Musician Bob Seger is in the process of building a 30,000 square foot mega-mansion on Laplaya Lane in West Bloomfield, MI. The home is being built by Thomas Sebold and Associates and is being designed by Dominick Tringali Architects.
*Thanks to an anonymous reader for all of the awesome info!!!
The property is 3 acres. It had a home that previously stood there, but it burnt down back in 2006. Bob bought it for $1.2 million after there was a battle with the state of Michigan with the previous owner about his property taxes in order to determine if they were homestead or not. Once the home is complete, they will tear down the home adjacent to the mansion that they are currently living in and have been living in for the last 20 years. which means they will have a 500 foot all-sports lake frontage on upper straights lake.
The Segers recently filed for a 365′ long retaining wall along their whole property with the state of Michigan.
The property has an original 3 car carriage house that was built in 1925 and restored this year to feature a music studio above the garage. The home is about 30,000 square feet and will boast (2) 4 car garages, with a guest suite studio on top of one, and a 2 bedroom maids quarters apartment for their live in maid and nanny, separate golf cart garage with attached trash/recycling room, huge mud room, gourmet kitchen with butlers pantry/catering area, hers office, 2 elevators, 2 story double bridal staircase foyer and great room, first floor her master suite which is attached to a second floor, his master suite directly above, (together they have their own 2 story closet and own elevator for the suite), 2 story library, 2 suites for their 2 kids, and a guest suite on the third level, with a observation lounge on the 4th level, the kids have a playroom/lounge, and in the lower level, there is a screening room, full gourmet kitchen, golf simulator, separate putting green, gaming room, memorabilia room, ample storage rooms, wrapping room, a reverse osmosis (water filtration) room that is almost 500 square feet, a huge exercise room, 4 laundry rooms, 8 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, 3 kitchens, a whole bay for dumpsters and a generator that is the size of a hummer and 12 air conditioner units.


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On This Day in Typewriter History (CXVI)
One small leap by man,
One tiny step for typewriters
FROM THE POGO STICK
TO THE HERRINGTON
Plus the Granville and
Lindgren typewriters
On this day in 1881, 130 years ago today, George Humphrey Herrington, the man who invented what became the pogo stick, was issued with a patent for the first of his two typewriters.
Herrington, who ran a bookstore in Wichita, Kansas, invented the "spring-stilt" earlier in 1881, having it patented on February 22 that year. His device used compression springs on each foot "for leaping great distances and heights".
Herrington (born of English parents in New York in July, 1848) later combined forces with David G. Millison to make what typewriter historian Michael Adler described as a "primitive vertical typewheel with roller inking".
This is almost certainly the "Simplex" which George Carl Mares in 1909 said was "a very paltry invention, launched in London some years ago".
Adler said the second Herrington typewriter was "mass produced by McClees, Millison and Company of Chicago".
There is some confusion as to whether this Herrington machine, made by Millison and his partner Nelson McClees, the apparently British-made Universal Simplex typewriter (above), and the New York-made Robert Ingersoll typewriter known as the Dollar (below, also as the Yankee, Eureka and Wilson) are three or two different typewriters, or all one design.
Certainly Ingersoll patented his own design, but not until 1892, eight years after the Herrington machine had been patented.
The Herrington typewriter went into production in 1886 and by the next year was selling across the world, from Britain to New Zealand.
In the US it sold for $5, in Britain for 10 shillings and 6 pence, and in New Zealand for 10 shillings.
The Ingersoll machine, naturally enough, sold for $1 initially.
David Millison, a journalist, was co-founder with Fred A. Sowers (who started the Wichita Vidette in 1870) of the Wichita Weekly Beacon and Daily Beacon in October 1872. Millison was born in Pennsylvania in June 1836.
On the back of his success with his second typewriter, Herrington gave up the Wichita bookshop, got divorced and became a full-time inventor. In 1888-89 he patented a device for recording speech, and between 1881 and 1889 worked on phonographs and a machine for duplicating phonograms.
Herrington 1881 typewriter
Adler described Herrington's first typewriter design (above), for which he applied for a patent on May 9, 1881, as a "type plunger using a knob to select the desired character, which was struck down on to the paper by means of a hammer".
Another typewriter inventor to come up with more than one design was English-born Bernard Granville, best known for the Granville Automatic.
Granville had earlier invented the Rapid typewriter, and apparently had plans to progress these two groundbreaking thrust-action machines into a third, fourth or even fifth improved model.
On this day in 1892, Granville, then living in Dayton, Ohio, was issued with a patent (below) for the third of his five typewriters.
The first, the Rapid, was patented in 1888 (below) and the Granville Automatic in 1891.
After this third patent came another, assigned to Albert Gallatin Corre, of Cincinnati, in 1896. Corre, a founding official of the Cincinnati Red Stockings baseball team, was receiver of the Novelty Electric Supply and Manufacturing Company.
Granville's final typewriter patent, in 1900, was assigned to the Mossberg and Granville Manufacturing Company of Providence, Rhode Island, where the Automatic was eventually produced.
Mossberg and Granville also manufactured power, drop and foot presses, rolling mills, rod mills, wire drawing machinery, roller bearings and jewelers' machinery. It was incorporated by Louis Dean Speir, Harold Bunker and A. J. Munson on August 6, 1896, and capitalized for $700,000, employing 200 workers. It was based at 101 Sabin Street, Providence. Officers were George E. Victor, president; Charles Howard Smith, secretary and treasurer; W. W. Gibbs, general manager.
Mossberg had moved from Attleborough, Massachusetts, to join forces with Granville in Rhode Island in 1897. However, the company went bankrupt on May 19, 1903. Typewriters were blamed. But Granville's dreams of advancing his Automatic were already over.
A refusal to recognise the International Association of Machinists led to strike action, which crippled the company. Typewriter production ended with the 1900 strike.
Thus the company's union problems completely stymied Granville's efforts to produce improved versions of the Automatic. Certainly, this third patent seemed to be ambitious. Granville wrote in his application:
"My invention includes a novel form of operating mechanism for the carriage, combined with means for controlling the movements of the carriage from the keyboard. It includes, also, inking mechanism in which the ordinary inking-ribbon is dispensed with and the type print directly upon the paper. It further includes variable-spacing mechanism to suit different widths of letters."
This Granville patent issued more than seven months later shows he had un-dispensed with the ribbon:
Granville, born in England in 1869, listed himself as a consulting engineer in the 1910 US census.
Finally, a one-invention, one-typewriter man. Justus Fileman Lindgren, born in Emelon, Sweden, on March 8, 1841, was also issued with a patent for a typewriter on this day in 1881.
Michael Adler says the Lindgren typewriter was one on which the platen rocked forward and struck the typewheel - a feature 10 years ahead of its time. It was popularised, says Adler, "on the Peoples etc". The Peoples (below) was invented by Danish-born Carl Johan Anders Sjoberg in 1891.
Of the Lindgren machine, Adler adds, "A handle on top of the device was turned for letter selection and pressed down for printing, with slots for alignment. Inking was by roller." Lindgren, a clerk and later a real estate agent, was based in Peoria, Illinois, when he patented this machine. He died in Proviso, Brookfield, Cook County, Illinois, on February 28, 1918, aged 76.
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The Amazon logo is seen on the company's 855,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Staten Island, N.Y. Amazon announced Thursday that it was abandoning its plan to create a new headquarters site in New York.
Amazon won't be making it in New York — at least not with regards to its much-ballyhooed second corporate headquarters.
The Seattle-based online-retailing giant stunned just about everyone Thursday when it said it is abandoning plans to set up what has been called HQ2 in the New York City borough of Queens. The project was anticipated to bring 25,000 jobs to the city.
But after it was revealed that New York legislators had given Amazon almost $3 billion in tax breaks and incentives to bring its new operations to the city, public and political opposition grew against the project. Many viewed it as a form of corporate welfare that would give more benefits to the company than Amazon would provide to the area.
Amazon said it would not reopen the search for a new HQ2 at the present time. The company said it was still moving forward with plans to build a new corporate office in Northern Virginia, which is also expected to be home to 25,000 Amazon employees, as well as a new office in Nashville, Tennessee, which is estimated to bring 5,000 jobs to that city.
Amazon announced New York and Northern Virginia as the co-winners of its search for new HQ2 locations in November. The company had originally said in 2017 that it would build a new corporate headquarters somewhere in the United States. The company spent nearly a year wooing various locales, then announced a set of 20 finalists in January 2018 before narrowing that number down to New York and Northern Virginia late last year.
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California Sen. Kamala Harris had barely become a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination before birther accusations started on Twitter.
Harris announced her candidacy on Jan. 21. The following morning, Jacob Wohl -- a self-described Trump supporter who has been described by media outlets as a "far-right conspiracy theorist" -- questioned whether Harris was eligible to run.
He tweeted, "Kamala Harris is NOT eligible to be President. Her father arrived from Jamaica in 1961—mother from India arrived in 1960. Neither parent was a legal resident for 5 years prior to Harris's birth, a requirement for naturalization. Kamala was raised in Canada."
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Q: Wish + Simple Past or Would? I've been struggling to know the difference, even though I've done research about it. Could you tell the difference between those 2?
Examples:
Why do we say:

I wish it'd stop raining

And not:

I wish it stopped raining

What would the difference be if I said either:

I wish this game would be good
I wish this game were good

Thanks in advance

A: The difference between these is actually not as hard as it seems, I think:
"would" indicates a hypothetical future thing:

I wish it would stop raining.

(If my wish were true, then it will stop raining some time in the (presumably near) future.)

I wish the game would be good.

(If my wish were true, then the game will become good, or will end up being good.)
In the context of the game, this might be said if, for example, somebody is releasing a new game but it hasn't come out yet, so you're waiting to see whether it will be good or not (but expressing this as a wish implies that you don't expect it actually will be good, or you're pretty sure it won't be).
On the other hand, past tenses are talking about a hypothetical past thing:

I wish it stopped raining.
  I wish it had stopped raining.

(If my wish were true, then the rain would have already stopped at some point in the past.)
For example, "I wish it had stopped raining yesterday, but it didn't, so I was stuck inside all day."
Note that you can use the simple past for this, but it is actually more common to use the past perfect ("had stopped") instead.
Now, the use of "were" in your last example, is actually talking about a hypothetical present thing:

I wish this game were good.

(If my wish were true, then this game would be good right now.)

So, in summary, when expressing something hypothetical, like a wish, you are expressing your desire that:

*

*"would" -- something will happen in the future

*past tenses -- something did happen in the past

*"were" -- something is true right now

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The scheme retains a group of the original Loco Works buildings within the "Heritage Core" area at the centre of the site and will provide for a new access road linking the site with Horwich Parkway rail station, junction 6 of the M61 and the adjoining Middlebrook retail, leisure and business park.
Permission has been granted for the immediate demolition of three of the buildings within the former Horwich Loco Works Conservation Area that are at risk of collapse and the part demolition and alteration of buildings within the heritage core.
A series of highway junction improvements will also be provided to improve and accommodate access and egress at Rivington Chase.
The site is easily accessible from the road network at junction 6 of the M61, providing connections to Salford, Central Manchester, Manchester Airport by the A580 and M60/M602, and Preston by the M65 and M6.
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The site, which will be redeveloped over a 10 to 12 year period, has been included in the Bolton Council Core Strategy document, Bolton's planning framework document up to 2026.
A supplementary planning document has subsequently been approved by Bolton Council and the 'hybrid' planning application was approved by the planning committee at their meeting on the 11th September 2014.
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package com.seancarroll.chess.infrastructure.messaging.interceptors;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.seancarroll.chess.infrastructure.messaging.Request;

/**
 * Interceptor that logs the request prior to being dispatched to the dispatcher
 * as well as the response after being dispatched.
 *
 * @param <TRequest> The type of message to be handled
 * @param <TResponse> The type of response to be returned by the handler
 */
public class LoggingRequestInterceptor implements PreRequestHandler, PostRequestHandler {

    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggingRequestInterceptor.class);

    public LoggingRequestInterceptor() {
    }

    public void handle(Request request) {
        logger.info("Incoming request [{}]", request);
    }

    public void handle(Request request, Object response) {
        logger.info("[{}] executed with response [{}]", request.getClass().getSimpleName(), response);
    }
}

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This paper defines the restricted growing concept (RGC) for object separation and provides an algorithmic analysis of its implementations. Our concept decomposes the problem of object separation into two stages. First, separation is achieved by shrinking the objects to their cores while keeping track of their originals as masks. Then the core is grown within the masks obeying the guidelines of a restricted growing algorithm. In this paper, we apply RGC to the remote sensing domain, particularly the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sea ice images.


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Research Article| February 01 2011
The Early American Quest for Internal Improvements: Distance and Debate
Michael J. Hostetler
Department of Rhetoric, Communication and Theatre, St. John's University, St. John Hall 344, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, NY 11439, USA. hostetlm@stjohns.edu
Rhetorica (2011) 29 (1): 53–75.
https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2011.29.1.53
Michael J. Hostetler; The Early American Quest for Internal Improvements: Distance and Debate. Rhetorica 1 February 2011; 29 (1): 53–75. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2011.29.1.53
One segment of the American debate over internal improvements occurred between 1808 and 1817 and was marked by three rhetorical texts in which arguments moved from technical considerations to more transcendent appeals. These texts illustrate the interplay of geography and rhetoric and highlight the early use of god-terms like "fact," "progress," and "communication."
internal improvements, Albert Gallatin, Peter Porter, John C. Calhoun, god-terms, communication, rhetoric, distance
© 2011 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.
From Adfectatio to "Affectation": Affection as Catachresis in Shakespearean Texts
The Mirror has Two Faces: The Republican Style in Crisis in Cicero's Second Philippic
Review: A Shared History: Writing in the High School, College, and University, 1856–1886, by Amy J. Lueck
Review: De la "agudeza" al "gusto." Cicerón, entre el Barroco y la cultura ilustrada, by Javier Espino Martín
Review: Robert Burton's Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge by Susan Wells; Reading by Design: The Visual Interfaces of the English Renaissance Book by Pauline Reid; The Players' Advice to Hamlet: The Rhetorical Acting Method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment by David Wiles


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Trial of the Brussels attacks: Salah Abdeslam would have attacked a policeman
Belgique / Abdeslam, attacked, attacks, Brussels, policeman, Salah, Trial
Justice Minister Van Quickenborne told the "Soir" that an accused "attacked an agent" during a search before going to trial. He confirmed that the accused in question is the one who filed a complaint for police violence.
To install Hatim Kaghat.
Info "Evening" –
By Laurence Wauters
LAccused Salah Abdeslam, already sentenced to irreducible life imprisonment by the Paris Assize Court, is he looking for the incidents at the trial of the Brussels attacks? Justice Minister Van Quickenborne told the Eveningduring an exclusive interview, that a defendant "attacked an agent", during a search before going to trial. He confirmed that the accused in question is the one who filed a complaint for police violence.
Van Quickenborne: "We will go all the way to free Olivier Vandecasteele, respecting the Constitution"
Last Wednesday at the start of the hearing, Me Delphine Paci, lawyer for Salah Abdeslam, had denounced police violence and she had asked her client to explain what he claims to have suffered. The accused claimed to have been assaulted: "For the search, I was asked to look at the wall, I said that it had not happened like that yesterday, and I asked to see the chief. The policeman then ran into me, there were three of them on top of me," Abdeslam said. The same evening, the lawyer had announced the next day, her client filed a complaint for assault and battery from a public official: "A duty inspector came to Haren prison to take his statement", a- she explained. The president requested a medical examiner to check for injuries.
But at the same time, the police also lodged a complaint. According to the agents who intervened that morning for the strip search, it was Salah Abdeslam who rebelled: "There was an incident with a suspect who attacked an agent, a report will be forwarded to the prosecution", explained to the Evening the Minister of Justice. "People are trying to destabilize the police, but we are in a state of law and I will continue to apply the measures recommended by the police so as not to take risks for the victims, for society, for the policemen. »
Read the full interview.
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These were put together as part of some scenic items I put together for a friend's 6mm collection. Field tiles will be following, but when I was getting these trees together I figured they are a bit too small scale for 6, but would be fine for 2-3 mm, of which a couple of the group are putting together a separate project. Although these are probably too small for 6mm, I think that the same principles could easily be applied to produce something that would fit. Bigger foliage clumps and a larger mesh grid would do the trick.
The basis behind this is that I wanted something that looked like a wood and would enable figures to be positioned under them if absolutely necessary, but which would also allow bases to be sat on top without destroying them. Also, for flexibility, if it had to straddle a low wall or hedge on the table it could do that without having to provide exact gaps or be fixed to the field tiles.
Started with some wire mesh. It is a galvanised mesh in 6-7mm squares. It will be self-supporting by bending wires to 90 degrees around the edge. Some of the larger pieces will have internal glades which can be seen in 2 of the mesh pieces in the first picture. The second picture shows where the cut ends have been bent in this way.
Before having anything attached to the mesh pieces they are sprayed Army Painter Brown – Leather I think. The idea is that these are the trunks of the trees showing around the edge. When that is dry the mesh items have a thin sheet of scourer glued to the top. These are simply cheap scourers which are carefully split into 2 or 3 horizontal sheets – a little bit time consuming but not too bad. Using the whole scourer means the layer is a bit too thick at this scale. The scourers have 3 purposes – they soften the shape of the grid, overhang the tree trunks at the edge, and provide a better key when gluing the tree foliage on top. When dry cut the scourer to leave a 2-3mm overhang around the outside edge, or around the internal glades.
Using PVA or Gorilla glue, attach clumps of the chosen tree foliage to the upper surface of the scourers. This shows Woodland Scenics Medium Green clump foliage in place.
I then used Light Green. Unfortunately I didn't have any other shades of clump foliage to hand. However, the scourer means that smaller pieces can be glued in without falling through the wire mesh. It won't give you height, unless you allow a layer of the finer stuff to dry and then repeat using additional layers to build it up gradually.
Plan B was to shred some cheap sponge and colour it with acrylic paint. A bit lurid in places. I did the shredding by hand – if I wanted a larger batch I would have used a blender or a coffee/spice grinder. I decided to have some of the darker pieces in a conifer shape to break up the tree line. First step was to cut a cone shape, and then I then carefully tugged out tiny bits of foam using a pair of wire clippers to create the layers of foliage on the tree, then gluing it into a suitable gap. This is time-consuming, but I think the effect is worth it.
The hedging strip in the first picture below is 6″ long and included to show scale, and the Lego brick is included in the second picture for the same purpose. Not including the lugs on top of the brick, it is just shy of 1cm high.
I would recommend a spray of watered down pva to help fix the foliage, although I've been too lazy to follow my own advice on these.
Hope you find this tutorial of use. It would be good to see other's attempts at this sort of scale.
Well these are quite good. They really give the look of a mixed forest, and seem to have a good size for 2-3mm.
The conifers are the best bit I think, they really add something to the look, and make it seem more real than just a bunch of different colored foliage pieces.
Thanks for the comment. I was pleased with the conifers, especially as they were an afterthought. A comment on the Lead Adventure Forum has prompted me to look at how I can upscale these for 6mm. Not sure I can use the same approach for the conifers, but I don't think it would be successful without those shapes, so trying to figure out how I can get that effect.
You're right that without these it would look like a bunch of different foliage chunks, but coincidentally I picked up a youtube link advertising a cable channel documentary on the Mayan empire which included a flyover view of the jungle, and it looked exactly like a mix of foliage pieces.
Oh yes, that is certainly the case with a natural forest, and even an unnatural one (I live in "the city of trees" and at a certain point of my drive home I can see the urban canopy spread out, and it has a very similar look).
I just think that the conifers reduce the look of it being clump foliage from a bag!
Maybe you could put some actual 6mm conifers into the mix? Something from a Chinese company on ebay for cheap? Just cut the tips off at various heights and use those. Reuse the rest of the tree as 28mm bushes (with some reshaping).
It was just a coincidence that I saw the video and was surprised by the similarity – wasn't expecting it.
The cheap conifers is a good idea and I would have given that a go, but my health is very poor such that I'm really producing stuff to give it to my wargaming buddies for them to use rather than for me and trying to find ways of coming up with solutions to use up my stockpile of 'stuff that might be useful'. Sorted out the 6mm wire mesh base equivalent, just trying to see if the method used on the tiny trees works when it is scaled up. Not entirely convinced yet, but might have a half decent approach to rain forest. Hopefully I'll be able to put something on the site soon.
I think it's fine to use this sort of thing with 6mm. Wargaming trees are conventionally pretty small compared to accurately scaled. A mature oak for 28mm would be about 1 foot in diameter and over a foot high. Not very practical and difficult to create the impression of woods with such large individual trees. Artistic licence is essential.
Brilliant and very effective! I think it could scale up to 6mm pretty easily with a little experimentation.


Jester is a cancelled platform game that was in development by Sega of America for the Genesis / Mega Drive. There is not much info on its gameplay and only few levels backgrounds are preserved in the gallery below. Jester was canned after a problematic development and it is unknown how much was completed before the cancellation.
Thanks to Alan for the help in preserving some media from this lost project!


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Typically, a woman thinks she might be pregnant only after she misses a menstrual period, but with modern technology, women can find out if they are pregnant at an earlier stage.
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A convicted murderer has had his sentence reduced by three years by appeal court judges.
Kiro Wayne Halliburton, 19, previously of Tollgate Drive, Hayes, appeared at the Court of Appeal via video link on Friday (October 2) alongside co-appellant Zakariya Subeir.
The killer, currently residing at HMP Belmarsh, was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 16 years in prison, on December 19, after jurors convicted him of murder at the Old Bailey.
He was sentenced for his involvement in the death of Hayes handyman Paul Thrower.
But on Friday, Appeal Judges Lord Justice Fulford, Mrs Justice Lang DBE and Mr Justice Lewis, reduced the minimum tariff by three years to a 13-year term.
Subeir, previously of of Rockingham Road, Uxbridge, was, last year, sentenced to eight years in a young offenders' institution with an extended licence period of a further four years. The judges did not reduce his sentence.
The court heard that on the evening of February 20 last year, there had been an "extended period of bad behaviour on both sides" [the victim and the defendants] after a drunk Mr Thrower confronted a group of youths who had earlier abused his girlfriend, Geraldine Roberts.
The victim had been drinking and became very angry when his girlfriend told him the youths swore, spat and threw a drink at her earlier that day, the judges were told.
Halliburton and Subeir shut themselves in a bin chute when 46-year-old Mr Thrower chased them, the court heard.
They were handed an axe in a shed and Mahdi Osman - the third defendant who received five-and-a-half years in prison for his lesser role in the incident, and who did not appeal his sentence - passed it to Subeir. Osman said he handed it to them so they could protect themselves rather than attack Mr Thrower, the court heard.
When Mr Thrower broke the glass partition, the court was told, Subeir hit him twice on the head and once on the shoulder with the axe, while Halliburton stabbed him 10 times in the back with a knife before delivering the fatal wound to the heart.
Defending Halliburton, Miss Grey, outlined that although the trial judge recognised his young age at the time of the offence, extra mitigation circumstances meant that the sentencing threshold would have been lowered had they been properly taken into account.
Subeir's defence lawyer, Mr Cooper, contested the "extended license" period attached to his client's sentence and argued that his previous convictions should not "presume dangerousness".
The three judges dismissed the grounds of Subeir's appeal, saying it was not considered "manifestly excessive".
Speaking after the appeal hearing, Mr Thrower's brother, Darren, told getwestlondon: "I can't believe it. He cold-bloodedly killed my brother with no remorse whatsoever.
"The judge must have been off his rocker.
"With all the knife crime going on, that's what my brother's life is worth now."
And sister, Dawn, tweeted: "Never giving up until there are changes.
"RIP my big brother, holding you tight in my heart."


Construction works on the very first baseball stadium made entirely with reinforced concrete began in August 1958. Less than two years later the stands for around 43,700 people were ready. Located on the very south-eastern edge of San Francisco, area called Candlestick Point, the ground is surrounded by 10,000 parking places.
With very few sites suitable to host a stadium and parking of this size, the city decided to buy land from local entrepreneur, who then in return became the general contractor without a proper tender. This was later subject to investigation.
Though initially built entirely for baseball (as the Giants relocated to SF), the stadium was able to hold football games already in its early weeks. Within just a decade it was expanded and fully enclosed from the north, more properly serving American football despite its irregular shape.
The expansion brought capacity to 58,000 and allowed further increase, but didn't solve one problem. From its early days the stadium was receiving very strong wind from the San Francisco Bay. Initially it was though this is the price for a great open view of the Bay. But as the new stands enclosed Candlestick Park, the wind didn't stop. Even more, it began to swirl inside during games, earning it a reputation of extremely cold.
The baseball hosts relocated to their new stadium in 2000, leaving the 49ers as only hosts. However, the football franchise was also seeking to build a new home, succeeding in 2014, when Levi's Stadium was opened. As both key tenants left, the stadium was set for closing and demolition. Last event on the schedule is a Paul McCartney concert, coming nearly 50 years after The Beattles played their final concert at this very stadium.


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Sharing miles: Akron running clubs form community through training, races
July 26, 2021 ·6 mins read
By Mandy Kraynak
Many runners wear high-tech running gear to races, but members of the Lawn Wranglers Running Club sport cotton T-shirts with iron-on logos of a push lawn mower with flames and their group name written in Sharpie.
At the Burning River race last year, fellow runners jokingly asked them where their lawn equipment was, referencing a promotional video for the club featuring group members running with tools such as weedwackers and fertilizer spreaders.
"We're also goofy. We're also kind of clownish," said Larry O'Neil, a founder of the club. "We love the running community. We feel we're a part of it, but we're also kind of our own little subculture within the running community."
NEW STATUE AND ORAL HISTORY PROJECT COMMEMORATES AKRON'S RUBBER INDUSTRY WORKERS
The Lawn Wranglers Running Club is one of many running clubs that make up a larger running community in Akron. Trails like the towpath and MetroParks, as well as events such as the FirstEnergy Akron Marathon, Half Marathon and relay keep everyone in Akron's running community connected, said Michael Dilisio, the owner of the running store Second Sole Akrun.
The Akron Marathon relay event is connected to the origin of the Lawn Wranglers Running Club and its group name. In 2010, a five-runner relay team that included a landscaper chose the team name "Lawn Wranglers," which comes from the '90s comedy film Bottle Rocket. The group has grown since then, picking up steam in the past three-and-a-half to four years, O'Neil said.
The club meets in Highland Square for group runs on Wednesdays and does weekly interval sessions at Bolich Middle School, as well as trail runs on the weekends.
The lightheartedness of the Lawn Wranglers Running Club stands out to Mike Nix, a member of the group who went to high school with O'Neil.
"Everybody's always rooting for everybody else — that's the best part of it. And there's always somebody to run with," Nix said.
Holly Bishop (second from right) receives the "motivator award" after a run with the Running2bWell Akron group, which meets at Second Sole Akrun.
Several Blue Line Beginners head out along a trail together on a Saturday morning run in June.
(From left) Chad Ledley, Teri Kollin and Adil Orfi of the Lawn Wranglers Running Club rest after running intervals at the Bolich Middle School track.
Blue Line Beginners club members chat and stretch at the Brust Park trailhead in Munroe Falls, which was their June meeting location.
(From left) Bill Robb, Adil Orfi and Larry O'Neil take off on a 400-meter interval during a Tuesday evening Lawn Wranglers Running Club session.
About a decade-and-a-half ago, Bernie Rochford was running one morning with a nameless running group that had formed when two groups combined into one. As they were running along the canal, the group decided on the name Canal Rats, a name that Akron's minor league baseball team had considered.
The Canal Rats meet in the early hours of the morning, with weekday group runs starting between 5:20 and 5:50 a.m.
The Friday morning runs, which are coffee Fridays, are the most popular group run days. The Canal Rats used to meet at Bruegger's Bagels on Merriman Road. Now that the location has closed, Rochford brings carafes of coffee for the runners instead.
"There's nothing else that can get me up at that hour of the morning other than the Canal Rats and knowing that they will always be there," group organizer Liz Tucci said.
The Canal Rats include runners of various levels who call themselves the "Overachieving Rats," or "OARs," and the "Rats of Leisure," or "ROLs."
In addition to being a founding member of the Canal Rats, Rochford is also a mentor for Running2bWell's Akron group and the president of the organization's board.
Running2bWell focuses on using exercise as a form of treatment for mental health struggles and addiction. The group aims to make sure that people have the support that they need to use physical activity in their recovery, which means more than just education, said Keith Johnston, the founder and executive director of Running2bWell.
"It's a matter of giving that support and community. That's why we have weekly group meetings where we go out for a walk together or a run, and we make sure that people are supported and encouraged and given the tools that they need," Johnston said.
Part of the group's mission is that everyone has struggles and that nobody's left behind, Johnston said. After showing up to three group runs, participants can receive a free pair of running shoes.
The organization will host a race called Around the Beach on Aug. 7 at Munroe Falls Metro Park, which will be a celebration of fitness and wellness as well as a 5K and one-mile walk. The race will not conclude until everyone has crossed the finish line and "that very last person is cheered on even more than the winners," he said.
Some running clubs participate in events such as the Akron Marathon Race Series, which consists of three events.
This year, the 8K and one-mile race took place on June 26. The Goodyear Half Marathon and 10K will take place on Aug. 14. The series will culminate on Sept. 25 with the Akron Marathon, Half Marathon and team relay.
The Blue Line Beginners has the yearly goal of running the Akron Race Series. The club started in 2017 when, on April Fools' Day, the Akron Beacon Journal invited beginning runners to participate in the Akron Marathon Race Series. Jennifer Kline, whose mother convinced her to participate in the series, had never run a race at the time. Now, Kline is the director of the group, which has continued to grow and participate in the race series.
The location of the group's runs changes each month. They have been meeting at North Street in Clinton in July and are set to meet at Lock 29 in August.
Walkers are also welcome in the club, and the point is to get out and get moving, Kline said.
"People shouldn't feel intimidated that they're not a runner and that they can't come to a running group, because we're just excited you're there, and we will help you any way we can," she said.
The sense of community within the group extends beyond the Blue Line Beginners into the running community as a whole, which is filled with "runners helping runners," Kline said. Last year, the Blue Line Beginners participated in the Akron Marathon's virtual race with another group, Portage Lakes Running Club.
Nicole Gareri-David started Portage Lakes Running Club, also known as PLX Running Club, about nine years ago. The club is open to runners of all levels, with some people running one mile or walking and others training for ultramarathons. Gareri-David wants to get rid of the misconception that running clubs are only for fast, young runners or people who run marathons.
The club is "more of a family than just random strangers that run together," and it already seems as if the people who just joined last year have been there forever, she said.
"Runners kind of have a unique way of getting to know each other pretty well early on. We share miles with people. You just kind of talk about things you probably wouldn't talk about with a normal stranger, but because they're a runner, I feel like you trust them a little bit more," Gareri-David said.
Mandy Kraynak is just a writer from Akron. Reach her at mandykraynak@gmail.com.
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Ok let me start by saying that I am probably just going to pay this bill, just curious about the hypothetical.
I recently had a service company out to look at something at my house. Can go into details but they aren't actually super important. I had described the issue on the phone. Long story short technician walks in says "we don't do that" and then leaves. He barely got his coat off.
About a month later I get a bill for a service call that is past due for services rendered. I have called the company and they have been less than helpful. The reason the bill is past due is that they tell me tech provided me with a bill (which he did not) and I was supposed to pay at that time. That is the normal process for this company but it was not followed here.
So the easy thing is just to pay the bill it's $89, but I am irritated. There has been some other customer service stuff around this that is negative.
How bad for me would it be to just tell them to go pound sand, let it go to collections if they want, and then pay it immediately. My credit is great and I don't really need a credit score for anything other than maybe a future home purchase so really the only potential damage to me would be if this were to cause me to have trouble getting another mortgage. It seems unlikely that an $89 bill would do that but I don't really know.
Not really looking for "just pay it and move on" responses, I know that is the mathematically correct thing to do. Just wondering about the implications of my alternative scheme.
From what you said, I wouldn't pay it. I would try to get up the chain and explain why the bill needs to go away. The action of the tech would imply they didn't expect to charge you, or be paid.
I assume you had to call someone else, who performed the service?
another company altogether did it, the original company had no recommendations.
spoke to rep on phone yest who was going to review and get back to me, she never did.
spoke to another guy today who gave me a line of BS about how the tech had dx'ed the problem and left me a bill, neither of which he did.
now i'm allegedly waiting to hear from the manager.
I would call and try to talk to the highest up person that I could. I would be reasonable and explain the situation. If this doesn't resolve the situation, I would explain that I have no choice but to file a complaint with the BBB as well as leave honest (which will be negative) reviews on Yelp, NextDoor, and every other online review place I could find. I would also file a complaint with any state agency that has oversight, if applicable. If they're smart, they'd just waive the bill than have to deal with all of that.
I would pay the bill plus extra to NOT go to small claims court.
I would not pay it, doesn't matter the dollar amount. Yes, I will die on an $89 hill out of principle.
Did you ever sign anything they gave you? If not, you can straight up say nobody came to my house, have no idea who you are but you went to the wrong house or are billing the wrong person.
If this is just the "call charge," then that's one thing. I personally hate those, but they tend to go with the business. But if you're saying they charged you for diagnostics, then uh no.
No way would I pay it.
If you have not signed anything, ask them proof that they gave you a bill and you signed and agreed to it.
yeah that's it, they are only claiming it's the service call charge.
honestly i wouldn't have had a problem if the guy walked me through the issue and suggested who i call but the whole thing lasted about 45 seconds, i even remarked at the time that it really could have been handled on the phone.


Was Miguel Warned Against Jumping Over Audience At Billboard Awards??
It's nearly a month later and Miguel's infamous leg drop STILL continues to be the talk around town. Personally, I still am baffled on WHY he even did it in the first place. Yesterday, some news started spreading through the internet claiming that Miguel was warned ahead of time to NOT jump over the crowd. But, according to E! Online, his rep says otherwise.
"The reports claiming that Miguel was warned by producers not to jump are completely false," the "Adorn" artist's rep said in a statement to E! News.
The unlucky fan that Miguel landed on, Khyati Shah, is reportedly undergoing tests because her lawyer claims that she could be suffering effects of a neurological brain injury. Once they get the results of the tests, then they'll decide how to move forward. I think Miguel might need to start stacking some coins and try to settle this as quickly as possible.


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Chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
Director: Joachim Trier
Actors: Anders Danielsen Lie, Maria Grazia Di Meo, Renate Reinsve
Country: Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden
Keywords:The Worst Person in the World
Lucky Numbers 2000
Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball…
Country: France, USA
Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda….
Country: Brazil, USA
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Samurai Hustle 2014
During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku region is a small han. But at the han, there is a gold…
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Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big Xbox game. But…
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Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard trails Princess Pei Pei when she is kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he…
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western
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Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to…
Critical Care 1997
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they…
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Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.
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Eliska's husband has left her for a younger woman. She is childless, in her early forties, yet still attractive. Till then she had taken care of her successful husband, but…
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Revista de Saúde Pública
Vol 51 (2017) /
Adolescent pregnancy and transition to adulthood in young users of the SUS
Elisabeth Meloni Vieira Universidade de São Paulo; Faculdade de Medicina; Departamento de Medicina Social
Aylene Bousquat Universidade de São Paulo; Faculdade de Saúde Pública; Departamento de Política, Gestão e Saúde
Claudia Renata dos Santos Barros Universidade Católica de Santos
Maria Cecilia Goi Porto Alves Secretaria de Estado da Saúde de São Paulo; Instituto de Saúde
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1518-8787.2017051006528
Keywords: Pregnancy in Adolescence, Young Adult, Gender and Health, Social Support
OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to contextualize adolescent pregnancy from milestones associated with the process of transition from youth to adulthood. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study conducted with 200 adolescents, users of the Brazilian Unified Health System. The sample size for the estimation of proportions has been calculated assuming a population ratio of 0.50 and 95% confidence level. The dependent variables – planned pregnancy, living with a partner, and having left the parents' house – have been considered as markers of transition from dependence to independence, from youth to adulthood. In the analysis of the associated factors, we have used the Poisson model with robust variance. RESULTS Average age was 17.3 years, and most adolescents lived with a partner; approximately half of the adolescents got pregnant from their first partner and the average age of first sexual intercourse was 14.6 years. Only 19% of the adolescents were studying and most dropped out of school before the beginning of the pregnancy. In the bivariate and multiple analysis, we could see that the relationship with a partner for more than two years was associated with the three dependent variables. CONCLUSIONS The path of transition to adulthood has been the establishment of a link with a partner and consequent pregnancy, suggesting a clear pattern of male guardianship. The changing role of women in society observed in recent decades, which means choosing a professional career, defining the number of children, and choosing their partner(s), has not reached these young persons.
Vieira, E., Bousquat, A., Barros, C., & Alves, M. (2017). Adolescent pregnancy and transition to adulthood in young users of the SUS. Revista De Saúde Pública, 51, 25. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1518-8787.2017051006528
Copyright (c) 2017 Revista de Saúde Pública


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This fun, cumulative poem follows in the tradition of "The House that Jack Built." Yet it has an important theme: everything in nature is interconnected. The tree is anchored by roots that need rain and soil. It grows a sturdy trunk and long branches that sprout leaves and flowers. The flowers attract bees that use the nectar to make honey. That's where the bear comes in, but neither the bear nor the bees are happy about it. The humorous tone emphasizes that everything in the cycle has come together to the perfect outcome: that there is honey in the beehive. Just as bear cannot resist climbing the tree for the honey, the bees cannot resist going after him for getting their honey.


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The first ever winners of the John Moores Critic Award were announced on 16 November, with the UK award going to Liverpool-based writer Linda Pittwood. The Award recognises emerging new talent in critical writing about contemporary art and provides an international platform for budding critics in the UK and China to connect with their audiences and arts communities. UK entrants were asked to focus their critical eye on this year's John Moores Painting Prize shortlist, producing some interesting results.
There was also a Chinese winner of the prize – Xu Zie – and the two victors have been awarded a 3 week exchange to China or the UK, along with £2,000.
There were honourable mentions for Grace Harrison in the UK and Wu Shen Zhi in China, both of whom bagged £1,000. The competition, organised jointly by Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and Shanghai University, ran parallel to the John Moores Painting Prize as part of this year's Liverpool Biennial at the Walker Art Gallery (National Museums Liverpool).
The judges were Yan Gong, Director, Art World Magazine, Shanghai; Hsiangling Lai, Board member and former Director, Rockbund Art Museum; Gao Minglu, Chair of the Department of Art History, Sichuan Fine Art Institute; Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, UK President of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA); David Batchelor, artist and writer; Sam Thorne, Associate Editor, Frieze Magazine.
The Chair of the Award committee, Henry Meyric Hughes, said: "There was a good spread of ages and genders participating in this first award and the panel were unanimous in their decision to award one clear winner and runner up from each country." Winning entries will also be published on a new dual language John Moores Critics Award website and published in a bilingual publication, alongside the winners of the John Moores Painting Prize. This will be jointly edited by LJMU's School of Art and Design and the University of Shanghai.
Ling Min, Professor of Art history at Shanghai University, who was – with Lewis Biggs – one of the prime movers behind the John Moores Critics Award, is herself also a member of AICA Open Section.
UK Winner Linda Pittwood is an exhibition coordinator and arts writer based in Liverpool. After graduating from LJMU in 2006 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Linda was an artist-curator based at Red Wire Studios before leaving to study for an MLitt in Museum Studies and take up a position in the Exhibitions department at National Museums Liverpool. Linda writes for the Liverpool Daily Post Arts Blog and contributes to websites including thedoublenegative.co.uk and fact.co.uk.
The main sponsor of the 2012 Awards is the DSL Collection, Paris. Additional support is offered by The British Council China, within the framework of their 'China-UK Now Festival' celebrations. The Award is delivered in association with the UK Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA UK).


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Q: Rutas administrarles en vue router Hola estoy desarrollando un dashborad gestionable.
Mi problema es que un usuario solo puede ver ciertos módulos. El que dice esto es el backend. Entonces al final:

*

*El usuario A tiene acceso a todo.

*El usuario B solo tiene acceso a las estadísticas.

Tengo para esto en vue router.
const routes = [
  {
    path: '/',
    name: 'Home',
    component: () => import('@/views/Home.vue'),
    beforeEnter: AuthGuard.auth,
    meta: {
      layout: 'dashboard'
    }
  },

 {
    path: '/estadisticas',
    name: 'estadisticas',
    component: () => import('@/views/estadisticas.vue'),

    meta: {
      layout: 'dashboard',
      auth: true
    }
  }
]

El problema que presento es que cuando el usuario hace login. El login le manda las rutas a las que tiene acceso. Si el usuario intentara pedir algo que a lo que no tiene permiso regresa el backend un error 401.
Sin embargo yo no se como hacer hacer que vue router solo tenga disponibles las rutas que le corresponden a un usuario.
Intente colocar las rutas en tiempo de ejecucion:
      this.$router.options. routes.push({
        omponent: "hola.js",
        meta: { layout: "blank" },
        name: "hole",
        path: "/holi"
      });

Pero esto no funciona.

A: en el index de vue router tu puedes ejecutar un función, para que dependiendo de alguna condición que tenga el usuario solo pueda acceder a algunas urls, en caso contrario lo rediriges a otra pantalla, en este caso por ejemplo, vitrifico si el usuario esta logueado para que pueda acceder a la url, si no se dirige a login:
Vue.use(Router)

const routes = [...mis rutas....]

const rutas = new Router({
  routes: routes,
  mode: 'history'
})

// metodo para enviar urls privadas a login
rutas.beforeEach((to, from, next) => {
  // verificamos todas la rutas
  rutas.options.routes.forEach((route) => {
    // si coincide con una ruta y tiene propiedad secure verificamos login
    if (to.matched[0].path === route.path && route.secure) {
      if (!state.isLoggedIn) {
        return next('/login')
      }
    }
  })
  // curso normal del proceso
  next()
})

export default rutas


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Abaham Lincoln – America's Hijacker
David Zuniga March 3, 2014
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…(Isaiah 5:20)
On this annual observance of Lincoln's birthday (February 12), a gift of truth will help you make sense of our present slide into Obamanation.
The most staggering fraud ever perpetrated by government schools on a supposedly free people is the conditioning of students to extol and adore Dishonest Abe — demonstrably the most monstrous American president in history.
The most carefully buried secret of our history is the abiding affinity that Abraham Lincoln had for Karl Marx and his Communist system. Those who believe that Barack Obama is attempting to launch American communism, are as ignorant of our history as the average Russian citizen is of his.
Lest you think I exaggerate, I suggest two resources – one of which is immediately available at no cost. Reading Karl Marx with Abraham Lincoln: Utopian Socialists, German Communists, and Other Republicans appeared in the September 2011 issue of International Socialist Review, the communist news magazine of record. The article details the relationship between Marx and Lincoln's administration.
The second resource is a book entitled Lincoln's Marxists by Al Benson and Walter Kennedy, that delves much more deeply into the ties between Marxism, Lincoln's unconstitutional new national army, and the neo-nascent GOP of Lincoln's day, that rose from the ashes of the Whig party. That work and the three others depicted below, are shocking but heavily documented and demonstrably true exposes of our most execrable president:
Also by Professor Thomas DiLorenzo on a related subject (Lincoln as founder of American statism), see THIS 2010 monograph from the Mises Institute. Indeed, the Democrat party took an evil turn after the Northern mercantilists (most of whom had no use for Blacks except as political water-boys) brought The War to Enslave the States upon us all. But the GOP was even more wicked, as it turns out.
Conservatism in Destructive Denial
Our present hurtling descent into tyranny while the people do nothing, suggests that America suffers a case of mass insanity. I recently asserted in this monograph that since Lincoln's and Darwin's era, America turned against God to accommodate every imaginable sin, and a few unimaginable ones. The wages of such rebellion has been God's judgment. We presently wander in the desert, the only path back to civilization being repentance.
A second aspect of our national insanity is actual insanity, as defined. In the psychological phenomenon known as Stockholm syndrome, also called capture–bonding, hostages begin to empathize and sympathize with their captors. Eventually, even to love and defend them. In this mental condition, the victim begins to consider any brief cessation of abuse to be an act of kindness by his captor.
This form of traumatic bonding does not require a hostage scenario, as Dutton and Painter (Victimology Journal, 1981) found: "(S)trong emotional ties…develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other" such as is commonly seen in abused wives. It has also been evident in many populations under totalitarian rule.
One common hypothesis explaining Stockholm syndrome is based in Freudian theory: the bonding is the victim's response to the trauma of being a victim. By identifying with the aggressor, the ego defends itself. If the victim can adopt the same values as the aggressor, the dire threat ceases to exist.
Then another mental defense mechanism known as Normalcy Bias may come into play, as was witnessed among the two oldest generations of former Soviet subjects after collapse of the USSR. In the victim's mind, things will always remain as they are; nothing drastic will ever alter the conditions to which the victim has become accustomed – the accepted norm.
Having maintained a Tax Honesty website for a decade, I have witnessed this emotional phenomenon in hundreds of Americans. The taxpayer petulantly demands that everyone must stay in the 'fair share' line, even after being shown clear sections of the Tax Code, dozens of cases, Supreme Court rulings spanning five generations, and the fact that over 67 million Americans no longer file.
Even after 150 years of D.C. organized crime under the control of the cartels, don't move the hamster's wheel when it has yet a great deal of running to do; it will not take kindly to the distraction!
Incidentally, to followers of Allen West, Mychal Massie, et al: I assert that any Black American who claims to be a constitutional conservative yet is still shilling for the GOP is either ignorant of a major chapter in American history exposed here, or is sweeping the GOP charade under the rug merely to get ahead. This puts them in the ironic position of criticizing Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and their ilk for toeing the Democrat party line for a handout, while doing the very same for the other corrupt machine.
Fallen Stalin
A traveler in Europe recently posted a description of Lithuania's Grutas Park – a chilling display of communist statues that were removed from public squares in Lithuania. "Families with young children roam the park and it is no exception to see young children posing with Lenin or Stalin while their dad is making a picture. It is also a strange experience to visit…souvenir shops where you can buy mugs or small glasses with a portrait of Stalin on it. Why would anyone buy a mug with the portrait on it of somebody who (ordered) the death of millions? … Bizarre but true."
That park filled with former tyrants' statues is certainly no more bizarre than America's love affair with Abraham Lincoln. For instance, the outsize Lincoln Memorial, an embarrassingly idolatrous monument, testifies to American ignorance; to the effectiveness of government education throughout the 20th century, here as in China or the former Soviet Union.
A Lincoln's Birthday Execration
Are you a defender of the U.S. Constitution and the norms and nobility of our Founding Fathers? As a repentant Russian would do with the memory of Stalin, I invite you to join me in a new execration — a national curse — to Lincoln.
Oh Captain, our Captain, on this day hundreds of thousands of young Americans will be taught to sing praises in blissful ignorance to you, hijacker of our Constitution! Oh, creator of the first counterfeit U.S. dollar, they will extol your honesty and virtue! Founder of the illegal national army that defies everything for which our founders lived and died, your witless victims salute you – led by Glenn Beck and Hillsdale College.
You were a bold liar while you lived, Dishonest Abe, and in academia your retinue still boldly peddles deceitful, conjured narratives of your achievement and character.
Lord Acton said, "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men have almost always been bad men". Obama, two Bushes, Clinton, Nixon, LBJ, FDR, Wilson, TR and others prove Lord Acton's dictum, yet no one holds a candle to you, oh hijacker Captain, our Captain!
On your birthday, we curse your memory as we thank God for His justice. For if 300 birthday celebrations be offered to you before truth prevails, soon or late your idolatrous statues will topple in the passion of American repentance.
Blow your candles, Dishonest Abe, you'll not blow them out! Gnash your teeth in Hell ten million birthdays to come, as the flames of your just desserts return to you the sufferings you've caused to millions.
If you are offended by this attack on your illiterate, insane tradition, that's tough. Get used to it, for law enforcement and housecleaning will likely continue the rest of our lives. The AmericaAgain mission is to preserve, protect, and defend the U.S. Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic. Said enemies for generations have included the majority of Washington D.C. functionaries with their agencies, bureaus, departments, regulations, programs, and agents whose very existence is in high violation of our highest law. If you're on the enemy's side, suit yourself; law enforcement doesn't require a majority and isn't a popularity contest.
We The People — even just a remnant of 1% — intend to end organized crime in Congress, thus stopping the crime cartels and illustrating to the world that our Constitution, by God's grace, allows us to peacefully accomplish what the Mexican and Russian people cannot. We can end our desert wandering; we can repent before the face of God. We can get into action using tactical wisdom and multi-generational self-discipline that once characterized us as a people.
You see, we will fling the cell doors open where lawless captors have held us for generations! If this disturbs you, stay inside as we send your D.C. captors to join you; but don't blame the messenger for delivering harsh truth.
No; blame your teachers all those years ago, whose warm traditions — whose lies — you now prefer to liberty.
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David Zuniga
A consulting architectural engineer for 28 years, David planted four classical Christian K-12 schools in three states. He is founder and CEO of AmericaAgain!, a perpetual trust and membership organization that with just 1% of the population can end D.C. organized crime. His 2010 book This Bloodless Liberty describes the mission and his 2015 book FEAR The People lays out the plan of action: America's House™ will ratify the original First Amendment already ratified in 11 states, growing the U.S. House to 6400 members in small, local elections…pass the Bring Congress Home Act, all members of Congress work full time from a hometown office at half their present pay, no benefits, two terms maximum…the AmericaAgain! Indictment Engine™ will keep members of Congress from violating the Constitution…the 22 AmericaAgain! reform laws will take back all that D.C. criminals (including the federal courts) have stolen…and finally, restore the Citizen Militia, the law enforcement and national defense force stipulated in the Constitution. David is a regular contributor on blogs and alternative media including D.C. Clothesline, Freedom Outpost, Liberty Beacon, Prepper Recon and others.


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As boring as it may sound, the direction that toilet bowl water swirls at the equator has more to do with the toilet's manufacturer than it does any physics phenomena.
It is a commonly held misconception that toilet water always drains counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere because of the Coriolis force an acceleration imparted by the Earth's rotation. The influence of the Coriolis force on spin direction is real, but it is generally only observable on very large scales, such as trade winds and hurricanes.
The affect the Coriolis force has on a toilet bowl is much too small to actually see in a flushing toilet but that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
In 1962, Ascher Shapiro, an expert in fluid mechanics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who died in 2004, ran an experiment showing that the Coriolis force does affect water drainage, but the rotational effect is so small that it's overshadowed by other factors, such as the direction that water enters a basin or the shape of the basin (which is a function of how the toilet-maker designs the bowl and flush mechanism).
Shapiro began his experiment by filling a large, shallow dish with water, making sure that the water entered the dish with a clockwise swirl, the opposite direction you'd expect it to turn in the Northern Hemisphere. He covered the dish with a plastic sheet, which removed any air drag, and let the water stand for 24 hours to negate its initial spin. When Shapiro first unplugged a drain at the bottom of the dish, he didn't notice any rotation to the water as it drained. However, after some time the water eventually began to swirl counterclockwise, though at a slow rate.
A few years later, another research team at the University of Sydney showed the opposite to be true in the Southern Hemisphere.
But when it comes to which direction flushed toilet water drains, only one thing matters do your flush jets point to the left or the right?
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