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An admirer of all things beautiful, I aim at creating a place that feels assembled over time. I believe a room should be collected, not decorated.
A well thought room should look as if it's been accumulated not shipped straight from the show room floor.
A room should start a conversation before people actually start exchanging words and in support of this belief I strive to create a space that reflects the story of the people who live in it.
Being a decorator that can't be defined by one single style, I mix different styles to avoid a style cliché. I imagine places that fuse rustic pieces with sleek surfaces to create an eclectic and vibrant room that has richness and depth.
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Area 51 is out there, says CIA
The CIA is acknowledging for the first time the existence of Area 51 in newly declassified documents.
The mysterious piece of land in Nevada has been linked with reports of UFOs, alien bodies and secret government projects.
Now George Washington University's National Security Archive has obtained a CIA history of the U-2 spy plane programme through a public records request and released it.
National Security Archive senior fellow Jeffrey Richelson reviewed the history in 2002, but all mentions of Area 51 had been redacted.
Mr Richelson says he requested the history again in 2005 and received a version a few weeks ago with mentions of Area 51 restored.
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Countdown to Doom
DescriptionThis almanac presages the return of Terokk, the most powerful and terrible Skettis king in arakkoa history.
I always believed this to be the mere legend, <name>. The return of the talonpriests and your recovery of this tome indicate otherwise.
With each day, Terokk comes closer to returning to full strength. Your only chance is to bring him to our world prematurely. Return to Skettis and speak to Adaris about this. Let us hope he has the wisdom to do the right thing.
The arakkoa seek to bring Terokk back beyond the veil of time and Rilak... wants to find a way to accelerate the process? Is he out of his mind?
<Adaris lies back down as his strength fades.>
You've done your duty, <name>. It is time you let my men take over from here. This has become a purely military matter.
<Adaris lies back down as his strength fades.>
You've done your duty, <name>. It is time you let my men take over from here. This has become a purely military matter.
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AMD's Zen CPUs are rumoured to be coming in February 2017
AMD's Zen CPUs are rumoured to be coming in February 2017
Published: 12th September 2016 | Source: Benchlife.info |
AMD's Zen CPUs are rumoured to be coming in February 2017
AMD's Zen CPUs are rumoured to be coming in February 2017 with AMD's high-end AM4 X370 chipset. The new AM4 chipset will host AMD's future CPUs on both the low and high-end of their CPU lineup, replacing both AM3+ and FM2+.
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On the CPU side compared to their older Steamroller/Godavari A10-8850 their new A12-9800 scores significantly higher in Cinebench, with AMD's data showing around 20% performance improvements for their A12-9800. This is a huge gain given the fact that the A12-9800 has a lower TDP of 65W compared to the A10-8850's 95W TDP.
This new AM4 series of motherboards is a unified platform, allowing both AMD's 7th generation APUs and upcoming Zen-powered Summit Ridge CPUs to use the same platform, simplifying development for both system integrators and motherboard manufacturers.
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May 14, 2017
Mathew 12:46-50
I spent most of the past week at Lake Tahoe. I was there for a conference on innovative ideas for worship. It was an inspirational week of which you will hear, or experience, more later. For now I want to note not the conference but the lake itself. For the last time I was at Lake Tahoe was nearly 30 years ago. The whole Bryant clan was there. The highlight of the week was going parasailing over the lake with my mother. So as I sat all week looking out at that lake in the background, listening to our presenter, I kept hearing the giggles of my mother floating above me under that parasail, free as a bird. Though it has been nearly 19 years since I have heard her voice, there at the lake, it was but yesterday. I want to invite you this morning to the lakeside, not of Tahoe, but of Galilee and to hear the voice not of my mother, though a bit of hers may come through, but of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
There are times when Jesus says some pretty hard things in the gospels, times when you want to say, "Wait a second, time-out, hold it right there. What did you say? Can you expound a little on that please? I am not sure I understood it, or what I understood I don't like, so say a little more please, Jesus, maybe it will get better." Times when you would love to hear what happened after all the crowds have gone home and it is just Jesus and his closest friends or perhaps, Jesus and his mother.
So picture yourself as a fly on a Galilean wall a long time ago. The hour is late, most in this fishing village have long gone to bed, for the morning comes early and the greatest work must be done before the day becomes too hot. But in one house a lamp burns as a mother waits anxiously for the last guest to leave so that she might have a word alone with her grown son.
Jesus? Mary calls from the back of the house.
Yes Mother, the tired son responds.
May I have a word with you? It is a rhetorical question, really, the kind mothers ask with that urgent tone of voice that says, "I mean now."
Yes Mother, I am coming. The son smiled at his mother as he entered her room and sat respectfully at her feet. His olive skin was darker than her own. "He spends to much time in the open sun," she thought to herself but said nothing. There were much weightier items on her mind tonight.
Jesus, I am very concerned about you.
Mother, Jesus began but his mother quickly cut him off.
No, let me finish. You know I have always believed in you, but you are beginning to frighten me Jesus. You speak with more authority than the prophets, even more than your great ancestor David. The authorities are starting to notice. Did you see those three men here from Jerusalem today? I did not like the looks on their faces, and you, my son, did little to appease them. "Can Satan cast out Satan?" Where do you come up with such things?
It was effective, wasn't it? respond Jesus with a sly smile.
Well, you certainly shut them up. Mary did not return the smile, but there was an undeniable twinkle in her eye. But I think they are up to no good, Jesus, and they certainly did not come all this way to hear how clever you are. Do you know what these men can do to you?
I know, Mother, and I know you are worried about me, but I wish you would worry less. I'll be fine. Temple authorities don't scare me. God is with me, Mother, trust me.
I trust you with my life, Jesus, but I am not so sure I trust you with yours. The twinkle was gone now, replaced by a uncertain sadness. Sensing this, the son reached out to take his mother's hand.
Mother, have you ever felt something growing inside of you that when the time came for it to come out, there was nothing you could do to stop it?
This brought a slow smile to the woman's face. Well, there was you, for starters. Then your brother James and your sister Ruth, next …
That's right Mother, it's like that. It is like having a baby. The time has come for this baby to be born and there is nothing I can do to stop it, it just comes out of me!
Mary scoffed. You would teach me about childbirth?! Men! Too much wine and a little gas and they think they know what only a woman can know.
Taking both her hands now, Jesus spoke more urgently. No mother, listen to me. There is something inside of me, deep within me, that has to come out. It is no more me than the sun and the moon but it is there, in me. And it pushes and pushes until I can hold it no longer.
You, Jesus, miracle son of mine, are having a baby? This is one miracle I don't want to miss!
That's right, I am. It is the reign of God, Mother, and it is coming now. I can feel it here, deep inside, turning and kicking, straining to get out. And it is just not inside of me, either, I see it everywhere I go, in the faces of the poor and on the hills of Judea. I hear it in the laughter of children and feel it in the wind in the trees. I taste it in the bread and wine at the evening meal. It is everywhere and in everything, it is all around us but I can't get people to see it. They come to see me and the miracles I perform but I want them to see God and the miracle that is all around us.
Is that why you say some of those things you say, to (Mary searches for the words) to shock people so they will open their eyes to see what you see?
Yes, yes, that's it! It is like we are living in a dream, or a nightmare, and something or someone has to wake us up to see what really matters in this world.
But Jesus, to tell one of your own followers, "let the dead bury the dead"? How could you say that? You were there for the burial of your own father. Do you think we should have just left him out on the street for the dogs and buzzards? The respect we show for the dead is what makes us human. You ask the unthinkable.
Yes, it is unthinkable. That is the point. We live our lives day in and day out and never give thought to the possibility that the realm of God is right here in our midst. So to make people confront that possibility, I challenge them to think the unthinkable, to imagine how the priorities in their lives would change with God at the reign.
You didn't mean we should really leave the dead unburied?
Physically, no, of course not, at least not entirely. There are times that I wonder, however, why we put so much energy and effort into caring for the dead when we have yet to care for many of the living. The rich build elaborate tombs where a body sleeps for eternity while the poor have no place to lay their head. Spiritually, however, I see many people who need to let go of their dead loved ones, or sometimes, their dead enemies.
Visibly intrigued, Mary presses further. Then when you said "Call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father–the one in heaven," you were not really serious.
To the contrary, I was very serious. You mean, did I want people to take me literally?
Well, both, I guess. Our entire society is built around the patriarchs, from Abraham on down to the father of every household. You really shook up a number of people with that one.
And is that a bad thing?
When I lost Joseph I did not know how I, or how we, would survive. And it has been tough, but God has been good to us. I have discovered that there are many things I can do that I never would have tried while Joseph was around. As much as I miss him, I confess I am enjoying some new freedom, at least as much as I can get by my male relatives.
You see, mother, in the realm of God every person is answerable directly to God and still accountable to the rest of the community. It is not the title, "father", that I object to, but the way many fathers act as if they were God and accountable to no one. If I shook some people up, then maybe my message is getting through. Fathers need to learn their role is not to rule their families, it is to serve them.
I think I am beginning to see, Jesus. Help me to understand, then, what you meant when you said "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters cannot be my disciple." I know you don't hate me, do you?
Oh mother, I could never hate you. Do you remember what you told me when I was young and sometimes a little boastful?
Like the time we left you in the temple and when we finally found you a couple of days later you told us you were teaching scripture to the priests?
As a matter of fact, I was, but the point is, you said, "I have told you a million times not to exaggerate!"
Well, I surely thought it a million times!
I am sure you did, but you exaggerated to give emphasis to your point.
But Jesus, isn't hating your parents and siblings exaggerating too much?
It's thinking the unthinkable, Mother. From our childhood we are taught diligently to honor our mothers and fathers. As faithful Jews we can no more hate our parents than we can eat pork. But if someone wants to follow me, if they want to live as a citizen in this realm of God , they have to reorient their values.
Looking down, Mary, the mother of Jesus, quietly asked, Does that mean that I am no longer your mother and your siblings no longer your brothers and sisters?
Oh mother, is that what this is all about? I have hurt you today, haven't I?
What did you expect Jesus, in front of all those people, to brush us off like that? I am not a sermon illustration which you can throw casually into the wind. I am your mother, Jesus, the one who brought you into this world, who nursed you, kissed your hurts, sang you to sleep, sewed your clothes and prepared your meals. Tears began to roll down the aging cheeks of the wounded mother. Yes, it hurt. I felt shamed and embarrassed. People have been saying things about you Jesus, things I do not understand. I just wanted to talk with you, to try to understand all of this. And I am scared, Jesus. I am afraid that I am going to lose you like I lost Joseph.
Jesus started to reach up to dry the tears of his mother and then stopped. There are some things a son should not do lest he take the dignity away from the elder. Instead, teardrops fell upon the back of his hands, still holding his mothers' in her lap. He said a quiet prayer before speaking again. Mother, please hear me. The people who come to me are scared, too. They are scared because their world is falling apart, they are sick or hungry or poor or alone. They are losing land to the encroachment of Greek civilization. They are losing freedom to Roman rule. And they are losing faith in their Jewish leaders. They are desperate for a Messiah to save them. And they come to me. I want them to know that God has not deserted them. I want them to discover that they are part of the community of God that can overcome all else in this world. I want them to feel that they are a valued part of the family of God because they are, and so are you. When I look into their frightened, hungry, desperate eyes, my heart breaks for them. I know that if I can reach them, if they will heed my words and follow God's calling, they will discover God's realm in their midst as I have. They have been given to me by God to care for, they are my family. Wherever they are gathered, I will be there, too. So yes, I have invited them in, into my family and our family, the family I have known since a child, the family you raised me in, the family of God. I am and always will be your son, but I am more than that now. God has laid this thing on me, has consumed me, and I must go my own way, God's way. I must leave you, Mother. Can you forgive me?
Mary said nothing, but reached up and wrapped her arms around the neck of her son. Embracing, her tears mixed now with his own. Silently the son kissed his mother on each cheek, then turned to leave.
Yes Mother?
I love you.
And I you.
And as she watched him go into the dark, quiet night for the last time, words from long ago came back to her, "and a sword will pierce your own soul." At last now, she understood the old prophet, and in that, Mary took the one comfort she could find. In the love for her son, Mary felt God's aching love for the world.
Dan Bryant
First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Eugene, Oregon


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This has been a tough week, hence the lack of blog posts. I have tons to write about so I hope to get back into the swing of things soon!
I've been swinging wildly from euphoria to misery all week, and its getting a bit unnerving. It all started on Sunday night when I got sick. But SICK. As in not even able to keep water down kind of sick. I had some paperwork to sort out in town, and fortunately it rained so I didn't have to feel guilty for not trapping as I sat and somehow typed up progress reports for the permits office among other things and Leia yelled at me over G-talk because I hadn't gone to the pharmacy yet.
Anyway, to cut a loOOng story short, I give you:
- My permits are officially in order. It turns out that the guy in charge is amazingly nice if you call him 'Ludwig' rather than by his nickname ('Blackie')
- Feeling much better and the weird medication-related dreams have stopped
- I'm almost done catching lizards. I need a few more and then i can stop trapping and get started on Phase 2.
- i thought some of my lizards were sick, but they seem to be OK (fingers crossed!), they're certainly biting hard enough.
- It's been pouring with rain (I thought the house was going to flood) for he past 24 hours, and the power didn't go off much. normally rain like this is a guarantee of at least a day without electricity.
- This place is so beautiful. I was climbing yesterday and as I reached to top of the outcrop and I saw the panorama (that I've seen a million times and mostly ignore), the absolute hugeness of nothing hit me like it hasn't ever before. I was listening to Keane at the time, which may explain it.
and Sadness:
- I was sick… which means I lost a day's work which meant sitting up until 1am for two nights in a row catching up (the work isn't that bad, it's the procrastination between that's the killer).
- I'm missing Halloween AGAIN. I've never celebrated Halloween as I'm always busy or just not had plans. And now I get to hear about everyone else's plans and it makes me sad.
- I thought some of my lizards were sick. which led to a frantic checking of all of them at two in the morning followed by a sleepless night. They seem to be ok, but it wasn't fun.
- It's been pouring with rain – hence no trapping even though the finish line is basically in sight. I have to finish this week to get back in time for my cousin's wedding and the Killers! I also got to take measurements with flickering power – you have no idea how much fun it is to have a lizard on a treadmill when the power keeps going on and off.
- An armed response guy got VERY lost and wound up here tonight. He then left and got his bakkie stuck and came to me for help. He also greeted me with "Waar's jou man?" (i.e. where's your husband?). I was annoyed and therefore refused to speak in Afrikaans. So he said "Can I speak to your husband?" I told him that my husband is a mercenary and I think he went to poach a rhino. Then I phoned one of the farmers next door and told them to sort this guy out, and sent him back to his bakkie to wait for the tractor. I feel bad for being so rude, but he started it!
- This place is Just. So. Beautiful. And I can't shake the feeling that once I leave there' no coming back. It'll never be Home again, even if I come to visit.
To finish it all off, I decided to wait out the worst of the storm by watching a movie, and as I've been a bit down I figured a kids movie might do the trick (I'm going to ignore how emotional "Meet the Robinsons" made me last time I tried this).
I should also know by now that any movie involving animals is a bad idea. and now I have the unfortunate distinction of having cried while watching 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua' – I'm sorry but when the big German Shepherd get invited back to the police force…
So ja, the random stories will continue, maybe when it stops raining I'll be back in storyteller mode!


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GIS - 16 November 2015: Three factsheets on Ecological Footprint "How to reduce your ecological footprint at school and household level" geared towards sensitising the community about sustainable consumption and production, were launched by the Min
GIS - 13 November 2015: An award ceremony for Grantees under the Switch Africa Green (SWITCH AG) Programme, a pilot initiative to foster green economy transformation in six African countries including Mauritius, was held yesterday at the Ministry of
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From a cross between Philadelphia and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA comes Seaspan and their first dreamy song "Winter Sublet".
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In many Latin American countries, crunchy tostones are as popular (and served as often) as french fries are here. A single bite of their salty crust and tender interior will tell you why they're so beloved.
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- Makes 4 to 6 (side dish) servings
- Active Time
- 45 min
- Total Time
- 45 min
- 2 pound large unripe (green) plantains (about 3)
- About 2 cups vegetable oil
- 2 cups warm water
- Cut ends from each plantain with a sharp small knife, then cut a lengthwise slit through peel. Cut plantains crosswise into 1-inch-thick pieces and, beginning at slit, pry off peel.
- Heat 1/2 inch oil in a deep 10- to 12-inch heavy skillet over medium heat until just hot enough to sizzle when a piece of plantain is added. Fry plantains in 2 batches, turning occasionally with tongs, until tender and just golden, 5 to 7 minutes per batch. Transfer plantains to paper towels to drain, reserving oil in skillet.
- Flatten each plantain to 1/4 inch thick with a tostone press or bottom of a heavy saucepan.
- Stir together warm water and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a bowl. Heat reserved oil over medium heat until it shimmers. Dip a flattened plantain in salted water and gently place, without patting dry, in hot oil. (Plantains will not spatter.) Repeat with several more pieces and fry plantains (without crowding) in 4 or 5 batches, turning occasionally, until golden, about 3 minutes per batch. Transfer with tongs to clean paper towels to drain. Season with salt and serve immediately.


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Here's my how-to on making mini bows and arrows 🙂 Not only are they great props for medieval dolls, they also are actually functional!
1 wire coat hanger
Thin elastic string (gold or silver looks cool)
Wooden skewers
Colored paper
Aluminum foil
Glue & scissors
Cut from the coat hanger a piece of wire about 6 inches long. Bend it into an arc shape and curve the ends outward slightly. Tie the elastic string between the ends of the bow. It should neither stretch nor sag.
Cut the wooden skewers into pieces almost as big as the bow. Glue 2 little rectangles of paper on opposite sides of each stick near the bottom. Once dry, cut fringes into them. That resembles the feathers and adds to the look. (For more functionality, you can skip this step–as this is the part you will hold to fire the arrow, the fringe comes off after a few uses.)
Using a knife, whittle the other ends of the sticks into blunt points–not sharp ones. DO THIS STEP VERY CAREFULLY.
Now cut rectangles out of the foil, apply glue to one side, and fold the glue side over the pointed tips of the arrows. You'll have a foil square at that end. When dry, cut the foil into a pointed shape resembling an arrow-tip.
Ready, Aim, Fire:
Due to the small size of this set, you'll have to use the "pinch draw." Grasp the arrow with thumb and forefinger and set it in front of the bowstring. Pull back the arrow, making sure it is in front of the string. When you release, the the elastic in the string will propel the arrow forward a good distance. MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT FIRING TOWARD ANY PERSON. For most of your marksmanship practice, you might want to use Q-tips instead of the wooden arrows.
If you make more bows, you can have an outdoors shooting match with your family. Attach a paper target to a tree and dip the tip of each person's Q-tip arrow into a different color of paint.
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1. Immediately and carefully open your Eucalyptus tree from its package. Completely submerge the root ball in water to hydrate. Place your tree outside in a cool, semi-shady area until ready to plant. Keep in mind, container grown plants, especially in hot weather, need to be watered daily. And remember, Eucs kept as houseplants are not covered under your warranty agreement.
2. Select a sunny location outside and dig a hole 3 to 4 times wider than the container, but no deeper than the container.
3. Carefully remove the Eucalyptus tree from the container keeping the soil around the roots intact. It helps to tap the outside of the container to loosen the edge. Carefully slide the tree from the container. Don't yank the tree out of the container as this can separate the roots from the tree.
4. Sometimes trees become root-bound or the roots look like they're about to circle the root ball. If your Eucalyptus tree is like this, gently loosen the roots to encourage the roots to grow into the native soil.
5. Set the tree in the middle of the hole. Avoid planting the tree too deep. If the root collar sits below the top of the hole, compact some soil under the tree so that the root flare at the base of the trunk is slightly above ground level. Using some soil, secure the tree in a straight position, then fill and firmly pack the hole with the original soil, making sure there aren't any air pockets. For heavy clay soils you can incorporate pine bark mulch or sand/grit or soil amendment products such as Clay Cutter, Natures Helper, etc. to aerate heavy soil. Avoid using rich composts, or soil amendments with fertilizers. Eucs prefer infertile soil and are already fast growers. Keep back-filling until the soil is just below the root collar.
6. Create a water-holding basin around the hole and give the tree a good watering. After the water has soaked in, spread protective mulch 2–4 inches deep in a 3-foot diameter area around the base of the tree, but not touching the trunk.
7. The soil and mulch around your trees should be kept moist but not soggy. During dry weather, generously water the tree every 5 -7 days during the first year. Water slowly at the drip-line.
8. Remove any tags and labels from the tree as these will affect the tree as it grows. You may need to prune any broken or dead branches.
Fertilizer? Do not use fertilizer, heavy organic matter, or chemicals on your newly planted trees. Eucs are disease resistant, minimal feeders, and are extremely fast growing. Fertilizers, especially those with high Nitrogen content, will weaken even a healthy tree.


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Dear Expert, I adopted a wonderful Border Collie mix dog from a local shelter. She is VERY smart and I think a good candidate for agility and obedience competitions. Can she compete in the AKC or are there other options? Thank you, E.B.
Dear E.B.,
Yes, your mixed-breed can compete in AKC performance events! The AKC's Board of Directors recently voted unanimously to proceed with a program for mixed breed dogs. As of October 1, 2009 owners can begin enrolling their pets and receive an AKC ID number. Then beginning April 1, 2010 enrolled dogs will be eligible to compete in mixed breed classes at stand-alone AKC Agility, Obedience and Rally events. For more information about the AKC's mixed breeds program, visit www.akc.org/mixedbreeds.
There are also many other canine registries that register mixed breed dogs for performance events. The UKC Limited Privilege Registration is offered by UKC to encourage all dog owners to be active and enjoy time with their dogs. This program accepts Mix Bred dogs (also known as American Mixed Bred dogs, or AMB), purebred dogs of unknown or incomplete pedigrees, purebred dogs registered with registries the UKC does not acknowledge, and purebred dogs with disqualifying faults. Canine Performance Events, Inc., the North American Agility Council, and The United States Dog Agility Association, all allow registration and participation of mixed breed dogs! Good luck!!


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Farmer Kobi's well-mannered goats, donkey, and sheep know just how to play host, and they give Polly, Kobi's Hanukkah guest, a gracious welcome. But when Polly isn't sure animals belong in a house, what will happen next? Find out with laugh-out-loud pictures and puns that are sure to entertain all readers. As donkey says: Hee-Haw-Yahoo!


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Chief of Police Jim Morris has announced the appointment of Daniel Janickey as Vienna's new Deputy Chief of Police. He will succeed Captain Mike Miller, who retired on Oct. 1, after serving 29 years with the Vienna Police Department.
Janickey was selected from among 103 candidates. "Dan has over 24 years of local law enforcement experience and brings with him a very diverse resume of accomplishments," said Chief Morris. "He will be a great addition to the Town of Vienna Police department and the community." Commenting on Chief Morris' selection, Town Manager Mercury Payton said, "This selection for Deputy Chief is indicative of the Town's commitment to excellent service. I expect that Dan will immediately assist the Chief in advancing the goals for the department."
Janickey began with the Fairfax County Police Department in 1989 as a police officer and has held several positions during his career with the department, most recently serving as Commander of the McLean District station. He has held several leadership roles within the County's police department including positions in hostage negotiations, special operations, incident support services and peer support, and internal affairs. Janickey also held the position of Assistant Commander of the Franconia District station and has previously worked out of Sully District and the Mason District stations.
Janickey holds a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice from Bluefield College in Bluefield, Va. and completed the Executive Leadership certificate program at American University in Washington, D.C. He holds several professional certifications including leadership, hostage negotiations, emergency management, crisis intervention, interrogation, public speaking and investigations.
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For years, I was a major Woody Allen fan, and to this day I adore many of his movies — Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters and Stardust Memories, to name but a few. But after his marriage to Mia Farrow blew up following the affair with Soon-Yi Previn, I stopped going to see his films, mostly due to a kind of moral loathing.
Long years have since passed, however, and I'd heard so many good things about Midnight in Paris that I decided to set my moral objections aside and take another look.
With an ensemble cast that includes Owen Wilson, Kathy Bates, Marion Cotillard, Adrien Brody and Rachel McAdams, Midnight in Paris is Woody Allen at his best. The opening montage is a kind of homage to Paris, in the way that the first few minutes of Manhattan express Allen's love for New York City.
Gil (Owen Wilson) is a successful screenwriter from Los Angeles who considers himself a hack; he wishes he'd been born earlier and had lived in Paris of the 1920s, among literary and artistic giants such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Salvador Dali and Gertrude Stein. The longing is so powerful that he's actually transported back in time to that era and meets with all of his heroes, coming to know them on a first-name basis.
For Gil, it's a dream come true, the fulfillment of his deepest fantasy wishes.
His preoccupation with this other era distracts him from the mess of his current life. He seems adrift, about to marry Inez (Rachel McAdams), who seems entirely ill-suited to him; he's unable to decide what to do with his career and the novel he longs to finish. Back in the 1920s, he meets Adriana (Marion Cotillard), an alluring young woman who has been the mistress, in succession, of all Gil's idols, leading a life that strikes him as incredibly exciting and glamorous, at the very center of his artistic universe.
But Adriana sees nothing special about her life and wishes she could have lived instead during Paris' Belle Epoque, the glamorous era that ended with World War I. Her failure to see the riches of her actual life, because she has idealized another era, finally wakes Gil from his fantasy. He realizes that romanticizing some other era and believing he would've been happy, if only he could've lived back then, means he's ignoring his present day life, drifting without direction and blind to its hazards and potential beauty.
It's a light but charming cautionary tale, about the perils of living in fantasy. Believing we'd be happy if only we were a celebrity, more beautiful, richer, etc. stops us from making the most of our actual lives. In its most extreme form, such a longing to be someone other than who we really are, especially when issues of shame are profound, may lead us to escape into a kind of false existence, pretending to be someone other than who we really are, embodying a kind of idealized persona instead.
Fortunately, Gil wakes up from his fantasy in time to avert disaster, breaks off his engagement to Inez and decides to stay in Paris to finish his novel.
Midnight in Paris seems like a sunnier version of another Woody Allen film, The Purple Rose of Cairo, where Cecilia (Mia Farrow) disappears into the fantasy world of film in order to escape her bleak life. At the end of that film, Cecilia winds up disappointed and back in the movie theater, eating popcorn as the reel begins to play.
By contrast, Gil actually chooses reality over fantasy. I suppose it's much easier to accept "reality" when it means a life in Paris finishing a novel, sustained by all the money you made as a screenwriter … and meeting an attractive bilingual Parisienne to boot. Cecilia understandably finds it much harder to accept being an unemployed, depression-era housewife with an abusive husband (Danny Aiello), and little she can look forward to. There's only so much harsh reality that any of us can accept.
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FirstLight recently made a $500 donation to The Dempsey Center as part of FirstLight's Community Matters program. The Dempsey Center was selected to receive the donation based on an employee voting process. The Dempsey Center is a leader in quality of life care for individuals and families impacted by cancer. Founded in Lewiston, Maine by actor Patrick Dempsey, the Dempsey Center provides a personalized, holistic and integrated approach to cancer prevention, education and support. From left to right is The Dempsey Center's Fundraising Coordinator Tish Caldwell, FirstLight's Account Executive Carol Daley, and Dempsey Center Event Manager Aimee Labbe.
FirstLight presented a $500 donation to the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers in Lewiston, Maine, as part of its Community Matters program. The Maine Children's Home reaches out to more than 2,000 families and children from throughout Maine every year. The organization works with families to nurture healthy relationships, giving parents the support and encouragement they need to effectively meet their responsibilities to their children. They provide adoption, mental health counseling, early childcare, and summer camps, among other programs.
The Maine Children's Cancer Program in Scarborough was a recent recipient of a FirstLight Community Matters donation of $500. The Maine Children's Cancer Program provides integrated, comprehensive, clinical research-based medical care and psychosocial and practical support services to infants, children, and adolescents with cancer and blood disorders from across Maine. The Maine Children's Cancer Program strives not only to cure cancer in as many children as possible but also to support families through their experience of living with childhood cancer.
The Barbara Bush Children's Hospital in Portland was a recent recipient of a FirstLight Community Matters donation of $500. FirstLight selects one organization each month to receive a $500 donation as determined by a FirstLight employee voting process. Organizations must be located within the service area of the company's various office locations. From routine check-ups and immunizations, to the treatment of life-threatening illnesses and injuries, The Barbara Bush Children's Hospital provides comprehensive, family-centered healthcare for all of northern New England.
FirstLight recently made a $500 donation to Haven, a Portsmouth-based organization whose mission is to prevent sexual assault and domestic violence and to support and empower women, men, youth and families to heal from abuse and rebuild their lives. FirstLight makes a $500 donation each month to a charitable organization located in its service communities across Maine and New Hampshire. These organizations are selected through an employee voting process.
Portsmouth-based Cross Roads House was a recent recipient of a FirstLight Community Matters donation of $500. FirstLight selects one organization each month to receive a $500 donation as determined by a FirstLight employee voting process. Organizations must be located within the service area of the company's various office locations. Cross Roads House assists homeless individuals and families, and is the largest emergency and transitional shelter in New Hampshire, serving eastern New Hampshire and southern Maine. It houses up to 100 people on any given night, and operates a 24-hour emergency shelter. FirstLight provides fiber-optic data, Internet, data center and voice services to enterprise and carrier customers throughout the Northeast.
The Bangor Humane Society is a nonprofit organization serving over 200 communities in northern and eastern Maine since 1869. They strive to facilitate the human-animal bond by "re-homing" and rehabilitating homeless pets with humans through pet adoption. The staff, volunteers and community partners work hard every single day to provide quality care to animals and offer second chances by matching pets into new, loving homes. The organization strongly believes that every match made is a life saved.
MCHPP is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide hungry people with access to healthy food, work to improve the quality of their lives by partnering with others, and serve them in a manner that recognizes their dignity.
They provide food to all in need in the area they serve. MCHPP has the resources and financial stability to meet current and future demand.
One Warrior Won is a national organization dedicated to providing education and support to past and present service members and their families on how to, initially, survive the struggles of PTSd/TBI, find peace in their place of new normal and finally begin to thrive while living a fulfilling life, free from the war that has raged within them.
At the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers, the staff believes every child deserves the right to reach his or her full potential. Since the inception of the agency in 1899, it has made a difference in the lives of many children and families throughout the state of Maine.
Couples eager to add to their families come to them for their extensive international adoption and domestic adoption experience. Parents entrust their early care and education facility with the nurturing of their children. Teen parents count on them to provide positive mentoring and the practical life skills they need to become good parents. Youth, families, and individuals come to the Maine Children's Home for compassionate counseling services in a nurturing environment.
Responsible Pet Care of Oxford Hills provides a safe and comfortable environment for dogs and cats from Oxford County, Maine that have become lost or have been abandoned.
Responsible Pet Care is a no-kill, non-profit shelter. All of the cats and kittens in their care need permanent homes and are available for adoption. Many of the dogs will be reunited with their owners; but some will require new homes.
Maine Children's Cancer Program is honored to share its extensive expertise, resources and compassionate care with young patients and their families. Mainers rely on their team for a complete range of services designed for the unique needs of children diagnosed with cancer and blood disorders.
Their pediatric physicians and expert nurses specialize in cancer (oncology) and blood diseases (hematology). Social workers and research associates are also part of each child's care team.
HAVEN is dedicated to addressing public health through violence prevention and improving the well-being of children and families. Preventing sexual abuse and providing support for those impacted by domestic and sexual violence can lead to healthier and more secure children and adults. Their mission is to prevent sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking and to support and empower women, men, youth and families to heal from abuse and rebuild their lives.


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Bob Weir Tour
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Frequently Asked Questions
What songs will Bob Weir play in concert?
Bob Weir & Ratdog is not like a traditional band. They only possess a single album of original studio material to their name. Due to members coming from a number of high profile bands, setlists usually incorporate many cover songs, though some people barely call them cover songs at all. Bob Weir is one of the main members of the Grateful Dead, giving Grateful Dead songs played by Ratdog a special connection and elevating them slightly above a cover.
With that said, Ratdog shows are slathered in songs from the classic 60's and 70's psychedelic group, including one of their most famous, "Truckin." This often appears towards the end of the set, and remains a notable fan favorite. The band also reaches into material penned by the late Jerry Garcia, which includes "Bird Song" and "Loser," among a few others having a less consistent appearance.
Ratdog brings out the big guns for what could be one of the oddest selection of covers. Bob Dylan is clearly a close friend of the band members, and the crew performs the acclaimed artist's own "Maggie's Farm," "All Along the Watchtower," and "Desolation Row" in a number of their sets. The group relies heavily on Bob Dylan songs, which can be odd considering the length the Dylan tracks sprawl to, at close to ten minutes each. In some sets this accounts for about thirty minutes of just Bob Dylan material–an interesting choice, to say the least.
The group just scratches the surface of Ratdog's only studio album, Evening Moods. They perform "Two Djinn" for the majority of sets, and complement it with the opening track, "Bury Me Standing."
The setlist seems short, but most of the songs are over 8 minutes in their studio form–even longer live. Here is a loose setlist you might hear on the Bob Weir 2014 Tour.
Jack Straw
All Along the Watchtower
Wrong Way Feelin'
Maggie's Farm
Mama Tried
Two Djinn
Desolation Row
On the Road Again
Deep Elem Blues
Bird Song
Iko Iko
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Touch of Grey
How long is a Bob Weir and Rat Dog Concert?
Grateful Dead shows were jamfests that left their watches behind, and Bob Weir seems to subscribe to that philosophy. The band often sets up an intermission in the middle of the set. Shows can easily run for almost two hours. The group commits to a lot of on the spot improvisation, which keeps sets very dynamic. They also visit venues lacking a curfew for this reason. Though this is a far cry from classic Grateful Dead shows spanning five hours or more, you can expect to see a full three hour set including intermission.
What is the current line-up of this diverse band?
Ratdog has always had a rotating door of members coming in from an eccentric quantity of different bands. Some have played in Grateful Dead spin-off bands for years, which follows in the theme of the massive assortment of Dead members. The reunion tour for 2014 consists of the line-up of Bob Weir, Jay Lane, Steve Kimock, Rob Wasserman, Robin Sylvester, and Jeff Chimenti. Kimock is the newest addition after having been out of the band since 2008. Wasserman has always returned following his 2002 departure.
Who is Bob Weir's publicist and press contact?
Dennis McNally is the current touring publicist for Bob Weir & Ratdog. He can be connected with through his LinkedIn account. He is the longtime publicist for the Grateful Dead as well as the band's biographer.
How do I get access to presale tickets for Bob Weir's and Rat Dog's tour?
Presale tickets are hard to come by for upcoming Ratdog shows, because they are not offered.
Concert Reviews
"Many concert tours this summer are featuring creative pairings of popular artists. Thus, the double bill of Ratdog, led by the legendary rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, and improvisational masters String Cheese Incident (SCI) was a dream ticket. Since its inception, Ratdog has evolved and the current six man line-up is loose yet tight." – SoundPress
"A RatDog performance is a lot like a Grateful Dead performance, with good reason. First is because RatDog is the best by far of the jam bands performing today, and is undoubtedly the best at performing the Dead's songs. 'Course, you're entitled to a different opinion on that, even though you'd be wrong." – Lou Novemberchek of BlogCritics
Tour Archive
(hiatus from 2009 to 2014)
Bob Weir & Ratdog 2009
Tour Opening Acts: Jackie Greene, Les Claypool, Al Schnier, Chris Robinson
Started July 5, 2009 in Columbus, Ohio | Ended October 24, 2009 in New York City, New York
Bob Weir & Ratdog 2008
Tour Opening Acts: Warren Hayes, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi
Started March 21, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota | Ended December 31, 2008 in San Francisco, California
Bob Weir & Ratdog 2007
Tour Opening Acts: Warren Hayes, Radioactive, Sammy Hagar
Started February 9, 2007 in San Diego, California | Ended December 15, 2007 in San Francisco, California
Ratdog 2006
Tour Opening Acts: Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Momma Gravy, The Les Claypool Frog Brigade
Started January 7, 2006 in San Francisco, California | Ended November 10, 2006 in Lowell, Massachusetts
Ratdog and Guests 2005
Tour Opening Acts: NA
Started February 4, 2005 in Anaheim, California | Ended December 17, 2005 in Seattle, Washington


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(NewsUSA) - How is your family loving lamb this holiday season?
Whether slow-cooked shanks for a family feast, minted lamb meatballs for a party buffet or a stunning roast to serve as the centerpiece for a holiday celebration, American lamb is a fresh and flavorful way to enjoy the holidays with loved ones.
We want to hear from "ewe." Tell the American Lamb Board how you're preparing lamb for your family this winter, and you could win the American Lamb Family Recipe Contest.
From now through December 14, fans of lamb are invited to
post their ewe-nique family recipes plus a quote about why they love American Lamb on the American Lamb Board's Facebook Page, www.facebook.com/AmericanLamb. Weekly winners, chosen at random, will receive a lamb cut of their choice for a family feast. A panel of lamb-lovin' chefs will review all entries and choose a grand-prize winner, who will receive a $500 gift certificate to a restaurant in their home town that serves American lamb. The winner will be announced on December 17 via Facebook and Twitter.
To get you started in the kitchen, our American Lamb family has a recipe ideal for sharing with your own flock:
Pecan-Crusted Rack of Lamb with Rosemary Balsamic Sauce
8 servings
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
2 American Lamb racks, frenched
2 tablespoons oil
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons coarse grain mustard
2 cloves minced garlic
3/4 cup fresh bread crumbs
3/4 cup toasted and chopped pecans
4 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary, divided
4 ounces semi-soft goat cheese, crumbled
1 cup balsamic vinegar
Rub lamb with oil and salt. Place in a roasting pan, fat side down. Roast at 425 degrees F for 8 minutes; turn and roast an additional 8 minutes. Remove from oven.
Combine mustard, garlic, bread crumbs, 2 tablespoons of the rosemary and cheese. Spread over lamb. Return to oven; cook 15 minutes, until crust is golden brown. Remove from oven; cover with foil to keep warm.
In saucepan, combine vinegar and remaining 2 tablespoons of rosemary; simmer for 6 to 8 minutes or until reduced to half.
Slice lamb into individual chops; drizzle sauce over chops. Serve with roasted butternut squash.
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Forecasts have traditionally served as the basis for planning and executing supply chain activities – sourcing, making, and distributing products and services to customers. Forecasts drive all supply chain decisions and their importance has become critical with increasing customer expectations, shortening lead times, and scarcity of resources. Few areas have been as transformed by big data as forecasting given new and rapid access to data.
Digital technologies (such as digital clickstreams, sensors, tags, beacons, and other smart devices), have enabled firms to collect vast amounts of data in real-time. On the other hand, significant but relevant data is also collected in the public domain – social media traffic on the firm's products and services, photo and video streams, blog and forum entries, and trend spotting data — that are free and fine-grained. We use the term "big data" for data sets that are large ("volume"); that is collected in near real-time (high "velocity"), and present in myriad forms ("variety"). Big data-driven forecasting holds tremendous promise for supply chain planners. The vast amounts of data collected and analyzed in near real-time can be used to better understand customer behavior, improve forecast accuracy, assess systemic and idiosyncratic risk, and improve supply chain execution. The challenge for both researchers and practitioners of forecasting is to effectively integrate this data into supply chain planning activities; and to develop innovative tools, techniques, and models that can use these big data sets unlock deep insights and value.
This opens up an opportunity to significantly impact the practice of forecasting through fundamental research on: i) how big data can be used to leverage the forecasting process in the supply chain; ii) provide supply chain insights by developing innovative and scalable forecasting techniques to manipulate and analyze large data sets; and iii) finally, explore how such forecasting best practices can be developed, structured, and deployed in organizations and across the supply chain.
Special Issue Goals and Topics
This Special Issue draws upon advances in computing and statistics to improve and deepen our understanding on how big data has impacted the practice of forecasting, especially in supply chain contexts. We welcome a wide variety of topics that address big data-driven forecasting in the supply chain. This could, planning production and distribution, and managing the supply base. Data include predicting customer behavior, forecasting or nowcasting demand for products sets used (real or simulated) should have characteristics of big data (volume, velocity, variety); and the insights that are generated should leverage such newly available data.
We are also interested in papers that describe new forecasting models and techniques to analyze large and unstructured data sets that are collected in a supply chain context. These can include statistical techniques (including modifications of traditional forecasting models), adaptive regression, data mining heuristics, machine learning algorithms, video and text processing, etc. Of particular interest are those methods that scale well with large data sets. New techniques should also be rigorously verified. One example is forecasting performance on out-of-sample data. Empirical evaluations of forecasts should be out-of-sample and include established benchmark comparisons, and be subject to tests of statistical significance. This area is especially important in supply chain research where forecasts are often not evaluated as rigorously as they should be, are not compared against established benchmarks or over a large enough sample to draw general conclusions. Big data offers an opportunity for this.
Finally, we are also interested in papers that rigorously explore how big data-driven forecasting capability can be developed, structured, integrated, and deployed across the supply chain and organization. This includes the process of formulating the big data-driven forecasting strategy, investigating the factors for successful deployment, and the identification of potential pitfalls to implementation.
Sample topics of interest:
Value generation in the supply chain
- Forecasting/Nowcasting demand for products and services
- Forecasting consumer behavior (through digital click streams, beacons, sensors, etc.)
- Trend spotting (using Google Trends for example)
- Demand and production planning
- Forecasting and planning for supply chain risk (both systemic and rare events)
Tools and techniques
- Methods to collect and visualize data that will aid forecasting
- Methods to codify and incorporate unstructured data into traditional forecasting models
- Scalable techniques for forecasting in the supply chain context (this could include machine learning algorithms, A/B testing, etc.)
- Techniques to analyze large and/or unstructured data (geographic, sensor, or near real-time data streams)
Organization & Outlook
- How best to integrate big-data driven forecasting into the organization?
- Future outlook for using big data-driven forecasting in the supply chain
Submission Guidelines
To submit a paper for consideration for the Special Issue, please upload your paper online and include a cover letter clearly indicating that the paper is for the special issue on "Big data-driven Forecasting in the supply chain". The webpage for online submissions is mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijf. The deadline for receipt of papers is 31 January 2017. All papers will follow IJF's refereeing process.
Instructions for authors are provided at https://ijf.forecasters.org/authors
For further information about the Special Issue, please contact one of the guest editors.
Guest Editors
Nada R. Sanders
Nada Sanders ([email protected])
Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management
D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University
Tonya Boone
Tonya Boone ([email protected])
Associate Professor of Operations & Information Technology
Raymond A. Mason School of Business, The College of William and Mary
Ram Ganeshan
Ram Ganeshan ([email protected]).
D. Hillsdon Ryan Professor of Business
Raymond A. Mason School of Business, The College of William and Mary
Nada R. Sanders is the Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston MA. Prior to that, she held the Iacocca Chair at the College of Business and Economics at Lehigh University and as the West Chair at the M.J. Neeley School of Business.
Her research and teaching interests have been in forecasting and the use of data analytics in decision-making within the supply chain context. She has authored over one hundred scholarly works and has served on the editorial boards of prominent journals in her field, including the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences Journal, Journal of Business Logistics, and International Institute of Forecasting. She is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute and was co-founder and Associate Editor of Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting. She has authored multiple books with the most recent being Big Data Driven Supply Chain Management and has given numerous talks on the subject including a recent HBR webinar. She currently serves on the Board of POMS, having served as both Program and General Chair.
She holds a Ph.D. in Operations Management and Logistics, and an MBA, from the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University, as well as a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
Tonya Boone is an Associate Professor at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business, The College of William & Mary. Prior to joining the faculty of the College of William and Mary, she was a faculty member at the Fischer College of Business at Ohio State University.
Her research and teaching interests include sustainable operations, knowledge management in professional service organizations, and the management of supply chains in data rich environments. Tonya's research has been published in the top academic management journals, including Management Science, Journal of Operations Management, POMS Journal, and Decision Sciences. She is also a co-editor of the recent book Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Methods, Models, and Policy Implications.
Tonya is active in her community, serving on the Board of the Williamsburg Economic Development Authority, the Board of the Hampton Roads Incubator, and the Board of the Williamsburg Regional Library. She is a sought-after expert in the local community in the areas of sustainability, public service, and supply chain management.
Tonya Boone has a Ph.D. in Operations and Technology Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler School of Business; a MBA from the College of William and Mary; and a BS in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the University of Kansas.
Ram Ganeshan is the D. Hillsdon Ryan Professor of Business at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.
Ram's teaching, research and consulting interests are in the areas of supply chain management, data analytics, and logistics strategy, primarily in the chemical, hi-tech, and retail industries. He is a regular contributor to academic and trade journals and is the co-editor of three books including Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management which is one of the most highly cited books in supply chain management. In 2001, the Production & Operations Management Society (POMS) awarded him the prestigious Wickham Skinner Award for his research on how supply chains can be efficiently managed. His current research projects extensively rely on big-data techniques to provide insights into making sound decisions for managing both manufacturing and service supply chains. They include: (1) work with online retailers to harness and interpret clickstream data from customer browsing behavior; (2) working with carriers in the transportation sector to reduce cost and carbon footprint; and (3) analyzing large scale project data in professional services to provide strategies for productivity improvement.
He received a Doctorate in Operations and Logistics Management from Penn State; a MSOR degree in Operations Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and an undergraduate degree in Industrial Management from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science in India.


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From the sidewalk near the home of the alleged gunman in the Kelly Elementary School shooting, you can make out some words scribbled on his bedroom walls. One wall reads "Christians," the other "to destroy it."
Brendan O'Rourke, 41, was arrested Friday after witnesses say he emptied his gun into a crowd of children, grazing two girls with bullets and sending other children running for their lives.
Neighbors describe O'Rourke as a loner, who would yell obscenities in the middle of the night.
"The noise was pretty much a lot of banging. Banging on the walls," said neighbor Victoria Sanchez. "Never saw any friends, any family."
The manager of his Oceanside apartment complex, Canyon Creek Apartments, recently gave O'Rourke an eviction notice, giving him three months to move out, according to Sanchez.
"It's really scary. It's a serious situation. I've never heard of anyone in their right mind going to a playground and shooting children," said Chris Garruto.
The last time Garruto saw his next-door neighbor was on television, when he was being taken into custody.
"I don't know if he was paranoid. When he would drive he would always look around a lot. I didn't really think anything of it, but he did give out a weird vibe," Garruto said. "He was a quiet guy. Kept to himself… He would shut his door really quick if we were coming out at the same time."
Even more disturbing is the view from the street. The word "Christians" scribbled on his bedroom wall. On the other side, is the letter "g" followed by "to destroy it" right above his bedroom mirror.
Neighbors say O'Rourke worked as a security guard. But about a week ago, it seemed like he stop going to work.
"His car would always be gone from eight to four, and I saw the car there the whole week, and I was like, that's weird. He's not working," said Sanchez.
Investigators say they still don't have a motive for the shooting.
"I still can't believe it. It's like a dream," said Garruto.
O'Rourke is being held at the Vista Detention center without bail. He's scheduled to make his first court appearance on Wednesday and faces six counts of attempted murder.
Disturbing Words on Alleged Gunman's Walls
From the sidewalk near the home of the alleged gunman in the Kelly Elementary School shooting, you can make out some words scribbled on his bedroom walls. One wall reads "Christians," the other "to destroy it."


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Earlier this week, commenter Ryan F wondered if Todd Akin had already cornered the market on "The Dumbest Thing" as early as Monday. I responded by suggesting that we shouldn't underestimate how dumb the comments of Akin's inevitable supporters will be. While few things can ever top Todd Akin for pure stupidity, this week I'm going with Representative Steve King of Iowa who taught us just a little bit more about how the female reproductive system works. Take notes.
The reason I give King the nod, is that he was fully aware of Akin's comments, Akin's backtracking, and the Republican backlash…and he STILL defended Akin. All while running in a newly redistricted area of Iowa that has him in a tough battle with the popular former First Lady of Iowa.
Steve King was asked about his support for Akin's "women can't get pregnant if the rape is forcible" mantra, specifically about the fact that the Republican abortion bill that Akin and Paul Ryan co-sponsored would deny coverage for abortions for 12 year-old victims of statutory rape. King responded:
"Well I just haven't heard of that being a circumstance that's been brought to me in any personal way, and I'd be open to discussion about that subject matter," he said.
Well at least he has an open mind, right? The most likely reading of this is that Steve King believes the magical vagina parts that kill rape sperm are alive and well during "consensual," yet still illegal, statutory rape.
Even the most generous reading of this passage is that King doesn't believe in facts that he hasn't personally observed, which is not exactly inspiring given the number of scientific phenomena that cannot be observed with the naked eye. While positively frightening, this would put him in line with fellow Evangelicals at Bob Jones University who just don't trust your high-falutin' theory of electricity that we cannot see or feel.
But the fact of the matter is that Steve King DOES know that young girls can get pregnant from rape, because he's already said so a few weeks ago while defending dogfighting (yes, there are people out there defending dogfighting — FREE VICK!). As Wonkette points out:
In explaining himself, King argues that animals have more rights than fetuses, and suggests that liberals have so devalued life, that a man can rape a young girl, kidnap her, force her to undergo an abortion across state lines, and then "drop her off at the swingset….and that's not against the law in the United States of America."
For the record, it's actually NOT legal to do…well, any of the stuff Steve King just described. Even if we stretched and assumed he was merely arguing that dogfighting should be a state law issue (State's Rights, Man!) and therefore should not be the subject of federal laws that don't reach this conduct, he's still wrong because the fact pattern above at least violates federal kidnapping laws and the Mann Act.
Steve King has lashed out at the true culprits saying that, "the liberal press and their allies have again twisted my words." Yes, it's hard to see how we all came to that conclusion based on his statement.


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The UK Open 2019 Championships started in the early morning on Tuesday so all the finalists tonight were on the dance floor for the whole long day. The first, very sparkly, lineup tonight was Amateur Rising Star Latin and the winners were Aimadi Zhang and Jia Hao Yue from China, who also won this event last year in Blackpool, followed by Mikhail Popov and Anastasiya Dubrovskaya from Russia and Maksim Bodnar and Olga Kuzmenko from Ukraine.
The second lineup was Professional Rising Star Ballroom. The top three places were taken by the couples from USA: the first place went to Valeriu Ursache and Liana Bakhtiarova, the second place went to Cristian Radvan and Kristina Kudelko, and the third - to Marek Klepadlo and Zhiting Yang.
The next final was Amateur Rising Star Ballroom and the final round was dominated by two nations: Ukraine and China. The winners on the day were Andrew Yefremchenkov and Anastasia Siabro from Ukraine. Andrew and Anastasia were very happy to win this event, as last year they were in the semi-finals. They were followed by the Chinese Tang Yu Jie and Zhu Yan Zhen. The third place went to the Ukrainian couple Dmytro Moroz & Kristina Kuzenko.
The day was concluded with the presentation of Professional Rising Star Latin dancers and the winners were Aleksandr Altukhov and Cheyenne Murillo who represent USA. Another US couple, Artur Tarnavskiy and Anastasiya Danilova, were second. The third place went to the Russians Vitaliy Didenko and Viktoriya Vershinina.
Courtesy of DSI-TV, watch the Professional Rising Star Latin finalists presentation from today. Subscribe to DSI-TV and enjoy the action live on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Google's New Approach to Search in China: Not Winning
A year after Google first announced it, the company's "new approach to China" continues to undermine its search business in the country. According to Analysys International, Google lost search market share in China for the fifth quarter in a row, ceding most of it to Baidu, its main rival in the country. Google currently holds a 19.2 percent share of Chinese search market, down 11.8 percentage points since the beginning of last year when it first threatened to leave the country. Meanwhile, Baidu's share has climbed to 75.8 percent.


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Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS 2.0)
In September of 2013 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as part of an on-going interagency partnership, funded 14 Tobacco Regulatory Science Centers to conduct research that would inform regulation of tobacco products. After a successful five-year program, they funded nine new Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS 2.0) in September of 2018. In this second round of funding, they have committed more than $151 million in grants across the TCORS 2.0 research centers, some of which were also part of the previous network of Tobacco Regulatory Science Centers.
The American Heart Association (AHA) Tobacco Regulation and Addiction Center received new funding as part of this initiative and partnered with eight institutions to form the AHA Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science.
The TCORS program continues to bring together investigators from across the country to aid in the development and evaluation of tobacco product regulations. Each TCORS identified some targeted research goals and themes. Overall, the TCORS sites are expected use the full spectrum of basic and applied sciences on tobacco and addiction to generate research from that will help inform and assess FDA's existing, upcoming and future regulatory initiatives. The program will also provide - young investigators with training and seed funding opportunities to ensure the development of the next generation of tobacco regulatory scientists. The program has been designed to have the flexibility to provide answers to emerging research questions in a continually shifting tobacco marketplace.
The overall goal of the American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science (A-TRAC 2.0) is to provide FDA with scientific evidence regarding the cardiovascular toxicity and health effects of tobacco products and their constituents, with a larger focus on new and emerging tobacco products. The Center will support a multi-disciplinary research program to assess the toxicity of tobacco products and their constituents in human tissue and animal models; evaluate short- and long-term cardiovascular health effects of tobacco products; and assess the cardiovascular disease risk associated with the use of non-cigarette tobacco products in multiple large NIH-supported cardiovascular cohorts.
The TCORS 2.0 program is designed to generate scientific evidence in seven scientific domains:
- Approaches that test the toxicity of tobacco smoke, aerosol, or specific constituents
- Effects of tobacco product characteristics on addiction and abuse liability
- Short and long-term health effects of tobacco products
- Understanding of knowledge, attitudes and behaviors related to tobacco product use
- Understanding of how to effectively communicate the health effects of tobacco products
- Influences of tobacco marketing
- Understanding of the impact of potential FDA regulatory actions


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Luong N. Nguyen and Ha Duyen Trung, "Performance of FSO Systems Employing SC-QAM Over Atmospheric Turbulence Channel and Pointing Errors," Submitted to the OWLED workshop, Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN 2013), Da Nang, Vietnam.
Ha Duyen Trung and Anh T. Pham: Performance Analysis of SC-QAM Free-Space Optical MIMO Systems Over Atmospheric Turbulence Channels. Submitted to IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals– Special Section on Wideband Systems, 2013.
Ha Duyen Trung and Van Duc Nguyen: Performance of a dynamic MAC protocol based on OFDMA for multi-hop wireless adhoc networks. Journal of Communications (JCM), ISSN: 1796-2021, 2013, Acceped.
Ha Duyen Trung, Bach T. Vu and Anh T. Pham, "Performance of Free-Space Optical MIMO Systems Using SC-QAM Over Atmospheric Turbulence Channels". Accepted for presentation and publication at the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Budapest, Hungary, 9 – 13 June 2013.
Ha Duyen Trung, Van Dung Hoang, Van Duc Nguyen, "Performance of a Cross MAC-PHY Protocol for Multi-hop Wireless Adhoc Networks," The 5th AUN/SEED-Net Regional Conference in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (RC-EEE) and ISMAC2013, Feb. 4-5, 2013, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 124-128.
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Do Trong Tuan, Shiro Sakata and Nobuyoshi Komuro, "A Combined Admission and Priority Control Mechanism for Assuring Communication Quality in VANETs integrated with Wireless Mesh Networks", Journal of Computer Technology and Applications, David Publishing, USA, ISSN:1934-7332, Vol3, 12.2012, pp. 775-783
Do Trong Tuan, Shiro Sakata and Nobuyoshi Komuro, "Priority and Admission Control for Assuring Quality of I2V Emergency Services in VANETs integrated with Wireless LAN Mesh Networks", Proc. ICCE2012 Conference-ISBN:978-1-4673-2490-8, Hue-Vietnam, August 2012, pp.91-96, 2012.
Do Trong Tuan, Shiro Sakata and Nobuyoshi Komuro, "Admission Control for Assuring Communication Quality in VANETs integrated with Wireless Mesh Networks", Proc. IEICE2012 Conference - ISSN: 0913-5685, pp.137-142, Miyazaki, Japan, March 2012.
Do Trong Tuan, Nguyen Van Duc, "Designing a real-time image monitoring system over 3G mobile networks", Journal of Science and Technology-ISSN: 0866-3980, pp. 32-37, vol 89, 2012
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Ha Duyen Trung, Anh T. Pham, and Kiyomichi Araki, "Information Capacity of Practical MIMO Channel," in Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Asia Pacific Wireless Communications Symposium (IEEE VTS APWCS 2012), Kyoto, Japan, Aug. 23-24,2012.
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Do Trong Tuan, P.M.Viet, N.V. Duc, V.T.M Tu, T.Q. Toan, L.M. Toan, N.V Vinh, "Designing a system for management and remote announcement of examination results over GSM mobile network", Information and Communication Journal, pp.59-63, Feb. 2011
Ha Duyen Trung and Nguyen Van Duc, "An analysis of MIMO-OFDM for underwater communications," in Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress and Workshops on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems (ICUMT 2011), Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 5-7, 2011, Publication Year: 2011, Page(s): 1-5.
Đỗ Thị Ngân, Nguyễn Thị Hà, Hà Duyên Trung, và Nguyễn Văn Đức, "Phân tích đặc tính kênh truyền dưới nước," Kỷ yếu hội nghị Thông tin và Định vị trên biển (REV/COMNAVI 2011), Đà Nẵng, Việt Nam, 2-4 Aug., 2011, pp. 72-81.
Hà Duyên Trung và Nguyễn Văn Đức, "Kỹ thuật điều chế và mã sửa lỗi trong kênh truyền sóng âm dưới nước," Kỷ yếu hội nghị Thông tin và Định vị trên biển (REV/COMNAVI 2011), Đà Nẵng, Việt Nam, 2-4 Aug., 2011, pp. 82-88.
Tien Pham Van, Tuan Do Trong, and Tien Dung Nguyen, "Efficient Delivery of Monitoring Data in Networked Fishing Boats", Proc. ICCE 2010 Conference- ISSN: 978-1-4244-7057-0, pp.1-6, Nha Trang, Vietnam, August 2010.
Tien Pham Van, Tien Dung Nguyen, Tuan Do Trong, Thanh Loan Nguyen, and Quyet Vu Khac, A Service-Oriented Design for Controlling Multimedia Sessions over Stand-alone MANETs, IEEE EMSOS 2010 Conference- ISSN: 978-0-7695-4129-7, USA, pp.671-676, 2010.
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Xuan Quang Phuong, Gabriella Povero, Gustavo Belforte, "Work in progress - GnssEduPack: an Innovative approach to education and training in the field of Global Navigation Satellite Systems", The 40th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Washington, DC, USA, October 27-30, 2010.
Xuan Quang Phuong, Letizia Lo Presti, Gustavo Belforte, "GnssEduPack: a Solution for GNSS Education in Vietnam", The European Navigation Conference ENC GNSS 2010, Braunschweig, Germany, 19 – 21 October 2010.
Xuan Quang Phuong, Fabrizio Dominici, Gianluca Marucco, Khalid Charqane, "An innovative approach to the implementation of GNSS training kit",The 31st Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Hanoi, Vietnam, 1- 5 November 2010.
Xuan Quang Phuong, Letizia Lo Presti, Fabrizio Dominici, Gianluca Marucco, "SAT-SURF and SAT-SURFER: a flexible platform for both R&D and training on GNSS", The 2nd GNSS Vulnerabilities and Solutions 2009 Conference at Baska, Krk Island, Croatia, September, 2nd – 5th 2009.
Do Trong Tuan, Jean Chamberlain Chedjou, Kyandoghere Kyamakya, "On Transforming Graph Theoretical Problems into Optimization Problems and Solution using CNN-based Analog Computing", Proc. ISTET Conference - ISBN:978-8007-3166-4, pp.200-204, Luebeck, Germany, June, 2009.
Do Trong Tuan, J. C. Chedjou, Alireza. Fasih, K. Kyamakya, "A Novel Method for Computing the Minimum Spanning Tree and Solution Based on Cellular Neural Networks Implemented on Digital Platforms", Proc. INDS Conference - ISBN: 9789-3-8322-7943-1, pp.23-29, Klagenfurt, Austria, July, 2009
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