The second book in the Storyteller Series, "The Quest of Galamar", continues the tale of Lily Lightfoot and her friends Peter Everheart and Heather Whipple. Now that they've found their way into the True World, the friends must rely on the help of Lord Gabriel, an enchanted elf, now a manticore, to find Lily's captured grandmother, Gwendolyn.
Gabriel sends the three friends to find the full moon amulet, hidden deep in the mountains and guarded by a fierce dragon. The amulet, one of four moonstones created ages ago by the fabled elf warrior Galamar, holds the power of the Northern Portal keeper, Ironblood the dragon. Whoever possesses all four amulets has the power to recreate or destroy the True World. Gabriel's brother, Lord Kane, will stop at nothing to have the ancient powers for himself and keep Lily from fulfilling the Prophecy of Galamar.
On their epic journey, Lily learns more about magic, friendship, the power of forgiveness and finding the strength we all possess inside.
The story of Lily Lightfoot continues in The Quest of Galamar, the second book in the Storyteller series. I previously reviewed The True World, the first book in the series.
Lily Lightfoot has a special gift – she can make stories come true. This gift brought her into trouble more than once though, and because of it, she's now in the True World, a fantastical, magical place filled with all kinds of enchanitng, but sometimes dangerous and threatening, creatures. She's looking for her grandmother, Gwendolyn, who got kidnapped into this world. Her best friend Peter came along, and unfortunately, so did Heather, who isn't exactly on Lily's friend list. Heather used every opportunity she got at school to bully Lily, but maybe this trip will change that.
Now they're in the True World, the adventure can start for real. They team up with a elf turned manticore, Gabriel, who happens to be the brother of the evil overlord who wants to destroy them, Lord Kane. Gabriel takes the three kids on a journey to find the full moon amulet, a powerful amulet that's hidden deep in the mountains and protected by a dragon. It's one of the four amulets needed to recreate or destroy the True World and whatever happens, Lord Kane can't get his hands on it, no matter what.
I loved Lily and Peter in this adventure. They've grown a little, matured a little, since the first book, especially Lily. They have an unique, caring friendship that I found very charming. Even Heather has some endaring qualities here, although I continue to dislike her for how she treats Lily some of the time.
The characters may be loveable, but it's the fast-paced plot and thrilling adventure that urges the book forward. I loved the True World, which is described well and sufficiently detailed to picture it, and the many creatures inhabiting it. There was always something new right around the corner, and when you thought the story would go one way, it twisted into another direction.
A great fantasy read. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll get started on the third book in this series.
So glad you enjoyed it 🙂 Thank you!


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Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Ray McCann
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These police were willing to sacrifice one of their own just to close a case.
Laura and Steve tell us the story of a Michigan murder case with an unusual suspect: a small-town police officer named Ray McCann. After Ray helped investigate the disappearance of a little girl, he was wrongfully accused of her murder. In pursuit of their only suspect, police turned Ray's whole life into an interrogation room.
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Laura Nirider Welcome to Wrongful C onviction: False Confessions. I'm Laura Nirider.
Steve Drizin And I'm Steve Drizin.
Laura Nirider Today we'll tell you about a Michigan murder case with an unusual suspect: a small-town police officer named Ray McCann. After Ray helped investigate the disappearance of a little girl, he was wrongfully accused of her murder. Cops turned on one of their own in one of the worst cases of tunnel vision we've seen. In pursuit of their only suspect, police turned Ray's whole life into an interrogation room.
Steve Drizin One of the things we've tried to do this season is to show that you don't need a full confession in order to bring charges against somebody. A false admission that implicates you in the crime or a false statement of fact, a lie in this case, could bring the weight of the system down against an innocent person. And all of that stems from what happens in the interrogation room.
Laura Nirider Police have so much power over what you say in the interrogation room and the way in which what you say can be used against you in courts. It's that power and the misuse of that power; that's what Ray McCann's case is all about.
Steve Drizin We've seen tunnel vision in other cases, but I've never seen tunnel vision that was this extreme, this long-standing, and that included coercion both in and outside of the interrogation room.
Laura Nirider You have the police officers lying, right? The police officers don't get charged. It's Ray who gets charged. I mean, this is asymmetric warfare.
Steve Drizin Right. And becomes even more asymmetrical when they charge him with perjury. Ray McCann, a reserve police officer who... All he wanted to do was assist police. All he wanted to do was to be a police officer. They ran him over like a truck.
Laura Nirider Today's story starts in Constantine, Michigan, a small town of 2,000 people in the southern corner of the state. Constantine is an old-fashioned dairy farming community, the kind of place that looks like time stopped a half-century ago. The town's historic main street is lined with shops that have been kept immaculate for decades. Annual events like the Car Show and BBQ Cook-off are marked on everyone's calendar. But in the autumn of 2007, this Michigan town was hit by a crime that no one could have expected. It was November 8th, 4:45 in the afternoon, only an hour before sunset. Eleven-year-old Jodi Parrack left her friend's house on her bike and headed for dinner at home a half mile away. But when Jodi didn't arrive on time, her mom called the police and word spread fast. As the sun went down and temperatures plummeted, too, it seemed like the whole town was out searching for Jodi. Joining the search was Ray McCann, a 40-year-old family man born and raised in Constantine. Ray was a reserve police officer who hoped, one day, to join the Michigan State Police. He wasn't a full-fledged cop, but he was allowed to carry a badge and do basic police work, like making traffic stops and searching for missing people. In this particular missing person case, Ray's son was good friends with Jodi, so Ray didn't have to be asked twice to help look for her. Along with many of his neighbors, Ray threw on a coat and went out to look for Jodi. He searched high and low, at the baseball field, at the Dollar General, even at a local riverside walking trail called the Tumble Dam Path. Others searched elsewhere, but no luck for anyone. No Jodi. Around 10:30 at night, Ray met up with Jodi's mom to talk about where they should look next. That's when Ray McCann asked if anyone had searched the cemetery. No one had. So Jodi's mom headed that way, followed by Ray in another car. The cemetery is where they found Jodi. She'd been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. Her bike was lying next to her on the ground. Jodi's mom bent down, tried to embrace her daughter's body, but Ray knew this was a crime scene that shouldn't be disturbed. He gently guided her away from Jodi's body and sat her down in her car. The police arrived quickly at the scene, but as they hunted for leads, they locked almost immediately onto Ray McCann as a suspect because Ray had been the person who suggested searching the cemetery. Based on that coincidence, police questioned Ray that night. He adamantly denied involvement in this horrible crime. Somehow, though, Reserve Officer Ray McCann became the sole suspect, the only person police focused on for the next five years.
Steve Drizin When someone discovers a body, they're going to be a person of interest in a police investigation because of their proximity to the crime. It's a basis for wanting to question somebody about what they were doing on the evening in question, but they focused on him as the sole and exclusive suspect, and they did so because they grew desperate. This is a crime that is absolutely devastating to this community. And police did everything in their power to close that vise on Ray.
Laura Nirider Now, it's not like there is any evidence against Ray. Police compared Ray's DNA to the DNA left on Jodi's body, but it didn't match. No physical evidence implicated him, and no eyewitnesses had identified him. But as Jodi's murder sat unsolved for years, pressure escalated on the authorities to come up with a culprit. After a new police chief was elected in 2010, new investigators were assigned to the case, and they immediately doubled down on prime suspect Ray McCann. Over the next few years, police interrogated Ray more than 20 times. Again and again, police asked him to describe what he did on the night of Jodi's disappearance, where he searched, who he talked to. During these interrogations, police gradually but relentlessly upped the ante. "The evidence against you is insurmountable," they told him.
Interrogator We know scientifically that you touched her body.
Ray McCann Oh God. No, I did not. And your people, whatever, can think that-
Interrogator It's not a thinking matter. It's proven.
Laura Nirider Now, that was a lie. But these kinds of lies can be extremely coercive; even on a cop, even on someone like Ray McCann.
Ray McCann You guys can do all your talking, talking, talking, talking. Well, you know what? I did my job that night. I wish I knew what happened to her because then I guess we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Steve Drizin The way they questioned Ray was for one purpose and one purpose only: to get him to give them information that they could use to charge him with this crime.
Laura Nirider And Ray called them out about that, too.
Steve Drizin Over and over again.
Ray McCann I don't know what you're trying to do. Get me to confess to something I didn't have no part of? And now, you guys are doing it again.
Laura Nirider That's the thing. He knew exactly what they were doing. He's a cop.
Steve Drizin You want me to admit to something I didn't do? I'm not going to do it.
Ray McCann You want a confession that I can't give you. I didn't find her, didn't put her there, didn't kill her. I didn't!
Laura Nirider But the more Ray insisted on his innocence, the more police became obsessed with proving him guilty. Here's the really twisted thing: Their obsession began to spread beyond the interrogation room. They blamed Ray for Jodi's death in the local media, ruining his reputation, and they viciously attacked his personal life. Police tracked down Ray's friends and relatives and worked to turn them against him. Police told Ray's family that physical evidence, DNA, proved he had killed Jodi, even though that wasn't true. And they went even further. For no clear reason, they told Ray's wife that he'd been unfaithful. They falsely told Ray's teenage son, the one who'd been friends with Jodi when he was younger, that his dad was a drug addict. They also told the boy that his dad was visiting online chat rooms; the worst kind, I guess, that these cops could imagine. Just listen to this.
Interrogator The computer shows activity in a chat room regularly of gay nature, homosexual behavior, talking about how this man-on-man sexual encounter is going to go and then how it did go.
Ray's son There's been no signs of any of that personally for me; that I haven't seen anything like that.
Interrogator OK. Is there any part of you at all that questions your dad's sexuality?
Ray's son Well, if what you're saying is absolutely honest to God true-
Interrogator I can tell you that I... It's your computer. I took it off of there.
Ray's son Yeah. Then, yeah, of course it's going to make me question it.
Laura Nirider None of this was "honest to God true." The cops were lying again, and that's bad enough. But the fact that they equated visiting gay chat rooms with raping and killing an 11-year-old girl... I'm sorry, but that's beyond offensive. In any event, until Ray confessed, police were hell-bent on taking his life apart, piece by piece. And I guess this cop thought that telling Ray's teenage son that his dad was gay would be a good way to accomplish that.
Steve Drizin Their purpose was to make life for Ray McCann in Constantine, Michigan, unendurable; to make his life so miserable and so painful that they could bring him to a place where he could confess to killing Jodi Parrack.
Laura Nirider Despite all this, years go by and Ray doesn't confess. Finally, the cops had to plan. They'll file charges against Ray and see if that gets him to admit guilt. An officer is caught saying as much during a taped interview with Ray's wife. " He's going to have to be charged," the officer says. "He'll get so scared he'll talk. It may just come to that."
Steve Drizin At a certain point in time, they should have realized that Ray had nothing to do with this. And there were all kinds of reasons for them to believe that, beginning with the DNA evidence. But they didn't care one bit about Ray. This was the first time that I had seen tunnel vision so take over law enforcement officers that they were willing to sacrifice the life of another officer to close a case.
Laura Nirider Now, the police didn't have any evidence against Ray that would allow them to charge him with murder, so they came up with a different plan and different charges. In 2012, police served Ray McCann with an investigative subpoena requiring him to answer questions yet again about the night Jodi disappeared five years earlier. Because of the subpoena, though, this time Ray had to give answers under oath.
Steve Drizin Ray did bring a lawyer with him. By this point in time, Ray's reputation in the community was so damaged, so tarnished, he couldn't go anywhere without people looking at him as if he had killed Jodi Parrack. So the lawyer advised him to go in and talk to the authorities as a way to maybe put an end to this.
Laura Nirider The police's subpoena strategy worked, it did put an end to the harassment, but not the end Ray had hoped for. After the interview on July 17, 2014, prosecutors accused Ray McCann of lying under oath and charged him with five counts of perjury. He was arrested and thrown into the local jail. So did Ray McCann lie under oath? Four of the five perjury charges were based on incredibly minor inconsistencies between the details Ray remembered about the night Jodi died five years earlier and the details that other people remembered.
Ken Kolker You know, what stands out to me in this story is how a completely innocent man, who is just out trying to help, got caught up in this web of lies that was spun by the detectives. It's unbelievable that that could have happened and frightening.
Laura Nirider That's Ken Kolker, a journalist based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He's been covering Ray McCann's case for years.
Ken Kolker I'm an investigative reporter, so my job is to just sniff around and look for things that seem wrong. You know, the perjury charges seem totally unfounded. I mean, if somebody asked me what I had for lunch, I might say Taco Bell, but maybe it wasn't. And is that really a lie?
Laura Nirider Here is one example of what Ray was charged with. Under oath, R ay McCann said that at one point while he was searching, he saw Jodi's mom with a blond-haired kid, and he thought Jodi had been found. He testified that he said to Jodi's mom, "Oh, good, you found her." Now, everyone agreed that a local seventh grader with blond hair named Katie was with Jodi's mom during the search. But Jodi's mom couldn't remember whether five years earlier, Ray had said, "Oh, good, you found her." One of these perjury charges was based on this so-called discrepancy. Here's another example. Police told Ray they found his DNA on Jodi's body, even though that was a lie. In a desperate attempt to provide some explanation, Ray made a guess. He thought back to the moment he and Jodi's mom discovered her little girl's body. He remembered guiding Jodi's mom away and helping her sit down in her car. Maybe, sometime later, the mother had been grieving over her daughter's body, he said; maybe his DNA had been transferred from Jodi's mom to the little girl. But five years after the fact, Jodi's mom didn't remember Ray pulling her away or taking her to the car or much of anything else from that terrible moment. So the cops charged Ray with another count of perjury.
Ken Kolker What's interesting is that Ray McCann was a reserve police officer and for some reason they turned on him. That's the suspect they're focused on. So they're just hammering and hammering and telling him far more lies than they claim he told them.
Steve Drizin Ray's history as a police officer may have offered him some protection against a false confession, but it couldn't protect him against another weapon in the police officer's arsenal: the weapon of perjury. In Ray's case, they turned a series of inconsistencies in his statements over a five-year period into perjurious lies. The penalties for perjury in Michigan are extreme, and they charged him with five counts of perjury.
Ken Kolker So under investigative subpoena, especially in a murder case, telling a lie to police is actually punishable by up to life in prison. The punishment is as bad as if you committed the crime.
Laura Nirider Four of those five charges were based on ridiculous inconsistencies like the ones we've talked about. The fifth charge, though, was different. The fifth charge was based on Ray's sworn statement that he'd searched for Jodi near that riverside walking trail, the Tumble Dam Path.
Ken Kolker They claimed, well, that's a lie because we've got video showing that nobody went to the Tumble Dam that time of night. We don't see your car. We don't see your headlights, or whatever. There was a video camera on this nearby creamery that supposedly was aimed right at the Tumble Dam. And the "lie" that they got him on was the fact that he said he was at the Tumble Dam, but the surveillance video proved he wasn't there.
Laura Nirider Police claimed that video proved Ray was lying. In fact, an officer even took the stand at Ray's first court hearing and swore that this video proved Ray had committed perjury. For his part, Ray couldn't figure it out. He knew he'd gone to the Tumble Dam Path that night to search for Jodi, but his trial approached and five possible life sentences loomed. Ray finally broke. He didn't confess to killing Jodi. Instead, on March 20, 2015, he pled no contest to that fifth perjury charge.
Steve Drizin A no contest plea is an admission that the state has sufficient evidence against you to convict you. So as a matter of law, it's treated within the system, just as any other guilty plea would be treated.
Laura Nirider For that plea of no contest to perjury, Ray received a sentence of 20 months in prison. In exchange, the state dropped the other four charges. They hadn't gotten Ray for murder, but they'd gotten him for something. And I guess that was good enough. Fast forward five months, after Ray entered his plea, to August 2015. Ray was in prison serving his perjury sentence and every day was horrific.
Ken Kolker He was a suspected child rapist and killer. And he talked about, you know, what other prisoners do to child rapists and killers... He got dragged off of his bunk one night, got smashed over the head with what he thinks was a padlock, and somebody tried to gouge his eyes out. I mean, that's what happened to this poor guy in prison.
Laura Nirider While Ray suffered, there was a development. A man named Daniel Furlong, who lived one town over from Constantine, lured a 10-year-old girl into his garage and attacked her. She escaped, thank God, and was able to lead police to Furlong's door. They arrested him and took his DNA. And what did it match? The DNA left eight years earlier on Jodi Parrack's body. Police questioned Daniel Furlong on October 18, 2015, and he admitted that he'd raped and killed Jodi. Furlong used to live in Constantine a few blocks away from the Parrack family. When he saw Jodi riding by on her bike, he lured her into his garage just like the other girl. That's where he assaulted and killed Jodi, and he did it all alone. Furlong told investigators he didn't know Ray McCann.
Ken Kolker We saw the videotape of police interviewing Daniel Furlong, and they were a lot nicer to him than they were to Ray McCann. They asked Furlong, "So what did you think when you saw that in a newspaper that they were focusing on Ray McCann?" And he thought, "Well, I'm in the clear."
Steve Drizin So in other words, the fact that the police had pursued this wrongful prosecution of Ray made Furlong feel enough comfort to strike again. And that blew me away.
Laura Nirider It was crystal clear: Ray McCann was never involved in Jodi's disappearance. All he did was try to help a distraught mom find her missing kid. The police's suspicions about Ray had been wrong from the start. In November 2015, Daniel Furlong pled guilty to killing Jodi Parrack by himself and received a sentence of 30 to 60 years. But the state wasn't ready to exonerate Ray McCann. Not yet. Ray had been convicted of perjury, and the state insisted that even if Ray hadn't committed murder, he had still lied under oath.
Ken Kolker I started in this case because we were doing stories about the real killer who confessed and was getting sentenced to prison, and nobody was talking about what happened to Ray McCann. It's like, well, what about this guy who had nothing to do with it?
Laura Nirider In December 2015, Ray was paroled from a Michigan prison after serving his sentence, he was still a convicted felon, a perjurer in the eyes of the law. It was right around that time that his case came across Steve's desk.
Steve Drizin Ray had been out of prison for a few months. He was having a hard time reintegrating back in the community. The police officers were still suggesting to the general public that he knew things about this crime, and he had spent 20 months locked up for something he didn't do. Thank God for Ken Kolker for taking the interest to tell this story about Ray, because if it wasn't for him, I never would have known about the case.
Ken Kolker I'd seen the work done by the Center for Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern. And I just reached out to Steve and said, "Here's an interesting case."
Steve Drizin I was so angry at what these law enforcement officers had done to Ray. And so I called up the Michigan Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School, and I said, "Will you work on this case with me?"
Laura Nirider The legal team's task was to prove Ray innocent of the only perjury charge he'd been convicted of. That was the charge where the police had sworn, under oath, that they had a surveillance tape showing the Tumble Dam Path; a video that they said proved Ray had lied about going there to search for Jodi. Well, Ken Kolker got ahold of a copy of that videotape.
Ken Kolker I remember going down to Ray McCann's home and meeting Steven Drizin down there. Yeah, that was like a... Could have been a scene in a movie, actually, standing around this dining room table with my laptop open, watching this video that would eventually lead to Ray McCann's case being dismissed.
Steve Drizin What we saw was that you couldn't see anything from the camera footage. It was simply too dark to make out what kinds of cars were on the street, whether there were any people on the street.
Laura Nirider You couldn't see the Tumble Dam Path at all, let alone who was walking on it. So the legal team actually went to the creamery, the business that had taken the surveillance video and looked at their security camera. The creamery owner assured them that the camera hadn't been moved since the night of Jodi's disappearance.
Ken Kolker The video camera wasn't even aimed at the dam. The surveillance camera that they claimed showed he wasn't there was aimed elsewhere. I wish I had been the one that noticed that.
Steve Drizin Under no circumstances could the creamery camera footage have proven that Ray was not at the Tumble Dam Path.
Laura Nirider The whole damn thing was made up.
Steve Drizin It was a lie. The video was essentially worthless as evidence.
Laura Nirider This video certainly didn't prove that Ray McCann had lied under oath. Instead, what it proved was that the police were the ones who had lied in order to convict him.
Steve Drizin Ray's wish had come true. He needed to have some kind of evidence to demonstrate that he didn't lie at all, but that the police officers were lying. And that camera footage proved it.
Laura Nirider Based on that video, Ray's attorneys filed a motion for relief. And on December 7, 2017, the court threw out Ray's perjury conviction. Ray McCann was innocent of the murder and innocent of perjury. He was exonerated.
Ken Kolker The prosecutor decided not to fight it and to allow the judge to dismiss the case. And I just felt great for Ray. I mean, you can't take away the 20 months that he spent in prison, but, you know, at least he was able to clear his name.
Laura Nirider That was the end of Ray McCann's legal ordeal. But what happened to the officers who lied to convict him? OK, Steve, so I'm really hoping you're going to tell us that after Ray was exonerated, these cops were tried for perjury.
Steve Drizin I wish I could tell you that, but nothing has happened to these police officers. The prosecutor eventually ended up losing in his next election, but these police officers have never faced any consequences.
Laura Nirider They were the ones who lied, not Ray. They were the ones who should have gone down for perjury.
Steve Drizin That's the ultimate irony here.
Laura Nirider And what about Ray McCann? What's life like for him now? In many ways, it's still really hard.
Ken Kolker I mean, they took a lot away from this guy. He barely talks to one of his sons. His wife divorced him. He missed the birth of a grandchild. I'm sure there are people in that town who still think Ray McCann had something to do with it. And so, you know, his name is, in some people's eyes, is still mud in Constantine.
Laura Nirider The only thing Ray McCann ever wanted was to find the killer of Jodi Parrack. And that's been accomplished. Now, Ray's free to put his life back together as best he can.
Steve Drizin Ray?
Ray McCann Yeah.
Steve Drizin Oh.
Laura Nirider Hey, Ray, it's Laura. How are you?
Ray McCann Doing pretty good.
Laura Nirider So you're living up north in Michigan. You got snow on the ground yet?
Ray McCann Yeah, actually, we just got some yesterday. I went to go cut some wood and stuff and all of a sudden it started coming down.
Laura Nirider Tell me about your wife, Ray. I'm delighted to hear that you're married.
Ray McCann Yeah, we got married on April 12th, actually on my dad's birthday, in 2018.
Laura Nirider Well, that's a beautiful way to honor your dad. How did you meet your wife?
Ray McCann We worked together. She caught my eye right away.
Steve Drizin You must have caught her eye, too.
Ray McCann Yeah, I must have done something right. We were actually in southwest Michigan there for a while, and we made a decision to start a new life somewhere else because it just, you know, it was hard for me. It's been going a lot better since we made the move up here. It really has. I struggle at times. You know, I admit that. I go through a lot of depression. My wife knows I go through that, and she is there for me. I am so thankful for my daughter, Ashley. She was with me the whole time this was going on and still lives with me. And I just love, you know, the grandkids. They keep you busy, that's for sure.
Laura Nirider You're a good man, Ray, and a survivor. Steve and I are with you all the way.
Steve Drizin One of the jobs that we as innocence lawyers have is to try to tell the story of our clients in a way that can bring them back some measure of their reputation; to tell the story in a way that makes it abundantly clear that Ray McCann is innocent.
Laura Nirider We can't undo the trauma that Ray experienced, but at least we can establish that he never committed the crime he was accused of. In fact, a crime was committed against him.
Steve Drizin One of the arguments against allowing police officers to lie during interrogations is that it creates a culture in which lying is acceptable; not only during interrogations, but when police officers come into court and testify about cases. And that may very well have been what happened here.
Laura Nirider You're allowed to lie to get a confession. Why not lie to get a conviction?
Steve Drizin It's one of the strongest arguments for banning deception during police interrogations.
Laura Nirider When you allow police to lie, that sends a message that truthfulness is not essential to the task of enforcing the law. And of course it is. It's vital. And that's the story of Ray McCann. Join us next week when we take you to Ada, Oklahoma, to tell you about Tommy Ward. After detectives learned about a strange dream he had, Tommy was accused of a local woman's murder and found himself on death row. Tommy remains behind bars to this day, but a team of lawyers, including our Center on Wrongful Convictions, is fighting to end Tommy's nightmare. Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts, in association with Signal Co. No1. Special thanks to our executive producers Jason Flom and Kevin Wortis. Our production team is headed by senior producer Anne Pope, along with producers Jaji Hammer and Jess Shane. Our show is mixed by Jeanne Montalvo. John Colbert is our intrepid intern. Our music was composed by J. Ralph. You can follow me on Instagram or Twitter @LauraNirider.
Steve Drizin And you can follow me on Twitter @SDrizin.

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SCORPIONS: Pro-Shot Video Of Entire ROCK IN RIO Performance
Professionally filmed video footage of SCORPIONS' entire October 4 performance at the Rock In Rio festival in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil can be seen below. The band's setlist was as follows: 01. Intro 02. Going Out With A Bang 03. Make It Real 04. The Zoo 05. Coast To Coast 06. Top Of The Bill ...
NILE: Lyric Video For 'Vile Nilotic Rites' Title Track
Technical death metal veterans NILE will release their ninth studio album, "Vile Nilotic Rites", on November 1 via Nuclear Blast. The official lyric video for the disc's second single, the album's title track, can be seen below. Karl Sanders commented: "'Vile Nilotic Rites' was a depraved yet fun song to write and record. Now that ...
KREATOR Plays First Show With Ex-DRAGONFORCE Bassist FRÉDÉRIC LECLERCQ (Video)
German thrash metal veterans KREATOR played their first show with their new bass player, Frédéric Leclercq, Saturday night (October 5) in Santiago, Chile. Earlier on Saturday, Leclercq tweeted: "First show with @kreator in a few hours. It's a very important day for me, my career, but also for the band and for the fans. A ...
METALLICA: Countdown Clock On Mysterious Web Site To Hit Zero On Thursday
METALLICA's social media has been updated with a link to the Metallicaxx.com web site featuring a countdown clock that is scheduled to hit zero Thursday (October 10) at 12:00 p.m. PT. Although no official information has been made available, fans are speculating that the band is preparing to announce some kind ...
TOBIAS FORGE On Why 'Nameless Ghouls' Won't Play On GHOST's Next Album: 'If I'm Not Asking Everyone, Then I Don't Want To Ask Anyone'
GHOST vocalist Tobias Forge recently spoke with Mark Strigl of the "Talking Metal" podcast. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On whether to expect additional GHOST songs featuring vocals by Papa Nihil, who is credited on the group's two newly released tracks ...
Watch VINCE NEIL Perform MÖTLEY CRÜE Classics In Englewood, New Jersey
Fan-filmed video footage of Vince Neil's October 3 performance at Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey can be seen below (courtesy of YouTube user "asaf barlev"). Neil is continuing to tour the world with his backing group, which includes Dana Strum and Jeff Blando from SLAUGHTER, along with drummer Zoltan Chaney. Speaking to ...
Legendary Rock Band ANGEL: Lyric Video For New Song 'We Were The Wild'
The official lyric video for the song "We Were The Wild" from the legendary rock band ANGEL can be seen below. The track is taken fron ANGEL's comeback album, "Risen", which was released on October 4 via Cleopatra Records. The album has 17 solid tracks featuring 15 brand new songs written by original members Punky ...
JOSHUA HOMME's 'Desert Sessions' Volumes 11 And 12: New Trailer Available
Ending a 16-year hiatus since its last installment, the most mythical, longest running rock n roll mixtape odyssey in existence, "Desert Sessions" will return this October with the most ambitious entries yet in its expansive and elusive catalog: Volumes 11 and 12 (a.k.a. respectively "Arrivederci Despair" and "Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels") will ...
Legendary MOUNTAIN Drummer CORKY LAING Releases 'Toledo Sessions' Solo Album
Half a century after his first MOUNTAIN rehearsals, Corky Laing, the legendary drummer and songwriter, shows no signs of slowing down. On September 27, Corky released his first studio album in decades, "Toledo Sessions", via Prudential Records. The excitement brought on by the new repertoire is reminiscent of the classic MOUNTAIN albums "Climbing!" and "Nantucket ...
TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS 'Would Love To' Do A Tour With K.K. DOWNING, LES BINKS
Former JUDAS PRIEST members K.K. Downing (guitar), Les Binks (drums) and Tim "Ripper" Owens (vocals) will team up to perform "a full-length set of PRIEST classics" with MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson on November 3 in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. Joining them on second guitar will be A.J. Mills of HOSTILE, the British metal band whose two ...
Listen To New ALTER BRIDGE Song 'Dying Light'
ALTER BRIDGE has unveiled another track from its upcoming album, "Walk The Sky". "Dying Light" is now available on all digital service providers around the globe and a captivating visualizer by collaborator Dan Sturgess can be seen below. "Walk The Sky" will be released on October 18 via Napalm Records. According to a press release, ...
DAVID ELLEFSON: Why MEGADETH Decided To Support FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH In Europe
MEGADETH will join FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH as special guest on the latter band's 2020 European winter tour, with BAD WOLVES in the opening slot. The trek will visit 14 European countries starting on January 20 at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland and ending on February 20 at the Budapest Sportarena in Budapest, Hungary. ...
JUDAS PRIEST's ROB HALFORD Says His Upcoming Memoir Will 'Shock' People
Rob Halford says that his upcoming book will be "more of a memoir" than an autobiography. Earlier this year, the JUDAS PRIEST singer confirmed that he was finally working on a book, after having previously insisted he would never do so because of privacy concerns. Speaking to Ultimate Classic Rock, Halford ...
SLAYER: 'The Repentless Killogy' Coming To Theaters Worldwide On November 6
SLAYER — Tom Araya, Kerry King, Gary Holt and Paul Bostaph — along with Trafalgar Releasing, Nuclear Blast Records and Prime Zero Productions, are pleased to announce the upcoming release of the new short narrative film and concert "Slayer: The Repentless Killogy", coming to theaters worldwide for a one-night event on November 6. Due to ...
NIGHTWISH Is Filming Music Video For Upcoming Album: 'It's Unlike Anything We Have Ever Done Before'
Finnish/Dutch/British symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH are filming the first music video for their forthcoming studio album. Singer Floor Jansen posted a selfie earlier today (Tuesday, October 1) on her Twitter, along with the following message: "I'm in Helsinki with @NightwishBand to make a music video for our upcoming new album! It's unlike anything we have ever ...
GREAT WHITE's MARK KENDALL Rules Out Reunion With JACK RUSSELL: 'We've Just Totally Moved Down The Road'
GREAT WHITE guitarist Mark Kendall has ruled out a reunion with Jack Russell, saying that he and his bandmates have "totally moved down the road." Russell exited GREAT WHITE in December 2011 after he was unable to tour with the group due a series of injuries, including a perforated bowel and a shattered pelvis. Jack ...
IRON MAIDEN's TROOPER And ROBINSONS Announce Limited-Edition Collector Bottlecaps
To celebrate each of the iconic IRON MAIDEN studio albums, Trooper and Robinsons Brewery have launched exclusive collector bottlecaps. Appearing on all Trooper beer from October, including limited-edition Halloween-inspired "Day Of The Dead" bottles, the unique bottlecaps commemorate every record from IRON MAIDEN's self-titled album, released in 1980, until 2015's award-winning and No. 1 album ...
Original BLACK SABBATH Drummer BILL WARD Honors Las Vegas Shooting Victims With New Song 'Arrows'
Original BLACK SABBATH drummer Bill Ward has released a new song called "Arrows" to mark the second anniversary of the Las Vegas mass shooting. Bill announced the track in a video message posted to his Twitter account. He said: "Hi everybody. My name is Bill Ward, and today I'm speaking on behalf of my band, ...
New Version Of BLACK SABBATH's 'War Pigs' Featured In Trailer For 'The King's Man'
A new version of the BLACK SABBATH classic "War Pigs" is featured in the trailer for 20th Century Fox's upcoming spy thriller "The King's Man", a prequel to the "Kingsman" films. The track originally appeared on the band's iconic 1970 album "Paranoid" and has gone on to become an anti-war anthem. The version used for ...
DAVID ELLEFSON Says MEGADETH Knew 'Right Away' That 'Risk' Album Wasn't Connecting With People
David Ellefson says that "Risk" was "very much a transitional record" for MEGADETH, explaining that it was made during a time when "heavy metal had such a horrible stigma" in America. Issued in 1999, "Risk" received a mixed response from critics and alienated hardcore MEGADETH fans due to its departure from the band's heavy thrash ...
FOO FIGHTERS To Begin Work On New Album
FOO FIGHTERS are preparing to record a brand new album. During the group's headlining set at Brazil's Rock In Rio festival on Saturday (September 28), FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl revealed that he and his bandmates were going to start recording the follow-up to 2017's "Concrete And Gold" once they got back to California. "I ...
All Flesh Is Grass - GODEATER
The UK's death metal scene is currently healthier than it has been in decades. It's also becoming increasingly diverse, which probably explains why it doesn't seem particularly weird that GODEATER's debut album is a concept record concerning veganism and notions of ecological peril. It's hard to imagine any old-school death metal band complaining about the ...
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OVERKILL's BLITZ Details 'Made In America' Project With MIKE PORTNOY And PHIL DEMMEL
Prior to OVERKILL's September 12 performance in Oporto, Portugal, vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth spoke with Underground's Voice. The full conversation can be seen below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the band's status as "legends" of thrash: Bobby: "It makes me a little red-faced when you use the ...
EXHORDER Vocalist Says Group Did 'A Fair Bit Of Experimenting' On Long-Awaited Third Album
Prior to EXHORDER's September 23 performance in Brooklyn, New York, vocalist Kyle Thomas and guitarist Marzi Montazeri spoke with Alex Haber of Heavy New York. The full conversation can be seen below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the group's new album (and first in 27 years), "Mourn The Southern Skies": Kyle: ...
BABYMETAL Releases Music Video For New Song 'Shanti Shanti Shanti'
Japanese pop metal act BABYMETAL has released a music video for its song "Shanti Shanti Shanti". The track is taken from the band's third album, "Metal Galaxy", which will be released on October 11 via earMUSIC/Edel. The follow-up to 2016's "Metal Resistance" is based on the concept of "The Odyssey Of Metal Galaxy". "Metal Galaxy" ...
JOSHUA HOMME Taps PRIMUS, ZZ TOP Members For 'Desert Sessions' Volumes 11 And 12
Listen To New QUIET RIOT Song 'Heartbreak City'
"Heartbreak City", the new single from veteran rockers QUIET RIOT, can be streamed below. The song is taken from the band's upcoming studio album, "Hollywood Cowboys", which will be released on November 8 via Frontiers Music Srl. Asked how "Hollywood Cowboys" differs from other QUIET RIOT LPs, drummer Frankie Banali says: "This is the most ...
More Details Revealed For CHRIS CORNELL Documentary Co-Produced By BRAD PITT
More details have been revealed about the upcoming documentary film focusing on the life of SOUNDGARDEN and AUDIOSLAVE frontman Chris Cornell. The film, titled "Like A Stone", is being produced by Cornell's widow, Vicky, and Brad Pitt, with Peter Berg directing and Mark Casimir Dyniewicz Jr. credited as co-writer. Berg has directed "Patriots Day", "Lone ...
QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT Announce 2020 European Tour
Having well and truly rocked North America with 25 giant shows across the summer which drew universally ecstatic reviews and played to sold-out audiences totalling close to 400,000 spectators, QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT have finally announced that they will bring their brand new, hugely anticipated "Rhapsody" concert experience to European audiences next year. In what ...
WISHBONE ASH Signs With SPV/STEAMHAMMER; New Album Due In January
WISHBONE ASH, one of the most important and influential rock bands in music history, has signed with Steamhammer/SPV. A new studio album will arrive in January 2020. The disc's lead single, "We Stand As One", has been scheduled for release in October/November 2019, exactly 50 years after the band's foundation and on time for the ...
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Happy birthday, Lin-Manuel Miranda! The Hamilton creator turns 39 on January 16, 2019.
When he's not rehearsing or composing, Miranda can often be found on Twitter. In fact, his sweet 'good morning' and 'good night' tweets to his fans have become famous in the their own right, and even inspired a book last year, G'Morning G'Night, which compiled some of his loveliest Twitter greetings and pep talks.
Miranda began his 'gmorning, gnight' tweets in 2011 as a way of putting healthy limits on his own social media use, he explained in an interview on The Late Show last year.
In honor of Miranda's birthday, read on for some of his sweetest and quirkiest 'good morning' and 'good night' tweets to fans.
A fervent hope that you get every moment you need tonight: a moment of rest, a moment of grace, a moment of epiphany, a moment to plan, a moment entirely yours and no one else's.
Is this what the other side of yesterday feels like?
I hadn't thought this far ahead.
Your mind is yours alone and you decide who and what gets in.
Don't let the world's clickbait pull you off your path.
Unplug, explore, dream new terrain.


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A New Leaf provides a broad spectrum of support services to help individuals and families succeed. From basic needs to career development to budgeting, A New Leaf focuses on providing the critical skills to achieve lifelong independence. Successes include employment, healthier lifestyles, enhanced life skills, high school diplomas / GEDs, college degrees, and self sufficiency.
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"""The GeoNet NZ Volcano integration."""
from __future__ import annotations

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import logging

from aio_geojson_geonetnz_volcano import GeonetnzVolcanoFeedManager
import voluptuous as vol

from homeassistant.config_entries import SOURCE_IMPORT, ConfigEntry
from homeassistant.const import (
    CONF_LATITUDE,
    CONF_LONGITUDE,
    CONF_RADIUS,
    CONF_SCAN_INTERVAL,
    CONF_UNIT_SYSTEM,
    LENGTH_KILOMETERS,
    LENGTH_MILES,
)
from homeassistant.core import HomeAssistant, callback
from homeassistant.helpers import aiohttp_client, config_validation as cv
from homeassistant.helpers.dispatcher import async_dispatcher_send
from homeassistant.helpers.event import async_track_time_interval
from homeassistant.helpers.typing import ConfigType
from homeassistant.util.unit_conversion import DistanceConverter

from .config_flow import configured_instances
from .const import (
    DEFAULT_RADIUS,
    DEFAULT_SCAN_INTERVAL,
    DOMAIN,
    FEED,
    IMPERIAL_UNITS,
    PLATFORMS,
)

_LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)

CONFIG_SCHEMA = vol.Schema(
    {
        DOMAIN: vol.Schema(
            {
                vol.Optional(CONF_LATITUDE): cv.latitude,
                vol.Optional(CONF_LONGITUDE): cv.longitude,
                vol.Optional(CONF_RADIUS, default=DEFAULT_RADIUS): vol.Coerce(float),
                vol.Optional(
                    CONF_SCAN_INTERVAL, default=DEFAULT_SCAN_INTERVAL
                ): cv.time_period,
            }
        )
    },
    extra=vol.ALLOW_EXTRA,
)

async def async_setup(hass: HomeAssistant, config: ConfigType) -> bool:
    """Set up the GeoNet NZ Volcano component."""
    if DOMAIN not in config:
        return True

    conf = config[DOMAIN]

    latitude = conf.get(CONF_LATITUDE, hass.config.latitude)
    longitude = conf.get(CONF_LONGITUDE, hass.config.longitude)
    scan_interval = conf[CONF_SCAN_INTERVAL]

    identifier = f"{latitude}, {longitude}"
    if identifier in configured_instances(hass):
        return True

    hass.async_create_task(
        hass.config_entries.flow.async_init(
            DOMAIN,
            context={"source": SOURCE_IMPORT},
            data={
                CONF_LATITUDE: latitude,
                CONF_LONGITUDE: longitude,
                CONF_RADIUS: conf[CONF_RADIUS],
                CONF_SCAN_INTERVAL: scan_interval,
            },
        )
    )

    return True

async def async_setup_entry(hass: HomeAssistant, config_entry: ConfigEntry) -> bool:
    """Set up the GeoNet NZ Volcano component as config entry."""
    hass.data.setdefault(DOMAIN, {})
    hass.data[DOMAIN].setdefault(FEED, {})

    radius = config_entry.data[CONF_RADIUS]
    unit_system = config_entry.data[CONF_UNIT_SYSTEM]
    if unit_system == IMPERIAL_UNITS:
        radius = DistanceConverter.convert(radius, LENGTH_MILES, LENGTH_KILOMETERS)
    # Create feed entity manager for all platforms.
    manager = GeonetnzVolcanoFeedEntityManager(hass, config_entry, radius, unit_system)
    hass.data[DOMAIN][FEED][config_entry.entry_id] = manager
    _LOGGER.debug("Feed entity manager added for %s", config_entry.entry_id)
    await manager.async_init()
    return True

async def async_unload_entry(hass: HomeAssistant, entry: ConfigEntry) -> bool:
    """Unload an GeoNet NZ Volcano component config entry."""
    manager = hass.data[DOMAIN][FEED].pop(entry.entry_id)
    await manager.async_stop()
    return await hass.config_entries.async_unload_platforms(entry, PLATFORMS)

class GeonetnzVolcanoFeedEntityManager:
    """Feed Entity Manager for GeoNet NZ Volcano feed."""

    def __init__(self, hass, config_entry, radius_in_km, unit_system):
        """Initialize the Feed Entity Manager."""
        self._hass = hass
        self._config_entry = config_entry
        coordinates = (
            config_entry.data[CONF_LATITUDE],
            config_entry.data[CONF_LONGITUDE],
        )
        websession = aiohttp_client.async_get_clientsession(hass)
        self._feed_manager = GeonetnzVolcanoFeedManager(
            websession,
            self._generate_entity,
            self._update_entity,
            self._remove_entity,
            coordinates,
            filter_radius=radius_in_km,
        )
        self._config_entry_id = config_entry.entry_id
        self._scan_interval = timedelta(seconds=config_entry.data[CONF_SCAN_INTERVAL])
        self._unit_system = unit_system
        self._track_time_remove_callback = None
        self.listeners = []

    async def async_init(self):
        """Schedule initial and regular updates based on configured time interval."""

        await self._hass.config_entries.async_forward_entry_setups(
            self._config_entry, PLATFORMS
        )

        async def update(event_time):
            """Update."""
            await self.async_update()

        # Trigger updates at regular intervals.
        self._track_time_remove_callback = async_track_time_interval(
            self._hass, update, self._scan_interval
        )

        _LOGGER.debug("Feed entity manager initialized")

    async def async_update(self):
        """Refresh data."""
        await self._feed_manager.update()
        _LOGGER.debug("Feed entity manager updated")

    async def async_stop(self):
        """Stop this feed entity manager from refreshing."""
        for unsub_dispatcher in self.listeners:
            unsub_dispatcher()
        self.listeners = []
        if self._track_time_remove_callback:
            self._track_time_remove_callback()
        _LOGGER.debug("Feed entity manager stopped")

    @callback
    def async_event_new_entity(self):
        """Return manager specific event to signal new entity."""
        return f"geonetnz_volcano_new_sensor_{self._config_entry_id}"

    def get_entry(self, external_id):
        """Get feed entry by external id."""
        return self._feed_manager.feed_entries.get(external_id)

    def last_update(self) -> datetime | None:
        """Return the last update of this feed."""
        return self._feed_manager.last_update

    def last_update_successful(self) -> datetime | None:
        """Return the last successful update of this feed."""
        return self._feed_manager.last_update_successful

    async def _generate_entity(self, external_id):
        """Generate new entity."""
        async_dispatcher_send(
            self._hass,
            self.async_event_new_entity(),
            self,
            external_id,
            self._unit_system,
        )

    async def _update_entity(self, external_id):
        """Update entity."""
        async_dispatcher_send(self._hass, f"geonetnz_volcano_update_{external_id}")

    async def _remove_entity(self, external_id):
        """Ignore removing entity."""

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Just because it was not in the log before does not mean it did not exist. What uTorrent calls "Computer ID" is more or less essential to the function of the BitTorrent protocol. IIRC, it uniquely identifies your device in the swarm.
Speak for yourself... I think EVERY release should have a change log. Listing those "one.. maybe two bug fixes" should be easy enough. Let's people know what to test' date=' or if the changes are even something worth the DL.[/quote'] Seconded. I'm a huge proponent of detailed changelogs with every release. Not necessarily source diffs, where we see the actual code that changed (with uTorrent being closed-source, I doubt they would do that anyway), but summarize each change that was made. If it's just code refactoring, then they can say that and tell us what module it's in, but other than that, I'd like to know exactly what feature is being changed/updated/fixed/removed/etc. Even the "bad" features. I'm still using this client because it feels like the best one for my needs... even with the questionable stuff.
64-bit processor architecture is not inherently faster than x86/32-bit architecture. It merely takes advantage of 64-bit registers, which are necessary to address RAM when more than 4GB is present in the system and can also slightly improve large number calculations.
--2013-03-12: Version 3.4 (build 29315) - Change: removed pause-button from toolbar (it's still in the context menu if you need it) Consider this post a request to reinstate the button before this branch moves to release stage.
The program's developers have the right to recoup expenses by partnering with an advertising agent and bundling it with the software. Likewise, you have the right to use other software if you disagree with this.
Edit: Deleted comment; I thought I was on the last page when I made this, but I wasn't.
Actually, this is the release announcement forum. He might have better luck in the Troubleshooting forum first.
Just to make sure you're aware of the setting's function, "Local Peer Discovery" checks for peers on your local network, i.e., your own private IP range. Is this what you are looking for?
If a given client is being blacklisted by a given tracker, that is a change the tracker's admins need to make. Talk to them.
What are your Bandwidth and Queueing [sic] settings?


No matter the platform, teens are spending nearly all their time online. A recent survey showed 45% of teens said they are online almost constantly, while another 44% said they're online several times a day. Only 11% said they were online less often. This constant screen time often times results in varied levels of cyber-bullying.
Bullying takes a toll on victims both emotionally and spiritually. Unfortunately, as technology has advanced, it has expanded the tools available for perpetrators to use against their victims. Polls show cyber-bullying to be one of the most common forms of bullying, and it can take many forms including online harassment, sexual exploitation and dissemination of inappropriate pictures, rumors and even threats.
There was a time in the past when students could escape from a bully when school ended and they were in the protection of their house, but that is no longer the case with social media. Another thing which makes cyber-bullying so dangerous is the ability for the perpetrator to remain veiled behind the anonymous cloak of the internet. This is why cyber-bullying has become so prevalent, because the courage it takes to say things to a person's face become far more difficult when you have to look them in the eyes as another person. Behind the screen you can dehumanize them without having to address them as a person.
Every teen or child handles the effects of bullying differently. Some may openly admit the abuse to parents, others may hide the damage worried that they may get in trouble or that they can deal with it solo. However, parents absolutely need to be involved and aware of their child's online activity and keep the lines of communication open at all times.
With the recent explosion the last two years of 13 Reasons Why, as well as countless other suicide awareness advocates in the media such as Logic's song 1-800-273-8255, we must begin to address the problem. It is real and it is something which all teens today are at least thinking and working through the implications of because every week it hits them in the face with another story or incident in the media.
Parents are a child's best resource and should be the loudest advocates when their child becomes the victim of bullying. While parents should lean on their faith for support, they also should understand that their child's faith or spirituality may be challenged during these times. Here are 10 ways for parents to help their hurt child when bullying is suspected.
If parents notice that their child is acting differently—more withdrawn, worried, etc.—it's time for a talk. Don't be confrontational, though. Talk openly and honestly with kids. Never judge. Be the safe haven your children can go to for safety, love, and comfort. Also make sure that your students are in the loop with what you are going to do with protecting them going forward.
2. Request a meeting with the school.
If a child is being cyber-bullied by a peer, then request a meeting with the school. Don't get angry, don't become confrontational. But you do need to know what the school district's bullying policy entails. You will want to print out copies of any threatening or abusive communications that your son or daughter received. This means when your child comes to you about being bullied, you must start documenting the occurrences to show when this meeting takes.
Some forms of bullying cross the line and are actually criminal acts. Each state has different laws about bullying, online harassment, etc. And, yes, in some bullying cases the police absolutely should be contacted. Do your homework on the steps you need to take with the documentation you make.
4. Use prayer for positive.
Pray for strength, and pray with positive intentions. Don't use prayer to shame or blame your child. Prayer also should not take the place of a licensed therapist or counselor, which some bullying victims need to fully heal. Lift your child up daily in your prayers and in your circle of friends and church to be praying as well.
5. Youth groups may help strengthen friendships and faith.
Many churches offer youth groups or other opportunities for teens to meet other peers. If your child is struggling with friendships, this may be an opportunity for them to find peers with the same values and also build a network of trusted friends. The church should be the one place they can go and not face this sort of treatment, though this is not always the case either. There are often times parachurch organizations focused at reaching teens such as Youth for Christ, FCA, Young Life, and many others.
Parents know their child better than anyone. If you notice changes with your child that indicate depression or see signs of self-harm, then get help immediately. With the heights and continuity which can come with cyber-bullying, as well as the shows and responses we see to it in the media, you want to act immediately. It is never to early to begin battling bullying.
Christian therapist or not, there are some things that require a therapist. Therapy does not mean your child is broken or you have failed as a parent, in fact it is in many cases one of the most beneficial things you could do. Many healthy people meet regularly or semi-regularly with therapists just to talk through how things are going to make sure they are keeping a healthy and balanced life.
Deleting all social media accounts isn't very practical for most teens. But you can limit friends and the apps that you child uses. Parents should always investigate social media platform before allowing their child to sign on to the service. Yes, this means reading the Terms of Service, as well. To reuse an analogy I have used before, if you would not let you child navigate the subway in New York City alone, especially after dark, why would you allow your child to navigate the dark corners of the world wide web without some sort of knowledge into what they were doing. As a last resort, maybe deleting social media is the answer to resort to, but it should not be the first response.
9. The abuse may cause a child to question faith.
Why do bad things happen? Everyone asks this question, and for a teen who was bullied, they may find that they question their faith. If your child is questioning why, just listen to them. We are all given free will, and some use this for evil and not good. Your pastor also may offer guidance to help a child who's questioning their faith. Talk openly with your children about this and do not rebuke them for their questions of theodicy (where is God). Job faced many of the same questions, the thing is you must guide them through the questions in a healthy manner.
10. Christianity doesn't insulate kids from bullies.
Never assume that having faith, or even attending a religious-based school keeps kids safe from a bully. Yes, bullies are at all schools. Make sure that your school has policies in place to deal with any bullying behaviors.
Any child can be a victim of bullying. However, when a parent suspects that their child is being bullied, they need to step in immediately. Contact the school and request a meeting, and, if the issue demands it, then the police also must be notified. Always support children with love and non-judgment. Use faith as a tool to guide them and help them heal.
Most importantly, love your children and listen to them. Yes, sometimes they will overplay things and exaggerate, but remember their brains do not fully form until their mid-20's and sometimes they misinterpret things. Hear them and love them, and make sure you are there helping guide them in their growth.


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"Today we honour International Day of the Girl, which was inspired by a group of girls who asked world leaders for their own day to raise awareness about the unique challenges and opportunities they face because of their gender.
"In too many instances, girls still face barriers to basic necessities such as food, clothing and shelter, and many girls worldwide face limited or non-existent access to education, restricting their ability to achieve financial security. That is why we mark this day by rededicating ourselves to the goal of empowering girls, because everyone deserves the opportunity to live up to their full potential.
"This year's theme, With Her: A Skilled GirlForce, focuses on the need to increase learning opportunities for girls and ensure they are prepared for a successful transition into the world of work. In June, at the conclusion of the G7 in Charlevoix, Quebec, along with the European Union, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the World Bank, announced an investment of nearly $3.8 billion CAD to support quality education for women and girls living in crisis, conflict-affected and fragile states. This is the single largest investment of its kind in history and will help prepare girls to be educated and skilled workers, making our communities healthier, our societies more equitable and our economies stronger. I am proud that Canada is taking a global leadership role in promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls with our Feminist International Assistance Policy.
"Here at home, we are working to ensure the safety and financial security of girls through our investments in the Canada Child Benefit, which helps nine out of ten Canadian families; promoting women and girls in STEM and the skilled trades; supporting projects like Daughters of the Vote that encourage young women to become engaged in politics; and through vital initiatives to prevent teen dating violence and combat bullying, cyberbullying and online child sexual exploitation.
"In Canada and around the world, there are so many girls who are already making their mark as students, entrepreneurs, volunteers, and activists. Their fresh perspectives, boundless energy, and courageous ideas are evidence that girls are already challenging the status quo and making a difference in their communities.
"I encourage you to elevate the voices of girls in your community who are working hard to make a difference, to tear down barriers, and to claim their own place in the world, by sharing their stories on social media using #MakeAnImpact.


A glamorous mix of glass and gold tinted metal, this table offers a look that's both extravagent and quaint. The glass top along with the upper and lower shelves provide added dimension to any decor set up.
Dimensions: 18″ H x 42″ W.


Sellers Checklist... Century 21 B.J. Roth Realty Ltd.
When you are selling your home, there will be potential buyers who will want to see every inch of your house. As the saying goes, first impressions are lasting impressions, so make sure your home shows its best. The following are checklists you may want to use to ensure that no detail, no matter how small, is overlooked.


We begin with Michigan's Governor Snyder deploying the National Guard in Flint to help distribute filters to the city's residents who for over a year have been forced to drink lead-tainted water from the polluted Flint River following cost-cutting measures imposed by the governor. Curt Guyette, an investigative journalist with the ACLU of Michigan, who was the first reporter to break the story of the Flint River being used as a water supply for the city, joins us to discuss the governor's slow response in acknowledging concerns raised by residents whose complaints were dismissed by his office that also disputed studies that showed a link between elevated levels of lead in children following a switch of the city's water source to the Flint River that these same officials insisted was safe.
Then we examine the storm in a teacup that the seizure of two U.S. patrol boats by Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corp on the eve of President Obama's State of the Union address turned out to be. Now with today's prompt release of the ten sailors and their boats, we contrast yesterday's over-heated press coverage and rhetoric from Republican candidates and lawmakers with the quiet personal diplomacy between John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart that settled the matter. Flynt Leverett, a Professor of International Relations at Penn State University who was Senior Director for Middle East Affairs on the National Security Council joins us to discuss the value of diplomacy and the need for a deconfliction agreement in the Gulf between the U.S. Navy and the IRGC's navy.
Then finally, following President Obama's warning in his State of the Union address that our politics are drifting to the dark side, heading for what could be an American version of fascism, we speak with Robert Paxton, the Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences at Columbia University and author of "The Anatomy of Fascism". We discuss contrasts between Donald Trump's manifestation of American celebrity-driven right wing populism and earlier 20th Century versions of fascism in Europe.


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Edible French is my newest book, based on my popular series of colorful French idioms.
It explores fifty of the most evocative French expressions related to food with cultural notes, recipes, and whimsical watercolors by my talented friend Mélina Josserand.
Edible French is available in the US, in France, and in the UK.
This is a project that has been brewing in my mind for years and years, and as a lover of both food and language, I am thrilled to be able to share it with you now.
I am also incredibly pleased with how the physical object turned out; the production team has done an wonderful job of it. It's a book that feels very loveable, and the quality of the paper — thick, matte, with a bit of texture — really brings out the beauty of Melina's watercolors, almost as if they were originals.
I can tell that the people I show it to don't really want to let go once they have it in their hands, and I hope you feel that way too.
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2014: US Winner in category "Best French Cuisine"


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.ag is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Antigua and Barbuda.

Second and third level registrations

Registrations can be made at the second level directly beneath .ag, or at the third level beneath:

 .com.ag or .co.ag (intended for commercial entities)
 .org.ag (intended for organisations, especially nonprofits)
 .net.ag (intended for network operators/providers)
 .nom.ag (intended for individuals)

There are no restrictions on who can register.

Domain hacks
In addition to its original intended use as a country code, the .ag domain has been marketed for use for agriculture-related sites, and for sites referencing the atomic symbol for silver, Ag. It also has a potential use for other domain hacks for English words that end in -ag. The Heritage Foundation uses .ag for URL shortening (herit.ag).

".ag" used to mean "Aktiengesellschaft"

Aktiengesellschaft, abbreviated AG, is a German term that refers to a corporation that is limited by shares, i.e. owned by shareholders, and may be traded on a stock market. The term is used in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, but not Liechtenstein or Luxembourg.

Legal status of .ag in Germany
A German court (5. Zivilsenat des Oberlandesgerichtes Hamburg) ruled in July 2004 that a .ag domain may only be registered by an Aktiengesellschaft, and then only by an AG that has the same name as the domain. For example, a company with shareholders in Germany having the name X AG may not register as y.ag.

Use in Greenland
Sermitsiaq uses the TLD.

See also
 Internet in Antigua and Barbuda

References

External links
 List of .AG Registrars
 IANA .ag whois information

Communications in Antigua and Barbuda
Country code top-level domains
Computer-related introductions in 1991

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Android Bluetooth Review BLE IOS DMM Multimeters CATIII
by Harry Baggen
on Test & Measurement
The Mooshimeter display screen on an Android device
The Mooshimeter comes in a sturdy, compact case along with three probe leads and three good-quality insulated crocodile clips. The instrument hardware is housed in a small transparent case. The only connectors on the case are the four test jacks: V (volts), A (amps), Ω (ohms), and C (common). The ohms jack can also be used for measuring low voltages under 1 V. There is no power switch on the case; the meter is constantly in standby mode. A blinking LED on the circuit board indicates the device status: slow blinking in standby mode, fast blinking when measurements are being made.
According to the manufacturer, the typical life of the two AA batteries in the meter is one year in standby mode and 50 hours in continuous use. That is reasonably long, and it's easy to replace the batteries when they're used up. However, for safety reasons you first have to loosen two screws to open the case.
I tested the Mooshimeter in the Elektor Castle together with a modern Android smartphone, because it needs at least Android 4.3 and support for Bluetooth 4.0 (BLE). Installing the app from Google Play was quick and easy, and the meter module was detected immediately after I opened the app. After I touched connectors icon next to the detected device, the connection was established and a screen appeared with two measurement values: current and voltage.
The screen presents an overview of all settings, including the current measurement range (set to autorange by default, but can also be set manually), the sampling rate (max. 8 kS/s per input, which is fairly high for a multimeter), and the size of the sample buffer. There is also a button for enabling or disabling data logging and a Zero button, which you can use to set the current readings as the reference points for subsequent measurements, which can be useful for making differential measurements. Overall the screen is well organized without any unnecessary extras, but at first it takes a little while to figure out what everything does. That's because just about every box on the screen is a touchable control with several options. Although everything is very logically organized, you have to spend some time exploring the menu and trying out all the options. You can't break anything, so simply touch every box and see what happens. After half an hour you know what everything does, and it's nearly as easy as turning the selector knob on an ordinary DMM.
When you rotate the screen to horizontal orientation, you see a graphic display with trend curves of the measured voltage and current. You can also select X/Y display mode. In addition there is a buffer mode, and when you select this mode it shows the data in the buffer in the form of signal curves – a sort of mini oscilloscope screen. Processing the data took a good while on my quad-core smartphone, but that may be due to the Android OS. According to the Mooshim developers, some parts of the app work better on an iOS device.
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Headed to Nantucket, this fabulous reclaimed pine kitchen island is casual, elegant and durable enough for our customer's coastal home. Designed for both style and function, three gliding shelves with a 2" lip will keep small items from falling to the ground while a generous 12" overhang on three sides will allow for ample seating. Three sides are embellished with recessed panels to give it the finishing touch and add to the casually elegant look. The front includes three doors with one area large enough to accommodate a trash can. Knob-less for the moment, our customer has opted to put on their own hardware. Finished in Ben Moore color "Raccoon Hollow" with our chestnut brown finish for top. Size: 72" x 49" x 36"h. Priced as seen: $3570. Cottage stool sold separately.


It is important to understand how the Drupal 8 configuration ecosystem works, and how to manage configuration from both a module and whole site perspective. There have been tremendous improvements implemented over previous versions. The system is extremely flexible and can be managed in many ways; but with flexibility comes complexity which can cause some confusion because there is no "best" or "recommended" workflow.
I use deployment scripts, which I run immediately after a site push, to ensure that the site is properly configured after changes. This type of script is the key to continuous integration and automated builds. In order to implement this technique, the site needs to be set up to use certain methodologies.
The main configuration of the site is managed in the database, and techniques such as changing configuration values using Drush are not used. In fact, the configuration in the database is identical in every environment. Instead, the configuration values are overridden on a per-request basis. This consideration allows more flexibility from a database perspective, so replication can be used for high availability.
Your code should know what environment it is running in (development, staging or production) in order to react differently as needed. This can be achieved using server-specific configuration values.
Any server based language will do, like Bash, Perl or Python. I prefer Perl, and find it easy to maintain reusable libraries of code for multiple site deployments.
To make your site "environment aware", you can set an Apache environment variable which declares the local environment. This variable will now be available during each request.
The deployment script will generate the new settings file per environment during deployment, which I call settings.environment.php to avoid potential permissions problems or conflicts with existing scripts. As you know settings.php is called on every request, so it needs to remain stable and unaffected. We don't want to alter settings.php directly on every code push.
The configuration options will differ from site to site, depending on the modules and requirements. The following are some of the most common configuration options.
You'll notice the staging and production configurations are the same. This should usually be the case, but it's important to make the distinction for SDLC best practices. There also may be a fringe case where the staging environment needs some specific configuration for testing.
The cache.backend.null service needs to be enabled in order to disable Twig's render cache. This is defined in a separate file and only included in the development environment. The development.services.yml file ships with Drupal. It is helpful to read through the file, as the Core team has provided detailed descriptions of each setting, and there are more than mentioned here. The following settings are important for this development environment configuration.
Each environment should have its own set of configuration override statements.
# Enable local development services.
This article describes only one approach to configuration management and focuses on performance. There are many other options to explore and different approaches to take based on your installed modules and site requirements.


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Supporting mental health awareness, Ballarat's firefighters have raised almost $10,000 after climbing the 28 floors of the Crown Metropol, but they're pushing for more. On Sunday, 20 firefighters from Ballarat, Buninyong-Mount Helen, Sebastopol, and Wendouree were among the hundreds who took on the challenge to raise awareness of depression and post-traumatic stress injuries among emergency services. Patrick Cashin, from the Buninyong-Mount Helen brigade, said that was the most important part - the money raised goes to Lifeline, the Black Dog Institute, and the Emergency Services Foundation, to help with their essential projects. They are lifesavers, Mr Cashin said. READ MORE: Why Ballarat urgently needs to talk about mental health "There's funds targeted towards us (as emergency service workers), but the money to Lifeline goes to the call takers on Friday and Saturday nights when they can't get volunteers," he explained. "We want to get the message out there - I've lost two friends (to suicide) in the last 12 months, and I wouldn't have another friend here without the support." Mr Cashin added the culture around mental health at the CFA was improving. "We go to jobs and some of the stuff the general public don't see, but you might go to a job and it might not affect us within a week or so, but five or six, 10 years down the track," he said. READ MORE: Danny Frawley's death should be a circuit breaker to talk about mental health "The culture, particularly around that, has changed a lot, particularly at Buninyong and the wider Eureka Group, the culture around mental health has changed dramatically since I started, but we still have a long way to go." On the day, Mr Cashin raced up the 28 flights with the full breathing apparatus on his back - he finished fourth in his category, he said, with a time of 4.42.827. "I missed out on third by 0.114 of a second," he said, noting he almost keeled over at the finish line. Donations are still open on the Stair Climb website. If you or someone you know is in need of crisis support, phone Lifeline on 13 11 14. Have you signed up to The Courier's variety of news emails? You can register below and make sure you are up to date with everything that's happening in Ballarat.
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Ballarat firefighters at 2019 stair climb for mental health support
On your marks: The start line at the Melbourne Firefighter Stair Climb at the weekend. Inset, Patrick Cashin. Pictures: contributed
Supporting mental health awareness, Ballarat's firefighters have raised almost $10,000 after climbing the 28 floors of the Crown Metropol, but they're pushing for more.
On Sunday, 20 firefighters from Ballarat, Buninyong-Mount Helen, Sebastopol, and Wendouree were among the hundreds who took on the challenge to raise awareness of depression and post-traumatic stress injuries among emergency services.
Patrick Cashin, from the Buninyong-Mount Helen brigade, said that was the most important part - the money raised goes to Lifeline, the Black Dog Institute, and the Emergency Services Foundation, to help with their essential projects.
They are lifesavers, Mr Cashin said.
READ MORE:Why Ballarat urgently needs to talk about mental health
"There's funds targeted towards us (as emergency service workers), but the money to Lifeline goes to the call takers on Friday and Saturday nights when they can't get volunteers," he explained.
"We want to get the message out there - I've lost two friends (to suicide) in the last 12 months, and I wouldn't have another friend here without the support."
Mr Cashin added the culture around mental health at the CFA was improving.
"We go to jobs and some of the stuff the general public don't see, but you might go to a job and it might not affect us within a week or so, but five or six, 10 years down the track," he said.
READ MORE: Danny Frawley's death should be a circuit breaker to talk about mental health
"The culture, particularly around that, has changed a lot, particularly at Buninyong and the wider Eureka Group, the culture around mental health has changed dramatically since I started, but we still have a long way to go."
On the day, Mr Cashin raced up the 28 flights with the full breathing apparatus on his back - he finished fourth in his category, he said, with a time of 4.42.827.
"I missed out on third by 0.114 of a second," he said, noting he almost keeled over at the finish line.
Donations are still open on the Stair Climb website.
If you or someone you know is in need of crisis support, phone Lifeline on 13 11 14.


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Lowest Possible Rates from Major National Brand Car Rentals in Hawaii
Saturday, January 16, 2010@ 7:09 AM
Author: Steve Parquet
Instead of indicating the rental car companies on the Hawaii Car Rentals website, they're being shown as "Major National Brand" #1, #2, #3 and #4. This is not some sort of gimmick to lure you in. It isn't meant to trick or confuse people. It has to do with how the car rental companies can allow the Hawaii Car Rentals website to offer rental cars on the Hawaiian islands at such cheap rates compared to the big guys we've all seen advertising on TV and still be in compliance with the contractual agreements they have between each other. It's as simple as that.
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Boo-Ha-Ha! It's Halloween | Rock Hill Herald
Boo-Ha-Ha! It's Halloween
By Staff Reports - Staff Reports
It's time again for Rock Hill's Boo-HaHa, a safe alternative to Halloween trick-or-treating, from 5:30 to 8:30 tonight on downtown's Main Street.
Area businesses will line sidewalks to give out candy. Some will offer indoor activities, and a disc jockey will entertain. A costume contest for ages 10 and younger kicks off at 6:30 p.m., sponsored by local radio stations WRHI and Interstate 107.
More Halloween frights are planned:
• The Trail of Haunted Terror, 429 Nassaw Circle, off Sturgis Road in Rock Hill, will be from 7:30 to 10 tonight. The trail is for all ages; admission is $2 adults and $1 children. Proceeds will be used to build a basketball court for children in the Green Earth housing neighborhood. Free admission will be given to those who bring canned goods, to be donated to the Catawba Indian Reservation food pantry. For directions, call 524-3391.
• Boy Scout Troop and Cub Scout Pack No. 133 will host its 17th annual Halloween carnival from 6 to 8 tonight at Mount Holly United Methodist Church on S.C. 901 in Rock Hill. Games, a costume contest, cake walks, a bake sale and hot dog plates will be available. Admission is free. For details, call 327-5779.
• The Clover Police Department will pass out candy to trick-or-treaters ages 13 and younger who are in costume from 6 to 9 tonight at its headquarters, 116 Bethel St. For details, call (803) 222-9494.
• A drive-in movie, Stephen King's "The Shining," will be presented at 9 tonight in the Winthrop Coliseum north parking lot in Rock Hill. Cost is $5 per car.
• Scarowinds Halloween haunt continues through tonight at Carowinds theme park. Regular hours are 7 p.m. to midnight. Tickets are $29.99; some discounts are available.
Details, www.scarowinds.com.


Many of us have social media accounts with a large group of friends, and what better way to spread the Word than through social media. The church website link is www.charlotteheights.org, and you can find all of our accounts on page one of the bulletin. Take the time to follow, like, or share the various posts. Roger Lewis oversees the website with assistance from Cory Dalton and Steve Bishop. Belinda Webb updates the social media accounts with contributions from Josh Barnett. And you can catch the services via Facebook Live or on the website as recorded, if you are not able to attend in person. If you have not visited any of these lately, please take some time this week to see what good information is available. And better yet, take the next step and share the post regarding the upcoming Ladies' Day, or the latest sermon, or anything else that is available. It only takes a second to share, and you never know who you might reach and what IMPACT you might make. Also, take some time to thank Roger, Cory, and Belinda for their hard work.