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You may get some grumbles, especially, if like mine, your children are not toddlers. 12 year old and 14 year old were seriously unimpressed at the early start for a day in the holidays.
Can't we go at a normal time." I heard, as I dragged them out at 9 a.m. to get to Gloucester by 10 a.m.
Well frankly, "no". We can't go at a normal time and get this amazing deal. You are more likely to spend as much on coffee and snacks as you are on your entry, but given the amazing savings, you mind less.
Entertainment is so easily available for children nowadays. When I grew up, it was less so. Cinema was a treat. Videos hadn't been invented, and films which came on TV had to have done the cinema rounds for a quite a long period of time first. A film less than five years old on TV was considered new. Imagine that? Now we expect to see films on TV within months of them being released.
The magic of going to the cinema hasn't gone away though. It is still more exciting to visit the proper cinema, and of course with the advent of 3D and IMAX it gets even more exciting.
Like many other cinemas, Cineworld in Gloucester has reinstigated "Saturday Morning Flicks". You can go along to see a set film for just £1 a head, (adults and children) which is a pretty incredible price. During half terms and holidays they run the "Movies for Juniors" all week, so as long as you are prepared to get your children down to the cinema by 10 a.m. then you can all go for £1 each.
The choices of film are limited but it is often a film that you may have missed first time round, and possibly not all that long ago. In our case we went to see Madascar 3, which given that it was only released in October 2012 was hardly an old timer.
On previous visits we have seen Cars 2, The Muppets and Despicable Me. All good fun family films. So get yourself along to your local flicks at 10 a.m. on Saturday morning, and treat yourselves for a £1.
Why? Get the full cinema experience at the lowest cost possible.


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Pretty Hard Cases - Season 2
Season 2 finds Sam and Kelly in brand new territory, both at work and in their personal lives. As official partners for the first time, they have never been better at blending their different skills to get the job done. In the spirit of moving forward, they're also trying to leave their baggage behind. Sam is now an empty-nester with a new love life, while Kelly is forging fresh bonds with her estranged sisters. When they find themselves up against a new age gang that doesn't operate by the same old rules, Sam and Kelly are forced to put their lives on the line as they attempt the riskiest takedown of their careers.
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Le cimetière israélite de Veyrier est un cimetière juif créé en 1920, à cheval sur la frontière franco-suisse. Sa situation géographique atypique car transfrontalière eut son importance au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ainsi qu'en 1948, au moment de la création de l'État d'Israël. De nombreux juifs utilisèrent en effet à plusieurs reprises ce , soit pour passer en Suisse pour fuir l'extermination nazie dans la France occupée, soit après la guerre, pour passer en France pour se rendre clandestinement en Palestine via les ports français méditerranéens.

Situation et accès
Il est situé pour sa majeure partie dans la commune française d'Étrembières, en Haute-Savoie, dont il dépend juridiquement. Il tire son nom de la commune suisse limitrophe de Veyrier, du canton de Genève, dans laquelle se trouve son entrée principale ainsi que l'oratoire funéraire. Il est accessible en transports publics avec la ligne 8 des Transports publics genevois.

Histoire

Les origines de ce cimetière

La Communauté israélite de Genève est propriétaire depuis 1788 du cimetière juif de Carouge situé dans la commune du même nom, dans le canton de Genève. Ce site étant arrivé à saturation, la communauté est contrainte à partir de 1916, de rechercher de nouveaux terrains.

Étant dans l'impossibilité d'agrandir celui de Carouge ou d'en créer un nouveau (la loi cantonale de 1876 interdisant toute création ou extension de cimetière confessionnel), elle envisage une solution en France voisine dont les lois permettent la création de cimetières dits  ou .

La création du cimetière

C'est le  qu'une convention, signée entre les représentants de la Communauté israélite de Genève et les autorités de la commune française d'Etrembières, donne naissance à ce cimetière. Quatre parcelles le composent : trois côté français, destinées aux sépultures, et une côté suisse, destinée aux aménagements de l'entrée principale. La superficie totale des terrains acquis est alors de .

Ce n'est toutefois que le  que les douanes suisses donnent leur accord pour que l'entrée principale du cimetière s'effectue par le territoire helvétique afin d'en faciliter l'accès depuis Genève. Le mur d'enceinte, qui pour partie longe la frontière, pour partie se trouve en territoire suisse, devra disposer d'une ouverture de deux mètres de large, là où la frontière le coupe, afin de permettre le libre passage des douaniers.

La construction de l'oratoire israélite

En 1930, la Communauté israélite de Genève fait l'acquisition, côté suisse, d'une nouvelle parcelle d'une superficie de  sur laquelle on projette de construire un édifice destiné à abriter un oratoire et des salles funéraires.

C'est l'architecte genevois Julien Flegenheimer, à qui l'on doit la nouvelle gare Cornavin et le Palais des Nations à Genève, qui est mandaté pour cette construction. Les travaux durent un peu plus d'un an et l'inauguration a lieu le 6 septembre 1931. L'oratoire est un ouvrage aux lignes épurées, sans fantaisie inutile, dans le style traditionnel de l'architecture moderne de Flegenheimer. Seuls quelques éléments en saillie, comme la corniche et la frise crénelée, viennent rompre les volumes symétriques de l'ensemble.

Le corps central de l'édifice abrite une vaste salle de prières qui est dotée de trois grandes portes en chêne, et un parvis qui est soutenu par deux colonnes dont les chapiteaux sont décorés de feuilles d'acanthe. Deux ailes annexes flanquent aussi de part et d'autre le corps central. Elles abritent les salles funéraires, un appartement pour le gardien, et la chaufferie qui est en sous-sol. À cette date, le cimetière prend l'appellation de Cimetière israélite de Veyrier.

Pendant la seconde Guerre mondiale
Situé en Zone libre française au début du conflit, le cimetière ne fait curieusement l'objet d'aucune surveillance particulière malgré la présence d'une frontière à l'intérieur de son périmètre. Les enterrements peuvent s'y poursuivre et l'on note même déjà quelques passages clandestins. La situation ne change guère en  lorsque la région est envahie et occupée par les troupes italiennes. Les militaires italiens se montrent en effet plutôt bienveillants, au point que  Au cours de cette période, plusieurs Juifs fuyant la persécution nazie passent la frontière à travers le cimetière. Accueillis et cachés dans un premier temps dans l'oratoire funéraire, ils sont ensuite conduits en toute discrétion vers Genève.

En , à la suite de l'armistice entre les Alliés et le Royaume d'Italie, les troupes allemandes envahissent son secteur d'occupation. Le cimetière est alors rigoureusement fermé et des barbelés sont même placés à l'intérieur de son périmètre, le long de la frontière. Il est cependant à noter que malgré la présence régulière de soldats de la Wehrmacht, quelques personnes réussissent à passer la frontière de nuit. Les enterrements étant quant à eux devenus impossibles, la Communauté israélite genevoise réutilise alors son vieux cimetière de Carouge.

Après la libération de la Haute-Savoie, en , nombreux sont les Juifs réfugiés à Genève qui veulent rejoindre la France. Mais cette dernière est désorganisée, aussi les autorités françaises freinent-elles le retour immédiat des réfugiés. Les autorités suisses, guère complaisantes également, refusent aussi de libérer ces mêmes réfugiés tant qu'ils n'auront pas rempli certaines formalités. Certains tentent alors de passer la frontière clandestinement, et le cimetière se trouve à nouveau en situation idéale pour cela. Le nombre de passages illégaux devient tel que le cimetière est bientôt placé en zone militaire par les autorités genevoises. Quelques personnes, comme Gustave Michon (le gardien du cimetière) ou Aimée Stitelmann, ont du reste été condamnées par la justice genevoise pour avoir facilité ces passages. Elles ne sont réhabilitées par le Parlement fédéral qu'à partir de l'année 2004, au même titre qu'environ 130 autres personnes qui avaient aussi été condamnées en Suisse durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale pour des motifs similaires.

Destination Palestine, 1947-1948
Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les conséquences de la Shoah provoquent la sympathie du monde entier pour la cause des Juifs européens. L'idée de faire renaître l'État d'Israël fait son chemin, aussi des dizaines de milliers de Juifs, rescapés des camps de concentration, souhaitent se rendre en Palestine. Le Royaume-Uni, qui administre encore la Palestine, se refuse cependant à accepter un flux migratoire important. Elle limite donc sérieusement la délivrance de visas. Pour les Juifs réfugiés en Suisse durant le conflit, la situation est même un peu plus compliquée, car rares sont les candidats qui possèdent tous les papiers nécessaires pour pouvoir transiter par la France. Nombreux sont alors ceux qui tentent de se rendre clandestinement en Palestine.

Comme par le passé, le cimetière israélite de Veyrier se retrouve encore une fois dans une situation géographique de choix qui favorise la fuite des réfugiés. Cette fois-ci, c'est grâce à la complicité des cheminots français que les passages vont pouvoir s'opérer.

Après avoir franchi le mur d'enceinte, en général de nuit, les candidats sont récupérés par les cheminots et conduits jusqu'à la Maison de Bois-Salève qui appartient à la SNCF et qui se trouve à proximité. Après une courte nuit de sommeil, ils sont embarqués dans un wagon non inscrit sur les registres officiels de la SNCF mais qui est cependant attelé à un train régulier. Grâce à toute une chaîne de complicités, environ 300 à 400 réfugiés juifs vont pouvoir bénéficier de ce dispositif pour rejoindre clandestinement les ports du sud de la France, et s'y embarquer pour la Palestine.

Agrandissements et restaurations

Le cimetière, qui accueille déjà près de  à la fin dès années 1980, fait l'objet d'un agrandissement au cours de cette période. Une nouvelle parcelle, toujours côté français, et située dans le prolongement du cimetière existant, permet au cimetière d'augmenter sa capacité d'environ  tombes. Cet agrandissement permet ainsi au cimetière d'assurer des enterrements au moins jusqu'aux années 2050.

Dans le futur, les extensions se feront sans aucun doute côté genevois, sur les parties restées vierges du cimetière. La loi cantonale de 1876  a en effet été modifiée en 2005. En 1980, l'oratoire israélite a fait l'objet d'une première grande restauration, avec la pose d'un immense vitrail sur la partie arrière de l'édifice. Conçu par l'artiste suisse Régine Heim, ce vitrail d'environ  x , est une représentation — dans un style contemporain — de la Genèse. Monté sur une structure métallique quadrillée, le vitrail est composé de roches de verre et autres cristaux — tous saillants — insérés dans des dalles en mortier. L'ensemble forme ainsi une formidable mosaïque aux reliefs prononcés où la lumière s'exprime à travers la variation des couleurs obtenues, des plus vives aux plus nuancées.

En 1999, les façades de l'oratoire sont recouvertes de pierre de Jérusalem, ce qui adoucit leurs lignes symétriques, sans pour autant modifier substantiellement le style assez épuré voulu par l'architecte Julien Flegenheimer. L'aile droite de l'édifice, qui abrite le centre funéraire, est également agrandie à cette occasion.

Personnalités
Parmi les personnalités juives enterrées dans ce cimetière, citons l'écrivain suisse Albert Cohen, le roi du cigare suisse Zino Davidoff, le syndicaliste et essayiste canadien Charles Levinson, le journaliste tchèque Stefan Lux, le banquier libanais naturalisé monégasque Edmond Safra, le banquier français Édouard Stern et l'avocat et philosophe allemand Gerhart Riegner.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

 Ernest Ginsburger, Histoire des Juifs de Carouge. Juifs du Léman et de Genève, Paris, 1923.
 Achille Nordmann, Histoire des Juifs à Genève de 1281 à 1780, in Revue des Études Juives, vol. 80, Paris, 1925.

Articles connexes
 Cimetière juif de Carouge

Liens externes
 Site de la communauté israélite de Genève

Veyrier
Monument dans le canton de Genève
Veyrier
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Veyrier
Frontière entre la France et la Suisse
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I never thought I'd say this, but I can't wait for November to get here. What? Bypass October in all its Northeastern multihued glory? Skip the trip to the pumpkin patch? the falling leaves? the mayhem that is trick-or-treating in my village (a 15-bags-of-candy-night at minimum)? a whole month's worth of pumpkin spice lattes?
* Chiquita also graced me with my first animated GIF in a review—eeee! And the GIF was from Friends! Double plus good!


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Is the Russia-Ukraine War a Threat to the Global Economy?
Amy Cook, MSPFP, MPAS®, CFP®
Before Russia stunned the world by invading Ukraine, it was widely believed that the economic ties formed through globalization would help promote peace. But the war is testing that assumption and drawing attention to the vulnerabilities in far-flung supply chains, which were already under pressure because of the pandemic and recovery.
In response to the brutal invasion of Ukraine, the United States, European Union (EU), United Kingdom (UK), and their allies are using financial sanctions to inflict severe damage on Russia's economy and pressure its leaders to end the war. But that effort likely comes at a significant cost to the global economy.
Punishing Russia
Western nations acted together in unprecedented fashion to isolate Russia from world trade and the global financial system. Some of Russia's largest banks have been expelled from SWIFT, an international payments system. Assets that Russia's central bank held in North America and Europe have been frozen, restricting its ability to prop up the value of its currency, the ruble.1
Germany shelved the opening of a new gas pipeline that would have supplied natural gas from Russia, and the United States and the United Kingdom have announced bans on Russian oil imports.2 Hundreds of Western companies have suspended operations or pulled out of Russia, the world's 11th largest economy, either to comply with sanctions or because of public outrage over the war. Some wealthy oligarchs believed to be close to the Kremlin have also had their assets frozen or seized.3
The effects of sanctions have clearly been felt in Russia, where the central bank raised its key interest rate to 20%, and it's estimated that the Russian economy could contract up to 10%.4-5 Until recently, Russia was a full participant in the global economy, so being cut off from Western supply chains and technologies could be painful for Russian businesses and consumers. It remains to be seen whether China will step in to fill the void left behind by the West.
Supply Shocks
Russia is a major producer and exporter of food, energy, metals, and other raw materials that often fluctuate in price based on the balance between supply and demand across global markets.6 Therefore, supply shocks stemming from the war and sanctions have caused price spikes for some high-demand goods.
Russia is a top energy exporter, so crude oil and natural gas prices have surged since the conflict began, largely due to concerns about supply constraints. The EU relies heavily on energy imported from Russia (about 40% of its gas supply and almost 25% of its oil). Thus, reductions in energy deliveries from Russia would be difficult to replace and could worsen shortages in the global market.7
Russia is also a major producer of metals such as palladium (needed for catalytic converters), platinum, aluminum, copper, and nickel (needed for batteries).8 In addition, about half of the world's supply of the neon gas used to make semiconductors came from Ukrainian companies that have been forced to close their operations. Until neon production is ramped up elsewhere, shortages could exacerbate the chip shortage that has been slowing the production of new cars, computers, electronic devices, and other products.9
Russia and Ukraine account for nearly 30% of global wheat exports, 17% of corn, 32% of barley, and 75% of sunflower seed oil. Financial sanctions have largely blocked Russia from exporting food, while the conflict has prevented Ukraine from transporting food out of the country. Russia is the world's top producer of fertilizer, providing about 15% of the global supply. Thus, crop yields throughout the world could be hindered by a shortage of fertilizer, which has risen to record prices alongside the natural gas from which it is often made.10
The bottom line is that consumers everywhere may soon face even higher grocery bills. The United Nations projects that global food costs, which are already at an all-time high, could soar another 22% due to the war. Egypt and other developing nations in North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia are especially dependent on grains from Russia and Ukraine. Disrupted food supplies and elevated prices are expected to cause a notable increase in world hunger.11
Russia and Ukraine account for only about 2% of global gross domestic product, but high energy prices and supply shocks caused by the war could have a far-reaching impact on a global economy that has not fully recovered from the pandemic. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that global economic growth in the first year after the war began will be 1.1% lower, and inflation will be about 2.5% higher, than they would have been without the invasion. The impact will be greatest for countries with closer trade and financial ties to Russia and Ukraine. Throughout the world, people with lower incomes will likely suffer more because food and energy account for a larger share of spending.12
According to the same OECD report, inflation could rise an additional 2% in the euro area and 1.4% higher in the United States than it would have without the war. The OECD expects 2022 economic growth to be reduced by about 1.4% in the euro area and 0.9% in the United States.13
Russian aggression has caused a humanitarian disaster and an economic catastrophe in Ukraine that are nearly impossible to measure. More than 4 million people have already fled Ukraine, and many more could follow. Without outside help, accommodating the flood of refugees is likely to strain the finances of host governments such as Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.14
Europe has more exposure to the Russia-Ukraine conflict than the United States, but in both economies, inflation had already climbed to levels that haven't been seen for decades.15 In the coming months, the world's key central banks will face the tricky task of raising interest rates enough to control inflation without causing a recession. There could also be longer-term repercussions, such as the reorganization of global supply chains and less integrated financial markets. Estimates and projections are based on current conditions, are subject to change, and may not come to pass.
3) The New York Times, March 22, 2022
4, 15) The Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2022
6-8, 12-13) OECD, March 2022
9) Reuters, February 25, 2022
10) The New York Times, March 20, 2022
11) Bloomberg, March 13, 2022
14) Associated Press, March 30, 2022
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Teddy Roosevelt and the Story of the Impossible Coin
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, was a larger-than-life figure. A weak, sickly child growing up, Teddy transformed himself into an icon of American masculinity as an adult.
Whether he was hunting big game in Africa, cattle ranching in the Wild West, or leading the famous Rough Riders into battle in the Spanish-American War, Teddy set an example of manliness that has lived on in the decades since his death. But beyond his testosterone-filled adventures, Teddy was also an effective president.
Typically ranked by historians as one of the best presidents in U.S. history, Teddy spearheaded a wide range of progressive policies during his two terms in office. He broke up the massive steel and oil trusts that had been monopolizing those industries, pushed Congress to pass consumer protection laws to remove dangerous additives and unhygienic practices from food and drugs, and created five national parks and 50 national forests, singlehandedly conserving over 230 million acres of American land.
One of Teddy's lesser-known acts was revamping the nation's coinage. In 1904, when he first took office, the designs of most U.S. denominations had not changed in years.
Most of the existing designs were the work of Charles Barber, Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint. Barber's designs valued practicality over artistry. The coins were easy to mint in large quantities, as the low-relief design meant that the metal dies used to produce the coins could be used for a longer amount of time before they had to be replaced. Barber's depiction of Lady Liberty was technically sound, but lacked emotion. Critics of the time deemed Barber's designs boring and uninspiring.
Teddy went further in his criticism of the coins. In a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Leslie Shaw, the President complained of the designs' "atrocious hideousness," asked the Secretary if it would be possible, "without asking permission of Congress," to enlist a more talented artist to redesign the nation's coinage.
The man who Teddy had in mind was the acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Saint-Gaudens had achieved substantial fame for his beautiful monuments of American heroes. After hearing back from the Secretary that any of the Mint's gold denominations - the gold $2.50 Quarter Eagle, $5 Half Eagle, $10 Eagle, and $20 Double Eagle - could be redesigned without an Act of Congress, the President immediately put Saint-Gaudens to work.
Teddy decided to play an active role in the design process, and fortunately most of his correspondence with Saint-Gaudens has been saved. In a letter to Saint-Gaudens, Teddy proposed designing the gold coins in the Ancient Greek fashion - a high-relief design, where the features and lettering of the design rise significantly from the flat surfaces of the coin. Saint-Gaudens enthusiastically embraced the idea, proposing this design for the largest of the gold coins, the $20 Double Eagle:
"some kind of a (possibly winged) figure of Liberty, striding forward as if on a mountaintop, holding aloft on one arm a shield bearing the stars and stripes with the word Liberty marked across the field; in the other hand perhaps a flaming torch, the drapery [of Liberty's gown] would be flowing in the breeze. My idea is to make it a living thing."
Teddy wrote to Secretary Shaw again, as well as the Director of the U.S. Mint, to ask if producing a high-relief coin would be possible - both men responded that it would be ill-advised, as the coins would be near impossible to produce in large quantities.
Despite their warnings, Teddy gave the green light to Saint-Gaudens to proceed with the design, noting that Shaw "thinks I am a crack-brained lunatic on the subject." Later on in the design process, Saint-Gaudens asked Shaw for permission to use Roman numerals on the coins for greater artistic effect. Shaw vehemently rejected that suggestion, replying,
"While we are making coins for the people of the United States, I think we should confine ourselves to the English language. I have reminded our architects that I will dismiss the first one who puts a V on a public building where a U is intended."
But again, the President overruled the Treasury Secretary, granting Saint-Gaudens approval to proceed with Roman numerals for the coin's year.
At this time, Saint-Gaudens was ill with intestinal cancer. After some delay due to the worsening of his health, Saint-Gaudens delivered the first models of the Double Eagle coin to the White House for inspection.
The modeled design featured Lady Liberty striding forward, holding a torch in one hand and olive branch in the other (symbolizing enlightenment and peace), highlighted by the rays of the setting sun. The reverse side of the coin features an eagle in flight over the rising sun. The President loved the modeled design, exclaiming,
"I suppose I shall be impeached for it by Congress, but I shall regard that as a very cheap payment!"
The next step was to convert the models into coin dies, so that the coins could be produced. Chief Engraver Barber, the creator of the "atrociously hideous" coins we looked at earlier, declared that striking the coins would be an impossible task - the relief of the design was so high that no coin die in the world could deliver the necessary amount of pressure to bring out the full design.
A special die, used for striking high-relief medals, had to be brought in to the Mint to strike the coins. A normal coin takes a single strike of the die to produce. Saint-Gaudens' Double Eagle took nine strikes, and that was with the supercharged die set to maximum pressure.
Only about two dozen coins were produced in that first effort, of which 20 survive today. These coins are known as the Ultra High Relief Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles, and they are among the most highly-coveted coins in the entire hobby of coin collecting - each coin is worth over a million dollars. Examples come into auction infrequently - the last one sold in a January 2015 auction for $2 million.
Saint-Gaudens died of cancer shortly after the first coins were minted, making the Saint-Gaudens double eagle his last major work of art. The Ultra High Relief coins showcase Saint-Gaudens' genius in its purest form, featuring the artist's true vision for the coin.
Unfortunately, it was not very practical to strike a coin nine times with a superpowered die, especially if that coin was intended for mass circulation. The Mint was forced to lower the relief of the design twice.
After the first time, it still require three strikes of the die to produce the coin. But Teddy grew tired of waiting, and ordered the Mint to start producing the coins for general circulation, "even if it takes you all day to strike one piece!" 12,000 of these "High Relief" Double Eagles were produced, each of which now sells for upwards of $20,000.
Eventually Chief Engraver Barber got his hands on the dies and lowered the relief even further, rendering it mintable in mass quantities. This third version was the final one, and was used on millions of Double Eagles from 1907 up until Teddy's cousin Franklin took the U.S. off the gold standard in 1933.
While the final coin pales in comparison to Saint-Gaudens' intended high relief design, the "low relief" Double Eagle is still considered one of the most beautiful U.S. coins ever made, along with the Walking Liberty Half Dollar, the Buffalo Nickel, and the Saint-Gaudens Eagle - the only other coin that Augustus Saint-Gaudens designed before he succumbed to cancer.
Born out of a president's wild dream and an artists' unrivaled talent, the Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle stands the test of time as a work of art in coin form.
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It definitely doesn't have to be Christmastime to enjoy an awesome book set at Christmas. I had picked this one up at the library, because I'd seen different people online had read and liked it. Even though I had never read any of the previous books, I wasn't a bit lost. And it didn't take me long at all to get to know the characters and feel like they were good friends. It definitely made me want to start reading this series from the beginning, so that I can savor all the fun, humor and Coleman-history moments!
Christmas miracles can definitely happen as readers will see when for one, Zinnia, Mississippi gets its first-in-a-long-time Christmas snow, siblings get reunited and a sick little baby receives care he needs. I loved this whole mystery and even though there wasn't a murder, I was so caught up in trying to figure things out, that I almost didn't notice. Once a few clues were dropped, I had an idea of what was going on, but not the person who was in control of all this.
I was laughing as I was reading about the Christmas pageant that Coleman, sheriff and Sarah's boyfriend, was describing to her as they drove home after the case was solved and the perp taken away. The flying baby Jesus doll had to be hysterical! I love this author's style and sense of humor, and it will be my extreme pleasure to read more in this series!


The claim of the appellant for compassionate appointment was rejected as a result of which, the appellant filed a writ petition. The writ petition has been dismissed by the impugned order dated 27 January 2016 of the learned Single Judge.
The admitted position is that the appellant had contracted a marriage with the employee during the subsistence of his earlier marriage. The marriage with the appellant was void. The submission that the first wife had consented to the marriage with the appellant will not carry the case of the appellant any further because that does not affect the legal consequences of the marriage contracted with the appellant by the employee during the subsistence of his earlier marriage. Hence, the appellant was not entitled to compassionate appointment.
The learned Single Judge has noted that the children born from the marriage with the appellant have been allowed terminal benefits to the extent of Rs.18.33 lacs. No case for interference has been made out.
The special appeal is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs.


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Richard Collins: Setting the Standard
Thomas Turner
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Contributor Thomas P. Turner reviews the career of a pilot and writer whose words influenced generations of aviation enthusiasts
Richard L. Collins changed the face and style of aviation reporting. He passed away in late April, leaving an industry significantly changed and improved as a result of his writing. What made Collins different was not only that he wrote about the technical aspects of aircraft, he also made extensive use of light aircraft for personal transportation himself, and added what he learned on every flight to his educational narrative. In essence, his readers were invited along on the flights Collins took and learned from that hands-on experience. Collins may not have been the first, but he certainly popularised this experienced-based approach to aviation writing. He was not afraid to point out his own mistakes either, to 'bare my aeronautical soul' as he put it, if he thought other pilots could learn from his experience.
Richard earned his flight instructor credentials in 1953 when he was 19 years old. He maintained his instructor privileges until retiring in 2018. Among countless students, he trained 1960s American Broadcasting Company (ABS) newscaster Hugh Downs, with the lessons filmed and aired on U.S. national television. About a month before his death Collins wrote:
'Flight instructing was a big part of my flying life from the day I got my instructor's rating in 1953 until I became a member of the United States army in November 1955. Then it picked back up in 1956 when I was attached to an army flying club. After I got out of the army in 1957, I was a corporate pilot for a while and then, in 1958, I started out in the magazine business and was no longer an active flight instructor … I logged 1390 hours and 45 minutes of dual [instruction] given … my active instruction was done mostly in a relatively limited period of time and without great financial reward. In the magazine business I did a lot of informal instructing because when staffers would go with me on assignments, I would let them fly and try to teach them how to really use an airplane.'
Arguably, however, it was when Collins began 'the magazine business' that he truly began to teach people to fly.
Son of Leighton Collins, founder of Air Facts magazine, Collins began writing for Air Facts in 1958, then joined the staff of Flying magazine in 1968 and became editor in chief in 1977. He moved to AOPA Pilot magazine as publisher and editor in 1988. In 1993, he returned to Flying as an editor at large, where he wrote a monthly column and many feature articles. In October 2008, Collins retired as a regular contributor to Flying magazine. At the time of his retirement, Collins had been on the masthead of an aviation magazine since July 1958. Collins became a writer for the revived Air Facts Journal, now an online journal, from its creation in 2011 until his death earlier this year.
Richard Collins is extremely well known for his lifelong efforts as an aviation author and advocate. His 40 books and pamphlets, thousands of articles, and dozens of instructional videos set the standard for modern aviation safety education and training. Collins' book credits include:
Flying IFR
Flying the Weather Map
Flight Level Flying
Instrument Flying Refresher
Air Crashes
Mastering the Systems: Air Traffic Control and Weather
The Perfect Flight
Tips to Fly by
Thunderstorms and Airplanes
Flying Safely
Pilot Upgrade: How to Stay Current in Safety
Logbooks: Life in Aviation
The Next Hour: The Most Important Hour in Your Logbook
Collins continued to write insightful observations and inspired tips for flying safely and efficiently in his Air Facts blog to within weeks of his death.
Collins' career was not without controversary. He 'called it as he saw it' and wrote several articles with titles such as 'What's Wrong with Bonanza Pilots?' and similar, the content of which was unpopular among certain groups—probably because Collins' words were painfully truthful. Two specific issues caused widespread controversary and, to some, cloud his reputation. These were:
Letting his instructor certificate lapse: 'I last renewed my CFI in 2016 and will let it lapse today (2/28/2018),' Collins wrote in his Air Facts blog. (U.S. flight instructor certificates must be renewed every two years). Collins' concern was primarily over the lack of additional training requirements and guidance for pilots of technologically advanced aeroplanes, specifically concerning knowledge and operation of autopilots and automation failure modes. He saw information in the FAA-approved Flight Instructor Refresher curriculum that in his opinion downplays and short-cuts what's needed to master cockpit automation. 'It takes a lot more good instruction than folks are currently getting,' he warned.
Scrapping his Cessna P210: Collins stunned the aviation establishment and his multitude of readers when in 2007 he chose to scrap the 1979 Cessna P210 he had purchased new (licensed as N90RC) and in which he had logged nearly 9000 hours. He was already scaling back significantly on his flying and likely sensed he was going to stop completely fairly soon. As he explained in Flying magazine, his decision to destroy the aeroplane rather than sell it were personal. The highly complex, pressurised single 'had become difficult to keep serviceable, mostly due to lack of parts'. He had 'not had a good experience' with reconditioned parts and new parts from Cessna were often no longer available. Several costly issues, including rework of the aeroplane's deicing boots system, were on the horizon. Although certificated under the FAA's old CAR 3 rules and therefore with no required airframe life limit, Collins cited Cessna engineers as stating the P210's airframe was 'tested to the equivalent of 10,000 flight hours', a value Collins' aeroplane was fast approaching.
Collins was very concerned about legal liability should he sell the aeroplane. He called it a 'complicated and temperamental design' and noted the type had 'the worst fatal accident rate of any certified piston single'. He was afraid that an inexperienced pilot would buy N90RC, which was well known to have been in his care since new and literally had his initials on it, and have a crash. At times Collins stated that he chose to have the aeroplane destroyed because it 'was not worth much' and he 'could not get any offers on it'. At other times, however, he openly expressed concern about being held legally responsible should a new owner have a mechanical issue that led to an accident. Ultimately, he chose to have his beloved P210 destroyed rather than sell it to a new owner.
Bucking general aviation convention, Collins grounded himself while he was still going strong as a pilot. He stopped flying as pilot-in-command in 2011. He was still able to pass medical qualification, as he wrote in The Next Hour, and could easily 'go out and fly six approaches, do some navigating and fly holding patterns', meeting U.S. requirements to fly under instrument flight rules. He chose not to, however, writing: 'I didn't fly enough over the last year of flying to feel really comfortable with IFR flying. The last IFR in IMC trip that I flew went well and that is the way I wanted to leave it.' He wanted to 'go out on top', as he put it.
Collins had no interest in visual, recreational flying—if he wasn't meeting the challenges of flying single-pilot IFR he did not want to fly at all. In his words:
'One reason for me to stop with satisfaction was that limiting flights to good weather took all the challenge and fun out of my flying. To me, dealing with inclement weather in light airplanes is one of the most interesting things that a pilot can do. If not done correctly it can be lethal but done correctly it is fascinating and rewarding. Poking around the innards of a weather system will teach you things about weather that you simply can't learn anywhere else.'
'The downside to weather flying is that it is something that has to be done on a regular basis if the knowledge and proficiency to minimize risk is to be maintained. In my busiest years working for Flying (magazine), I flew 500–600 hours a year. That was for about seven years. Then I dropped below 500 a year but stayed above 300 for a long time. That was all good but when I dropped below 100 hours a year I lost the feeling that I was immersed in weather flying and that was the spell that flying had on me. Doing battle with the elements did the same thing for me that aerobatic flying does for some pilots, or that just flying around on pretty days does for others.'
'Another consideration,' Collins wrote, 'was my father's experience. He flew a few months past his 75th birthday … One day, after landing, he inadvertently retracted the landing gear. I didn't want to end that way, so I thought I would stop flying a few months earlier than he did.' He summed up his decision:
'I was always interested in how I became more conservative the longer I flew. Except for perhaps the first year or so, I never did reckless or foolish things in airplanes. From age 40 to 50 I flew a lot, my weather knowledge was at its peak, and flying was something that I did easily and naturally. As I morphed into my 60s and 70s, I didn't fly as much and could feel things slipping slowly away. The last time I thought through this I was interested in the fact that younger pilots have more to lose but older pilots, who have less time left to lose, tend to be more conservative. In my case, though, it was the lower level of activity that caused me to back off.'
Always a risk manager, Richard Collins summed up his personal risk and decided it was time to leave the flying to others.
It's said that learning comes in two forms: experience and training. Experience is learning from what happens to us. Training is learning from the experiences of others. We've all benefited greatly from the training Richard Collins prolifically imparted for six decades. We will miss his tutelage, but will all continue to learn from other pilot-authors who have picked up the mantle of experience-based aviation journalism and instruction that Collins pioneered.
jacko powers Aug 6, 2018 at 6:34 pm
I better get cracking ..I am in my late 60's and just started rec flying recently.


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Federal Reserve vows to keep interest rates low
Christine Seib in New York
Wednesday December 16 2009, 8.46pm, The Times
The US Federal Reserve repeated its promise to keep interest rates low for an "extended period" as economic activity remained weak.
Releasing the minutes from its December meeting, the central bank committee left the lending rate at zero to 0.25 per cent. There has been no change to the rate since last December.
The Fed gave a more cheerful assessment of the economy than it had after its meeting last month.
It said that the environment had "continued to pick up", with an improvement in the labour market, moderate expansion in household spending and signs of improvement in the housing sector.
But the Fed said that with considerable slack remaining in manufacturing capacity, there was little danger of inflation.
Also, although improving, unemployment is still


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MLUI / News & Views / Articles from 1995 to 2012 / 'Unbreaking Windows'
'Unbreaking Windows'
A Flint leader's effective formula to repair his hometown
February 13, 2006 | By Charlene Crowell
www.co.genesee.mi.us
"We have a financial crisis because of our land use policies," says Genesee County Treasurer Dan Kildee. "We are growing the cost of government seven times faster than we are growing taxpayers to pay for it."
Since launching a countywide effort in 1999 to transform blighted and abandoned landscapes in and around Flint into useful, attractive and revitalized neighborhoods, Genesee County Treasurer Dan Kildee has been a man on a mission.
Mr. Kildee, a former social worker and college instructor whose government career began as an 18-year-old member of the Flint Board of Education, has attracted national notice for developing Michigan's first practical program to speed the return of tax-reverted properties to productive use. Mr. Kildee's contribution to a problem that has stymied cities for years was to produce an efficient process to identify abandoned properties, clear titles, and prepare them for sale on the market.
The program proved so successful that two years ago the state Legislature approved and Democratic Governor Jennifer M. Granholm signed a new law to establish a state land bank, giving other communities the same capacity to more easily redevelop their downtowns. Mr. Kildee was named the State Land Bank Authority's president.
Mr. Kildee, who is 47, married, and a father of three, was raised in Flint and educated at Mott Community College and the University of Michigan's Flint campus. From 1985 to 1997 he served as a member of the Genesee County Board of Commissioners, including five years as the chairman. Mr. Kildee also is the chairman of the Democratic Party in Michigan's 5th Congressional District, which happens to be the political territory roamed by his uncle, Dale Kildee, a respected Democratic Congressman. "We are very close," said Mr. Kildee of his uncle. "I manage his congressional campaigns."
Technical expertise, combined with a warm and winning temperament, have earned Mr. Kildee wide recognition as one of the state's most effective local government officials. In 2003, Governor Granholm named him as one of the 26 members of the Michigan Land Use Leadership Council, a bipartisan committee charged by state leaders to recommend ways to slow sprawl, redevelop cities, and strengthen Michigan's economic competitiveness.
Of late, Mr. Kildee's land bank ideas are attracting national attention. He recently completed a Fannie Mae Foundation fellowship at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He leads the Genesee Institute, the county land bank's research and technical assistance affiliate, which has provided services and expertise in land banking to 10 communities nationwide. And there's another national role that Kildee plays: Advisor to the National Vacant Properties Campaign, a Washington-based non-profit collaborative working to make vacant property reclamation an attainable goal nationwide.
The growing national interest in land banking as a tool to revitalize older urban areas reflects Mr. Kildee's role in encouraging Michigan to become the first to create a state land bank. His challenge now is the same as the state's: How to make this innovative governmental reform, as well as the tax dollars it reclaims for communities, available to more Michigan core cities, such as Benton Harbor, Muskegon, and Detroit.
In a candid interview with the Great Lakes Bulletin News Service, Mr. Kildee described opportunities for economic revitalization and his hopes for the Great Lakes state.
Question: What was the impetus in 2002 for the creation of the Genesee County Land Reutilization Council?
Mr. Kildee: We were created primarily as a result of the reform of tax foreclosure laws in 1999. We realized we would soon be receiving thousands of properties through tax foreclosures.
Our fear was that the new tax foreclosure system – while it was a significant improvement – could have resulted in a more efficient replica of the former system. So we went to the Mott Foundation and asked for help to design a system that would best use this new law as a community stabilization tool.
During Genesee County's early efforts, how did the Land Reutilization Council engage businesses and citizens in this redevelopment effort?
At the beginning and since, we placed high priority on public participation – developing a series of sessions where all citizens of a neighborhood are invited to participate in a plan for their community. We have had literally thousands of citizens participate in neighborhood meetings to education them on what we can do, and also gain their input on what they see as their neighborhood's future.
What productive efforts resulted?
We quite literally designed the programs of the land bank through their input. Those neighborhood meetings were matched by other stakeholder meetings. And between the two, we designed programs that worked for everyone.
Let's fast forward to 2003 and the Michigan Land Use Leadership Council. As a council member, what did you envision as a measurable benefit to the enactment of a state land bank statute?
First, to come up with a rational process of disposing of state-owned properties that respected local communities and allowed that land to be used for its highest purpose instead of being sold to the person with the greatest financial resources.
Secondly, I thought it was important to provide a mechanism for county land bank authorities – a mechanism to deal with new properties in the same manner.
Since the state's 2004 enactment of the land bank legislation, you now serve as president of the State Land Bank Authority. To date, how would you characterize local interest in land banks?
I would say it's very strong. Aside from Wayne County and the City of Detroit, there are five communities in the process of forming authorities: Calhoun, Jackson, Grand Traverse, Berrien, and Muskegon. Saginaw and Ingham counties have already formed authorities. There are others who have expressed interest.
What are the plans and priorities for the state land bank?
We want to continue institutionalizing the state authority's existence. It's still really new, and we're still formalizing procedures.
Even so, we want to encourage re-use of properties, particularly with the involvement of nonprofits. We also encourage the creation of more county land banks where there is interest.
If citizens or local officials are not quite certain as to whether a land bank would be beneficial for their community, what advice would you offer?
I would encourage citizens to keep in mind the alternative to a land bank – a system that has delivered land to its lowest use, and spread blight. That would be number one.
Secondly, I would say become involved. Communities become their best when citizens are directly involved. In Genesee County every neighborhood in every community was and remains extremely important to our success.
It is my understanding that Genesee County's Land Bank operates some six programs affecting tax-reverted properties ranging from demolition, to housing renovation, rental management, and more. Among these programs, is there one that has been utilized more than others? Are any designed to be 'user-friendly'?
They are all designed to be as user-friendly as we can possibly make them. And in that regard, we are in constant improvement. We do change our programs, based on citizen input. Their input is critical.
To pick one program that has generated widespread and sustained support, I would say the Clean and Green program is particularly significant. We had 550 properties, managed by a partnership between the land bank and neighborhood-based organizations. The result is that we, the land bank, share financial resources with neighborhood organizations to support their mission. It also cleans up the property that we own and creates a new standard for the neighborhood. We are unbreakingwindows.
As a member of the Michigan Land Use Leadership Council, you were a vocal redevelopment advocate. Since the August 2003 adoption of the council's report, what do you consider to be the council's greatest achievements?
I'm very proud of the land bank statute, and the amendment to brown fields. Those are direct results from the council report with very immediate results.
In a larger sense, I would have preferred to see more progress. The council connected open space preservation, farmland preservation, and the preservation of our urban landscape. We helped people understand that those three seemingly distinct elements of our landscape are interdependent, and cannot succeed on their own.
Conversely, what are the biggest challenges to making more of the Council's recommendations reality for all of Michigan?
The biggest challenge is in helping people to understand that land use decisions are also budget decisions; they are school decisions; and they are economic decisions. The way we develop our land affects the way we deliver government services, the way we finance education, and the way we grow our economy.
I've been personally frustrated that people think the land use debate should be set aside because of the financial crises faced by state and local governments.
The point I'm trying to drive home is that we have a financial crisis because of our land use policies. We are growing the cost of government seven times faster than we are growing taxpayers to pay for it.
What resources are required to return economic vitality to Michigan's older communities, and cities in particular?
One is, if we pursue policies that value urban land and that attempt to develop that land, the resources follow. The policies of the last 30 years devalued urban land and drove away financial resources to develop strong neighborhoods.
Very often we forget we need to create an economic model that places a high value on urban land. And if we do, we develop our own resources.
Charlene Crowell, a journalist and policy specialist, is the Michigan Land Use Institute's state policy director, based in Lansing. Reach her at charlene@mlui.org


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Rugby Union Referee John Lacey ends international career at Twickenham Stadium
A Barbarians game at Twickenham is always a special fixture.
Today's match against Argentina also marked the end of an era for referee John Lacey.
The Irishman oversaw his final international test, which the Barbarians won by a drop goal in the 78th minute.
John spoke with Radio Jackie's Natalie Osborne and shared his thoughts about the match and his future in rugby:


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Massapequa Coast taps into roots at Little League World Series with home uniforms
Friday night's loss to Honolulu at the Little League World Series didn't stop Massapequa Coast from showing up to practice on Saturday with high spirits in preparation for Sunday's elimination game. Credit: Newsday/Thomas A. Ferrara
By Roger Rubinroger.rubin@newsday.com@rogrubin Updated August 21, 2022
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — For days, the Massapequa Coast Little Leaguers have been donning their newest duds, the black and orange uniforms and practice shirts that say "Metro" to signify the region championship they captured to reach the Little League World Series.
But that wasn't the clothing of choice for practice on Saturday as they regrouped from Friday night's 12-0 loss to Hawaii and prepared for an elimination game on Sunday.
Instead, they tapped into their roots.
The Long Islanders wore their home uniforms, the navy ones with "Massapequa" emblazoned across the chest and their names on the back.
"There's a little bit of significance," Massapequa Coast manager Roland Clark said. "I wanted them to put those jerseys on so when people did see us again . . . [they'd] be recognized. Our players have been [followed] since we won states and regionals, and I want that after a loss as well.
"They're walking through these walkways and past the stadium, and there's thousands of fans still here. I still want them to be recognized, and . . . hear, you know, the [encouraging] comments."
The World Series is a double-elimination tournament until the championship round, and Massapequa Coast (15-3) has been relegated to the elimination section of the United States end of the bracket. It will have to win four games to reach the U.S. championship game.
The first one will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Lamade Stadium against the winner of Saturday night's contest between Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
"We're not thinking about who we'll play," centerfielder Danny Fregara said. "We're concentrating on how we're going to play."
It's understandable that the Massapequa Coast players were feeling upset after the West Region champions held them hitless and connected for four home runs.
"We were all a little disappointed last night [Friday]," shortstop Christian Bekiers said. "Today [Saturday] we're feeling a little bit better about ourselves. I just hope that [loss] doesn't affect how we do in the rest of the tournament . . . But I think most of us have cleared our minds and are now thinking about tomorrow [Sunday]."
SEE PHOTOSPhotos: Massapequa Coast practices at LLWS
"Most of us took it fine but some were mad," second baseman Anthony Badagliacca said. "I told them, 'It's OK to take a loss because it happens to everybody, so next game come back and do really [well].' That's what I think we'll do."
In addition to Bekiers and Badagliacca, Clark said first baseman/outfielder Alex Pagano and third baseman Michael Clark delivered strong messages of inspiration to the group after the loss.
This is not the first time that Massapequa has had its backs against the wall. In the district tournament, they suffered an early loss and had to win three straight elimination games to advance to the sectionals. In overcoming that adversity, the players showed not only the depth of having eight players who can pitch but also their character.
"We've been in this situation before," Roland Clark said. "These guys really counted on each other and bonded together to win those games. They can be very impressive."
"I feel we played better because it's more intense and we have to win," Badagliacca said. "We knew we had to win or go home. I believe we're better than usual in elimination games."
Before Massapequa Coast won the Metro title, it had plans for a trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown — an itinerary that had to be scrapped for this even cooler journey.
It has been a great time to be in Willamsport for this collection of 12-year-olds, and the players would like to hang around a while longer.
"You watch it on TV and think about what it would be like and a couple years later we're here," Pagano said. "It's been more fun than I expected."
By Roger Rubin
roger.rubin@newsday.com@rogrubin
Roger Rubin returned to Newsday in 2018 to write about high schools, colleges and baseball following 20 years at the Daily News. A Baseball Hall of Fame voter since 2011, he has covered 13 MLB postseasons and 14 NCAA Final Fours.
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The following report, including photos (video to follow), is from "9500 Liberty" co-producer and Indigo Light Social Media Director Annabel Park. Note that Prince William County is a "majority minority" county which was won BIG TIME by Democrats in 2016, 2017, 2018, yet whose Board of Supervisors remains dominated (6-2) by Republicans, including Chair neo-Confederate Corey Stewart. The Board also includes Brentsville Supervisor Jeanine M. Lawson (hard-right Republican), who among other things told the child of a lesbian couple that "she believes 'children deserve a mother and a father'," and who was endorsed by extremists/anti-LGBT bigots Ken Cuccinelli and "Sideshow Bob" Marshall. So yeah, this is the "reddest" part of Prince William County, but it's also changing, which is what you can see from the following photos of the diverse crowd that looks like Prince William County. Go Maggie Hansford!
The event kicked off with an announcement that Tim Kaine has officially endorsed her campaign. Elected officials Danica Roem – Virginia Delegate, Jeremy McPike, and Hala Ayala touted Maggie as a candidate who always shows up for progressive causes, understands the issues, and works harder than anyone.
Maggie Bezy Hansford says that she is running to bring new leadership to the Prince William County of Board of Supervisors, the kind of leadership that values teamwork, facts, and planning for the future. Right now, there is a crisis in leadership on the PWC Board of County Supervisors.
She stressed that working as a speech pathologist at a hospital with trauma victims and as a speech therapist at an elementary school in Bristow, she learned how important facts, planning, and teamwork are. She wants to bring those skills and values to the Board of County Supervisors.
She believes in the power of conversations with voters to bring about change. She has had success as an activist sitting down with people including Republicans to discuss the facts and asking them to look a the whole picture and think long-term.
Her campaign goal is to knock on every door at least once having conversations. She wants to reach ALL the people in Brentsville.
She asked her audience to join her team so that she can be the voice of the people who want change in leadership in Prince William County.
Canvassing starts January 1st with Co-Canvass Event with Danica Roem.


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Edmonton woman becomes first female to win Canadian Death Race
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WATCH ABOVE: Alissa St. Laurent became the first woman to win the Canadian Death Race – a gruelling 125-kilometre ultra marathon. Lisa Wolansky has her story.
EDMONTON — She knew that if she had a good day, she'd have a successful race. On Saturday, Edmonton's Alissa St. Laurent muscled out a 125-kilometre run, beating every other solo runner.
The victory made her the first woman to win the Canadian Death Race.
"Being the first woman is great, but knowing that I had a great race is even better."
"You just kind of want to take that time to silence everything and soak it in for a few minutes," said St. Laurent.
"It's a pretty amazing feeling."
The ultra marathon takes athletes through three mountain summits in Grande Cache, Alberta and over 17,000 feet of elevation changes.
St. Laurent crossed the finish line at 13 hours and 53 minutes. That means, the 31-year-old was running an average of 10 kilometres every hour.
"I'm very competitive and I know that, I'll admit that. But that's not my intention – to just beat anyone – but to run the best race that I can," she said.
"At this point, I really just enjoy it for what it is and I just want to keep focused on that."
She finished almost 90 minutes ahead of the top male racer – another Albertan – Graham Glennie of St. Albert.
"I had done the preparation, the training was there for me. I knew that I could have a successful race if I had a good day," she said, "and I did."
St. Laurent took the top spot less than one month after she set a course record during the Sinister 7 race in the Crowsnest Pass. During that event, she ran a 161-kilometre race in just over 18 hours.
"I've gone into it pretty calm and really prepared… just in the right mindset, that it's something I can do."
"It doesn't feel like work for me. It's a passion. I can't imagine not wanting to do this."
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Q: How can I wait a while and then change variable? I have a little code using jquery and I want to wait like, 300ms and then change a variable. I tried setTimeout but it wouldn't work, it just made the variable change instantly.
setTimeout(animationWait = 0, 300);

(I defined animationWait earlier globally in the document) Basically what I'm trying to do is wait for a click to end before another click can be done. So i thought I'd set a variable and then wait 300ms,
$('#up-arrow').live('click', function(e) {

    if(animationWait == 0) {
        animationWait = 1;
        .... /* Code */
    }
}

So I need to change the animationWait back to 0 again after a delay to run the code. I've tried a bunch of stuff but it's still not working, any ideas?

A: You are not using setTimeout quite right. It must be passed either a function name or an anonymous function.
//anonymous function
setTimeout( function() { animationWait = 0 }, 300);

//or give it a function name
function change() { animationWait = 0; }
setTimeout(change, 300);

A: The parameter what you pass should be an evaluation statement. For me this works fine:
var animationWait = -1;    //Initially set the value to -1
alert(animationWait);      //alert to see the value
setTimeout("animationWait = 0", 300);    //Setting the value to 0
setTimeout("alert(animationWait)", 400);  //Alert after 400 ms

A: Have you tried using jQuery function delay() ?
A standard use case would look something like this:
$('item').delay(300).delayedEffectFunction();

Where delayedEffectFunction() is a made-up function you want to be delayed.

A: The answer to your question as asked is that setTimeout() expects the first parameter to be a function reference - either the name of a function declared elsewhere or an anonymous function. (Or a string, but for several reasons using a string is almost always the wrong solution.) Your code as is simply executes the expression animationWait = 0 and passes the result of that expression (0) to setTimeout().
So to execute your single line of code via setTimeout() I'd recommend wrapping it in an anonymous function and passing that function to setTimeout():
setTimeout(function(){ animationWait = 0; }, 300);

However, if you are doing animation with jQuery its animation methods allow you to pass a callback function to be executed when the animation ends, so you can do this type of processing there rather than independently setting your own timeout. For example, if your animation was like this:
$("#someelement").animate({someproperty:"somevalue"},
                          300);

Then you could add a callback function that will be called after this animation completes:
$("#someelement").animate(({someproperty:"somevalue"},
                          300,
                          function(){ animationWait = 0; });

To my eye this is neater than a separate setTimeout() call, but also it is easier to maintain because the duration only has to be specified in one place rather than you having to sync your own timeout to the animation.
A similar syntax applies to other jQuery methods like .fadeIn(), .hide(), etc. See the .animate() doco for more information and examples.

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GoTenna Pro meshing radio aspires to deploy next to rescue, fire and security teams
Keeping in touch when there's no communications infrastructure for one reason or another is nice for you and me, but critical for disaster response, forest fire control and military operations. GoTenna wants its new Pro device to be part of that by providing powerful, reliable, off-grid comms in a package a fraction the size and weight of existing systems.
You might remember the original goTenna, a device the size of a candy bar that connected with your phone over Bluetooth, then used walkie-talkie frequencies to let you message and exchange GPS coordinates with other goTenna-equipped phones up to a few miles away. It's a handy device for backpacking, power outages and that sort of thing — but goTenna CEO Daniela Perdomo said that it literally only took minutes after the product's announcement for more serious players to express interest.
Park rangers, firefighters, NGOs whose workers go to impoverished and war-torn areas — they all liked the idea of the goTenna as an adjunct to existing mesh radio systems made by big companies like Motorola, BAE, Lockheed and the like. These systems let you plop down a base station and then have smaller units carried around by people in the unit. Boom, an ad-hoc network only your team can access — but not only are the these devices commonly clunky, they're also expensive as hell: think a few thousand bucks a unit for basic options. The market size is in the tens of billions.
"Search and rescue, military, aid organizations… they use these things every day. It's like their primary mode of communication," Perdomo said. "But there are some out there, big NGOs even, they're priced out the market. Or sometimes you'll have coalition forces or groups that can't communicate with each other because the product they use isn't available overseas."
Those systems, it seems, are in need of a serious competitor, which Perdomo aims to give to them.
The Pro is a lot like the original goTenna, except because the original was a consumer device, it had to be limited (FCC regulations say) in certain ways: primarily the frequencies it could access and the power it could transmit with. By designing and making the Pro available to… you know, pros, the company can give the device access to a full software-defined radio stack with a range of VHF and UHF frequencies (142-175MHz and 445-480MHz if you're curious), plus a much higher transmission power (5 watts).
It's also been further ruggedized and given a fat battery that should last 60 hours or so. And because it uses the SMA standard for antennas, you can stick a monster aerial on there and get miles of range, no special base station needed. The Pro is light enough you could even stick it on a drone and increase your range even further.
One company was so excited about the Pro that they posted about it well ahead of the announcement (Perdomo didn't seem mad). You can see in Technosylva's illustration (it's for a fire response logistics system) up top that the in-mesh communications can also hop to a chopper or base station where they can be blasted out over LTE, another app or what have you, and information can come in that way too. Lots of interoperability here.
The hope is that at $500 each, these things could be bought by the dozen rather than provisioned one at a time. At that price, NGOs won't go broke, and for the military, they're practically disposable. You don't get voice communication, but text and location are what you need most of the time. Who calls anyone any more anyway?
There's a slight catch. This is FCC-approved for use only by people with licenses for the business and public safety radio bands. Unless you have said license, you're not supposed to have one of these. Now technically, you can still buy one. But operating it without a license would technically be illegal.
Forewarned is forearmed, as they say, and, with it said, it should also be said that you can now fore-order the goTenna Pro over at the company's website.


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Too Late for Love är en poplåt och musiksingel som framförs av svenska sångaren John Lundvik. Låten är skriven av John Lundvik, Anderz Wrethov och Andreas Stone Johansson. Låten handlar om att det aldrig är för sent för kärleken.

Låten vann Melodifestivalen 2019 och blev Sveriges bidrag i Eurovision Song Contest 2019.

Melodifestivalen
Lundvik framförde låten som ett tävlande bidrag i Melodifestivalen 2019. Bidraget tävlade i den fjärde deltävlingen som sändes från Sparbanken Lidköping Arena i Lidköping den 23 februari 2019. Där fick låten flest poäng och tog sig till final. Finalen sändes från Friends Arena i Solna den 9 mars 2019. I finalens omröstning fick bidraget högsta poäng (12 poäng) från samtliga jurygrupper samt därtill 14 % av tittarrösterna och vann tävlingen med 181 poäng, framför andraplacerade "On My Own", framförd av Bishara, på 107 poäng.

Detta var Lundviks andra Melodifestivalbidrag som tävlande artist, efter "My Turn", som kom på tredje plats i Melodifestivalen 2018.

I Eurovision Song Contest, som sändes från Tel Aviv i Israel, tävlade bidraget som Sveriges representant i den andra semifinalen den 16 maj. Där fick Sverige tredje högsta poäng i de sammanslagna röstsiffrorna mellan jurygrupper och tittarröster. I finalen, som sändes lördag 18 maj, presenterades först jurygruppernas röster och efter den omröstningen låg Sverige i topp. När sedan tittarrösterna presenterades fick det svenska bidraget nionde högsta poängen, vilket räckte till en sjätteplats. Efter finalen rapporterades att Vitrysslands jurygrupp redovisat sina siffror fel, vilket ledde till att Sveriges slutplacering ändrades till femte plats. Om siffrorna hade presenterats korrekt i sändningen, hade Sverige legat på andra plats efter juryrösterna.

Kvartetten The Mamas körade bakom John Lundvik under alla hans framträdanden i Melodifestivalen och Eurovision Song Contest.

Övriga framträdanden
John Lundvik har framfört "Too Late for Love" live i TV-programmen Allsång på Skansen, Nyhetsmorgon, Lotta på Liseberg, Bingolotto och Världens barn-galan samt under Diggilooturnén 2019.

Listplaceringar
Låten placerade sig på tredjeplats på Sverigetopplistan under sin första vecka.

Tävlingsplaceringar

Referenser

Musiksinglar 2019
Melodifestivalbidrag 2019
Sånger 2019
Engelskspråkiga sånger
Bidrag till Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Sveriges bidrag i Eurovision Song Contest


Our Biscuit Wreath Dip Wins Holiday Party M.V.P.
Guaranteed your guests will fight over this dip or your money back.
Dips are always the best guests of any party—and this one with a wreath made out of biscuits is no exception. It's dippers and dip built into one blissfully cheesy skillet bake. And the best part? You're not making any biscuits from scratch; refrigerated ones (like Pillsbury) will do the trick—and happen to be a huge party pleaser.
We filled the center with a three cheese dip of ricotta, Parm, and mozzarella, but you can make a baked wreath dip with any filling you want. The key is to make sure the dip doesn't have too much moisture; otherwise, it will leach under the biscuits and make them soggy, which is a huge party foul.
All you do is make a ring of rolled biscuits around a skillet, brush them with olive oil and sprinkle with Parm, fill the center with dip, and bake until nice and bubbly. Then watch your friends turn into complete animals as they fight over who gets the last bite. This is an app that will not be sticking around for leftovers.


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A. Team Badger is a coalition of organisations who have teamed up to fight the planned cull of badgers. The coalition consists of the RSPCA, League Against Cruel Sports, Humane Society International/UK, Save Me, Stroud 100, Gloucestershire Against Badger Shooting, Animal Aid, Network for Animals, IFAW, David Shepherd foundation, Conservatives against the Badger Cull, Born Free and Peta and is growing daily. We are united in our opposition to government plans to cull badgers in a misguided attempt to control the spread of bovineTB. If the badger cull does go ahead as planned at least 70% of the badger population in large areas of the country will be killed, many of them healthy. We simply cannot let that happen.
A. A scientifically robust trial of badger culling was undertaken which took nearly a decade, cost approx £50 million and the lives of 11,000 badgers. Following careful evaluation of the results, and information from other areas, the Independent Scientific Group concluded 'badger culling can make no meaningful contribution to cattle TB control in Britain', and indeed, suggests that such action could even make things worse in some areas. Even Defra's own advisory body Natural England, has said that it has little confidence in the cull delivering the predicted benefits long term. We believe that a cull of badgers will not eradicate TB in cattle in the long term and could virtually wipe out badgers in some areas in the process.
A. This cull will contribute little or nothing to the long-term goal of eradicating TB nationally. We believe that vaccination of cattle and/or badgers, increased levels of testing, improved biosecurity and stricter controls on the movement of cattle are better ways of eradicating bovine TB for good. Our opposition to a badger cull is based on solid science, not sentiment.
A. There will initially be pilot culls in two areas of England in West Somerset and West Gloucestershire though the exact parameters of the culls will not be made public. These 'pilots' are supposedly designed to assess the effectiveness and humaneness of culling badgers by free shooting. Importantly, they will not assess the effectiveness of culling as a control of the spread of the disease.
The culls will be paid for and undertaken by or on behalf of farmers who have been invited to put in an application for a licence to free shoot badgers to Natural England, the body who will assess against certain criteria. It is currently unclear how badger wounding rates will be assessed and monitored.
A. The humaneness of using the free shooting method is of grave concern to the group. If a cull is to be carried out, we believe it should be done in the most humane way possible. Because of their anatomy it is potentially more difficult to free shoot a badger in a quick humane way than, say a fox or a deer. This means there may be a high risk of wounding badgers instead of killing them outright, resulting in a slow, painful death for the animals. It is currently unclear how wounding rates will be assessed and monitored.
A. The Welsh government, using the same scientific evidence as Defra, has begun a five year vaccination programme of badgers in Wales with a scheme currently underway parts of Pembrokeshire.
Over 700 badgers have been vaccinated since the programme began this year and they are just over the half-way mark in terms of the amount of land they must cover. They are on track to finish this year's part of the programme towards the end of October.
We applaud the Welsh Government's decision to vaccinate badgers. Badger vaccination has already been shown to significantly reduce the prevalence and severity of disease in the badger population and could reduce the potential for transmission of TB from badgers to cattle.
Q. WHAT'S THE COALITION'S POSITION ON THE GASSING OF BADGERS AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO FREE SHOOTING?
We are opposed to the gassing of badgers for any reason due to the unnecessary suffering caused. Gassing badger setts with hydrogen cyanide was stopped in 1982 because research showed that it was inhumane. The gassing of badgers in their setts is not regarded as an acceptable method of killing them. Main badger setts have been recorded with up to 80 entrances so it is extremely difficult to ensuring the correct concentration of gas throughout the sett, using the methods of delivery and gas combinations that are currently available.
A. Team Badger only uses peaceful and lawful tactics to further its objectives to stop the planned badger cull from going ahead. The campaign does not endorse, nor is it involved with criminal or anti-social acts by those either for or against a badger cull.
A. The charities and organisations involved with this campaign work with politicians from all legal political parties, conventions and organisations to develop and improve animal welfare, in this case badgers. We do this both at different levels of government and directly with individuals and will continue to do so. Team Badger and its members and charities operate on a non-party-political basis and does not endorse any political party, their politicians, or their policies. Nor do we accept any donations (whether purely financial or for services) from any political party or their representatives, including for political PR purposes.


Okay, so just a starting disclaimer: I manually went through the parts lists for every frame in VitorFaria's 2017 frame compilation as of writing this to obtain the information used in this, and as it was a manual and individual effort, some data might be slightly off due to miscounts or typos on my part. Additionally, variant pieces that may have been used are not always separated, and in the case of 2x2 round tiles, of which there are two variants, I only counted it as one variant if it needed to be that variant; there is no actual way to tell which it is as the pictures only show the tops which are identical.
Parts averaging .09 and under have been omitted, as they occupy a minute percentage of overall parts used and are often only used in one or two frames, usually as unique decorative pieces.
In the end its up to you, but if you're looking to start building frames from a small or limited collection of Lego, or even none at all, this should give you an idea of the most often used parts and the amount that tends to be used. That said, it's not a definitive "buy these exact parts in these exact numbers," but more of a "these are popular parts to use, and likely for a good reason; perhaps they would be good parts to buy a number of to work with." In the end, exact parts use is always up to the preference of the individual, and the style they prefer to build in, but the top 15 most used parts alone should provide a decent base for creating your own frames.
That said, don't be restricted by just the highest numbers! Take a look through the links, look at the different kinds of parts used, and get some ideas on how to put them to use! While the most used is a good base, it's also going to be far better with some less used parts to experiment with or with which to make unique shapes.
What if I can't get everything I want to build the awesome stuff in the compilation or a design of my own from one seller?
This is a rather understandable problem, as trying to work with different minimum buy values and shipping costs can drive the price up far faster than one may be comfortable with. That said, it's not the end of the world! There's always different ways to approach things, and parts can always be substituted somewhere. It may not be exactly the same, but that's what makes it your own! Take a look through these parts and seller inventories and see if there's another part that can accomplish the same thing or something similar. Sometimes you may even have to reconstruct entire portions of things from scratch, resulting in a similar looking frame with wildly different construction- but again, that's what makes your frames unique to you!
When do part variants matter?
Sometimes they don't, but sometimes they make all the difference! 1x2 jumpers are an excellent example; older ones have a center pin on the underside, while many newer ones have a set of teeth on the underside allowing it to fit two studs or a single one in the center. If you're trying to center a jumper on a stud with a hole, either will work without issue, but if there's no hole only the newer jumper will work! Another example is vertical clip plates. Most of the time you'll see them with a thick clip, which is all great and good, but what if you need it to clip in a very tight space? There do exist thin clip plates! They're not as common, but with some hunting around you'll be able to find them without issue. In the end, part variants only matter if you need them to matter- if you design something to specifically use a variant you'll need it, but otherwise any variant should do the job.
I can't really stress enough how amazing and important this work is, it really blew my mind when I first heard of it, and I'm sure it will be infinitely helpful for everyone!
Wow, this must have been a HUGE undertaking Valtarshol. No doubt this will become extremely useful to both seasoned players and beginners alike. Let me say THANK YOU for all that you have done.
VitorFaria wrote: I can't really stress enough how amazing and important this work is, it really blew my mind when I first heard of it, and I'm sure it will be infinitely helpful for everyone!
Yeah, I'm both surprised no one seems to have done done something like this and, having now done it myself, not surprised in the slightest. I definitely hope it'll be of use!
Artasid wrote: Wow, this must have been a HUGE undertaking Valtarshol. No doubt this will become extremely useful to both seasoned players and beginners alike. Let me say THANK YOU for all that you have done.
No problem, and thank you! With the recent influx of a couple "what should I buy" threads it seemed like something that was needed. Honestly the biggest hurdles for it were compiling bricklink links for every single part in the compilation and formatting all of this list for the hangar. A looot of copy paste involved there.
Do you have a spreadsheet or similar you were working out of?
Thinking of min-maxing... minimum number of parts needed to build max number of frames from the library.
So instead of average number of times a part is used in the frames, what is the most times it shows up in any frame?
Thanks! I just have it as a text document, I basically listed every new part as it was used and tallied the two numbers as I went through the frames. So unfortunately, I don't actually have a max used in one frame, though if I did it would be a little bit skewed - the Blood Brother comes to mind, it uses more 1x1 round plates than anything else in the compilation, and I think same goes for tile clips. It bumped the averages for both way up, though it's less noticeable for the clips since I split them between "o" clip and "u" clip; that said, without it in the compilation the "o" tile clips would be far lower in number, and so would the average used per frame.