judge on March 15, relies not only on claims of economic damages to the state resulting from the Trump order but also on claims of damages to Hawaii Muslims' feelings and perceptions of the world.
The original Hawaii suit was simply the state versus the president and his administration. The new suit adds a new plaintiff, a man named Ismail Elshikh, who is identified as "an American citizen of Egyptian descent" who has lived in Hawaii for more than a decade and is now imam of the Muslim Association of Hawaii.
The Trump order "inflicts a grave injury" on Elshikh and other Muslims in Hawaii, the suit says, by subjecting them to "discrimination and second-class treatment."
"The order denies them their right to associate with family members overseas," the lawsuit alleges, and forces Elshikh and other Hawaii Muslims "to live in a country and in a state where there is the perception that the government has established a disfavored religion."
Elshikh's particular problem is this: His wife, the suit says, is an American citizen "of Syrian descent and is also a resident of Hawaii." She and Elshikh, who has a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from an Egyptian university, have five children, all of whom, according to the suit, are American citizens and residents of Hawaii.
Mrs. Elshikh's mother, Ismail Elshikh's mother-in-law, is "a Syrian national, living in Syria." According to the suit, she wants to come to the United States. "Elshikh's mother-in-law last visited the family in 2005, when she stayed for one month," the lawsuit says. "She has not met two of Dr. Elshikh's children, and only Dr. Elshikh's oldest child remembers meeting her grandmother."
The suit says that in September 2015, Elshikh's wife filed an I-130 petition on behalf of her mother in Syria. United States Citizen and Immigration Services describes the I-130 as a form "for citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States to establish the relationship to certain alien relatives who wish to immigrate to the United States."
The mother-in-law's I-130 petition was approved in February 2016, according to the suit, but so far, the suit says, "Elshikh's mother-in-law does not currently hold a visa to enter the United States."
Eleven of the 12 months during which Elshikh's mother-in-law's I-130 petition was approved but she was not granted a visa occurred during the Obama administration, which boasted of the thorough, time-consuming, multiyear vetting process it applied to Syrians attempting to come to the United States. Elshikh did not sue the government during that time. After Trump declared a 90-day moratorium on visas, Elshikh went to court.
On January 31, 2017 -- after the first Executive Order was put in place -- Dr. Elshikh was notified by an individual from the National Visa Center that his mother-in-law's application for an immigrant visa had been put on hold. Then, on March 2, 2017 -- after the first Executive Order was enjoined -- Dr. Elshikh and his family were notified by the National Visa Center that his mother-in-law's visa application had progressed to the next stage of the process and that her interview would be scheduled at an embassy overseas. Under the new Executive Order, however, Dr. Elshikh fears that his mother-in-law will, once again, be unable to "enter" the country under Section 2(c) of the Executive Order.
The suit says that Elshikh's children, who were apparently not harmed by the Obama administration's (and Congress's) action to make it difficult and time-consuming for Syrians to come to the U.S., are "deeply affected" by Trump's executive order. "It conveys to them a message that their own country would discriminate against individuals who share their ethnicity, including members of their own family, and who hold the same religious beliefs."
"We feel both bans, Version 1 and Version 2, are delivering on Trump's promise to some of the far-right groups that he is going to have a Muslim ban," Hakim Ouasanfi told me by phone Thursday. "Our viewpoint is that any discrimination is not acceptable. It is not the way to keep our country safe."
"How can you explain to a daughter that your grandmother will not be able to visit?"
I asked Ouasanfi whether the temporary nature of Trump's action made it less burdensome. "If my daughter is graduating in 90 days, then it is a burden," he answered. "If the wedding is planned for May, that is a burden. I don't think Muslims should plan their lives around Trump's decision."
On the other hand, Elshikh's mother-in-law has not visited in 12 years -- for whatever reason, she did not visit for the births of grandchildren or the various milestones in their lives. And now this 90-day delay is a violation of her family's constitutional rights?
The plaintiffs did not file suit over earlier government actions that made coming to the United States a difficult and drawn-out effort. Some in the Obama administration made clear that it could take years for a Syrian to be admitted to the U.S. But when Trump announced a 90-day delay, the Hawaii plaintiffs went to court. Why?
Perhaps there is a clue in some of the words in the lawsuit that convey emotion. Elshikh and other Muslims feel this or that, or they are devastated, or there is this or that perception, or this or that message conveyed. It could be that much of the energy behind the lawsuit is emotional, caught up in a hysteria about Donald Trump as much as a rational reading of the new executive order.
Now the Hawaii case goes to court. The new Trump order was amended specifically to address some of the legal objections raised against the original order in court challenges across the country. But how to craft an order to protect feelings?


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The first Saturday in May is Free Comic Book Day, a day when people celebrate comic books and some comic book shops give away free comic books.
Although they are not comic books, the Church offers free downloadable graphic novel versions of the scriptures. Below are the download links (and they are available year-round, not just on Free Comic Book Day.)
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Not for nothing is this time of year dubbed 'The Silly Season' and my prediction for the summer of 2013 is that it'll go down in the annals as one of the daftest yet.
With parliaments in long recess, official business on hold and politicos busy spending their ill-gotten gains in sunnier climes, we news types are left scratching around for something pertinent to report.
Then – lo and behold! – our prayers are answered by another gripping sequel to an on-going brouhaha concerning a 2.6-square mile pimple on the gluteus maximus of Europe, with a population of around 30,000.
Yes, Gibraltar is again making headlines for all the wrong reasons. And, regardless of which country's media and jingoism you subscribe to, there's no denying the fact that verbal exocets are exploding with increasing velocity from both sides of the great divide, though Spain's more so than Britain's.
To the Spanish El Peñón, as they call The Rock, is a long-festering scab that gets picked from time to time, often – surprise, surprise! – coinciding with economic gloom. It's a sure-fire distraction to set Latin tempers aflame, because it pricks to the pride of a nation whose patchwork quilt of autonomous regions regularly threatens to come apart at the seams.
So, while Catalans, Galicians, Extramadurans and certainly Basques can't agree on most issues, Gib is the glue that sticks the Spanish Humpty Dumpty together again.
General Franco certainly understood the emotional impact of playing the Gibraltar card, because he made much of expunging the British overseas territory from local maps and inventing 'border incidents' to suit his whims.
Following in the footprints of the fascist dictator's jackboots, now centre-Right premier Mariano Rajoy is in high dungeon over the Gib government's decision to create an artificial reef to protect fish stocks by dumping concrete blocks into its waters, ostensibly imperilling the livelihoods of Spanish fishermen.
However, at a time when corruption allegations swirl round Spain's government, the economy is on the rocks and unemployment at one of the highest levels in the EU, 7,000 Spaniards daily cross onto The Rock to work – a fact not lost on union chiefs, livid with their leader's posturing in far-off Madrid.
Despite the commerical benefits, in what smacks of the backdrop to a farcical Gilbert and Sullivan libretto, Gibraltar has become an international flashpoint – and not for the first time at the petulant Rajoy's prompting.
In May, 2012, the Popular Party leader threw his toys out of the pram and banned Queen Sofia from officially attending her cousin, Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, presumably because it somehow implied recognition of UK sovereignty over the craggy outcrop. And to add insult to royal injury, Spain formally objected to a visit by Prince Edward and his missus to The Rock as part of his mum's knees-up.
Now, cranking up the pressure, Spain's foreign minister, Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, mutters darkly about to taking Gib to the United Nations – not that they could sort out a schoolyard scrap – or the International Court of Justice, bogged down as it is in The Hague with the mundane trivia of trying war criminals.
Meanwhile, a ploy being touted in Madrid is teaming up in common cause with Cristina Fernández Kirchner, Argentina's pseudo-democratic dominatrix, who's obsessed with 'liberating' the Falklands/Malvinas from British rule, despite all but one of the 2,841 islanders refusing her kind offer of citizenship.
However, Spain should realise that getting into the diplomatic sack with Hissy Crissy has its downsides, since she presides over a corrupt and bankrupt state that last year siezed YPF – the local arm of Spanish energy giant, Repsol – to pay off debts.
The odds, then, of a Spain-Argentina axis bearing fruit are, as my bookmaker says, about as good as a three-legged Chihuahua exploding out of Trap 6 to win the Greyhound Derby.
Neither has the weight of history on its side and both claims to territory that's not theirs reek of crass hypocrisy.
Spain can blame the overarching ambition of Philip V for the loss of Gibraltar, because in 1701 he tried to usurp the French throne in what became known as the War of Spanish Succession.
Fearing a calamitous shift in European power, an alliance between Britain, Holland, the Germanic Holy Roman Empire and the Duchy of Savoy crushed the Bourbon's biscuit.
Gibraltar was captured in 1704 by an Anglo-Dutch fleet and, in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, ceded to Britain (along with Minorca temporarily) 'in perpetuity', which – the last time I consulted my lexicon – meant forever and a sunset.
Over the centuries the miniscule splodge of Jurassic limestone has played a defining role in Britain's defences and, to some extent, still does. Moreover, in the last 13 years, its inhabitants have twice voted in plebiscites, by 99 to one, to remain British, which, under Europe's rules of people's self-determination, should render the issue beyond debate.
Like his Argentinian counterpart in the case of the Falklands, that doesn't stop Rajoy banging on about bi-lateral talks with Britain over Gib's future, bypassing the reasonable and legal aspirations of the locals.
However, when taken to task, he conveniently dodges the thorny topics of Melilla and Ceuta, the two enclaves of Spain's North African empire, which the uppity Moroccans somehow consider theirs.
Let's not forget, either, the medieval town of Olivenza, which the Spanish wrested from Portugal in the 1801 War of the Oranges and have retained with dubious legality ever since, irrespective of the fact that the Portuguese no longer kick up a fuss over its ownership.
And, if we're discussing historical imperatives, add one from Osama bin Laden, whose first diktat as Al-Qaeda's head honcho was to demand the return of Andalucía – El Andaluz, as his forbearers called it before 1492 – to Muslim dominion.
Verily, as pots call kettles black in the kitchen of international diplomacy, the vipers of historical fact have an unfortunate habit of biting the dissenter in the backside.


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A Pizzaphiles journey in short hand
3 pizza's in 3 states in 2 days
Delaware- Anthonys coal burning
Tocconella's- philly
Macks- Wildwood jersey
3 very different pizza's and flavor experiences, priming my palate for the unknown flavors of the philadelaphiles
Pork roll? Fried in butter on a roll with mustard. It was quite amazing, kind of like breakfast sausage cloned with salami, mmmmmmm
Or scrapple?
Prepared the same way, soft and gooey, with a perfect crust. Almost like a biscuit made of sausage, who cares if it's made from pigs assholes and hooves
Stayed with mr. steakbellies buddies on the jersey shore, repaid them by preparing these;
b^3- Italian blt, bacon, basil, balsamic syrup, n oven roasted tomatoes
Cubano- bacon, cream cheese, strawberry jelly
hit the jersey shore, fist pumping and gtl was referenced a minimum of 795 times in a 4 hour time span
Played the I'm steakbellies younger sivant brother game,
He convinced 2 baby boomers that I was rudderless, a lost soul, and total f*** up(not too far from truth)
Was consulted with pep talk upon exit and reassured that daughters my age were going thru same thing
Was recognized at karaoke bar where ron jeremys sleazier beezexed every follicle younger brother manned the male parts of paradise by dashboard light
Took 10 min of interrogation to prove mr bellie wasn't setting me up turned out to be a big fan and had an hour conv.
Discovered the 6th season of the trailer park boys; the hidden theme- milk jugs filled with discarded golden shower liquid
A game of where's waldo of where the ketonic milk jug turned into a dangerous game.
Drank keystone light from the naturals basement kegerater , tons of steakbellies world famous leg spreaders mojito's and more silver bullets to count.
Had to spoon with the dog after a pitcher of mojito's
Almost died in a certain eater's bmw en route to phl airport. But owe him as he got me back to chow on airport garbage feed. Can't tell you the promises that were made if this would happen.
Also, lost to b.o.b. by a few fries, let it slip away in last 30 sec, reassured me of my distastes for large crinkle/ steak fries.


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Narratology & Intertextuality: New Perspectives on Greek Epic from Homer to Tzetzes. International Seminar, University of Oslo, Norway. 3-4 June, 2016. (Abstracts by 30 August 2015)
Holy Hero(in)es: Literary Constructions of Heroines in Late Antique and Early Medieval Hagiography. International Conference, University of Ghent, Belgium. 18-20 February, 2016. (Abstracts by 20 September 2015)
Chronicles as Literature at the Crossroad of Past and Present. International Conference, University of Munich, Germany. (Organized by the Institute of Byzantine Studies of the University of Munich and the Section for Greek and Byzantine Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden.) 29-30 April, 2016. (Abstracts to email@example.com by 1 September 2015)
Reading Pleasure / Pleasure Reading: medieval approaches to reading. Summer School, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 23-28 May, 2016. (Applications to email@example.com by 1 December 2015).
To see, to report, to persuade: narrative and verisimilitude in Byzantium. Conference organized by the Text & Narrative Project, Istanbul, 27-29 October, 2016. (Abstracts to email@example.com by December 31, 2015).
Narrative exchanges between Byzantium and Armenia: contact, conflict, & connotation. A workshop for postgraduate and early-career scholars, organized by the Text & Narrative Project, Uppsala University, 16-17 March, 2017. (Abstracts to email@example.com by September 30, 2016).
From the human body to the universe: spatialities of Byzantine culture. Conference organized by the Text & Narrative Project, Uppsala University, 18-21 May, 2017. (Abstracts to email@example.com by September 30, 2016).
Reception Histories of the Future: a conference on Byzantinisms, speculative fiction, and the literary heritage of medieval empire. Conference organized by the Text & Narrative Project, Uppsala University, 4-6 August, 2017. (Abstracts to email@example.com by March 15, 2017).
Narrating Power and Authority in Late Antique and Medieval Hagiographies from East to West. International Conference at Academia Belgica (Rome, Italy), Thursday 15th-Saturday 17th February 2018. Abstracts to Ghazzal Dabiri (firstname.lastname@example.com) by 15 July 2017.


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In her Lancaster House speech, Theresa May said:
And while I am confident that this scenario need never arise – while I am sure a positive agreement can be reached – I am equally clear that no deal for Britain is better than a bad deal for Britain.
(emphasis added)
Given this position, it's worth knowing what the consequences of "no deal" would mean. In the worst case scenario (e.g. talks breaking down) this means looking at the consequences of Britain reaching the Article 50 deadline without any sort of agreement whatsoever having been struck with the EU.
In this scenario, on the day before Brexit, Britain will still be a full member of the EU enjoying all the privileges and subject to all the obligations that entails. On the next day, Britain will be outside the EU completely, treated in the EU's parlance as a "third country" and having to deal with the EU on the default terms they apply to any non EU/non single market country. When references are made to a "cliff edge" in the media comment on Brexit, it is this sudden transition from full EU member to being outside the EU (and the single market) that is being referred to.
Here, I consider the consequences of leaving without a deal for the airline industry, where recently the Guardian reported that UK airlines may have to open bases of operation in other EU states and/or sell off shares to EU nationals post Brexit or lose major routes.
I conclude that if there is literally no deal, the likely consequence will be considerable disruption to UK/EU airline industry. This is in neither the UK or EU's interests, though and a deal that ensures the UK remains part of the regulatory system for aviation in the EU should be feasible.
As a starting point, consider that to run an airline that operates in any of the EU member states (which for now include the UK), the operator must hold an Airline Operator Certificate (AOC). Under regulation Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008, an AOC must be issued by a "competent authority" of the member state in which the airline is based. The AOC then permits the airline to operate anywhere in the EU. So currently UK-based airlines can operate flights to other EU states simply because they've been granted a AOC by the UK's competent authority.
However once the UK has left the EU, the UK's no longer a member state and thus its "competent authority" is no longer valid and therefore the AOCs it produces will no longer be recognised as valid for the purposes of Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008.
So what would be the impact?
Firstly, some counter measures can be taken unilaterally by the airlines. They can open up bases in other EU countries and get valid AOCs for the EU that way, hence the advice reported in the Guardian. Thus the airlines can continue to operate in the EU but at the cost of moving some operations to the EU and/or getting EU nationals to become shareholders.
Secondly the UK government could convert the existing certificates into valid UK certificates (e.g. via incorporating relevant EU regulations into UK law via the "Great Repeal Act") to ensure the airlines ability to operate in the UK itself is unimpeded.
However Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 only refers to one aspect of air travel regulation in the EU. Richard North, discussing the same issue as I am here, points out:
For all that, we've only referred to one set of regulation. In all, I count over 40 pieces of legislation, ranging from laws on insurance requirements for air carriers and aircraft operators [Regulation (EC) No 785/2004], on the code of conduct for computerized reservation systems [Regulation (EC) No 80/2009], rules for statistical returns [Regulation (EC) No 437/2003 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1358/2003], air services agreements with third countries [Regulation (EC) No 847/2004], and much, much else, including the allocation of airport slots [Council Regulation (EEC) No 95/93].
Of particular relevance is the establishment of the European Aviation Safety Agency [Regulation (EC) No 216/2008], rules for the airworthiness [Commission Regulation (EC) No 1702/2003 and (EC) No 2042/2003] and, of course, the Single European Sky, covering the provision and development of air traffic control services.
In attempts to repatriate the 74-page Regulation (EC) No 1702/2003, for instance, the Government will find a task more complex than the fishing regulation.
The 114 references to Member State (singular and plural) provide more than adequate testimony as to their purpose. Tied in with 190 references to the European Aviation Safety Agency, it is clearly evident that even extensive re-writing will not provide a workable legal base for re-establishing a UK airworthiness certification system.
The problem here is that simply incorporating the EU regulations into UK law does not work as that only affects the UK. Ensuring that the EU will continue to fully recognise UK airlines in the EU-wide systems for regulating air traffic will require agreement with the EU itself. Absent such agreement, we can expect disruption to UK/EU air traffic as the airlines and the UK/EU both struggle to adapt to the situation.
North later writes:
Says Jeegar Kakkad, chief economist for ADS, the trade body for the UK aerospace sector, "Maintaining access to the certification regime in Europe is absolutely critical, as there is no UK replacement that can get up to speed quickly enough". As Pete pointed out earlier, he thinks that if the UK were to assume safety and certification responsibilities – as it did before the creation of EASA in 2002 – it would take ten years to re-create the necessary infrastructure.
The issues do not end here though. For example the EU and the US concluded the EU/US "open skies" agreement with each other in 2007 and the UK would drop out of that agreement on Brexit, due to a clause defining the EU's territory in terms of territory to which the Treaty establishing the European Community applies – post Brexit that clearly would not include the UK. Of course the UK and US might agree to continue the arrangements of that agreement with each other post-Brexit, but what this shows is that the UK may have to talk to non-EU countries the EU has agreements with if they wish to preserve arrangements made under those agreements with those countries.
It thus seems to me that if the "no deal" scenario goes ahead, it will cause damage to both the UK and the EU due to disruption of the airline industry and thus both sides have an interest in coming to an agreement that smooths the transition over.
On the prospects of a deal though, it is worth noting that several non-EU states are already members of the EASA(e.g. Switzerland, Norway), whilst Article 7 of the Single European Sky states:
The Community shall aim at and support the extension of thesingle European sky to countries which are not members ofthe European Union. To that end, it shall endeavour, eitherwithin the framework of agreements concluded with neigh-bouring third countries, or within the context of Eurocontrol,to extend the scope of this Regulation, and of the measuresreferred to in Article 3, to those countries.


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The assembled audience at Venue Cymru for The Lady Vanishes were treated to a masterclass in mystery and malevolence, writes Terry Canty.
The opening, in a busy European railway station with passengers ordered to disembark due to an avalanche, presented a suitable frame with which the actors could introduce their characters to the audience's eager amateur sleuths.
Whether you are familiar with the film directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock or not, this telling of the classic whodunnit - presented by Bill Kenwright and the Classic Thriller Theatre Company - this graceful production will have you on the edge of your seat.
Eastenders star Lorna Fitzgerald's character Iris is charged with carrying the story and provided a solid performance in what was a dialogue-heavy role.
She was thoroughly engaging throughout alongside Downton Abbey's Matt Barber as Max.
The unlikely investigators provided thrilling moments and led the audience through the unfolding drama.
Robert Duncan (Charters) and Ben Nealon (Caldicott) were fantastic as classic Englishmen abroad, oblivious to the drama unfolding around them.
Coronation Street veteran actor Philip Lowrie and Elizabeth Payne were brilliant as squabbling couple Eric and Margaret, while Maxwell Caulfield's portrayal of the Dr Hartz was chilling, offering duplicitous answers to the many questions surrounding the disappearance of Miss Froy played by the wonderful Juliet Mills.
Joe Reisig gave a chilling performance as the Official and should be applauded, along with Mark Carlisle (Signor Doppo) whose awesome swordplay skills brought another dimension to the play.
This elegant adaptation of the Alfred Hitchcock movie classic featuring a stellar cast, superb sets and atmospheric musical score is not to be missed.
The Lady Vanishes is on at Venue Cymru from June 10 -15 at 7.30pm and 2.30pm. For tickets visit venuecymru.co.uk or telephone the Box Office on 01492 872000.


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I have been a way for a while. In that time I wrote this short story, with a view to sending it into an anthology. While the publishers told me they liked it (yay), they didn't select it (not so much yay). But still, I wrote a story about aliens, which is something I wouldn't have done otherwise (I don't overly like sci-fi literature) AND I got some very useful constructive feedback from some other local writers, which is always a good thing. It was the first time time I actually submitted my work to anything like that, and it won't be the last! Onward and upwards!
This story is about mankind's first (well, technically nineteenth) contact with a group of extremely advanced extra-terrestrials…it's called Saf-Tee First. Enjoy!Continue reading "Saf-Tee First!"