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In response to the point/counterpoint articles "Non-P25 Digital Technology Hurts Interoperability Efforts" and "Non-P25 Digital for Public Safety: Why Not?" from Feb. 19
The points expressed by Mr. Powell and Mr. Marcus were very informative. Two more contrary perspectives could not be expressed. Without taking sides, it would appear that Mr. Marcus is overlooking the fact that the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International was commissioned many years ago to come up with an evolving technical standard that would address public-safety communications based on open standard technology that could meet both current and future needs. After much study, it was determined that the best standard for the United States would be Project 25 (P25) evolving through stages where capability improved as costs came down.
The people who spent their time on these committees were not short sighted or self serving with a view toward supporting their hometown communities, but rather they wanted to address the need for a system that could serve the needs of local, regional, statewide and national requirements. They actually knew about European communications technology that works very well in tiny countries and/or heavily populated areas, but the U.S. isn't Europe or Japan. What they did know was that new spectrum was needed, and they got it in the 700 MHz band. Unfortunately, there was no top-down administrative policy to support the efforts of APCO and others working toward the development of a nationwide voice network.
One of the contributing factors that has led to delayed implementation of a nationwide standard is lack of a clear policy standard. Since 2007, the federal standard (Safecom) as well as most state communications interoperability plans (SCIPs) have clearly stated that the approved standard is 700 MHz P25. Unfortunately, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the one giving away the most money, has allowed "special circumstances" relating to local conditions to prevail over a national standard.
So what do we have today? A hodgepodge of systems that don't talk to each other. After spending billions of dollars, we are no closer today to a common technical standard that is open to free market competition than we were when this all started. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
After almost a decade of procrastination in publishing a definitive standard, FEMA has finally provided guidance in an email sent Feb. 19. A copy of this information is available at http://falconinfo.blogspot.com/2014/02/fema-defines-p25.html. Based on this proclamation, our take on the situation is that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) really wants these 700 MHz systems built out and operational in short order.
You don't have to read between the lines to get the message. Users who want to buy anything other than P25 can use their own money to pay for it. The national plan is based on 700 MHz interoperability both for voice and broadband data and that is what it should be. Those that prefer analog, Digital Mobile Radio (DMR), NXDN or TETRA should have the right to select the technology platform of their choice as long as they are not using federal money to pay for it.
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While the two op-eds that you published in your electronic newsletter opened a dialogue on the issue of "interoperability," they were both skewed toward a single, yet unmentioned, vendor. Motorola is not the only ballgame in town!
When the FCC issued its third report and order for narrowbanding in December 2004, they clearly laid out a technical specification and definition of what they wanted in the VHF and UHF bands. That is, 6.25-kilohertz channel width, FDMA modulation and a data rate of 4800 baud. To date, the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International, the FCC or any of the several radio manufacturers have brought to market a Project 25 (P25) radio that meets those specifications. So, until there is a P25 standard that meets those specific criteria, P25 interoperability is a dead issue.
The one technology that does meet the technical specifications put forth in the third report and order, NXDN, was not even mentioned by either author, once again showing their bias and limited vision. Multiple vendors support NXDN. It supports multi-site trunking for large urban systems, has major vendor console support and provides hooks for strong encryption. But, alas, neither Motorola nor Harris builds NXDN infrastructure or subscriber equipment. And even if they did, they would have to compete with others that have been in the marketplace for several years now.
True digital radio-to-radio interoperability will likely never be achieved. If the cellular providers, which serve a much larger pool of subscribers, have not been able to achieve it, what makes anyone think it will happen in the public-safety marketplace? But communications interoperability can be realized through the use of radio gateways, which every jurisdiction should install and maintain. And if all else fails, there is always analog mode.
Paul J. Toth, NB9X
Senior Advisor
Mance Tech Advisory
In response to "New Report Says Federal Users Should Pay Fee for Spectrum" from Feb. 6
The proponents of the proposal to charge federal agencies for spectrum use have forgotten one important fact: Federal agencies don't make money. If such a proposal should come to pass, where will the funding for the fees come from? Think about it for a minute. That's right, it will come from our pocketbooks. While well intentioned, this proposal was not carried out to a realistic (note that I didn't say logical) conclusion.
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Owner, AHS Communications
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America partly inspired the Eighth Amendment to Ireland's constitution. And so it is fitting that pro-life Americans should note its passing. Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court discovered a right to privacy in the 1965 case Griswold v. Connecticut, an Irish supreme court, in 1974, discovered a previously unknown right to "family privacy" in the Irish constitution. Both worked to facilitate the sale or use of contraception. The Griswold precedent was important to deciding Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion. Anti-abortion activists in Ireland could sense what was coming if they did not act.
And so they endeavored to run around their liberal judiciary by putting an explicit recognition of the right to life of an unborn child in their constitution. It was the only law in the Western world that fully articulated what committed pro-lifers believe: "The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right." After an acrimonious public debate, the Eighth Amendment was passed in 1983, supported by 66.9 percent of Irish voters. This May that amendment was repealed by a nearly identical share of voters, 66.4 percent. In its place, a new text is provided under the heading "Fundamental Rights": "Provision may be made by law for the regulation of termination of pregnancy." In 35 years, Ireland's social, economic, and political life had utterly transformed. This flip on the Eighth Amendment was only the latest evidence.
The scale of the result was a shock to many, even on the pro-repeal side. And it is a reality check for pro-lifers worldwide, who have felt for a generation that trends in popular understanding of human development in the womb, or of the social and psychological damage that abortion can inflict, were on their side. Ireland, which for many pro-lifers was the model for legal protection of unborn human life in the Western world, is now the first nation in Europe or the Americas to bring in abortion by popular referendum. And, unlike the justices on America's Supreme Court, and the parliamentarians of the United Kingdom, Irish voters did this while knowing full well what they were doing.
Irish voters had the benefit of advances in our knowledge of embryology. They also knew that legal abortion would not be limited to the so-called hard cases of rape, incest, and "fatal fetal abnormality." They knew that in countries with laws comparable to the ones their legislature proposed to enact, the elective-abortion rate had climbed until abortion had become the end for roughly one in five pregnancies. They voted as they did knowing that Dublin is one of the only European cities where people with Down syndrome are regularly seen in the streets, and knowing that the reason for this was that Ireland had the Eighth Amendment.
Repeal of the Eighth Amendment carried every county save Donegal. Every age group voted for repeal except for those over 65. The youngest cohort of Irish voters was by far the most pro-repeal. The late intervention of Google and Facebook, which banned or scrutinized advertising during the campaign, turned out to be entirely unnecessary. The vote was so decisive that Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, who the night before had told colleagues that there should be no celebration however the vote went, belatedly acknowledged the crowd of pro-choice revelers descending on Dublin Castle. He tweeted a picture of himself gazing at them, with the line "Fantastic crowds at Dublin Castle. Remarkable day. A quiet revolution has taken place, a great act of democracy." For those unschooled in Canadian history, a "quiet revolution" refers to the rapid secularization of law and society in the once devoutly Catholic province of Quebec.
What happened to Catholic Ireland? Sober expression on this matter was difficult to find in recent weeks, but Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole tried. "The remarkable thing, indeed, is not that the official Catholic Ireland died but that it lingered so long," he wrote. "It is astonishing to think, for example, that it is less than a quarter of a century since a proposal to remove the ban on divorce — the most flagrantly Catholic provision in the Constitution — was passed by a margin of fewer than 10,000 votes."
Why didn't Catholic Ireland hang on longer? The history is a long one. Having been one of the only native institutions that were allowed to grow after Emancipation in the 19th century, the Catholic Church and its various religious bodies were positioned to act as a kind of civil service for an independent state short of resources, at least in matters of health, social policy, and education. But this role in Irish life made the Church a part of almost every Irish calamity. And in the generation since that divorce referendum, the failures of Irish institutions and Irish society in the 20th century have been ceaselessly scrutinized: from the mother-and-baby homes in Tuam, where babies of unwed mothers died without sufficient medical treatment and were buried unceremoniously, to the industrial schools such as the Christian Brothers' school at Artane, where children of the poor were treated like convicts, to an adoptions system that often operated illegally and with standards that in retrospect look no different from child trafficking. The Catholic Church was implicated in all these crimes.
An honest and balanced examination would point out that the Irish state and society were also implicated in these failures, that many of these tragedies were produced not simply by the imposition of religious doctrine by a handful of celibate clerics but also by the curious intersection of Irish poverty, Irish adoption of Victorian bourgeois morality, a devoutly Catholic society, and an embrace of 20th-century institutionalized approaches to social problems. But it was almost impossible to have a balanced and calm discussion when at the same time that these failures were being unearthed, the Catholic Church in Ireland, the one that educates the vast majority of Irish children in its schools, was revealed to have enabled and then hidden from justice the clerical perpetrators of child rape. In an environment such as this, the Church may preach mercy but would be foolish to expect any.
It is a commonplace in Ireland to say that the Church has lost its authority on moral questions. But that is almost beside the point. The Church in Ireland has experienced the humiliation of having its sins exposed without ever getting around to the penance. It carries on managing schools and hospitals but is so fearful of exciting public wrath that it hardly ventures to do anything in Irish life that might draw attention. Even if it had moral authority, the Church would be terrified of exercising it. Naturally, its bishops barely said a word about the referendum.
Another way to look at Ireland's transformation from a deeply Catholic society to a liberal one is to note that it is an increasingly integrated part of the global Anglophone culture. It merely lagged behind other nations in its social transformation because it was, until recently, a much more rural society than the United Kingdom or America. But since the 1960s, it has been reshaped by the same mass culture produced in London, New York, and Hollywood. And it has urbanized rapidly. In 1960, most Irish people lived in rural areas. Now well over 60 percent are classified as living in urban centers, putting Ireland roughly between Eastern European countries and its Western European neighbors in population density.
Although Irish laws against abortion seem to have suppressed Ireland's abortion rate, abortion was increasingly a commonplace of Irish life. Even in the early 1980s, when the Eighth Amendment passed, hundreds of Irish women each week made the trip to Liverpool or London to have abortions. More recently many Irish women have been ordering abortifacients by mail, and these have not been impounded by customs. Ireland has joined fully the Western European and American way of life when it comes to marriage, sex, and childbearing. And that way of life includes abortion.
For now Irish social conservatism has a hunted quality. Until recently, all the major parties in Ireland save for Labour were considered socially conservative. In the last election Fine Gael leaders Varadkar and Simon Coveney were understood to be pro-life politicians. So too was Micheál Martin, the leader of Fianna Fáil, the party assumed to have the most socially conservative voters and elected parliamentarians. But without much public debate, all of the above-mentioned men came out in support of repeal after their last election and ahead of the referendum. And all of them are generally supportive of the proposed legislation that would make abortion easy to obtain up to 24 weeks' gestation.
With bishops gone from the field and the leaders of all the major parties supportive of repeal, the burden of arguing for retaining the Eighth fell almost exclusively to a handful of socially conservative media figures, most of them associated with the Iona Institute, a socially conservative think tank. With no political party taking up their cause, it was easy for Irish media outlets to cast them as unrepresentative of any important strand of opinion in Irish life and to heap abuse on them.
To pro-lifers in Ireland, the political fallout has a surreal or even absurdist quality. Somehow the overwhelming result for repeal has transformed such a figure as health minister Simon Harris into a political superstar. His vocal campaigning for repeal got him declared a champion of women's health. Yet it was Harris who, weeks earlier, could not even begin to tell the media the number of Irish women who had died early deaths in a recent health scandal in which a laboratory subcontracted by the government had misinformed scores of women about the results of their cervical-cancer checks. How could a man leading a health ministry directly culpable in the early deaths of many women be a champion of women's health? Only by elevating an ideological test over reality.
And in that strange juxtaposition is perhaps the tiny glimmer of hope for Ireland's social conservatives. In the wake of the referendum, journalists and campaigners have indulged in triumphalism. Some have lobbied for people at the Iona Institute to be henceforward excluded from debates of public issues. Journalists and commentators have declared that the new, liberal, and progressive Ireland is a fact now, old Ireland having been once and for all slain. If liberal Ireland is now ascendant, then the failures, injustices, and dysfunctionality of Irish society and governance will henceforward take the shine off liberal ideas. Catholic Ireland ran roughshod over some. And liberal Ireland will do the same.
For the rest of the world, Ireland may contain another discomfiting lesson — namely, that there is no exception. When it comes to family matters, social liberation comes as a package deal. At least for now, societies that are permissive in matters of sex and divorce will be societies in which abortion is not only demanded as a right but becomes common. Ireland is merely catching up to the rest of the West. The question for Ireland and the West more broadly is how long this way of life remains sustainable or even pleasant for those in it. In 35 years, quite a lot can change.


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Gov. Dannel Malloy said he will be "deeply disappointed" if investigators from the University of Connecticut Health Center verify that Henry engaged in such ghoulish behavior. "I hope that was not true. The investigation is ongoing," Malloy said.
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Carver did not return calls and Henry and her lawyer could not be reached for comment. She is embroiled in a lawsuit against Malloy that claims the Democratic governor had her bounced from her old job in the budget office because she is a Republican.
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I've been talking with Kelela for a long time. We're trying to get funding to do a new project. I'm also working with Björk on a video for her new album.
Have you listened to Björk's album?
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Dave Nelson's brothers, Dennis and Neal, label the soft-spoken farmer as the "PR guy" of their family.
As a director for the National Corn Growers Association, past president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association (ICGA) chairman of the board for Midwest Grain Processors and an ethanol producer, Dave Nelson has had lots of experience communicating his point of view.
That experience paid off in 2003 when opposition erupted in the Lakota, IA, community as Dave, 53, Dennis, 48, and Neal, 44, were planning to build two wean-to-finish barns near their hometown.
The new barns were a return to livestock production for the Nelsons. They grew up helping their father, Harold, with cattle, sheep and hogs. Dave started raising hogs after graduating from Iowa State University (ISU) in the mid-1970s. Dennis and Neal had their own sows. But as their facilities (including A-frame farrowing huts, Cargill-style finishers and converted cattle barns) deteriorated, each decided to disperse the hogs. By 1996, the last of the Nelsons' sows were gone.
Livestock Bug Bites Again
The Nelson brothers farm independently, but share equipment and labor on a combined 5,000 acres of corn and soybeans.
The bug to return to livestock production came after seeing the benefits of increased performance and lower input costs from injecting liquid hog manure into cropland. Manure was obtained through easements with local hog producers.
"We quickly realized how good a fertilizer it is," says Dave. "The micronutrients you gain through manure are very valuable." In addition to access to fertilizer, adding hogs provided a new source of income and offered an on-farm job for Neal, who now oversees the facilities.
When the Trouble Started
In August 2003, as the Nelsons were about to break ground on a pair of 50 × 190 ft., tunnel-ventilated buildings, they learned about a petition being circulated in nearby Belmond, a community of 2,500, in which they were active. The list of names included a wide sweep of people the Nelsons had grown up with, including several they considered as close friends.
Odor was the chief complaint, along with concerns about water quality, property values and the general quality of life in the community.
Six or seven "concerned citizens" paid the Nelsons a personal visit to voice their displeasure. A special city council meeting was called to discuss the project.
A flurry of newspaper articles, including a front-page story in the Des Moines Register, appeared. There were also calls to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) registering complaints about the proposed project.
It was not a fun environment to live in, explains Neal and his wife, Lisa, who have a home about a mile and a half north of the site in an upscale neighborhood where several vocal opponents also resided.
"The stress was awful," Neal says. "People stopped waving and they were talking about us."
Dave admits the debate affected him, too, as he recalls one morning when he absent-mindedly plugged the combine with soybeans after reading a particularly disturbing article in the local newspaper. "We started to question ourselves," he says.
Regaining Piece of Mind
Resolve and reassurance came after the Nelsons reexamined their plans and sought outside advice. They double-checked to make sure they were exceeding the siting requirements with the DNR (which did not include a state permit because the 2,450-head facility was just under the 1,000 animal unit cutoff.).
The Nelsons brought in an ISU engineer to review their proposed site and facility plans. Dave recalls, "He said, 'If you can't build at this site in the state of Iowa, where can you build a hog facility?'"
Dave also contacted public affairs advisors at the ICGA and Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) for advice in communicating with local citizens and the media. The organizations sent representatives to meet with the Nelsons and their neighbors and to help answer questions about the economic and environmental impact of the proposed livestock facility.
Calls from other farmers across the state who had faced similar opposition brought words of encouragement, which "gave us the emotional fortitude to continue," Dave says.
Ultimately, the three brothers called a family meeting and, with their wives, decided to move forward. "We knew we were doing the right thing, so we just went ahead and built," says Dave.
The Nelsons formed a limited liability corporation (LLC) to own and operate the two buildings, which were sited on a farm owned by their father. They signed a production contract with Pork Technologies of Ames, IA.
Steps to Reduce Odor
When they designed the site and buildings, they took several steps to minimize the potential for foul odors emanating from the facilities, such as:
Locating the buildings a half mile away from the road, centered on a large plot of open ground and as far away from homes as possible. The nearest neighbor is three-quarters of a mile from the site.
Constructing concrete underground pits where liquid manure is stored. Manure is removed and quickly injected into farm fields once a year.
Building tunnel-ventilated barns with exhaust fans aimed toward a windbreak of evergreen, Aussie and dogwood trees. The goal for the windbreak is to catch odor-containing dust particles and direct air upward, rather than straight across the field. The fans are pointed eastward (away from Belmond). The nearest town is roughly five miles away.
Using technologies such as pit additives, water treatments and a spray mist that the Nelsons say was originally developed to neutralize scents in perfume laboratories. The mist, which requires an applicator, lines and nozzles, costs about 60¢/pig, but they think it has reduced the intensity of odor in the barn. "Really, you can't even smell pigs until you get close by," says Neal.
Erecting a concrete compost bunker near the facilities for dead animals.
Installing an on-site shower that Neal uses each time he leaves the farm. "When I go in a convenience store in town, I don't want to smell like hogs," Neal explains. "It is all part of the philosophy of leaving the smell here."
Restoring Peace
By January 2004, the facilities were ready for pigs. But before the first load arrived, the Nelsons took an important step toward bringing harmony back to the neighborhood. An open house was held for anyone interested in visiting the site. About 100 people, including several who were originally opposed to the site, showed up for donuts and coffee and the opportunity to walk through the building and ask questions.
"Seeing what it looked like and the safety measures that were in force might have relieved some of the anxiety. It is a very modern, up-to-date facility," says Caye Chelesvig, Wright County supervisor, who lives nearby and was originally opposed to the Nelsons' plans.
"We were all raised in an area where there were hogs — and hogs stink," she says. "I think people were afraid of what could happen."
The Nelsons say there have been no complaints since the barns were put in operation. "I've had lots of people actually apologize to me for signing the petition during the past couple of years," says Dave. Some have even joked about being disappointed that they can't smell the building, he adds.
Chelesvig says her main concern was for property values at the subdivision to the north where there are several million dollars invested in homes, which represent nest eggs for many local people. "Both sides were wanting the same thing — a better life for themselves and their families — but they were coming at it from opposite sides," she says.
Chelesvig confirms that she has not noticed an odor problem from the farm: "He is a good operator and we have not had any problems."
Tips for Keeping Your Cool
The Coalition to Support Iowa Farmers (CSIF) was started in 2004 to help Iowa farmers navigate rules and regulations affecting animal agriculture. CSIF includes: Iowa Cattlemen's Association, Iowa Corn Growers Association, Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, Iowa Pork Producers Association, Iowa Poultry Association and the Iowa Soybean Association.
To date, the coalition has worked with 380 farm families to help evaluate sites, comply with regulations, enhance relations with neighbors or address environmental quality issues.
Staffers Aaron Putze and Rex Hoppes offer this advice for keeping your cool in the face of opposition during a building project:
- Examine yourself first
Realize that acceptance begins well before you decide to build a new livestock facility. Ask yourself, have I been a good manager of people and land at your farm? Have I done what's in my power to be a good neighbor up to this point? If the answers are "yes," then you've made an important first step in gaining acceptance for your new facility.
- Seek advice
Discuss your plans with an advisor who is familiar with your farm and your business goals. Having a sounding board can help clarify your objectives and determine the best options for achieving them. Technical experts can help address site considerations such as geological or terrain issues, wind patterns, recommended distance to water sources and proximity to neighbors and public use areas.
- Communicate openly and honestly
"You better be visiting with your neighbors before you begin moving dirt," Hoppes says. But, he warns, "Don't go into a big group. No matter what he (a farmer) says, in a big group of people it will be drowned out by the animosity in the room." Instead, Hoppes says one-on-one discussions are best. Be personal. Share your family and farm history. Explain why you want to expand. When the media calls, respond in the same way as you would to a neighbor — directly, clearly and with as little emotion as possible.
- Celebrate the positives
"Share how the site fits in with future prosperity of your farm and the entire area," Putze advises. "If we celebrate new business development on Main Street, we should be doing that in rural areas, too." Putze suggests holding ribbon-cutting ceremonies and open houses like the Nelsons did to showcase technologies and engineering measures that go into building and managing new livestock farms.
- Be accountable
Describe what you are building, explain who will be taking care of the livestock, and who is in charge.
It is important to keep in mind that all situations are different, with varied circumstances and priorities. "There is no cookie cutter approach, but if there was one, it would be honesty and sincerity," says Hoppes.


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It was won in 1893 by Arthur Ballinger who won it twice more, the third occasion in 1907 when, under the rules, he was entitled to retain it. The belt was then thirty-four years old, already a venerable trophy. Arthur donated it to the National Rifle Association for perpetual competition. As the "Ballinger Belt" it has been put around the shoulders of every National Champion to this day. The Ballingers were keen supporters of the Volunteer Forces. Whilst Arthur's wins in 1893 and 1897 occurred during his membership of the Wellington Guards he was at that time an active member of the Petone Club.
"The Belt' has been held by the Club on nine occasions: 1893, 1897, and 1907 - Arthur Ballinger; 1895 - W.H. Ballinger; 1931 - W.J. Mclver; 1932 and 1934 R.H. Nicholl; 1972 - J. Hand (as runner-up to Australian J. Cooper); 1989 - K. Meade.


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Getting C++11 to work with CMake is easy. Getting Eclipse to work with a CMake project is easy. Getting Eclipse to work with C++11 also seems to be relatively easy (there are plenty of guides on various wikis).
But getting all three to cooperate nicely is a bit trickier – or rather, the standard Eclipse way to configure C++11 support doesn't work for CMake projects, and none of the guides I could find at first mentioned that.
It's perfectly possible to work with a C++11 CMake project in Eclipse without any special settings. Compiling and running the code works fine (as the compiler gets its settings from the CMake config), but the code editor will keep mark various C++11 code bits as errors.
Fortunately, this Stack Overflow post shows how easy it is to fix this for Eclipse Kepler if you just know the right option to set. Simply create your Eclipse project with something like this:
cmake ../my_src_dir -G"Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_ECLIPSE_VERSION=4.2 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ARG1=-std=c++11
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Step2 Company LLC, which employs more than 800 people in northern Ohio, has pledged and been officially certified by ICE to protect the integrity of their workforce, becoming only the second company in Ohio with the distinction. The certification was marked Wednesday by a ceremony at ICE Homeland Security Investigations' (HSI) Strongsville office.
"More than likely, if you've had a child in the last couple of years, you have Step2 toys in your home and know firsthand the quality of their products," said Brian M. Moskowitz, special agent in charge of HSI Michigan and Ohio. "This certification adds a level of distinction to the company that says that Step2 is committed to maintaining a quality and capable workforce."
"At Step2, we have a long history of producing high quality, safe toys in the USA," said Jerry McDermott, chief marketing officer. "We are dedicated to ensuring our employees receive the best training and working conditions in a highly competitive manufacturing environment. Today we are proud to accept the ICE IMAGE certification."
The Step2 Company LLC, headquartered in Streetsboro, Ohio, is the largest American manufacturer of preschool and toddler toys and the world's largest rotational molder of plastics. Step2 products are distributed throughout the United States, Canada and over 70 foreign countries.
Businesses that are certified with ICE through the IMAGE program pledge to maintain a secure and stable workforce and curtail the employment of unauthorized workers through outreach and education. ICE recently revamped IMAGE, simplifying program requirements.
To qualify for IMAGE certification, companies must perform the following requirements:
- Enroll in the E-Verify program within 60 days;
- Establish a written hiring and employment eligibility verification policy that includes internal Form I-9 audits at least once per year; and
- Submit to a Form I-9 inspection.
Undocumented workers create vulnerabilities in today's marketplace by presenting false documents to gain employment, completing applications for fraudulent benefits, and stealing identities of legal United States workers. To combat this, ICE initiated the IMAGE program in 2006.
All IMAGE members must participate in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) E-Verify employment eligibility verification program. Through this program, employers can verify that newly hired employees are eligible to work in the United States. This Internet-based system is available throughout the nation and is free to employers. It provides an automated link to the Social Security Administration database and DHS immigration records.
Companies in the Cleveland area interested in more information on the IMAGE program can call the HSI office at (216) 535-0391, or visit www.ICE.gov/image.


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A diagnostic assessment utilises a combination of clinical interview and observation, previous reports and standardised tests to determine whether or not the person meets DSM5 diagnostic criteria for an autism spectrum condition, whether other conditions are also present, and whether further assessment is needed.
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The Gender & Disarmament Hub provides information about gendered aspects of proliferation and use of weapons, as well as of disarmament processes. It also offers ideas and resources to promote gender equality in arms control and disarmament fora.
The UNIDIR Cyber Policy Portal is an online reference tool that maps the cybersecurity and cybersecurity-related policy landscape. Through concise and comprehensive profiles, it provides a rigorous, accessible and up-to-date overview of the cyber capacity of UN Member States and a select group of intergovernmental organisations.


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All guestrooms feature modern comfort and amenities that will charm business and leisure guests alike. They include an en-suite bathroom, climate control, television with satellite channels and internet access.
In addition, after an active day in the city, guests of the roomz Vienna Gasometer can unwind at the gym before enjoying the delicious cuisine of the in-house restaurant. Parking facilities are available on-site for an extra fee.
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You have some fantastic nuggets of blogging wisdom to share. From concrete tangible tips to powerful abstract perspectives that have impacted how you blog, you can help others who face the same online challenges.
So, today, I'm opening up the "How YOU Blog" interview form. I can't wait to hear your stories and your wisdom!
As you think about what you want to share, note that I'll select the most helpful ones to post first, so here are a few tips:
1. Be helpful. My number one priority with this blog (and any blog I write) is to be ridiculously helpful to every person who takes the time to read.
2. Prefer value over word count. Now, I do love short succinct writing, but I definitely look for value above all. If your interview is full of great information, keep on writing! Likewise, if your interview is short but jam packed with content, don't feel like you need to pad the word count.
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One of the most common pre-departure conundrums I faced was convincing people that Ukraine is not Siberia despite the surprisingly prevalent association. I can just hear myself smugly saying "It's actually warmer than Illinois" completely believing that to be the case. A few months later I now know not to say anything with even a hint of confidence as it is currently about -18 F. It's cold enough that my nostrils freeze when I walk 10 minutes to the store & school has been can canceled for the past three days to prevent a similar fate for children that have a 30 minute commute to school. Hindsight.
Luckily I've still been able to tutor and the Great Freeze made living conditions unsuitable for Garrick (the other volunteer in town)'s cat while he is in Kyiv for the week so I have a kitten to play with. I'd kind of prefer a dog as the cat has a propensity for hiding and would give Houdini a run for his money in my 20 square foot apartment, but when she's not tearing down my curtains she's nice. Allegedly this year is abnormally cold, a Russian winter, & the worst will be over soon but I'm going with my new 'Don't hold your breath' philosophy & am planning to keep piling on the long underwear layers until I see flowers in full bloom.
For the time being I'm hanging out in the kitchen shoveling coal into the heater & actually quite content with it. I'm gradually catching up on all of the television shows that I didn't make time for in the States & thereby highly recommend The Office & Arrested Development to anyone in a similar snowed-in predicament. I've thus rediscovered my love for Dwight Schrute & come to the uncomfortable conclusion that I see some resemblance in Buster Bluth (i.e. my mom & I have matching pajamas. Insert gag here. That actually was pretty problematic in my spree of horrible packing as I managed to stow away both pants & now have 3 pairs of PJ bottoms and only one top). Not a whole lot else newsy here (as evidenced by the TV talk). I did have a weird moment today when I was 'exercising'. I like to stream B96 radio when I 'work out' because it makes me feel marginally less idiotic & I of course want to have things to talk about when T.I. gets out of prison & comes to visit me. I also like to listen to the Chicago ads, so imagine my surprise today when the announcer started trying to convince me to spend 2 years on an adventure in another country. That's right, a Peace Corps ad live in my apartment in Ukraine; a little surreal.
I've also added my address (it should be on the right side on this page) but please keep in mind all of the multimedia references in this post- with internet & a cozy apartment I'm really in want of nothing. Letters are always fun, but I think anything bigger than an envelope gets expensive so really please know that I definitely don't need/expect care packages.
School starts up again tomorrow (or so I've been told) & then I'll head out Saturday morning for Vinnytsia (a big city 3 hours away) to spend the weekend with other volunteers in my region 🙂 We have meetings Saturday during the day & then Emily & Ashley (from my training group) & I are splitting a hotel & looking forward to hours of catching up, reminiscing on Morozivka, swapping war stories of our first month at site, & probably a good deal of subsequent laughter. I hope you have a good weekend too!


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Amniocentesis is a prenatal diagnostic technique used to detect genetic disorders in fetuses. The procedure involves an amniotic tap, usually performed during the sixteenth week of pregnancy. The test results are available about four weeks later. If the test results indicate a genetic defect in the fetus, then the parents may decide to have an abortion.
Barbara Katz Rothman has written a provocative book, The Tentative Pregnancy: Prenatal Diagnosis and the Future of Motherhood, in which she discusses some of the implications of amniocentesis for women and society. According to Rothman, pregnancies in which amniocentesis have been performed are tentative. The woman follows personal, medical, and social rituals that acknowledge pregnancy. Nevertheless, she knows that depending on the test's results, she may decide not to carry the pregnancy to full term. Consequently, many of these pregnancies are tentative well into mid-pregnancy.
Rothman's field work, which forms the backbone of the book, includes extensive interviews with women and medical professionals. She writes with sensitivity about women who have used the procedure. The voices of the interviewed women come out clearly in the text, bringing their seldom heard views into the arena of public discourse. While amniocentesis gives women a certain freedom to choose the kind of parenting they will undertake, Rothman's data suggests that women's opinions and experiences have not been sufficiently considered in the use of this relatively new technology.
Rothman found that the use of amniocentesis changed the way that women experienced several aspects of pregnancy. For example, amniocentesis changed the emotional and social experience of quickening. Quickening refers to the first fetal movements felt by the mother. For many women it is an experience that affirms pregnancy. Rothman found that, when amniocentesis was used, fetal movement was not necessarily reassuring to the pregnant woman. Some women were unable to feel movement until after test results confirmed a genetically healthy fetus. Other women were faced with the difficult decision to abort a fetus that they had felt moving, and had become attached to.
The author puts her concerns about amniocentesis to a pragmatic use by including an appendix, "Guidelines For Personal Decision-Making." In this section Rothman summarizes the clinical procedure, the fetal conditions that may be diagnosed, and the parameters involved in the decision-making process.
In this book Rothman combines theoretical and historical perspectives with empirical data, enabling the reader to gain insight into some of the implications of this new technology. The Tentative Pregnancy is both informative, and provocative. It is a book that would be useful to health care consumers, as well as health care professionals.


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Everyone needs a summer a vacation! Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI went on holiday for 2 weeks at the Papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. The summer residence is a very familiar place for Benedict. Before Benedict left, Pope Francis paid a visit to his predecessor.
Among the notables, are the others who make up Benedict's household.
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- Across Madrid. Tapas Culture
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Madrid, 2014 (Walk design)
This dynamic travel company commissions specialists to construct urban walks, fun for all ages. The remit was to share a food-lover's knowledge of tapas so clients don't just taste them, they also discover Madrid's character and history through its food culture. Plus: no hangovers and healthy food the Spanish way! A percentage of the price goes to a local homeless project.
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- Amsterdam Symposium History of Food / Spain's Hunger Culture
- Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food
Amsterdam, January 2015, paper & visual presentation
The paper was a contribution on the 2015 topic: "Food, Hunger and Conflict". Entitled 'Spain's Hunger Culture: Picaros, Protestors and Cooks', it looked at the high visibility of hunger in Spanish culture from the picaresque to modern times, including its representation in three narrative cookbooks, but its invisibility (and masking by one cookbook) during the 1940s' "Silent Famine", as revealed by historians since 1995.
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- Atkinson Foundation for Public Policy / Young & Jobless
- Toronto Star
Toronto, 2012 (Spain article, research & interpreting)
Writer, radio producer and photographer Neil Sandell dedicated a year to researching youth unemployment in Canada and Europe. In Spain he focussed on its meaning on the ground: as he perceptively wrote, a thousand cruelties, many of them hidden.
Follow the debate on Twitter: @youngnjobless
Series at a glance
Read "Spain's Lost Jobless Generation"
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- Comer con Goya: Gusto y Ética
- Proyecto Goya Aragón-Bordeaux
Madrid, 2016 (essay; not-for-profit)
Published in Spanish and French, this brief essay looks at Francisco de Goya's tastes in food and drink, how they were shaped by his childhood and then revealed themselves in his work. It is one of several texts in a short book published to celebrate the new regional cultural links now being forged between Aragón and Bordeaux as the milieux of the great artist's early and final years. Presented in the Museo Goya, Zaragoza in March 2017.
- as published + links
- Creative Personal Branding
- CPB Lab / BIS Publishers
Barcelona, 2010 / Amsterdam, 2013 (As editor.)
Life in the creative economy hinges on personal growth. How do we prioritise and shape such growth? Jürgen Salenbachers workshop methods, which have earned him a cult following, are laid out here in absorbing words and graphics. Playfully didactic! Designer Simon Hüsler.
Creative Personal Branding on the web
App coming soon
- as published + links
- Di Testa e Di Gola
- Digital magazine, articles
Naples, 2015
Founded by Giustino Catalano in 2013, DTeDG is one of a kind: an independent Italian food & culture site offering daily coverage through recipes, reportage, interviews, opinion, humour, and some lovely atypical food photography. A project of real integrity with a dream team.
Di Testa e Di Gola
Sushi & Tapas: Italian & English text
Giustino Catalano
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- Fool Magazine: The Power of Simple Cookery
- Fool #5
Malmo, 2014, 1,000 words
For the Religion issue. Lotta and Per-Anders Jörgensen commissioned a piece on Juan Altamiras' 'New Art of Cookery'. After reading the text they called him "a cookery revolutionary not unlike many chefs today."
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- History of the Saatchi Gallery
- Booth-Clibborn Editions
London, 2011 (as essays editor)
Edward Booth-Clibborn chose over 700 works tracking Charles Saatchis art collecting since the 1980s. They are laid out as if hung in an imaginary gallery. Essays from Richard Cork, Steve Martin, Norman Rosenthal and editor Booth-Clibborn portray Saatchi. Designed by Sean Murphy, Value and Service.
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- Just Tell the Truth
- Mike Figgis's Deloitte Ignite (A-not-for-profit project)
Royal Opera House, London, 2011 (flamenco consultancy)
Im intrigued to know what we all think about the state of the culture we exist in, wrote Figgis of this experimental weekend festival. Mike had an idea: to continue a longstanding dialogue with Eva Yerbabuena and Paco Jarana by giving them the space to create a raw direct performance watch it below.
Mike Figgis's website
Eva Yerbabuena's website
Eva Yerbabuena at Deloitte Ignite (4'34")
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- Michelin Green Guide to Spain
- Michelin Green Guide
London, 2011 (research & writing - Madrid & Central Spain)
Michelin updated their classic texts in this new edition for people who want to see more - not just sights and attractions, but also driving tours and an authentic cross-cultural sampling of Spain today. Edited by Clive Hebard.
- as published + links
- New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook
- New Art of Cookery (translation and writing)
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham/London, June 2017
A modern retelling of Juan Altamiras's influential 1745 cookbook. The author interweaves her English translation of the original recipes with new text portraying 18th-century Spanish life and food culture. Eight years of original research, cookery, travel and archive work inform the text and modern kitchen guidelines. Winner of the Jane Grigson Trust Award 2017 and the Aragonese Academy of Gastronomy's award for Best Gastronomic Research, 2017.
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- Nuevo arte de la cocina española
- Nuevo arte de la cocina española (translation and writing)
Ariel (Planeta), Barcelona, 2017
My updated critical edition of 18th-century Aragonese friar Juan Altamiras's classic cookbook threads a new historic narrative exploring food, culture and social history through the original text. The book is rounded out by modern recipe guidelines, notes, a bibliography and illustrations of produce and flavours. "A delicious way to taste history ... highly recommended." Clifford A. Wright, New York Journal of Books
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Movie with Abe: We Have a Pope
We Have a Pope
Directed by Nanni Moretti
Released April 6, 2012
The old tradition of saying "The King is dead! The King is dead! Long live the King!" has always conjured up a strange image, the notion of mourning one leader but moving on immediately to celebrating the newly-elected ruler. It's a bizarre yet necessary custom, as places and institutions cannot be without a head figure for long, lest they fall apart. In "We Have a Pope," the leader of the Catholic world has died, and the papal conclave must come together to choose a new leader to represent the Church and to give comfort and spiritual solace to all the faithful.
"We Have a Pope" is an energetic film that begins with a somber ceremony and the proceeding of all the cardinals into the conclave, to be shut off from society until they determine who the next Pope will be. Names emerge as they are called out during each of the voting rounds, and after a few unsuccessful votes, a definitive victor emerges. The look of joy – and relief – on the faces of all of the cardinals as they realize they now have someone new to look to is palpable, and it's a dramatic process full of emotion and passion.
Since this cannot be a simple story, the newly-elected pope (Michel Piccoli) becomes incredibly overwhelmed by his newfound duties and panics, prompting the announcement of his identity to be postponed. A therapist (the film's director Nanni Moretti) is brought in to help draw out the issues behind the pope's feelings, and subsequently sequestered so that he cannot reveal anything about the pope's antics to the public. When the pope is taken to an outside psychiatrist, he makes a run for it and disappears, prompting the therapist to take matters into his own hands and create a massive cardinal volleyball tournament while the pope explores what he's been missing in the world.
"We Have a Pope" is a deeply endearing, highly entertaining film with a charming protagonist in way over his head. Moretti casts himself in a crucial role, providing humor and a much-needed sense of logic, distracting all of the cardinals and permitting them the rare opportunity to let loose. The film is gorgeously photographed and the costumes are carefully prepared. Ultimately, however, it's about the captivating, pleasant story of the one of the most important men in the world wrestling with doubt, unsure of whether he has what it takes to fulfill what has been asked of him.


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Just kidding. It's not about choosing sides. Right?
It's time to vote. Matt Baume at SF Appeal has laid out the ayes and noes with some colorful graphs in a very helpful way, divided between the props and the candidates.
Look up your polling place and get a sample ballot at SFGov.
The San Francisco League are Young and Pissed Off and after the ballots are in you can join them at El Rio from 8:01pm-12:00am.
Anyway, go out there and do it, it's fun and I always wear a tie on election days for some reason.


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BÌNH PHƯỚC — The southern province of Bình Phước will stop clearing natural forest land for the planting of industrial trees with high economic value, the provincial authority has announced.
Bình Phước Province's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development reported that it had initially suspended six projects for developing cultivation, husbandry and planting industrial trees of high economic value.
The suspension follows an order by the provincial People's Committee last week in response to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc's authorisation last June to close natural forests nationwide. Nearly 2.2 million hectares of forest land was deemed at high risk of being exploited and having its designated use changed illegally.
The department said it would review the six projects being implemented in the province that have the aim of turning nearly 700ha of forest land into land for husbandry and cultivation, particularly for high value industrial plants such as cocoa, pepper and cashew.
The authority said it would report the process of the suspensions to the provincial People's Committee as soon as possible.
The projects include one plantation of rubber trees on 262ha of forest in the Tà Khiết region under the management of the Tà Khiết Forest Management Board, two 100ha rubber plantations being implemented by the Phước Long Rubber Company, one 224ha husbandry development being implemented by the Sông Bé Rubber Company, and two 80ha areas of forest land that was for ethnic minority people to develop cultivation and husbandry.
The department director Trần Văn Lộc said while the province's authorities were going to suspend the six projects, they were also considering continuing others in the districts of Đồng Phú and Bù Gia Mập.
The PM announced the closing of natural forests at a conference in Central Highland Đắk Lắk Province's Buôn Ma Thuột City in June. It was aimed at seeking solutions to achieve sustainable forest recovery in the region in order to cope with climate change during the 2016-2020 period.
Phúc also ordered a stop to granting licences for hydropower projects that are subject to forest policies, and to project owners who violate regulations on forestation.
In Bình Phước, forests are located mostly in the northeast and southeast, as well as along the northern border with Cambodia and the western border with Tây Ninh Province. Much of the rest of the area is used to grow perennial cash crops. The total agricultural area is 293,700ha. There are 21,900ha of specially used land and 5,700ha of residential land. — VNS


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Tory MPs are going through a laborious process to whittle five candidates for leadership down to two – who the membership will then vote on.
They are doing it by "exhaustive balloting". Today we have a poll of five, after which the candidate with the lowest number of votes is eliminated, before a poll of four on Thursday another elimination and then a poll of three next Tuesday.
This opens up scope for all sorts of machinations and sub-optimal results. Is there a quicker and possibly cleaner way?
Clearly between each ballot there will be appeals to the supporters of the eliminated candidate. Likewise the candidate that came "last but one" will be desperately trying to shore up support whilst under attack from other candidates.
There is also scope for support for the leading candidate to leak away as some of that candidate's supporters try to secure the success of their second choice. In theory you could win the first round, but then see your supporters thinking you are "bound to win" switching to their second choices in such numbers that you lose the second round.
There must be a better way.
If trying to elect two from a group of candidates, as a minimum each successful candidate must get just over a third of the vote – then the third place candidate cannot get even a third of the vote if they hoover up all other support. So there is a number, let's call it a quota – in this case a third of votes +1, and if a candidate gets that amount of support they go on the members ballot.
But what if a candidate easily gets the quota – say double the support needed? Clearly there is a degree of wastage of the support of that candidate's faction. Well, what if the surplus support was transferable to each voter's second preference?
So if the leading candidate got say (to keep the numbers easy) twice the quota? They would retain half of each vote cast for them (thereby ensuring that they are "elected") and the other half of each vote goes to each voter's next preference?
This avoids the situation described above where the leading candidate could see their support leaching away as their supporters in subsequent ballots cast their entire vote for someone else convinced that their first choice was safe.
What if no one achieves the quota? Well as in exhaustive balloting, the loser is eliminated and their votes are transferred – not by means of a further ballot but according to each voter's originally expressed preferences.
So by using transferable preference voting with quota counting, the Tories could decide on two candidates to put before the membership in a single ballot today. All they would have to do when voting is rank the candidates in their order of preference (1,2,3,4 rather than X).
Less scope for accidental sub-optimal results – but also less scope for politicking, back-biting and back stabbing. Perhaps that is why they do it the way they do – it's in the Party's DNA.


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FULL PRESS CONFERENCE: Andrews labels Vic coronavirus outbreak a 'public health bushfire'04/07/2020|22min
Premier Daniel Andrews has labelled Victoria's coronavirus situation a "public health bushfire" as the state struggles to curb its second outbreak of the virus. More than 3,000 residents in nine public housing towers across two Victorian postcodes have been subjected to total lockdowns, effective immediately, following a triple-figure increase in COVID-19 cases overnight. Mr Andrews confirmed a record increase of 108 new cases of coronavirus, primarily at Flemington and North Melbourne. "The challenge today is we've got unacceptably high numbers in two further postcodes," Mr Andrews said. "Whilst it gives no one in the public health team or government any joy, we have to announce postcodes 3031 and 3051 will be the subject - from 11:59 pm tonight - of the Stay at Home order. "The alternative is that we don't have 12 postcodes locked-down but all postcodes locked-down." The Premier said residents within the nine public housing towers were not permitted to leave for any reason and individuals would not be allowed to enter under any circumstances. "There will be a massive logistical task to make sure people are fed, given the support they need and I don't for a moment underestimate how challenging and traumatic it will be for those 3,000 residents," he said. "It is not dissimilar to the way aged care facilities are treated if there is an outbreak. "I'm the premier of the state, I'm the leader of the government and I'm accountable and responsible to get this job done." Residents will be required to remain isolated for up to five days. Image: News Corp Australia


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A trend that has been happening in hip hop lately is artists/producers collaborating for an album project. More often than not it's just a one-off, and it's been thrown together. There isn't that TRUE chemistry that you would have seen in duos in the 80s & 90s, like Eric B. & Rakim. EPMD. Pete Rock & CL Smooth. Method Man & Redman. Mobb Deep. Das Efx. Capone 'N' Noreaga. All of which have produced classic albums through the ages.
This latest hip hop pairing was one that was brewing underground that a select few knew about. Careers parallel, you were fan of one possibly more than the other, but you were at least aware of the other artist… and it all started in 2007 with the track 'Get It Done' produced by DJ Premier. Just like Method Man & Redman in '95 with 'How High', it was only a hip hop fan's dream to see an album between the two. Fast forward 7 years from 2007 – 2014, and this dream isn't deferred. There is no admission of guilt needed. This is Skyzoo & Torae: Barrel Brothers.
The intro presents that classic Spike Lee like 90's tone and the trumpet of Sean Taylor (Skyzoo's brother maybe? (Real name Gregory Taylor) and goes into the 'Talk of the Town', a track sounding like Sky & Torae recorded and performed it live on a street block. By the end of this album, the pair will have you talking about them.
The producer behind Sky's 'Range Rover Rhythm' Jahlil Beats, is back with another scorcher. Once these guys are the talk of the town, they will 'Make You A Believer'. Torae's delivery comes with finesse here: "There aren't no stopping us/on the Freeway with the Mac/That's State proppin us/It's Bleek/If it ain't Jigga & Dash there ain't no ROC'in us/Ready To Die/Sky's The Limit/They be poppin us/Poetic Justice got me the Juice and that's that Pac in us.." The flow continues on in the !llmind produced 'Tunnel Vision'. Just like on A Dream Deferred's Give It Up, if the track doesn't grab the listener the first time, it soon will. This is that tune that would have been played in the clubs but most DJs are too afraid to play it, because either real heads would act a fool or no one would catch on enough.
Blue Yankee Fitted is the album's first single. A New York Anthem paying homage to the New York lifestyle and rocking their caps proud. You have to admire the humbleness of the Barrel Brothers… they are not out to claim the so-called 'King Of New York', they are just representing the right way, just like the New York Yankees winning the World Series in 1996. This is followed by an album highlight. A colossal posse cut between the Barrel Brothers and Random Axe, as they go 'All In Together Now'. Whether it is an ode to RZA, GZA & ODB or not (Pre -Wu) All MCs attack the Black Milk track with great vengeance and furious anger… right up Sean Price's alley.
!llmind returns with 'Triangle Offense.' The Barrel Brothers tear the track up that even Funkmaster Flex had to drop the bomb on em.
Time for a little intermission as the Barrel Brothers make that 'Movie Album'… the vibe sounds like they are about to cater for the laydeez… suddenly you hear deliberately tone-deaf harmonizing… he may not have made X-Factor but he's on this album right here!
However producer Praise has other ideas. The man behind Torae's 'What's Luv' keeps the album running at top speed with 'Albee Square Mall'. Sky, Torae & Livin Proof have that ignorant sh!t you need and asking 'where Brooklyn at??' Then in 'The Hand Off', Torae & Sky have your head knocking over the Khrysis beat… that switches halfway through as Torae passes over to Sky, increasing the number of goosebumps on your body. The track is over just after 2 minutes, it's like a main course meal cruelly taken away from you when the waiter realises they made a mistake.
If you are familiar with the Jared Evan ft Lil Fame track – Uma Thurman, then you will like this next offering. 4 Bar Friday is a switch up from that track that shows the duo's creative frequent tag team work rhyming every 4 bars, working so well that even the Road Warriors are not able to keep up. It's a great look to see Antman Wonder come through to add to this 'Memorabilia', the producer behind Skyzoo's remake of Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt. If the duo's aim is to enter the game and leave legendary, they are going the right way about it.
As the album approaches it's finale, it is blessed with another highlight. The beautiful 'Rediscover' will have fans hunting down the original sample and rediscovering The Main Ingredient's soulful medley from 1981 of the same name. The track features Blu who also has a solid album (Good To Be Home) under his belt that has been released recently but Skyzoo shines here: "It's whatever for this living if this living sublime
How they living in the maybes, subliminal lines/The subliminals they giving you is different from mine/'Cause I don't get you no subliminals, my sh!t is defined
And if you don't get it today, then shit, get in the line…"
What better way to end the album the way Skyzoo & Torae first came together in 2007… with a banging DJ Premier track. By now you can feel 'The Aura' when these come together. Torae has an award-winning verse making reference to Dave Chappelle's most notorious sketch: "My rep is on some 'go show Charlie Murphy your t!++!£$'/Running off at the mouth, though the punch will be dealt/My hands all on your pounce, feets all on your couch/The league calling a drought,/We came with a hell of a flood cuz cocaine is a hell of a drug!!"
You are not likely to hear an album this year from a duo that has such chemistry that rather than outshine the other on a track they compliment each other. That's the difference between this and other album collaborative projects that have been released recently. Not saying they are not good, but rather how the synergy is felt so much here. If you are still not convinced that Skyzoo & Torae are not on the levels of the aforementioned. Hit play on the freestyle below. They don't do notepads or iPhones over there. This is real skills showcased.


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Omega-3's are polyunsaturated fatty acids that the body derives from certain foods. They are considered essential because they are critical for good health and the body cannot make them on its own. There are two main types of omega-3 fatty acids: Long chain (EPA and DHA) and short-chain (ALA).
Although they have many vital effects on one's health including anti-blood clotting effects, reducing blood pressure, and lowering cholesterol, they also play in important role in fighting inflammation and are considered anti-inflammatory.
Inflammation is a critical mechanism your body possesses to help protect you from pathogens, irritants, and heal injuries by sending proteins and white blood cells to the affected area. While inflammation is very essential process, uncontrolled regulation can result in consequential tissue damage and contribute to many disease formations including cardiovascular disease and even cancer. That is why consuming anti-inflammatory foods, like Omega-3 essential fatty acids, is so imperative.
Omega-3 fatty acids can be found in several foods. These foods include:
• Grass fed beef
• Fresh deep water fish
• Raw flaxseeds, hemp seeds,
• Soybeans
• Shrimp
• Cauliflower
• Brussel sprouts
As you can see, there aren't many foods that are rich in Omega-3 fatty acids and it is difficult to obtain the amount of Omega-3 that your body needs. Most people require a supplement to get this essential amount. Many health conditions require additional Omega-3. There are many types of supplements that are abundant in Omega-3's. The most common and beneficial are:
• Fish oil
• Krill oil
• Cod liver oil
• Flax oil
• Hemp oil
Long-chain omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA) are abundant in fish and shellfish, and short-chain omega-3 fatty acids (ALA) are typically found in plants, such as flax and hemp. It is possible for the body to synthesize DHA and EPA from ALA, but conversion of ALA to EPA and DHA is extremely limited. Therefore, fish oils are usually the most efficient source of Omega-3 fatty acids.
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Netflix on Wii, The Podcast's Accuracy, and Zero2D are discussed. TheBuzzSaw returns as a guest to update on life with a daughter and finishing up school, as well as pursuing web and game design. Mailtime is also featured – what are the hosts' proudest gaming achievements? Youko and TheBuzzSaw break down the latest news from the gaming world. Easter Egg: More Memorable Gaming Quotes
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