Anxiety related to school shootings has understandably increased over the past week. We want to hear about concerns and threats so we can be proactive in addressing them, so thank you for those reports made directly to us. Citizen anxiety is probably escalated after the most recent shooting as it has clearly demonstrated system inadequacies and showcased a person that seems to have committed violent acts despite reports of the potential threat. We have no interest in being part of any blame games in other jurisdictions, but we would like to address how we assess threats in Piqua so people will continue to report them. We also seek to serve a community that is not creating panic by inappropriately passing along false rumors and want to provide citizens with the knowledge and tools they need to feel safe.
In Piqua, we first take protective measures for uninvolved parties to a threat which could include closing a school/business or making an announcement to those affected. We then gather multi-disciplinary teams to assess information that could lead a reasonable person to believe a violent act could occur. We include law enforcement and a mental health component along with teams familiar with the situation or concern. In factories, this is frequently HR, senior management, and floor supervisors. At a school, this would include principals, in-school counselors, and other staff with direct knowledge. We are just beginning to establish threat assessment teams in houses of worship and defining what those might look like. These are confidential gatherings where the various disciplines may share information that is otherwise protected. The legal ability to share this information must be assessed by the entity that has the information, and the privacy exceptions can apply in the interest of protecting lives.
our agency takes control of the situation for arrest and/or involuntary mental health evaluation, and we continue communication with the school or business to conduct reentry plans for the subject to the school or work environment. Additional protective measures for other parties may also be implemented.
A threat assessment goes beyond determining whether a subject said something threatening. If they said something illegal and we can prove it, they get charged. We still assess the threat for both the intent and the capacity of the subject to carry it out. When threats are brought to our attention outside of school or work hours, we frequently prohibit the student or employee from coming to the potential target site while conducting the investigation.
There are several other tip lines and anonymous tip services available. They will pass information specific to Piqua along to us. Likewise, we forward our tips to more appropriate agencies when we don't have jurisdiction.
Please, don't hesitate to report your concerns or threats that you witness directly to us. And, think twice before passing along any information on social media outlets when you don't personally know that information to be true.


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Land Reform is 'Important Step' to Meet Scotlands Aspirations
SCOTLAND, UK - First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP has just delivered the Scottish Government's Programme for Government 2014-15. Relevant to the agriculture sector are proposals for the Land Reform Bill and the Succession Bill.
The former proposes to a new Land Reform Commission tasked with developing the evidence base for future reform, supporting public debate and holding this and future governments to account.
The Succession Bill will make laws for succession clearer, removing the distinction between movable and immovable property to give children, spouses and civil partners appropriate legal rights over both forms of property.
A policy statement on land rights and responsibilities will be made next week, following which the Scottish Government will begin consultation on a draft Land Reform Bill. NFU Scotland looks forward to engaging with the Scottish Government throughout this process.
NFU Scotland President Nigel Miller commented: "A fresh look at land reform is an important step towards meeting the aspirations of communities all over Scotland. Farming and farmers are a central pillar of rural communities and must be embedded in the development of land reform matters.
"Wider ownership is a goal in some areas with several crofting and island communities already demonstrating how ownership can open up opportunities for a new generation.
"While ownership is important to some, a partnership approach also merits support. Many farmers and landowners are already involved in community projects that provide access, recreation, education and management. This kind of collaborative approach can deliver value underpinned by sustainable land and woodland management and the flexibility to respond to future needs.
"We wait for the detail contained in the statement next week on land rights and responsibilities.
"We have some concerns about the potential unintended consequences of the proposed Succession Bill and the possibility that this may lead to the break up of family farms because of the changes to inheritance rights. We look forward to discussing with the Scottish Government our concerns and looking for appropriate safeguards."
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Traded to the New York Knicks before the 1971–72 season, Monroe became a key member of the beloved, star-studded 1972–73 Knicks team that captured the NBA title. And now, on the 40th anniversary of that championship season—the franchise's last—Monroe is finally ready to tell his remarkable story.
Written with bestselling author Quincy Troupe (Miles, The Pursuit of Happyness) Earl the Pearl will retrace Monroe's life from his upbringing in a tough South Philadelphia neighborhood through his record-setting days at Winston-Salem State, to his NBA Rookie of the Year season in 1967, his tremendous years with the Baltimore Bullets and ultimately his redemptive, championship glory with the New York Knicks. The book will culminate with a revealing epilogue in which Monroe reflects on the events of the past 40 years, offers his insights into the NBA today, and his thoughts on the future of the game he loves.


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AT&T, Samsung Up the Ante with the New BlackJack II Smart Device
WEBWIRE – Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Sleeker, Smarter, Simpler BlackJack Brings New Features — Built-In GPS, Video Share, Global 3G Capabilities, Windows Mobile 6 — To Table
San Antonio, Texas, Dallas, Texas.-AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung) today announced the availability later this year of the BlackJack II™1, a sleek, smart and simple device powered by AT&T's 3G-enabled BroadbandConnect network that has the familiar look and feel of your desktop with Windows Mobile 6. The BlackJack II had its first public showing today during a keynote address by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2007 in San Francisco.
BlackJack II from AT&T brings the personal computer experience to a slim, compact device ideal for today's mobile consumer. The powerful and performance-driven BlackJack II, which is available in slick black and red wine color options, features a full QWERTY keyboard, large 2.4" QVGA color display screen and front jog wheel to elevate productivity and improve the mobile experience.
Following in the footsteps of the highly popular BlackJack™, the BlackJack II boasts an enhanced feature set, which includes:
* AT&T Video Share, the first service in the U.S. that enables users to share live video over the wireless phones while on a voice call. BlackJack II is the first AT&T business-oriented smart device to feature Video Share.
* Built-in GPS, Support for location-based applications such as TeleNav GPS Navigator™.
* Global phone capabilities. Tri-band 3G UMTS/HSDPA and Quad-band EDGE/GPRS technology takes advantage of AT&T's industry-leading international wireless footprint for access to e-mail, the Web and other data applications in more than 135 countries — including Japan, South Korea and China — and customers can make or receive phone calls in more than 190 countries.
* An RSS Reader Client to compile syndicated Web content in a single location for easy viewing.
* Significant improvement in the standard battery capacity to get you through the day.
* A 2.0-megapixel camera with video-capture capabilities.
* Increased standard memory.
* A louder and clearer speakerphone.
In addition to a robust feature set, BlackJack II provides users with access to multiple e-mail accounts, both personal and business, through Microsoft Direct Push technology with Outlook® Mobile and AT&T Xpress Mail™, which includes most major POP3/IMAP providers. The BlackJack II also offers over-the-air synchronization of contacts, calendar and task lists with Microsoft Exchange Server or AT&T Xpress Mail.
"The BlackJack II takes one of AT&T's most popular smart devices and adds to it a whole new level of functionality and capabilities," said Jeff Bradley, senior vice president, Marketing and Operations for AT&T's wireless unit. "This will provide business people and consumers alike with an even more powerful and complete communications and entertainment tool backed by the largest domestic and international wireless data footprint of any U.S. carrier."
"Samsung is proud to work with AT&T and Microsoft to bring the next-generation BlackJack to the U.S. market," said Dale Sohn, president, Samsung. "We built upon the success of last year's award-winning version of the BlackJack, our No. 1-selling smart device. This highly popular device allowed Samsung to develop BlackJack II with several design enhancements, making it the quintessential device for both work and play."
A Pocket-Sized Personal Computer
With Windows Mobile 6, the BlackJack II brings a powerful personal computer experience to the small screen and improves how people do business on the go on a single device. The BlackJack II helps people keep track of schedules and contacts through Outlook Mobile, browse the Internet by using Internet Explorer Mobile, as well as manage Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents using Office Mobile. Windows Mobile 6 also supports HTML e-mail so that people can view and compose e-mail messages in their native format with live links to Web sites, support for images, tables and bullets.
BlackJack II will be among the first Windows Mobile 6 devices from AT&T to support Microsoft's System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008, which Ballmer introduced during his keynote address today. Available for BlackJack II in 2008, System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 offers companies an end-to-end solution for managing and securing Windows Mobile devices. Employees will also have access to company information and a line of business applications from a single, secure place behind the firewall by using a cutting-edge Mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN).
"Samsung and AT&T are delivering a worthy successor to the wildly popular first generation BlackJack," said Pieter Knook, senior vice president, Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft Corp. "Windows Mobile 6 on the shiny, sleek BlackJack II is a great option to those wanting to run errands or take a walk in the park, all while staying in touch with important business and personal matters."
Accelerated Entertainment at Your Fingertips
Beyond the workday, BlackJack II allows users to kick back, relax and enjoy a full complement of entertainment capabilities. There's access to AT&T Mobile Music — an integrated, on-the-go music experience that delivers "your music, your way" by providing simple access to the most robust collection of music content available today, including XM Radio Mobile, which comes preloaded on the device and is available for $8.99 a month. BlackJack II also features AT&T's CV streaming video service. Customers can watch a large selection of video clips of their favorite television shows, sports, news and weather, entertainment and premium content, including hit HBO programs and exclusive mobile content from World Wrestling Entertainment.
With features such as stereo Bluetooth® technology — with stereo headset support — a 2.0-megapixel camera with video-capture capabilities, an RSS reader client and Windows Media Player 10 Mobile, users will always be connected, entertained and informed. Built-in GPS technology allows customers to location-based applications, including TeleNav GPS Navigator, which provides GPS-enabled turn-by-turn voice and on-screen driving or walking directions, colorful 3-D moving maps and traffic-delay alerts with one-click rerouting.
AT&T's BroadbandConnect network is available today in more than 200 major metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. and provides BlackJack II users with typical download speeds from 600 to 1,400 Kbps. Outside 3G coverage areas, customers seamlessly connect with AT&T's nationwide2 EDGE network, the largest national high speed wireless data network in the U.S., with availability in more than 13,000 cities and towns and along some 40,000 miles of major highways.
The BlackJack II is expected to be available by the end of the year for $149.99 with a two-year contract and mail-in rebate. Customers can purchase the device in AT&T retail stores nationwide, from national retailers, on www.att.com and through AT&T's business-to-business sales teams.


As an underclassman, I developed my customer service skills and began building my technical skills. I worked as a nanny, helpdesk technician, and software engineering intern. I learned that I love positions that have a variety of challenges and involve working with people.
This post is part two in a five part series.
Second semester of my freshman year, I decided to get a job. I was hired at University Dining worked as a cashier and barista. I loved this job and met so many different people.
At this job, I met one of my best friends. As a cashier, I met the Student Manager of Ask5000 (where I was later hired). I also spoke to the upperclassman who convinced me to join Computer Engineering (I was Applied Math and Computer Science). This job was an amazing opportunity.
After my freshman year of college, I was a nanny for my pastor's family. I made sure the kids did their chores and planned activities. We went to the park, the pool, and many other fun places. We baked together and played sports. This was a fun experience and I loved spending time with the kids.
I LOVED this job! I had customer service experience but IT was completely new. I learned that many people lack confidence when it comes to technology and are afraid that one wrong click will destroy everything. My favorite part of this job not only fixing problems, but helping customers become stronger computer users.
Getting an internship as a sophomore was an amazing opportunity. I had attended every career fair, but I expected to get an internship as a junior. Interning at OSI was my first experience working in an office. I found my project interesting, but I wasn't used to sitting at a desk all day. I often took my laptop and worked in the cafe for a change in scenery. This helped a lot.
As an underclassman, I was blessed with some amazing opportunities. A common theme that I've found with my jobs is that I love variety and being challenged. If each day is different from the last, I can't help but love the job. A high energy position that has me working with new people and new challenges would be a perfect fit.


Is there any problem with allowing an 08M system power down with the brownout protection when letting the power drop to zero over a few seconds? I am looking at a circuit to power down after a period of inactivity to save batteries using a FET, but the decreasing voltage may take place over several seconds.
From my limited experience... on the 08M with batteries dying a unit I have will reset over and over when an LED is turned on pulling the batteries down - then they drift up and the unit fires again... quite reliably in my case... not quite the same as you mention but perhaps close enough.
My experience is the same as Premelec's. From a code point of view, maybe don't do anything critical at startup so if it resets 10x as the power goes down at least it won't be in the middle of turning on a high power moter or whatever.
I have several solar powerd 08Ms which power up/down just fine as the light level increases/decreases during the day.


The definition of Davenport and Short (1990) is also well known. They state that business processes have two important characteristics: First, they have customers who are the recipients of the process' defined outcomes. Second, business processes normally aren't just found inside a functional unit, but cross organizational boundaries and occur across or between functional units.
A business process is a sequence of steps which transforms inputs into outputs: It is customer focused, i.e. is activated by market and (external or internal) customer needs, value adding, i.e. creates value which is appreciated by the customer, and has a process owner who has end-to-end responsibility for the whole process. Furthermore it has access to all necessary resources and information (Schantin, 2004).


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On August 23, 2008 new regulations were enacted revising the standards and requirements for a person to obtain a permit from the Department to respond to human/wildlife conflicts. An individual permit is required for a Commercial Wildlife Damage Control Operator and assistants. Click here to view the regulations in their entirety.
The first step in obtaining a Wildlife Damage Control Permit is to take and pass a written examination comprised of trapping procedures, heath and human safety issues, components of law and regulation relating to human/animal conflict trapping, and questions relating to the reproductive cycles, feeding patterns and den sites of the more common wildlife species in Maryland.
The required test is an open book exam and is available on line.
If you chose to e-mail the answer sheet make certain that you have under-lined or changed the color for the correct answer in such a way that we can determine your choice.
Do not mail the application and the fee until you have heard that you passed the test by e-mail or by telephone.
The new administrative procedures and protocols strengthen our partnership with people who respond to human/wildlife complaints. Interactions between wildlife and people become more common as the landscape becomes more urban. To successfully resolve these conflicts our wildlife damage control procedures must involve techniques that are responsive and educational to provide the client with a remedy that minimizes the chance of a subsequent problem.
We will list any commercial operator that obtains a Wildlife Damage Control Permit that takes calls from the public in our on-line list if you complete an availability form indicating that you with to be included in the public list. Click here to download the the Availability Form.
NOTE: Please do not complete this availability form unless you intend to take calls from the public.
NOTE: Permit may take up to three weeks to issue from the date the answer sheet is received.


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Woodend, originally known as Woodend Pocket, is immediately north-west of central Ipswich. It is bounded by an inverted U of the Bremer River.
Woodend Pocket was the site of an early Ipswich coal mine, the Radstock (1854) at the western end of today's Hayne Street. More importantly, Woodend is the site of several heritage precincts, the earliest dating from the 1840s when the Catholic Church obtained a two acre land grant. Later purchases and donations enlarged the site to 20 acres. Buildings were added to, replaced and enlarged until the full complement comprised:
St Mary's Church, a twin-steepled Gothic revival building of cathedral scale (1900)
A Presbytery (1876), designed by Andrea Strombuco
A Sisters of Mercy Convent (1884)
Christian Brothers' residence (1891), recognised as one of Ipswich's most elegant buildings
Parish hall (1901)
St Mary's boys' primary school (1889)
St Mary's girls' college (1946)
St Edmunds boys' college (1965)
A short distance to the south-west is Queensland's oldest secondary college, Ipswich (boys') Grammar (1863) with its original Gothic style building still intact. Both the Catholic precinct and the Grammar school are on the Queensland heritage register.
Waghorn Street and Woodend Road, on the eastern and western sides of the Grammar school, are heritage housing precincts. Each is elevated, and Waghorn Street has higher quality dwellings with views to Queens Park and Denmark Hill, east and south of central Ipswich. Woodend Street has an extensive precinct of timber houses, unusually intact and continuous for 1000 m northwards from Hawthorne Street. Later, houses were built down from Woodend Road ridge. A series of workers' cottages is in Hume and Bowen Streets toward the north end of the Pocket, overlooking the eastern slope down to the Bremer River.
The Catholic school was the sole supplier of primary education until Blair State School opened in neighbouring Sadliers Crossing in 1917.
Floods 2011
With the Bremer River and another watercourse defining four fifths of its boundary, Woodend was set for flooding in January 2011. Fortunately most built-up areas were above the flood level, and parklands bore the brunt of the flood.
Woodend's census populations have been:


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Jeremy Pruitt names Jarrett Guarantano starting quarterback against Arkansas
By Terry A. Lambert@TLambertTN Nov 5, 2020, 9:43am EST
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A bye week ahead of a matchup with the Arkansas Razorbacks failed to produce any movement at the quarterback position.
Fifth-year senior Jarrett Guarantano will remain under center for Tennessee this week, despite a rocky start to the 2020 season. The problem is, the Vols just don't have anything ready to play behind him, which has forced Tennessee to stick with Guarantano to this point.
Jeremy Pruitt confirmed his decision on Wednesday, and offered an explanation.
"Jarrett will be the starter," Pruitt said after practice. "He understands our expectations. I felt like he's had another good week, continuing to do the things that I'm talking about, getting the guys around him to play at a higher level."
Pruitt also pointed towards continuity as a reason to stick with Guarantano.
"It's one thing about on the offensive side, it takes all 11 guys to play together," Pruitt said. "Defensively, you can have a couple of great players and they can just make some plays sometimes. It only takes one guy that can create a bad play offensively. That's why you've got to be able to play as a unit. Up front, that's why communication is so important, playing together, and that's something that we've tried to focus on and continue to focus on over the last couple of weeks."
Guarantano has thrown for 914 yards in five games so far this season. He's tossed six touchdown passes, while throwing three interceptions and losing a couple of fumbles. The lack of production through the air is one things, but it's the turnovers that have really cost Guarantano this season.
A disaster of a second half against Georgia followed by a brutal performance against Kentucky quickly stopped Tennessee's 2020 season in its tracks. Now they're faced with a suddenly vital game against Arkansas, one that appears much tougher now than it did a month ago.


Next Circuit Breaker: 18 October 2015!
Ach noes! Ich muB noch eine Woche mehr warten!
Yes, gang – due to the Thanksgiving long weekend, the next Circuit Breaker has been pushed to Sunday, October 18.
If you forget and show up on the 11th anyway, I hope you have fun, and be sure to come back the following week!


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Oct. 16, 2017 / 9:41 AM
No North Sea disruptions from Ophelia
British forecasts issue Amber Warning from inland areas, but the situation is not as severe as offshore United States in recent weeks.
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British forecasters issue wind alerts from what's of Hurricane Ophelia, but the storm isn't impacting the regional energy sector so far. File photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Energy companies working in the British waters of the North Sea offered no indication Monday that storm system Ophelia was disrupting their work.
The British Met Office, the national forecaster, said former Hurricane Ophelia is moving across parts of Ireland, Wales and Scotland with winds as strong as 80 miles per hour in some areas. So-called Amber Warnings are in place for parts of the region.
"There is a good chance that power cuts may occur, with the potential to affect other services, such as mobile phone coverage," the latest forecast read.
A spokesperson for Norwegian oil company Statoil told UPI there were no disruptions to its activity in the North Sea from Ophelia. British energy company BP offered no indication that its work was impacted.
RELATED About 30 percent of Gulf oil production still offline because of Nate
Economists at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said total British oil production during the first seven months of the year increased slightly to average around 1 million barrels per day. Summer production was curtailed by seasonal maintenance, though production is expected to increase with the start of new fields. Total British output next year should grow to 1.04 million barrels per day, which is a revision upward of 40,000 barrels per day from OPEC's estimate in September.
Elsewhere, the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., reported a tropical disturbance moving west toward Florida. The storm is producing wind gusts strong enough to approach the characteristics of a tropical storm, but the system is not expected to develop any further.
A series of hurricanes in August and September upended parts of the U.S. energy sector. The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said Saturday in its last update for Hurricane Nate that less than 1 percent of the total U.S. crude oil production capacity in the Gulf of Mexico was still offline, or around 12,000 barrels per day.
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At the peak last week, Nate sidelined about 20 percent of Gulf of Mexico oil production.
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BP to be more transparent about climate efforts amid investor concerns
Feb. 1 (UPI) -- BP on Friday announced plans to increase disclosure on its efforts to fight climate change after requests from two groups of investors.
Crude oil prices rise early Friday amid supply concerns
Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Oil prices rose early Friday amid supply concerns following reports of smaller-than-expected stocks, and amid reduced expectation of interest rate hikes.
Oil nearly flat in pause after previous session's gains
Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Oil prices were near flat early Thursday in what was seen as a pause after gains in the two previous sessions, as traders considered geopolitical developments.
Petrobras sells Chevron $350M Texas plant bought for $1.2B
Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Chevron bought a Houston refinery for $350 million from Petrobras that had cost the Brazilian state oil company over $1.2 billion little over a decade earlier.
Oil prices rise amid ongoing concern about Venezuela
Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Oil prices rose Wednesday amid expectations that Venezuelan oil shipments would see some disruption following U.S. sanctions.
IEA: Greater use of rail would save energy, lower emissions
Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Increased railway use would save energy, help the environment, and also be safer, according to reports prepared by international environmental experts.
Crude oil prices rise amid renewed Venezuela concerns
Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Oil prices were higher early Tuesday amid renewed concern about Venezuelan supplies but market worries about China-U.S. trade issues prevented higher gains.
U.S. fuel prices near last month's levels, unlikely to change
Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Average fuel prices in the United States started the week at $2.26 per gallon, showing little change from the last month or last week, and may remain flat.
Venezuela's Guaido to name new boards of PDVSA and Citgo
Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Venezuela's President of the National Assembly, Juan Guaido, will name new director boards at state oil company PDVSA and its United States subsidiary Citgo.
Major companies, cities buying into Texas' green energy boom
Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. wind industry is in a scramble to get a batch of turbine farms running in the next two years, before the federal government phases out a key tax credit.
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After college, Kent became a field engineer for the Mid-America Manufacturing Technology Corporation, as an engineering consultant, he designed and improved manufacturing processes and systems for manufacturing companies across the country. In 1996, Mr. Shelman moved back to Pueblo with his new family and became a partner in a new real estate consulting firm known as Colorado Realty Reports that specialized in real estate appraising, environmental and energy engineering.
In 2001, Kent acquired his Colorado appraisal license and in 2005, his real estate brokers license. In 1999 Kent became one of the first nationally recognized Certified Home Energy Raters (HERS Raters) in the country. Today Kent brings all of his hands on skills, building science and love of all things techy to being your real estate agent.
Having in-depth knowledge of Pueblo and Pueblo West's housing market, a strong computer and technology background plus being a persuasive negotiator and successful business owner and marketer, Kent brings it all to representing his clients!


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Earth Structure
The Great Rift Valley Represents What Type of Geological Activity?
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Facts About the African Plate
By Amy Harris
Rifts are places where the crust of the Earth is spreading apart. The Great Rift Valley comprises one such vast expanse, stretching across thousands of miles from Mozambique to the Middle East. Contained within this dramatic rift system are notable sites like Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro. The Great Rift Valley is the site of major geological activity.
In the past, the title "Great Rift Valley" was used as a blanket term for an entire series of rifts stretching from East Africa to the Levant. However, 21st-century geologists generally recognize these rifts as interconnected, albeit not necessarily part of the same overall system. Individual rifts within the grouping include the Jordan Rift Valley, which stretches from Jordan to Israel and encompasses the Dead Sea, the Red Sea Rift, which includes the body of water of the same name, and further south on the African continent, the immense and complex East African Rift. Sometimes, when people refer to the Great Rift Valley, they are referring to the East African Rift. This particularly significant section includes smaller sub-branches, such as the Gregory Rift -- which stretches from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden through Ethiopia, Kenya and into Tanzania -- and the Western or Albertine Rift, which arcs from Uganda into Malawi and includes many large lakes.
Past and Future Development
Geologists estimate that the collection of rifts commonly known as the Great Rift Valley began forming at least 25 million years ago. During this time, Africa and the Arabian Peninsula were joined together. The Red Sea, which separates them today, did not yet exist. A process known as rifting tore Africa and Arabia apart, so they now lie on separate tectonic plates, and the Indian Ocean flooded into the rift valley to form the Red Sea. This rift continues to develop, with the Red Sea growing increasingly wider. Moving to the south, the African plate continues to split throughout the East African Rift. Here, the Nubian plate, which contains most of Africa, separates from the Somali plate, which carries mainly just the Horn of Africa. Scientists predict that, as this rift continues to develop, waters from the Gulf of Aden may flow in to fill the widening void, in which Horn of Africa would eventually become a large island.
Rifting and Divergent Boundary Formation
Most rift valleys are located undersea; the East African Rift is one of the few located on land. Such land-based rift valleys often lie where budding tectonic plates begin to tear away from one another. This separation process is known as rifting and is associated with the formation of divergent plate boundaries. As the Earth's crust breaks apart along a boundary, the ground sinks to create the rift valley. Magma, or molten rock, emerges from underground to fill the void, forming fresh crust. The rifting process may ultimately lead to the birth of entirely new continents.
Volcanism, Earthquakes and Related Phenomena
The magma that seeps upward to fill crustal voids in the rift valley can emerge via volcanoes. Hence, many active and semi-active volcanoes are scattered throughout the region referred to as the Great Rift Valley, including Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro. However, not all of the rising magma explodes through volcanoes. Some simply wells upward out of fissures, or cracks, in the Earth's surface. Other geological features, such as hot springs and geysers, can be found along some of the rifts associated with the Great Rift Valley. Earthquakes also occur frequently along faults in this region.
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Based in western New York, Amy Harris began writing for Demand Media and Great Lakes Brewing News in 2010. Harris holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Penn State University; she taught high school math for several years and has also worked in the field of instructional design.
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Two and a half decades ago, a musical movie starring Whoopi Goldberg as a lounge singer who stumbles upon a murder scene and ends up in a place she does not belong -- a Catholic convent – hit the silver screen. The cast's performance and music elevated the typical fish-out-of-water story, as it became a box office hit and generation-defining comedy.
The musical adaptation of the film landed in Korea last week, bringing with it the humor, music and charm that made the original story so popular among fans.
Unlike the movie, the musical is set in 1978 Philadelphia, which is the perfect setting for the disco and soul-style music drawn up by Alan Menken for which Glenn Slater provided the lyrics.
Although fan favorites like "I Will Follow Him" and "Oh Happy Day" are missing, the new style fits perfectly with the flamboyant and free-living nature of protagonist Delores Van Cartier, played by Dene Hill.
Right from the start, Hill commands the stage with opening numbers "Take Me to Heaven" and "Fabulous, Baby." Her powerful voice illuminates the reincarnated city of brotherly love, as the play follows Delores stumbling across a murder committed by her gangster boyfriend Curtis Jackson.
Brandon Godfrey, who specifically said he wished not to play Curtis as your typical bad guy, looks like he was born to play the part of the cruel, slimy, yet somewhat likeable villain. His baritone in "When I Find My Baby" is a delight to the ears, and you might find yourself almost cheering for the guy -- that is, before realizing that the lyrics sing about how he wants to mutilate his girlfriend to stop her from squealing.
Standing opposite the vulgar Delores is Mother Superior, played by Rebecca Mason-Wygal. Her vocal, which actually sound like one that could be found in a church choir, is a pleasant contrast to Delores' soul vocal. Mason-Wygal's stern tone gives off the feeling of someone you do not mess with, but seek approval from.
Will T. Travis' role of Eddie Souther may look like just another heart-of-gold character -- which he is -- but it works in such a bubbly, heartfelt comedy piece.
One particular nun, Sister Mary Lazarus, played by Nancy Evans who shows impressive rapping skills, even became a favorite among Korean fans, earning the nickname "Halminem," -- a combination of the word for "granny" and US star Eminem.
The audience was on its feet by the time the show had reached its climax with "Spread the Love Around," wrapping up a feel-good piece with a bang.
One bonus for those who understand written Korean: pay attention to the Korean translation, which is just hilarious.
The show is being held at Blue Square in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, through Jan. 21.
Tickets range from 60,000 won to 140,000 won, and are available for those aged 7 and above. Call 1544-1555 or visit Interpark's homepage.
The show starts at 8 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Wednesdays and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on weekends and holidays. There are no shows on Mondays.
The show lasts 2 1/2 hours and has a 20-minute intermission.


Ikki Kurogane may have come from a long line of Blazers, people with the ability to create weapons or devices manifested from their souls, but as far as the Hagun Academy is concerned, he's been a major disappointment in the magical powers department. He is so disappointing, in fact, that he's earned the unfortunate nickname of the "Worst One". However, things change for Ikki in the most surprising way when Princess Stella Vermillion, the most promising Rank-A Blazer to come along in many years, decides to transfer to Hagun. When she challenges him to a duel where the loser must obey the winner for the rest of their life, the last thing anyone expects is that the Worst One might prove to be a match for the Crimson Princess...and the unforeseen consequences will push the boundaries of society itself in Chivalry of a Failed Knight!


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Fast Company April 18, 2016
Why Netflix Is Binging On "Chelsea"
"This place is so vast!" says Chelsea Handler, nearly breaking into a Mary Tyler Moore–like twirl inside an empty soundstage on the Sony lot.
"There's so much room to maneuver!" In a few weeks, carpenters will begin construction on the set of her upcoming Netflix talk show, scheduled to begin streaming in 190 nations on May 11. But for now, on a warm February afternoon in Culver City, as Handler takes in the 16,000-square-foot space for the first time, all she has is her imagination.
Chelsea Lately, and not so lately
A guide to the comedian's say-anything career
Girls Behaving Badly
Handler appeared as a practical joke–playing cast member on the all-female show, positioned by the network as Sex and the City mixed with Candid Camera. Her first TV opportunity, Girls Behaving Badly, helped rescue a flailing Oxygen and quickly gained the bawdy Handler a fan base that would propel sales of her first book, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands, in 2005.
The Chelsea Handler Show
The half-hour variety program marked the debut of Handler as herself and further introduced audiences to her blunt comedic style.
Chelsea Lately
The second woman ever to host a late-night talk show (after 1986's The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers), Handler infused each half hour with irreverent humor and raucous celebrity interviews and turned the show into a surprise hit, drawing close to a million viewers per episode.
After Lately
The semi-scripted behind-the-scenes mockumentary aired weekly and followed Handler (the show's creator and executive producer) and her staff during the making of Chelsea Lately episodes, parodying the petty and ridiculous sides of show business.
Handler has guest-starred on numerous programs, including Reno 911!, This Means War, Web Therapy, In the Motherhood, The Bernie Mac Show, and My Wife and Kids. In 2015, on an episode of ABC's The Muppets titled "Too Hot to Handler," she was asked out on a date by Scooter.
Production Work
Borderline Amazing Productions
In addition to most of Handler's own programs, Handler's production company created and produced Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings, a short-lived reality show called Pretty Wild (featuring the members of the Bling Ring celebrity-home-raiding posse), Are You There, Chelsea? (based on Handler's 2008 memoir Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea and starring Orange Is the New Black's Laura Prepon), and CMT's first late-night program, The Josh Wolf Show.
A Chelsea Handler Production
In Handler's follow-up to Borderline Amazing, the company produced her four-part Netflix docuseries Chelsea Does and is also creating her talk show.
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me
Uganda Be Kidding Me
Handler's essay collections, five in less than 10 years, have sold more than 2 million copies combined—and were all New York Times best sellers, with four reaching the No. 1 spot. The confessional writings explore similar themes of sex, alcohol, and the embarrassments of her youth in New Jersey. Her comedy tours, which accompanied the books' releases, have grossed $30 million.
Uganda Be Kidding Me Live
To promote her most recent book, Uganda Be Kidding Me, Handler performed a live comedy show in Chicago produced by Borderline Amazing that was recorded and released exclusively on Netflix.
Chelsea Does
The four-part docuseries, with each one-hour episode devoted to a single topic (marriage, racism, drugs, and Silicon Valley), served as a teaser for her upcoming three-times-a-week talk show, which will debut on the streaming service in May.
—Claire Dodson
"I've never actually been in here before," she says. "I've only seen where the green room and the guest rooms are going to be. And"—she pauses for effect—"where they'll be putting the bar."
If all goes according to plan—and things usually do in Handler's world, even if she insists she never has a plan—the 41-year-old stand-up comedian turned E! network star turned streaming pioneer will be spending a large chunk of the next several years inside this soundstage. The exact contours of the show are still being worked out by Handler's staff of 50 producers, writers, editors, and researchers. What's certain is that the program, called Chelsea, will stream three nights a week—Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays—and feature interviews with a variety of guests about often touchy topics: "abortion, parenthood, the electoral college . . ." she says, by way of examples, plus a regular dose of Handler's bawdy, transgressive humor. It will feature taped field reports—mini versions of the four hour-plus Chelsea Does documentaries that debuted on Netflix back in January. There will be a live audience and lots of wild-card elements; earlier in the day, Handler held auditions for a child correspondent ("I'm looking for a 10-year-old with attitude," she says). All of this will be packed into a running time of 30 minutes, more or less. In the world of streaming video, nobody is watching the clock too closely.
Right now, she's in the middle of a series of creative meetings. "People come and pitch me ideas," she says, gesturing vaguely toward where a lazy Susan–style stage she's proposed might go ("There'll be a section if I'm interviewing three or four people, the way Dick Cavett sometimes did, and another if I'm interviewing one of the show's correspondents," she explains). "That's how I've always worked. Give me options. I'll tell you what I like and don't like. I know what the show is. I just can't put it in words. But it won't be regimented. You're not going to turn it on three nights a week and have an opening monologue, a guest, and a band. It'll be completely different."
In one respect, it already is: It's on Netflix.
Talk shows on broadcast airwaves have censors, commercial breaks, and nightly ratings. Talk shows on basic cable—such as Samantha Bee's Full Frontal, on TBS—get away with racier conversations but still have to cut to ads (and deal with jittery advertisers). Even pay-cable talk shows, like John Oliver's, on HBO, follow relatively traditional formats—a guy behind a desk—and exist within an old-fashioned corporate bureaucracy. But a talk show that runs on a streaming service—especially one that prides itself on giving talent virtually unlimited creative freedom, that is intent on rewiring the viewing habits of the whole world, and that has a $6 billion budget with which to do all of this—can be pretty much whatever its host wants it to be. On Netflix, there are no ads, no ratings (the company has never revealed how many people watch its shows, much to the annoyance of its competition), and no network notes, at least none that Handler can recall. The company "is amazing," she says.
Netflix's laissez-faire attitude toward talent has resulted in some groundbreaking programs, including Beau Willimon's presidential soap opera, House of Cards, and Jenji Kohan's women's prison dramedy, Orange Is the New Black (as well as a few stinkers, like the recent Full House reboot, Fuller House). Even so, Handler's show will mark a major departure. For one thing, the company that popularized binge viewing will be releasing episodes in a radically old-fashioned way: one at a time. Each will go live at 12:01 a.m. and remain on servers indefinitely, for subscribers to stream as they please—but it's as close as Netflix has ever come to traditional appointment television.
What's even more unusual for Netflix is that the show will be covering current events in some degree of real time. This is a move that CEO Reed Hastings and chief content officer Ted Sarandos had hinted at during an earnings call last October. "On the news side, we are definitely being more adventurous," Sarandos told reporters, somewhat cryptically. When Hastings responded by asking Sarandos, "What's the likelihood that we compete with Vice in the next two years?" Sarandos answered, "Probably high." The Internet immediately lit up with talk of Netflix's grand new plan to expand into news, and the streaming service quickly backpedaled. In a follow-up email, a corporate spokesperson attempted to clarify these remarks by telling reporters, "We'll leave the news business to folks like yourself."
Chelsea Handler Solves Your Thorniest Work Problems
Handler, of course, isn't a newsperson. But talk shows are by nature tethered to the stories of the day, and having her on the air discussing them marks a shift for Netflix, transforming the media company from a simple streaming service, such as Hulu or Amazon Prime Video, into a living, breathing part of the news cycle. "It doesn't have to be ripped from the headlines every episode," Sarandos says of the show's content, backpedaling a little bit more. "If Chelsea is picking the right topics, the conversation is going to be around for a few weeks. But, yes, it's definitely more topical and timely than what we usually do."
There are risks for Netflix. After all, the company is putting its money and reputation (and 90 minutes a week of bandwidth) behind a button-pushing, controversy-prone comedian who once dressed a little person as Adolf Hitler to celebrate Germany's World Cup win, whose sharp tongue has made enemies of everyone from Angelina Jolie to Nick Cannon, and who has posted more topless photos of herself than Vladimir Putin (which may explain some of her 5.8 million Twitter followers and 2.1 million Instagram followers). Talk-show hosts function as brand identifiers: Jimmy Fallon is in many ways the face of NBC, just as Jon Stewart was for Comedy Central. Placing an unpredictable force like Handler behind a talk-show desk (even if she doesn't end up having a desk) could put Netflix in awkward situations.
At the moment, though, Handler is just looking for a place to sit down. After winding through hallways and taking some stray turns ("Is this an office?" she asks after opening a door into what looks like a closet), Handler finally finds the only part of the soundstage with furniture—a large backstage lounge with a couple of old sofas presumably left behind by a previous tenant. As the star settles into a couch, the production assistant asks if he can fetch her a bottle of water.
"No," she says, deadpan. "Just bring us a condom."
Ted Sarandos was chatting with his wife at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in February 2014 when Handler crashed their conversation. "She asked me if I was the Netflix guy," recalls the exec, who'd never met the comedian before. "She asked a lot of questions. She was really tenacious about it. She wanted to know how things worked, how Netflix was different. It was a real deep dive. It was almost as if she was on a fact-finding mission."
Which, in fact, she was.
At the time, Handler was in the middle of her seventh year hosting Chelsea Lately, the entertainment-news channel E!'s popular five-day-a-week, late-night talk show in which she engaged in gossipy banter with Hollywood celebs and poked fun at her little-person sidekick, Chuy. The gig had made her rich (the network reportedly paid her between $8 million and $12 million a year) and famous (each episode drew upward of a million viewers) and even something of a groundbreaker: the first female comic to succeed at late-night-TV hosting, something not even Joan Rivers was able to do. Reruns of her show aired so many times a day that it sometimes seemed like the only thing on the network. There was even a spin-off, After Lately, a semi-fictitious reality series in which the cast and crew of Chelsea Lately was shown bickering and engaging in other backstage shenanigans. That drew a million viewers per night as well.
But after taping more than 1,000 episodes (and interviewing almost as many Kardashians), Handler was miserable and ready for a change. She was tired of celebrity gossip, appalled at the audience's hunger for it, and, most of all, fed up with being on the network that produced programs like Leave It to Lamas and Bridalplasty. "It was incredibly frustrating," she says. "You're a reflection of the company you keep, and I wasn't impressed with anybody. The people I was working with on the network side, they never could think big. I just wanted to leave, to be somewhere else."
"I never really have epiphanies," Handler says. "I just have thoughts and act on them. I'm impulsive."
Handler has trusted her instincts ever since she was a kid in suburban New Jersey. "I never really have epiphanies," she says, "I just have thoughts and act on them. I'm impulsive." Her dad was a used-car salesman and Jewish; her mom, a German-born homemaker, was Mormon. ("We celebrated both Christmas and Hanukkah, but I consider myself Jewish," she says.) The youngest of six children, she was raised without much supervision, and it clearly left her with an independent streak. After about "10 minutes" of community college, Handler says she left for L.A. to become an actress, moving in with relatives who had nine children, three dogs, and a parrot. Living in what she calls a "disgusting" environment, she waited tables between auditions for commercials and sitcom parts, growing more and more restless. "I just wanted my life to begin," she says. "I wanted everything to start. I wanted my break."
It came soon, in the unlikely form of a DUI conviction. On the eve of her 21st birthday, while driving home from a bar with an equally sloshed friend—"midway through [singing] the second chorus of Whitney Houston's 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody,' " as Handler describes the incident in her 2008 best-selling memoir (the second of five), Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea—she was pulled over by the police. After a night in jail, she was sentenced to DUI classes, and it was there, while regaling fellow offenders with the details of her arrest (like how she called the white cops who busted her "racists" and drunkenly complained about being "racially profiled"), that she realized her calling. "You ought to do stand-up," her DUI classmates told her.
"Stand-up was my entrée into the entertainment world," she says. "I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do."
Next act: After leaving E!, Handler was drawn to Netflix by the freedom to explore.
Within about six years, she had landed development deals with Paramount and NBC. She scored her first regular role, on an Oxygen network sketch-comedy program called Girls Behaving Badly (sort of an estrogen-infused Punk'd), and started getting invitations to appear on the E! network's "countdown" reports, in which various comedians riff on news and celebrity gossip.
Ted Harbert, who was then the head of the Comcast-owned network, spotted her and saw potential. In 2005, he offered Handler her own sketch-comedy program, The Chelsea Handler Show, which tanked. A year later, he tried again, giving her Chelsea Lately. Around this time, Handler began a relationship with Harbert (now chairman of NBC Broadcasting) that had E! employees gossiping around watercoolers for four years, until they broke up. "Now that I look back on it, it was very odd," she admits. "It was tricky. But my mom had just died. And he was the president of the network. He was this older guy who thought I was the greatest thing in the world. So I returned the favor."
As she says: She has thoughts and acts on them.
Handler did so again in March 2014, a month after chatting up Sarandos at that Oscar after-party, when she decided to leave E! and broke the news to her bosses in a way that only Handler might think was a good idea—by all but announcing it on The Howard Stern Show. "E! has just become a sad, sad place to live," she said on the air. "They don't know what they're doing, they have no ideas . . . everything they do just is a failure." Handler says she was surprised when E! execs assumed it was a ploy for a fatter contract. "Because I felt unhappy, I just assumed that they knew," she explains. "But they thought I was negotiating. I told them, 'You don't have to give me more money. It's not about that. I don't care. I don't want to be on this network anymore.' " An E! spokesperson says, "Chelsea called E! home for seven years, and it's disappointing that she continues to criticize the network that launched her career."
Working blue: Handler looks forward to being free from traditional network restrictions.
Handler's next move became a subject of intense speculation in the TV world. That spring, the late-night airwaves were in flux. At CBS, Letterman had announced his retirement from Late Show, and Craig Ferguson's contract with The Late Late Show was about to expire. Once Handler left E!, rumors began to circulate that she was after one of those jobs. An Instagram photo that she posted showing a packet of papers with the CBS logo on them and a caption reading "business meeting" didn't do a lot to dispel this talk. But Handler was merely stirring the pot. "Those were just meetings that people wanted to take," she says. "I was offered several jobs. I was offered syndication late-night shows. But they were all conversations that didn't get far, because there was no point. I was never interested. I didn't want to step into somebody else's shoes. I didn't want to be on some other late-night show doing the same shit again."
"She asked me if I was the Netflix guy," Sarandos recalls. "She asked a lot of questions. She was really tenacious about it."
What she was interested in—and why she sought out Sarandos at that party—was Netflix. "House of Cards was on, and I just thought it was cool," she says. "I thought they were smart, that they knew what they're doing, and that I could do something different there. I thought, I want to work at that table."
She asked her manager, Irving Azoff, to set up a meeting with "the Netflix guy" at the streaming service's Beverly Hills headquarters. (Azoff did nothing to dissuade her. "He never tells me what to do—he knows better," she says.) Sarandos, who attended the meeting, along with Netflix's VP of content acquisition, Lisa Nishimura, and VP of original content, Cindy Holland, was "stunned that Chelsea hadn't signed with one of the CBS shows," he says. "But it wasn't like we were looking to make a talk show. It wasn't like, 'Let's find a host.' She came in, and we met, and it was more like one of those we-don't-know-if-we-should-do this-because-we've-never-done-anything-like-this-before kind of things." Turns out those are Netflix's favorite types of meetings. "We're all about experimenting," says Nishimura. "And the timing was terrific."
Although Netflix didn't do any formal crunching of Handler's numbers—there were no focus groups or analyses of her ratings on E!—the company had detected signs that the streaming audience was receptive to a Netflix talk show. "Anecdotally, if you look at what's happening in late night, increasingly people want consumer control," says Nishimura. "Whether it's digital clips of Fallon's celebrity lip sync or [James] Corden's singing with celebrities in cars, you're starting to find that consumers aren't watching late night as appointment TV." Though Netflix is a closed system, it plans to share video clips via YouTube and its social channels to drive viewers to the show.
"Near-live," is what BTIG Research analyst Rich Greenfield calls this new form of entertainment consumption. "People love the late-night conversation, but they want to watch it on their own terms. And Netflix wants to be a part of that." Near-live programming, he explains, fits with the company's push to keep people paying $7.99 a month. "That's the most important thing for Netflix. They don't care about nightly ratings—they care about subscribers coming back. And with Chelsea Handler, they see a talent with a passionate fan base and a person who knows how to use social media to drive awareness." When Handler isn't posting risqué photos of herself ("I think nudity is funny, especially when it's inappropriate," she says), she's tweeting out a cascade of zingers, put-downs, and comedic observations. "I found a piece of pretzel in my underwear this morning," she tweeted recently. "Conclusion: I was intoxicated, unsupervised, and abstinent."
Surprisingly, Handler says social media doesn't come naturally to her. "Would I do these things if I wasn't famous?" she ponders. "No. If I didn't have something to promote, I wouldn't. It's just something you have to do right now. But once I got the hang of it, it has been fun to interact with fans. As silly as it sounds, it feels good to do it." It also makes smart business sense, undoubtedly providing leverage in negotiating with, say, major streaming companies. In June 2014, Handler and Netflix signed a deal reportedly valued at $10 million—or five times what John Oliver is said to be paid by HBO—for the show, the docuseries, and a stand-up special for Netflix (Uganda Be Kidding Me Live, released in October 2015). Then she acted on impulse again, announcing that she'd be taking a break. She didn't come back for 18 months.
Handler is lounging poolside at her Bel Air home, getting high. And then doing leg squats.
She's filming one of her talk show's field reports, this one focusing on a personal trainer who believes that inhaling marijuana before a workout enhances the exercise experience. He's brought complicated-looking vaporizing devices, which Handler needs help operating—"I'm more of a drinker," she says apologetically, after coughing up a lungful of cannabis—as well as some brutal-looking sports equipment. A camera crew is capturing it all, as Handler's two furry mutts, Chunk and Tammy, watch with weary detachment from the other side of the pool.
House of CardsPhoto: David Giesbrecht, courtesy of Netflix
8 Things You Need To Know About Netflix Right Now
1. It's Shelling Out The Bucks
Netflix currently has a programming budget of $6 billion in cash, making it the second-biggest content spender after ESPN. The money is going toward original fare, such as Master of None and Orange Is the New Black, and licensed TV shows and movies, like Parenthood and Breaking Bad.
2.It's Doubling Its Original Content
. . . to more than 600 hours. That means that each week this year, more than one new TV series, movie, documentary, stand-up special, or kids' show will begin streaming, including Baz Luhrmann's hip-hop drama, The Get Down, and Brad Pitt's satirical military film, War Machine.
3. It's Investing Heavily In Young-Adult And Family Programming
. . . such as the recent Fuller House reunion show and an upcoming revival of Gilmore Girls. Family shows and '80s movies are popular on the site, and users, via surveys, have expressed a demand for younger-skewing fare.
4. It's Poaching YouTube Stars
Execs at Netflix understand the value of YouTube celebrities' enormous, built-in fan bases and digital marketing savvy. In January, it ordered a scripted series based on the YouTube character Miranda Sings, and it streams all the episodes of Freddie Wong's YouTube show, Video Game High School.
5. It's Going All-Out At Film Festivals
Netflix is looking to jump-start its nascent original-movie business and nab some Oscars. At Sundance in January, the company spent lavishly on seven films, including Tallulah, starring Ellen Page and Allison Janney, and the Paul Rudd road movie The Fundamentals of Caring. The company also made a $20 million bid for Nate Parker's Birth of a Nation but lost out to Fox Searchlight.
6. It Has Its Sights Set On The Entire World
The streaming service is quickly expanding its global reach and is now live in more than 190 countries, including Russia and India. The only major nation missing is China, due to government regulations. CEO Reed Hastings has said he is not giving up and will be "patient" with that market.
7. It's Helping Make TVs Smarter
Through its Netflix Recommended TV initiative, the company gives a Good Housekeeping–like seal of approval to television devices that meet certain performance and functionality criteria.
8. It's Challenging HBO
Netflix added five new comedy series last year, plus high-profile docs such as the true-crime thriller Making a Murderer, which sparked a national dialogue about systemic flaws in the justice system.
—Nicole LaPorte
Handler has shot a number of these mini docs, not all of them in the comfort of her tastefully decorated home—which happens to be Esther Williams's old mansion, remodeled with ultramodern conveniences, including a guest bathroom with an electronic toilet control panel so high-tech you need a degree in physics just to flush. Last week, she had flown to Moscow ("a horrible place," she notes, making a face) to do a segment on young girls in the Russian figure-skating program. Next week, she'll hop over to Las Vegas to watch a hypercompetitive youth baseball tournament. There will also be segments on a vocal coach who teaches trans women how to sound more feminine and a visit to the home of a polygamist family. Judging from what's going on around her pool—Handler, high as a kite, swinging a kettle bell so clumsily it's a wonder she doesn't accidentally propel herself into the pool—these taped segments will be pretty hilarious.
But like her four heavily promoted Chelsea Does docs, which premiered on Netflix in January, they'll aim to be more than merely amusing. One reason Handler was drawn to Netflix was that she could express a smarter, more intellectually curious side of her personality. "When we were on the network, I can't tell you how many times we had to take jokes out because of advertisers," she says. "It was constant bickering back and forth. You can't do this, you can't do that. There was no creative license." But with Netflix, if she wants to get high and do push-ups, it's not a problem. If she wants to spend 30 minutes discussing presidential politics, that's cool too. If she wants to take an epic hiatus before starting the show—traveling the world, buying a house in Spain, and having a brief fling with a crew member aboard a ship—nobody is going to complain.
"I sat down at Netflix and told them I want to take [time] off, and then I could come back and do some documentaries, if they would hook me up with some of [the filmmakers] they had access to," she recalls. "And they were like, 'Great!' "
The Chelsea Does docs—about racism, marriage, drugs, and Silicon Valley—were Handler's idea, but from Netflix's point of view they were a savvy segue into a talk show, a tone test for a new sort of Chelsea. They're not exactly Ken Burns–level productions, but they are certainly more intelligent and thought-provoking than anything Handler ever did on E!. In the Silicon Valley episode, she ventures to the tech capital to "talk to them about their algorithms—and find out what an algorithm is." She rides a hoverboard, interviews an AI robot ("Are you trying to annoy me?" it asks her), and pitches her own app, an iPhone program that fakes an incoming call or text so that you can sneak out of meetings (Gotta Go! went on sale on iTunes the week the doc was released).
"The docs gave us the opportunity to try a new format," says Sarandos. "The interview style, the roundtables, the outside segments—all of those are things that will be in the talk show." As Handler puts it, they "served as a great bridge. I wanted to show people that I'm taking a real big jump into something new, that I was reinventing myself."
To continue that evolution on the talk show, Handler has enlisted Bill Wolff, the producer who, in 2005, discovered an obscure Air America Radio host named Rachel Maddow and turned her into MSNBC's No. 1 star (he left in 2014 to help launch Vice for HBO). "Chelsea and Rachel are actually similar people," Wolff says, "smart, funny, hard-working, and transparent. When you meet Chelsea or Rachel, they're just as they appear on TV."
Handler spoke with several potential producers before connecting with Wolff. ("We met at a hotel bar for one drink—and that became 10 drinks," she says.) Wolff for his part, appreciated Handler's creative instinct. "The vision was essentially in place," he remembers. "She told me that she wanted to put together a show in her voice, but that was about the broader world."
The process of creating a talk show is always the same, Wolff says, whether the host is a wonky Rhodes Scholar with an Elvis-like 'do or a community college dropout (who says she reads 75 books a year and who has written five best sellers of her own). "You spend a lot of time together," he explains. "You find out what she's interested in, what she likes to do, the things she finds funny. And over the course of weeks and months, you piece together a proper form for her self-expression. You try to exploit the things that make that person special."
What's tricky about Handler is that the very things that make her unique—an instinct to push buttons and a fearlessness about offending—aren't traits typically associated with talk-show schmoozers. Netflix has content deals with other stars—Adam Sandler, the Duplass Brothers, Brad Pitt—but the person the company has chosen to beam into subscribers' bedrooms, night after night, in 190 countries, happens to be the one capable of insulting entire nation-states with a single zinger (she still hasn't apologized to Serbia after an offhand remark about that country being a "disappointment" sparked a nationwide boycott of her E! show).
Still, Chelsea—and Chelsea—may be a gamble worth taking. "Neflix is about reaching all four quadrants," explains analyst Greenfield. "Fuller House is very different from House of Cards, which is very different from Orange Is the New Black. And Chelsea is different, as well, which is what Netflix wants. If you think about what a video bundler does," he goes on, "it provides a little bit of food programming on a food channel, a little comedy on a comedy channel, a little drama, a little bit of everything. And that's what Netflix is doing with Chelsea Handler—it's providing a totally different type of content. Because, remember, Netflix doesn't really want to be a network, it wants to be a video packager. Its goal is not to replace HBO. It wants to replace Comcast."
That stoned woman by the pool, lurching around with a kettle bell? She is merely its latest secret weapon.
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Shrink film is a low-density polyethylene film (LDPE) made from a fractional low melt virgin resin and other additives, and when subjected to heat it begins a bi axially shrinking process as the heat is removed. The shrink film will shrink 25% to 30% of it surface dimension and mold itself to any type of structure. The UVI in our shrink film is hindered amine to protect against film deterioration by the sun. Our specially formulated films contain Ethyl Vinyl Acetate (EVA) which retains more elasticity and does not become brittle when exposed to cold temperatures. All shrink films are not alike and will perform differently depending on the resins and manufacturing process used.
Pro-Tect's shrink film is cost effective, labor friendly, environmentally safe, recyclable, weatherproof and installs quickly.
Shrink-wrap can be used in the critically important area of containing sandblast residuals or chemical stripping of hazardous material such as lead, asbestos, and heavy metals. Installing shrink wrap with heat fused seams will contain virtually 100% of sandblast or chemical abatement residuals, as well as allow complete project/equipment weatherization and product protection. With easy installation and low maintenance, industrial shrink wrap is the most reliable and inexpensive containment method available today. More about industrial shrink wrap.
Shrink wrap is very durable and has many uses for packaging of large, and small items. Shrink wrap can provide weatherization of irregular shaped objects, palletized truckloads of equipment, commodities, wood products, temporary housing, greenhouses and over the road freight which will provide a secure cover and can protect from all types of storm damage.
Installing shrink wrap will form a (cocoon) skin tight shroud to weatherize boats for storage and transport thereby saving dollars associated with the labor of double handling and the risk of weather damage to products.
Is training available for my staff?
You Bet! Pro-Tect has provided professional training to companies through out the Country. Our professional technical representatives have a reputation for their expertise and knowledge in the shrink wrapping industry. Pro-Tect is ready available to train your staff or personnel on the shrink wrapping system.
Can I do it my self, how can I get started?
Now Available - Pro-Tect's shrink wrap containment training video for $49.95.With step by step instructions on how to install a professional shrink wrap containment system. If you would prefer to contact us via telephone, please call (844)-889-WRAP and you will be connected to a professional technical services representative to assist you.
Below is a list of items you will need to get started.
We offer several sizes of 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 mil shrink film, along with a 5 mil clear shrink pallet bag.
Stretch wrap is applied by stretching it around an object with minimal protection;it sticks to itself and is better known as plastic pallet wrap. Pro-Tect carries stretch wrap in an 18" x 1500' 80 gauge. Shrink film requires a propane heat gun to shrink the bag or sheeting around the object. It becomes skin tight forming a tough shroud.
Why is shrink film better than visqueen?
Shrink wrap is shrunk tight around the object so there is no fluttering by the wind to deteriorate the plastic. Visqueen is applied using tape to hold the pieces together.Unlike visqueen, shrink wrap does not become brittle, break down and tear when exposed to sun's UV rays. Shrink wrap remains pliable under extreme temperatures and the life of shrink wrap is one to two years depending on the application and the shrink film's formulations. It is not uncommon to have visqueen fail within a day or two after applied.
Why is shrink film better than blue canvas tarps?
Pro-Tect special formulated shrink film forms a tough skin tight barrier. Pro-Tect's shrink films do not normally shred or become brittle in extreme weather conditions. Tarps do not withstand long term storage or transport and loosen and sag as time prevails.
No problem, we can ship FedEx and UPS and have great discounted rates with freight companies.Our distribution warehouse personnel are excellent at finding our customers the best rate with fast service. We ship all over the world.


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In January 2019, after much effort by Nepali communities and civil society organizations, the World Bank released a report in Nepali about preventing and mitigating conflicts related to infrastructure siting in Nepal. This article provides an overview of a two year process over which Nepali communities affected by a World Bank-funded transmission line compelled the Bank to disclose the report, and make it available in the local language of Nepali. Development finance institutions like the World Bank often make strong public statements in favor of transparency and citizen engagement. However, in practice, they can tend to strategically withhold information or fail to ensure that information is available in the primary language of local communities who are directly affected by their projects. This needs to change.


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North Ireland: detection of ASF DNA fragments in meat brought illegally by passengers
A sample of seizures have been tested at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) resulting in the detection of ASF DNA fragments.
Friday 12 July 2019 (7 days ago)
There is currently a specific concern over the spread of African Swine Fever (ASF), which is largely attributed to pigs consuming contaminated pork or pork products. The risk to Northern Ireland has steadily increased due to the recent spread of ASF in Belgium, other European countries and South East Asia, including China.
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) issued a reminder to holidaymakers travelling abroad not to bring any animal or plant products back into Northern Ireland.
Meat and dairy products should not be brought into Northern Ireland in passenger`s luggage; such items may be seized by Portal Inspection Branch staff at local ports and airports.
In excess of 300 kilograms of illegal meat and dairy products, detected in passenger luggage, has been seized by DAERA portal officials at Northern Ireland's airports during June 2019. A sample of these seizures have been tested at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) resulting in the detection of ASF DNA fragments. Whilst this type of discovery in itself does not pose a significant threat to the animal health status of Northern Ireland nor does it affect the disease free status from ASF it does reinforce the importance of the controls on personal imports of meat and dairy products enforced by DAERA officials.
Tuesday July 9, 2019/ DAERA/ North Ireland-UK.
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Just around the corner from Seaside Family Fun Park is the GuestHouse Inn & Suites Seaside. This cheap hotel is close to bicycle rentals, a golf course, and surfing, so you can be assured you will never run out of something to do.
Wake up to a complimentary continental breakfast each morning featuring your favorite hot items. When you're not feasting on fresh waffles, connect to the free Wi-Fi or make a wish by tossing a penny into the decorative outdoor water fountain.
Bring your pup and stay in one of the pet-friendly rooms. The available suites contain extras like window seats and pull-out sofas.
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Viikinsaari este o insulă nelocuită situată în Finlanda, pe Lacul Pyhäjärvi, în imediata apropiere a localității Tampere.
Insula este împădurită și este declarată arie naturala protejată. În timpul sezonului cald insula este un loc de recreere tradițional pentru locuitorii orașului, acolo existând un debarcader cu 12 locuri, un restaurant cu 280 locuri, o saună, un ring de dans, o capelă și câteva terenuri sportive.
Pe insulă se poate ajunge cu vaporașe care circulă din oră în oră, călătoria durând circa 20 minute.

Legături externe
 http://www.tampere.fi/kulttuurijamuseot/palvelut/viikinsaari.html

Finlanda
Insule din Finlanda

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Disaster aid OK'd for Ohio tornadoes
Montgomery, Greene among 10 counties approved for federal aid.
By Chris Stewart
A presidential disaster declaration that will provide federal funds for storm recovery came as a relief Tuesday to area officials concerned whether businesses, homeowners and renters hardest-hit by Memorial Day tornadoes had the ability to rebuild and replace belongings on their own.
"We are talking thousands of people," said Debbie Lieberman, Montgomery County Commission president. "There is true poverty in some of these areas. They didn't have insurance ... Without FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), I don't know what we would have done."
The disaster declaration made by President Donald Trump for 10 Ohio counties, including Montgomery and Greene, was announced by Gov. Mike DeWine on Tuesday.
DeWine said while Ohioans are resilient — and proved that during the three weeks of storm cleanup — the federal designation will hasten the rebuilding of lives.
"Your heart goes out to these individuals," said DeWine, who asked the president for a federal disaster declaration.
"We saw people trying to put things back together.
But the assistance they are going to get from FEMA is certainly going to help them move forward."
Those affected by tornadoes can register for FEMA assistance online now at www.disasterassistance.gov or call 800-621-3362, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Joint disaster recovery centers in affected areas will be announced as they open in coming days.
When in doubt, register for aid
FEMA programs will not duplicate damages covered by insurance, but if there's any question a person should still register, said Leo Skinner, a FEMA spokesman.
"If you do have unmet needs after that, you may be able to reach back to FEMA for additional assistance," he said.
It's important to not put off signing up for assistance because the registration window lasts only 60 days, DeWine said. "Even if they don't have a complete listing of their damages, they at least should make the initial contact," he said.
Officials said residents should file claims with their insurance companies as soon as possible.
"People that have more damage than is covered by their insurance, or if they don't have insurance, there are a few options they may work through to get back on the road to recovery," Skinner said.
People affected by the tornadoes and those with more damage than covered by insurance may be eligible for the following federal programs:
■ Individual Assistance Program
■ Disaster Legal Services Program
■ Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
■ Low-interest U.S. Small Business Administration loans Once registered, FEMA inspectors review damage and talk to the claimants.
A person could be provided funds in as few as three to five days after an inspection, Skinner said.
"It's sooner rather than later," Skinner said.
Disaster assistance can include money for rental assistance, repairs and other property losses not covered by insurance, Skinner said.
Help for businesses offered, too
The disaster declaration also means low-interest loans will be made available to businesses affected by the tornadoes.
"This does look like the declaration we were looking for," said Holly Allen, marketing director for the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce.
Like individuals, Allen encourages businesses to apply for assistance.
"Even if you don't think you need it," she said. "If you are approved for a loan, you don't have to take the money, but it at least opens up options and opportunities for you down the road if you find you need it."
"We're essentially looking at low-interest loan assistance for our businesses, whether they had physical damage or a loss of productivity because they were out of power or out of water for a period of time," Allen said.
Lieberman noted the devastation of several businesses in Harrison Twp. and along North Dixie Drive.
Recovery work expected today
FEMA personnel are already in Columbus planning a response and will begin work locally as early as today. Joint disaster recovery centers will open within days where people can meet face-to-face with caseworkers, according to FEMA.
A record-breaking 21 tornadoes hit the state on Memorial Day night through the next morning, including 15 in this region.
Skinner said it was hard still to put a dollar amount on damages, but a preliminary joint assessment by FEMA and the SBA showed rebuilding is beyond the ability of the state and the counties and municipalities hit by the tornadoes.
A preliminary damage assessment the first week of June, by FEMA, SBA and the Ohio Emergency Management Agency, turned up 942 homes and buildings that were either destroyed or significantly damaged and 837 homes and buildings with minor damage or slight damage.
Montgomery County commissioners and the Montgomery County office of Emergency Management will meet this morning to discuss longterm tornado recovery efforts with local government representatives, businesses, faith-based groups, nonprofits and others.
Contact this reporter at 937-225-2442 or Chris.Stewart@coxinc.com.
HOW TO REGISTER FOR HELP FROM FEMA
Sign up now online at www. disaster assistance. gov or call 800-621- 3362, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Joint disaster recovery centers in affected areas will be announced as they open in coming days.


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Today is June 29, the date in 1767 when the British Parliament began passing the Townshend Acts, a series of import taxes on the American colonies to replace the reviled stamp act. Widespread resistance to the taxation without representation led to British troops being deployed, which led to the Boston Massacre of 1770. The Townshend taxes were repealed soon after, replaced by a tax on tea.