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Ecological Apocalypse: Why Are All The Bees Dying?
GM, toxic chemicals, chemtrails destroying eco-system, threatening very survival of humanity
Prison Planet | April 10, 2007
The alarming decline in bee populations across the United States and Europe represents a potential ecological apocalypse, an environmental catastrophe that could collapse the food chain and wipe out humanity. Who and what is behind this flagrant abuse of the eco-system?
Many people don't realize the vital role bees play in maintaining a balanced eco-system. According to experts, if bees were to become extinct then humanity would perish after just four years.
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man," said Albert Einstein.
Others would say four years is alarmist and that man would find other food sources, but the fact remains that the disappearance of bees is potentially devastating to agriculture and most plant life.
Reports that bee populations are declining at rates of up to 80% in areas of the U.S. and Europe should set alarm bells ringing and demand immediate action on behalf of environmental organizations. Experts are calling the worrying trend "colony collapse disorder" or CCD.
"Bee numbers on parts of the east coast and in Texas have fallen by more than 70 percent, while California has seen colonies drop by 30 to 60 percent," reports AFP .
"Approximately 40 percent of my 2,000 colonies are currently dead and this is the greatest winter colony mortality I have ever experienced in my 30 years of beekeeping," apiarist Gene Brandi, from the California State Beekeepers Association, told Congress recently.
The article states that U.S. bee colonies have been dropping since 1980 and the number of beekeepers have halved.
Scientists are thus far stumped as to what is causing the decline, ruling out parasites but leaning towards some kind of new toxin or chemical used in agriculture as being responsible. "Experts believe that the large-scale use of genetically modified plants in the US could be a factor," reports Germany's Spiegal Online .
Bee populations throughout Germany have simultaneously dropped 25% and up to 80% in some areas. Poland, Switzerland and Spain are reporting similar declines. Studies have shown that bees are not dying in the hive, something is causing them to lose their sense of orientation so that they cannot return to the hive. Depleted hives are not being raided for their honey by other insects, which normally happens when bees naturally die in the winter, clearly suggesting some kind of poisonous toxin is driving them away.
"In many cases, scientists have found evidence of almost all known bee viruses in the few surviving bees found in the hives after most have disappeared. Some had five or six infections at the same time and were infested with fungi -- a sign, experts say, that the insects' immune system may have collapsed."
A study at the University of Jena from 2001 to 2004 showed that toxins from a genetically modified maize variant designed to repel insects, when combined with a parasite, resulted in a "significantly stronger decline in the number of bees" than normal.
"According to Hans-Hinrich Kaatz, a professor at the University of Halle in eastern Germany and the director of the study, the bacterial toxin in the genetically modified corn may have "altered the surface of the bee's intestines, sufficiently weakening the bees to allow the parasites to gain entry -- or perhaps it was the other way around. We don't know."
Kaatz was desperate to continue his studies but funding was cut off.
While we are lectured by government to change our lifestyle and cough up more taxes for the supposed peril of man-made global warming, an environmental catastrophe that could eliminate the human race in the figurative blink of an eye is looming.
Why are major environmental groups and lobbyists ignoring this mammoth threat to our very existence? Where is Greenpeace?
The hyperbole surrounding man-made global warming is swallowing up all the attention while real dangers like the rapid die-off of bee populations and its link to GM food is largely shunned by governments and activist foundations.
Is it a stretch to hypothesize that government mandated spraying of crops with deadly chemicals as well as toxic substances contained in chemtrails could be part of a deliberate program to eliminate the bee population? Or is this just another example of big business flagrantly abusing the eco-system in order to drive up profits?
The elite have publicly stated their desire to significantly reduce world population on numerous occasions. Just yesterday we featured a story about a British Government Ministry of Defence report that postulated on the future use of bio-weapons to thin the human population in under 30 years.
Making bees all but extinct would be a swift and plausibly deniable method of enacting global population reduction long dreamed of by the maniacal sociopaths that control the world.
Either way, this issue represents an overwhelming threat to the food chain and an environmental crime of the highest order, for which the perpetrators need to be brought up on charges of accessories to genocide, should a deliberate effort to endanger the food chain be proven, and the chemicals responsible immediately banned.
Please circulate this article to environmental groups and demand they investigate who and what is killing our bees!


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Outdoor School at Texas Tech University at Junction Earns Award from International Organization
By: John Davis
The Outdoor School received the Human Diversity Award.
The Outdoor School at Texas Tech University at Junction Llano River Field Station recently received the Human Diversity Award from the Organization of Biological Field Stations. The program is devoted to creating innovative field-based educational experiences that immerse learners into authentic, real-world, hands-on activities that stimulate imagination and understanding of difficult abstract concepts. It's an extension of the classroom and is not to be mistaken for a camp. The curriculum taught is aligned with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards, with common focus and goals, and are individualized to each independent school district and individual classroom teacher to make sure everyone's needs are acknowledged and met. "The Outdoor School teachers are humbled in receiving this prestigious award," said Tom Arsuffi, director of the Llano River Field Station. "It further validates our continuing trail of successes and that we are making a difference in providing important positive experiences for our youths in the sciences and outdoors." The OBFS Human Diversity Committee, which selected Texas Tech to receive the award, promotes and encourages activities, programs and approaches that increase the involvement and engagement of underrepresented groups in field science. The Outdoor School was one of six field stations in the running for this year's award. Last year's award went to the Organization of Tropical Field Stations in Costa Rica, Bolivia and Peru. CONTACT: Tom Arsuffi, director of the Llano River Field Station, Texas Tech University at Junction, (325) 446-2301, or tom.arsuffi@ttu.edu

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University of South Wales Named As Official Partner
Nearly 10,000 runners will start and finish their 26.2-mile journeys in front of USW's Newport City Campus
University of South Wales (USW) will be top of the class at the ABP Newport Wales Marathon after becoming an official partner to the event.
The association between Wales' premier marathon event and leading university will run until 2020 following the success of the inaugural race last year.
Nearly 10,000 runners will start and finish their 26.2-mile journeys in front of USW's Newport City Campus – which overlooks the River Usk in the heart of the city – on Sunday 5th May.
Run 4 Wales Chief Executive Matt Newman said: "The USW Newport City Campus is the first and last major landmark on the ABP Newport Marathon route which makes this new partnership a match made in heaven.
"The ABP Newport Wales Marathon and USW's Newport City Campus have brought thousands of new faces into the area, who in turn have injected an economic boost into the regenerated city centre.
"We're delighted to welcome USW on board and look forward to seeing their staff representing the University on Sunday 5th May."
USW Vice-Chancellor Professor Julie Lydon said: "As the region's university, with a campus in the heart of the city centre, USW is proud to be an official partner this year's ABP Newport Wales Marathon.
"This is a fantastic event which brings people from all over the world to the city, and we are thrilled to be a part of it."
As part of the partnership agreement, five USW staff will get free entry to the second instalment of the ABP Newport Wales Marathon, while there will be 25 free places for USW staff in the 10k race, and 10 free places in the Family Mile, which are also happening that day.
The popular Marathon route, devised by double Olympic marathoner Steve Brace, remains unchanged for 2019. The 26.2-mile course offers iconic landmarks, coastal wildlife, picturesque medieval villages and a high-profile opportunity for locals and visitors alike to cheer on thousands of runners, including the staff representing USW.


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Ah Comin' Home!
Creole Christmas returns the native gaze to local audiences.
Derek Walcott in his Nobel lecture back in 1992 posited a view of how tourists see the Caribbean:
"Winter adds depth and darkness to life and literature and in the unending summer of the tropics not even poverty or poetry seems capable of being profound because the nature around it is so exultant, so resolutely ecstatic, like its music. A culture based on joy is bound to be shallow."
The tourist gaze has been described by some as the dominant way of observing or making sense of the world. Etienne Charles clearly is not going in that direction.
In his movements around the world, Charles has been a leader in situating the "native gaze" to his music by channelling the "new colours, new textures, and new motifs" of his creole soul, his Caribbean spirit into a collaboration with and celebration of the New World music called jazz. Tonight, we celebrate the reflection and return of the native gaze to local audiences in need of an antidote to artificial snow.
Charles has journeyed back home with his band of Yankees (no pejorative meaning implied) to do that necessary collaboration with island favourites, collaborations of culture, language, ethos that spark an improvisation of mood, spirit and music.
The cuatro, the signifier of parang, a music we call our own, in spite of its origins in Bolívar's land, is in the hands of virtuosos. Jorge Glem and Robert Munro, a Venezuelan and a Trinidadian, have equally mastered the instrument within their respective home countries. Etienne Charles has utilised their skills to re-imagine Tchaikovsky's music from the Christmas-themed ballet, "The Nutcracker". The strum and 'thrang' of the cuatro strings (a Walcott joke on Sturm und Drang), the onomatopoeic sounds of plucked nylon transform a Russian ballet into a parang jam.
The obvious tension inherent in transcribing Russian melodies into a sound we know as our own is eased by the benevolence of the musicians on the album Creole Christmas, and on the stage. Audiences can genuflect at the genius of David "Happy" Williams, Clarita Rivas and Stanley Roach. The double-bass doubling as a box bass, the shac shac, the creole violin; the rhythm and melody of a Christmas lavway are given significance. Charles has made sure of that. Our music is on the same page as the tunes for ballerinas and hot gospellers. "Go Tell It On The Mountain" is a shared experience by us all as we give joy to the Nativity. "This Christmas" bubbles with the excitement of a sing-along of epic proportions.
Relator is a modern Caribbean troubadour. Not the ancient wandering minstrel, but a working calypsonian who in addition to singing about food prices, celebrates in original song a meaning of Christmas that is closer to our shared existence in these hot latitudes. A French Antillean can juxtapose musically with a Venezuelan and a Trinidadian holding down the bottom can keep the beat with his American counterpart. Charles' view of the creole soul, so aptly reflected in his last album of the same name, encompasses wider spaces for our collective interaction.
The creole canon of seasonal songs is replete with references to the idea that this is a time not for warm woollen mittens and sleigh rides, but for the celebration of our favourite things. Friendship, local humour, picong and scandal, sharing and caring, the absence of a kind of gaudy materiality are given equal time with the truer meaning of Christmas.
The native gaze is turned inwards as we see and hear the result of a confident musician challenging notions, challenging structures, challenging ourselves to see and hear beyond the boundary. The Caribbean, the "other America" is his homeland, despite him having a US zip code, and this journey home, beyond metaphors, is to guarantee that the illimitable influences here are ultimately reflected there.
Etienne Charles has mined the depths of our collective culture and crafted a tribute to the influence that the "unending summer of the tropics" has on a whole range of songs from the holiday songbook. He came back home because he had to. To be that secure and that confident in the idea of a creole Christmas celebration, a return was inevitable.
(Photo by Hollis King)
Read this and other stories and articles in the current issue of Jazz in the Islands.
© 2015, Nigel A. Campbell. All Rights Reserved.
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Selangor were knocked out of the FA Cup by Felda United in the third round on Tuesday, despite playing at home.
Journalists present in the post-match press conference of the FA Cup tie between Selangor and Felda United on Tuesday did not have to ask too many questions.
After seeing his team fall to a shock 2-1 defeat to the unfancied Fighters, Red Giants head coach B. Satiananthan was left fuming at his charges' attitude.
"My men played like little boys. I'd already told them that Felda would come at us using counter attacks, like how they scored their equaliser in our previous encounter, in the league.
"We did not play as a team. They didn't pass the ball when they had the chance, they did not use the flanks, and in the end they were easily contained by Thiago and Masa (Felda defenders Thiago Junio and Masaki Watanabe). When we tried playing crosses into the box in the first half, no one was there to finish them. We created chances, but we were not at the level we wanted to play at.
"This is what happens when you take things too easily after controlling the game. They lost their concentration in defence, and was hit by the winner by Hadin [Azman]. Felda deserved to win because they stuck to their tactics, they had concentration, willpower and determination; all of which we lacked. It's my responsibility to beat this out of my team," said Satiananthan.
He also expressed his disappointment towards his foreign players, hinting at the failure of Sandro da Silva, Michal Nguyen and the injured Endrick dos Santos to contribute to the team's performance. Sandro and Nguyen were the only two foreign players who featured in the match, as Endrick, centre back Taylor Regan and striker Rufino Segovia are all currently sidelined by injuries.
"I'm very disappointed with many of my players who think they can play football by simply walking around. If this is the level of the foreign players that I have, I need to discipline them, and if need be, replace them. Our local players too are not blameless.
"They were playing as if they were superstars; they didn't chase after the ball, didn't put in the effort. Three of them were beaten [by Hadin] with five minutes remaining on the clock!
"I will discuss the matter of our foreign players with the board. I can't retain those with lengthy injuries, except for Rufino. We are aiming for one silverware, now we have only two trophies left to go after, and the Malaysia Cup is the more realistic target. We need to make sure that our qualification path to the cup is secure," noted the former Felda United boss.
Jurulatih Felda United, Nidzam Jamil 'dibelanja minum' oleh penulis Goal, Zulhilmi Zainal selepas kemenangan the Fighters ke atas Selangor. Following his charges' 2-1 win over Selangor on Tuesday, @feldaunitedfc boss Nidzam Jamil had a drink on Goal Malaysia writer Zulhilmi Zainal. A drink of bottled water, that is.


Room 310 The Mystery of God is a 6-week study that dives into some of life's enduring questions: what do we mean by "God"? Can the existence of God be proven? What is God like? And why does God allow evil? By engaging these and other questions, my hope is that you will walk away with a better understanding of the Christian faith and with a greater confidence to share that faith with others. Led by Wes Maston (Wed nights from 7-8pm; rm 310; starts Feb 6).


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Carthage Hooks Up With Top-Ranked + Defending State Champion Navasota
Carthage's Mekhi Colbert (12) goes up for a first-half interception in the Bulldogs' 44-20 win over Bridge City in a Class 4A Division I playoff on Nov. 14 in Lufkin.
CLASS 4A DIVISION I REGIONAL
Carthage Bulldogs (9-3)
Navasota Rattlers (12-0)
6 p.m. Friday
Provost Umphrey Stadium, Beaumont
Carthage: Scott Surratt
Navasota: Lee Fedora
Carthage: def. Stafford, 34-0
Navasota: def. Jasper, 35-21
Winner faces winner between El Campo and Silsbee, state quarterfinals
Playmakers
TE/DE Jarrod McLin, Sr., 6-3, 215 (committed to UTSA)
QB Jarod Blissett, Sr., 6-1, 230
WR Jakeldric Jackson, Sr., 5-9, 160
WR Hunter Townsend, Soph., 5-11, 185
S Jordan Romero, Sr., 5-10, 165
RB Keontay Ingram, Soph., 5-10, 175
LB Mykel Gates, Soph., 5-11, 215
OL Cagan Baldree, Sr., 6-4, 250
Navasota
WR Tren'davian Dickson, Sr., 5-11, 170 (76 catches, 1,364 yards, 22 TDs; committed to Baylor)
QB Shelton Eppler, Sr., 6-1, 185 (193 of 304, 3,463 yards, 53 TDs, 1 INT)
WR Kae'ron Baker, Sr., 6-2, 175 (36 catches, 680 yards, 13 TDs)
WR Deeldre Richardson, Jr., 5-9, 160 (43 catches, 777 yards, 7 TDs)
DB Tremayne Creeks, Jr. (89 tackles, 14 for loss, 2 INTs, 1 fumble recovery)
LB DJ Harris, Sr., 5-11, 190 (111 tackles, 14 for loss)
DT Jonhathan Flores, Sr. (82 tackles, 32 for loss, 7 sacks, 11 QB pressures, 1 forced fumble, 2 recoveries)
DE Jabril Hunter, Jr., 6-3, 190 (82 tackles, 24 for loss, 7 sacks, 9 QB pressures, 2 forced fumbles, 2 recoveries)
Carthage is 33-4 (.892) in the playoffs under head coach Scott Surratt. The four losses have come to Liberty Hill (2007), Argyle (2011), El Campo (2012), and El Campo (2014).
Navasota has won 28 consecutive games. Its last loss occurred in the 2013 playoffs, 44-14 to Carthage, in the second round of the playoffs.
Carthage is averaging 33.3 points per game, while allowing 19.8.
The Bulldogs are playing in their seventh third-round playoff game under coach Scott Surratt. They are 5-1 (.833) in those games.
The cumulative record of Carthage's opponents this season is 75-58 (.564).
Navasota is averaging 58.9 points per game, while allowing 10.2.
The Rattlers are 54-2 (.964) since 2012.
The cumulative record of Navasota's opponents this season is 52-68 (.433).
Carthage RB Keontay Ingram. (Bud Worley, ETSN.fm)
Key matchup: Carthage rushing attack vs. Navasota defense. The Bulldogs have had little trouble passing the ball this season, but the running game has been less consistent. It all came together last week, however, in Carthage's 34-0 area-round shutout of previously unbeaten Stafford. Sophomore running back Keontay Ingram ran for a season-high 163 yards on only 11 carries and two second-half touchdowns to help the Bulldogs reach the third round of the playoffs for the seventh time in Scott Surratt's nine seasons as head coach. Heading into last week's game, Carthage's leading rusher -- senior Ravodney Hardy -- had just a little more than 700 yards on the season. But with Ingram bringing an added dimension to the offense, including an element of explosiveness out of the backfield, Carthage becomes an even more difficult offense to defend.
Navasota's defensive production has been off the charts this season. In just 12 games, the Rattlers have 155 tackles for loss as a team, and the defensive line in particular has been particularly stingy at the line of scrimmage. Senior defensive tackle Jonhathan Flores leads the team with 32 stops behind the line of scrimmage, while junior end Jabril Hunter counters with 24 tackles for loss. However, the Rattlers strugged to contain Jasper's ground assault in last week's 35-21 area-round victory. Jasper senior quarterback Tiger Williams capped his high school career with a 270-yard rushing performance against the Navasota defense.
Carthage QB Jarod Blissett. (Jim Frake, ETSN.fm)
The Rattlers possess one of the most explosive offenses in the state of Texas regardless of classification. Navasota averages almost 60 points per game, and enters Friday night's clash putting up 426.8 yards on average. Carthage may need to lean on its running game to shorten the game and limit the amount of possessions Navasota receives on offense. Rattlers senior quarterback Shelton Eppler has thrown 53 touchdowns to just one interception, while senior wideout and Baylor pledge Tren'davian Dickson is the state's career touchdown receptions leader -- a record he set last week with a scoring catch vs. Jasper.
Don't be surprised if: Friday's game is not decided until the fourth quarter. Carthage and Navasota are two of the state's most accomplished programs in the last decade. Since 2008, Carthage has amassed a record of 94-21 (.817), while Navasota is 94-11 (.895). The two programs have combined for six state championships over the that time span with Carthage winning from 2008-10 and in 2013, and Navasota bringing home the hardware in 2012 and 2014. The Rattlers enter as the favorite, having won 28 consecutive games dating back to their 2013 playoff loss Carthage. However, the Bulldogs are playing their best football of the season at exactly the right time. Since a 31-28 loss to Kilgore in district, Carthage has won five straight, outscoring opponents by an average of 28 points per game. If the game is close, an edge may go to Carthage, which has played in six games decided by four points or less. Navasota's closest game this year was last week's 14-point win over Jasper, and the Rattlers outscored the opposition by an average of 48.8 points per game.
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Welcome to the Odyssey of the Mind. The build was created by the imaginative Timo Daehlie it is a maze that is an odyssey in of itself. Try to solve the puzzles Timo has laid out, find great gifts hidden along the way. This is a Gallery that welcomes artists to display their sculptures. Please contact Marianna Monentes to learn how you too can display your art at this incredible interactive sculpture gallery.


This great guru of the Sixties was not a Hindu holy man. He was, however, well steeped in the lore of Tibetian mysticism and mass media. Before he embraced the psychic realm of LSD, he was a clinical psychologist at Harvard University. Leary was one of a number of college researchers contracted by the CIA to study LSD as a possible tool for interogation.
Leary had a manual for the ideal LSD experience, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which became the first LSD guide book. Tim Leary appealed directly to the younger generation, he saw himself as the orchestrator of a mass cultural phenomena. His goal was to encourage large numbers of American youth to decondition themselves away from the workplace. "Tune in, turn on, drop out," he told millions on TV and in the press. Leary became a carnival barker for the psychedelic revolution of the Sixties.
Tim Leary conducted his LSD campaign from a vast estate in New York called Millbrook. In 1965 a member of the Millbrook clan went to London with hundreds of copies of The Tibetan Book of the Dead and five thousand doses of LSD. The clan founded the World Psychedelic Center in the fashionable Kings Road district of London, which attracted famous psychiatrists, writers, multimedia artists, filmmaker Roman Polanski, and rock stars such as Donovan, Peter and Gordon, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones.


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Lessons from a Leprechaun Taxi Driver
As part of a European speaking tour, I've been staying in an old rambling hotel in Dublin, formerly a monastery. It's been fun wandering around the underground corridors, filled with so much history and character. This morning, while checking out at reception, I was pleasantly surprised to meet what I can only describe as a leprechaun taxi driver. I had just asked how I get a taxi, when this vibrant little fellow literally popped out from behind a pillar. "At yer soivice" he announced.
He quickly and effortlessly loaded my two heavy cases into his taxi, and we were on our way. I asked him where he'd appeared from, and for the next 10 minutes I had a lesson from a true master in local area marketing.
He explained how he never sits in his taxi waiting for passengers. He waits in the hotel lobbies. He had seen me dragging my luggage along the corridor, figured I'd need a taxi, and waited for the magic moment when he could be of service. He said he made it his business to build relationships with the managers of the hotels by always being helpful. He told me how he'd recently travelled into town for the hotel chef, to get some unsalted butter for the famous violinist, André Rieu, who had been staying at the hotel. "I'm often called on by the managers and staff at various hotels to do special errands, because they know I'll do whatever it takes to help them out" he said.
He told me he always tries to be friendly and helpful at every opportunity, how he has so much work he can't keep up, and how it makes him laugh when he sees other drivers miserably sitting in their taxis complaining about their lack of work. He then asked what I did for a living, and we were quickly engaged in a dynamic discussion on the psychology of everyday life. I told him I was impressed at his nimbleness of body and mind. It was at that point he told me the following story.
Looking at yourself in the mirror
Here's what he said. "I had been an overweight, self-indulgent, lethargic slob. Over time I'd developed a pain in my right shoulder, which a line-up of top doctors, surgeons, acupuncturists and physiotherapists had been unable to fix. A physiotherapist, who worked with the Irish Olympic team, had been giving me a dry needling treatment. After four sessions she asked if I was feeling any relief. I had to be honest and told her the treatment was ineffective."
"She reflected for a moment and then said 'I want you to come over here, stand sideways in front of this mirror, and tell me how you feel about what you see'. I looked over at this pathetic image of myself and told her it wasn't a pretty sight. Then in a firm but kind voice she said 'Here's what you need to do. You need to book yourself into a gym and train consistently every day. You need to start eating right and looking after yourself. And in three months, not only will you be feeling good about yourself, your shoulder pain will be gone.' As she spoke I had tingles running up my spine. She was the first person to tell me the truth about the real source of my problem."
"From that moment I gave up the grog, started eating properly and exercised every day. Six months later I was feeling great and my shoulder problem had vanished. This woman saved my life. No doubt about it. And I now have so much energy, I am having a ball!"
The penny drops
After he had dropped me off, I reflected on our talk and I realised he had been practising many of the evidence-based strategies from FRI's Franchisee Wheel of Excellence that I've been presenting all week. These are:
Build a network of supporters. Take an interest in others and how you can help them out, and they'll reciprocate.
Be enthusiastic about your work and make it fun. We all like to engage with people who are obviously enjoying themselves
Cultivate a growth mindset. Be proactive, set yourself challenges that require effort, and actively seek feedback on how you can improve.
Maintain your personal vitality. Care for your body, mind and spirit by exercising sensibly, being intensely curious, showing gratitude, and strengthening your positive character traits.
Master what matters. Work out what's important to the long term success of your business and invest time each week on these more strategic tasks.
I really enjoyed my ride with the leprechaun taxi driver, and I hope you enjoyed reading this Tip.
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Omar Bruno De Marchi (born 28 May 1966) is an Argentine lawyer and politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in Mendoza Province since 2019.

De Marchi previously served as intendente (mayor) of Luján de Cuyo on two occasions, from 2015 to 2019 and from 1999 to 2005. He is the leader of PRO in Mendoza and first vice president of the Chamber of Deputies.

Early life and career
De Marchi was born on 28 May 1966 in Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza Province. He studied law at the National University of Córdoba, graduating in 1991, and has a master's degree on Business Administration from Universidad Francisco de Vitoria. He is married and has two children.

Political career
De Marchi was originally a member of the Democratic Party of Mendoza. He was elected to the mayoralty of his hometown in 1993, and served two terms until 2005. In 2005, De Marchi was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies on the PD–Recreate for Growth list. He was re-elected in 2009, this time as part of the PRO Union alliance, a precursor of Republican Proposal.

In 2015, De Marchi was elected once again as mayor of Luján de Cuyo.

In 2019, De Marchi ran for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies as the third candidate in the Cambia Mendoza list; the list received 52.44% of the vote and De Marchi was elected. In 2020, De Marchi was elected First Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies.

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External links
Profile on the official website of the Chamber of Deputies (in Spanish)

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Next Generation of Teachers creates next generation of researchers
Uniquely collaborative process produces robust research, well-prepared doctoral students
By Beth Potier Harvard News Office
Edward Liu (from left), Susan Kardos, and Heather Peske are three of the GSE graduate students who worked with Professor Susan Moore Johnson as co-investigators on the GSEÕs Project on the Next Generation of Teachers. (Staff photo Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office)
As they wind down their doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), Susan Kardos, David Kauffman, Edward Liu, and Heather Peske leave an impressive body of work. Each has been lead author on an academic article and collaborator on a published book; they've delivered conference talks, conducted quantitative and qualitative research, written grant proposals, and extensively reviewed each other's dissertations.
Thanks to their participation as co-investigators on the GSE's Project on the Next Generation of Teachers (NGT) under professor Susan Moore Johnson, the four have bucked the stereotype of the lonely, isolated life of a doctoral student. Producing their own dissertations in concert with the work of the NGT and each other, they all describe their research – on a range of topics related to the complex worlds of new schoolteachers – not as intellectual exercises but rather as real-world academic training.
But even more than provide a positive experience for the doctoral students, the
Project on Next Generation of Teachers,
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~ngt
project's uniquely collaborative style has generated a body of research on how to recruit and retain new teachers that far exceeds the sum of its parts. Further, say the team members, their collaborative work has a greater potential to inform the practitioners who can use it.
"There are these really interesting connections between all the studies we do. I think that's the power of the project," says Peske. "I can't do the work that I'm doing in isolation. I have to think about all these other factors. And all the other factors are what teachers are thinking about in schools."
Collaborative thinking on new teachers
Directed by Johnson, the Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning at the GSE, the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers aims to address critical questions related to the future of the nation's teaching force. As our nation anticipates a shortage of teachers in the coming decade, what will it take to recruit, retain, and support a new cohort of talented, committed professionals?
All four researchers signed on to NGT in 1999, when it was in its infancy (two other doctoral students, Sarah Birkeland and Morgaen Donaldson, have since joined the team). Liu and Kardos graduate today; Peske and Kauffman anticipate finishing their dissertations within the next year.
Together with Johnson, the four wrestled with their research questions, reviewed the literature, and designed methods of inquiry from the very start. "It was so exciting…. It was the very beginnings of very stimulating intellectual work that's not an assignment given to you but an assignment you give to yourself," says Kardos. "It was really what I thought graduate study would be."
All four co-investigators, like Johnson herself, are former classroom teachers who arrived at the GSE with a range of ideas for research. While some fit the project more neatly than others – Liu was curious about hiring practices of schools while Kardos came with an admittedly fuzzy interest in creating teacher community – they were drawn to Johnson's creation of a truly collegial research team. "If we had convened this group and Susan [Moore Johnson] said, 'I'm interested in how people teach the flatworm to flip over,' I would have signed on to that," says Kardos.
An opportunity to present research at a conference catapulted the NGT into action with a pilot study; four articles followed and the team was off and running, looking at the experiences of new teachers through the lenses of hiring, curriculum, professional culture, pay and incentives, career paths and decisions, and alternative certifications. As the NGT team published research and toiled at their individual dissertations, their work style remained intensely collaborative.
Setting a standard for careful, critical, yet supportive commentary, they reviewed each other's work and eagerly sought comments and ideas. They advanced NGT research by each contributing his or her expertise to the final study, article, or presentation. Emblematic of the team's work style, the project's recently published book, "Finders and Keepers: Helping New Teachers Survive and Thrive in Our Schools" (Jossey-Bass, 2004), draws from each member's research but is by no means an edited collection of their work. "There's not one word that doesn't have all of our fingerprints on it," says Kardos.
An interconnected web of ideas
Team members agree that their collaboration, while perhaps less expedient than the more traditional model that has each researcher toiling in his or her own silo, produced results more robust than had they worked alone. With their academic fates linked, they set a high bar for quality and respect, and supported each other to reach it.
"There was a constant search for how your work fits in with the other pieces of the puzzle," says Kauffman, who is exploring the experiences of new teachers with curriculum materials. He would look to Kardos for input on how curriculum materials mesh with teacher support, for instance; Peske tapped Liu's research on hiring practices for her own findings on alternative teacher certification programs.
"All of the research that we do is interconnected," Peske says. "Because we're creating this web of research findings, we can better inform practice and, hopefully, policy."
Reaching out to school practitioners has been one of the shared values that glues together the team's diverse work styles and varying areas of inquiry. They've made a commitment to rework every one of their articles published in a scholarly journal for publication in a practitioner journal, a task that earns the young academics no "credit" in the publishing frenzy that characterizes the climb up the intellectual ladder.
"It's not 'worth' anything, but on the other hand, it's worth everything, because that's what principals and teachers read," says Kardos.
Peske notes that the researchers' integrated work style mirrors the complexity of issues practitioners face, making it that much more relevant to school principals, superintendents, or teachers themselves, who must take a holistic perspective of issues and challenges.
Mentoring doctoral students
Although they often worked as equals, the four co-investigators are quick to credit Johnson for her visionary leadership and gentle guidance of the project and their careers.
"Susan gave us ownership. She really treated us as her collaborators, her colleagues," says Liu, who is launching his professional academic career – he will be an assistant professor of education at Rutgers University – with a firm footing in the business of academia.
"I don't think any of us ever took for granted what Susan created," says Kardos, who will become a postdoctoral researcher at Brandeis University's Mandel Center, working with Sharon Feinman-Nemser on new teacher learning.
Johnson says that the NGT's research style emerged from its substance: she was as interested in creating a process that mentored doctoral students for academic careers at the same time the product explored how teachers are mentored and prepared for their careers. Like the others, she believes that the process not only made for a positive work experience for the doctoral students, it led to better research.
"The power of working collaboratively and developing ideas with other people led, ultimately, to more interesting ideas," says Johnson. "We're all really proud of the work that's come out and feel that it simply is better than the sum of individual accomplishments could ever be."


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RISING SUN PICTURES DELIVERs EXPLOSIVE VFX FOR 'GAME OF THRONES' SEASON 6 FINALE
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For the finale of season six of HBO's smash-hit Game of Thrones, Rising Sun Pictures faced a formidable challenge: replicate the sprawling city of King's Landing and its central shrine, the Great Sept of Baelor, and then burn them to the ground in a magical, green-hued inferno.
New to the Game of Thrones production team, RSP created visual effects for several episodes of the show's recently concluded sixth season. Most of the work centered on King's Landing and the Sept as artists produced photo-realistic CG set extensions and architectural enhancements that were blended with location footage to create the luxurious, walled city overlooking the sea.
"King's Landing is based on Dubrovnik, a Croatian city on the Adriatic that has many beautiful, medieval buildings," recalls VFX Producer Richard Thwaites. "A lot of our early work involved wide views of the city, as well as internal and external views of the Sept (which is based on Fort Manoel in the Maltese town of Gżira)." For several of those shots, artists also filled city environments with animated digital crowds, representing members of a religious cult led by the High Sparrow.
The goal throughout was not only to match the look of the practical locations, but to do so in a way that appeared thoroughly real. "Game of Thrones is a fantasy, but the aesthetic is highly realistic," explains VFX Supervisor Hubert Maston. "The realism carries through in the design, the weight and dimension of the architecture and the atmosphere of the environments."
In the season finale, the Great Sept of Baelor and a large portion of King's Landing is destroyed as the widowed Queen Cersei Lannister exacts revenge on her rivals. A store of wildfire below the Sept ignites, causing an explosion that fills its tunnels with flames. The blast brings down statues of the city's seven kings. Everyone inside the building is killed and the Sept collapses. Nearby structures are also engulfed in the inferno.
"One reason that the scene is so shocking is that it seems so real," says Thwaites. "The explosion happens from inside out and seems so powerful that you believe it can take out everything in its surroundings."
Achieving that level of realism was made more difficult by the wildfire's signature green hue. "The fire you are used to seeing is a mix of very hot colors…orange, yellow, bright red," explains Maston. "When you turn it green, it doesn't seem so hot. We had to completely reimagine it to create fire that looks like fire and yet not like fire at the same time. We remapped the light, color and texture and, through trial and error, came up with a look that is both aesthetically pleasing and convincing."
The explosion also causes the demise of the High Sparrow. Flames bursting through the Sept's mosaic floor, incinerating him. "It's a fully digital replacement," notes Thwaites. "It has muscle, skin, bones and internal organs…all of which blow up in just a few frames."
"The fire works its way through his body in layers," Maston adds. "You see his skin peeling off and bones breaking off. It was pretty gruesome but a key moment for the final episode in the season."
The initial airing of the finale drew the largest audience in the show's history. Rising Sun Pictures did its part to ensure loyal fans had plenty to marvel at.


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Q: How do I increase the font size of \section? I used the following code to increase the font size of \section but failed.
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
                               {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                               {2.3ex \@plus.2ex}%
                               {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}}

But it gave me a lot of errors.

A: As already said you have to use \makeatletter and \makeatother because in Tex @ ist used as special character for internal commands. If you really want to change the format this way you have to change the defaults. Here is a minimal working example:
\documentclass{article}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
    {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
    {2.3ex \@plus.2ex}%
    {\normalfont\Huge\bfseries}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
    \section{test}
\end{document}

It might be easier to use a special package like titlesec
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}{\Huge\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{}

\begin{document}
    \section{test}
\end{document}

or sectsty
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{sectsty}
\sectionfont{\Huge\bfseries}

\begin{document}
    \section{test}
\end{document}

Or if you are using Koma Script you can eaily do:
\documentclass{scrartcl}

\setkomafont{section}{\Huge\bfseries}
\begin{document}
    \section{test}
\end{document}

I wouldn't recommand to change the section format directly. I would use Koma-Script or titlesec

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Fantasy lovers love allegory. And nobody's known more for creating allegorical fantasy than C.S. Lewis.
So it's to great anticipation that the second movie in The Chronicles of Narnia franchise (based on the fourth book in Lewis' series of seven) arrives in theaters. Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter are a year older than they were in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and they're longing to return to the world that once made them kings and queens.
They get their wish while sitting on a train platform waiting to go back to school for a new term. They're pulled into Narnia at the request of Susan's magical horn of need, blown by Prince Caspian. Little do they know that Cair Paravel lies in ruins and 1,300 years have passed since their last visit.
Though he's not a Narnian at all, much of this story revolves around the titular prince. Caspian is a Telmarine, a human race that has conquered Narnia and driven its diverse inhabitants to extinction. (Or so it is thought.) Caspian and other kids of his generation have been raised to believe that the old stories about Narnia, its magic, the White Witch and Aslan himself are fairy tales.
He comes face to face with the truth soon enough. The lad's evil Uncle Miraz (having murdered Caspian's father) only tolerates Caspian because he has no son of his own to inherit the throne. A baby boy changes that equation and Caspian flees for his life—straight into the deep woods that protect pockets of Old Narnians.
Enter the talking animals. Enter the magical horn. And enter the Pevensie kids. The result? War. Caspian and Peter lead their troops into battle against Miraz. At stake? The very soul of Narnia and the Narnians' fading belief in Aslan.
Old-fashioned heroes. That's what makes Prince Caspian tick. Chivalry. Loyalty. Honor. Duty. Morality. Faith. Despite advice to the contrary from Edmund, Peter refuses to kill Miraz in a winner-take-all duel. Caspian has a harder time restraining himself, but he does the right thing, too. The children demonstrate their loyalty to Narnia time and time again as they set aside their own desires and needs for the greater good. They've been brought back to Narnia for a purpose, and they're determined to discover it and fulfill it.
Susan and Peter save the dwarf Trumpkin from execution. He returns the favor later, at different times saving Susan and Lucy. A minotaur gives up his life to save some of his comrades. Doctor Cornelius, who has been teaching Caspian about Aslan, says he's risked his life all these years so that the prince could become a better king than those who came before him. The badger Trufflehunter defies social expectations when he goes into Good Samaritan mode and patches up Caspian when he's first found, wounded, in the woods.
The Pevensies and Caspian will do anything, even risk their own lives, to restore Narnia to its former glory. Why? Because that former glory included reverence for and faith in Aslan. ...
And why is faith in one talking lion so important in a story about multitudes of talking animals, not to mention centaurs, minotaurs, river-gods and tree-spirits? For that matter, why are we talking about faith in such positive terms in the midst of a story about mythical creatures? Because author C.S. Lewis goes to great lengths to show us that Aslan is a picture of Jesus Christ.
We're taught here that following Aslan is the most important thing you can do—especially when no one else can even see him. It's thought by Old Narnians that Aslan has abandoned them. But he has not.
When Lucy glimpses Aslan through the trees, then loses him the second she turns to tell the others, she's faced with a choice: follow the lion or follow the crowd. She picks the crowd, and all of them quickly pay for their blindness. (She later apologizes when confronted with her weakness.)
Similarly, Peter dismisses Lucy's plea to wait for Aslan's guidance ("Have you forgotten who really defeated the White Witch, Peter?") when they're about to go into battle. And, again, they pay for it, this time dearly.
[Spoiler Warning] It's not until Lucy and Susan seek out Aslan's help that success is granted to their quest. Aslan responds by waking up the trees and river-god, sending them to the Narnians' aid.
Psalm 127:1 reads, "Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain." Lewis was obviously trying to give life to this verse in his book. And while the film doesn't dive as deeply into it as the book does, the message is not lost, either.
Darker spiritual elements emerge when the White Witch is summoned by a "hag" and a wer-wolf, as Lewis spells it. The summoning involves an occult-themed ceremony of sorts and an incantation. And Caspian's hand is sliced with a knife in order to fulfill the witch's request for human blood—which she says will free her from her metaphysical prison.
To the rescue come the Pevensies, who by now know bad magic when they see it. They struggle against the hag and wer-wolf, destroying them before Edmund decisively blocks the witch's re-entrance into Narnia.
Elsewhere, Lucy heals people's war wounds with a magical potion she was given on her previous trip to Narnia. Aslan caps the story by healing a mouse's tail—à la Jesus restoring the man's shriveled hand in the temple (Matthew 12). Then he forms a magical doorway back to our world through which both Telmarines and the Pevensies walk.
A subtle, almost imperceptible attraction develops between Susan and Caspian. Then, as if to decorate the final scene with Hollywood glitz, she impulsively runs to him for an embrace and kiss moments before she returns to our world.
If Prince Caspian were King David, God wouldn't let him build the temple because, as it's put in 1 Chronicles 22:8, "You have shed much blood on the earth in my sight." For that matter, the Pevensie kids, young as they are, wouldn't qualify either. Lucy doesn't contribute to the sizable body count, but Peter, Edmund and Susan are on the front lines time after time, dispatching foe upon foe with arrow and sword and fist and foot.
Blood shows up on a Telmarine general's lip after Miraz socks him in the face. And it spreads across Caspian's hand when the hag slashes it. Most often, though, when swords are plunged into bodies, they don't come out sheathed in red. But the point here is that swords are plunged into bodies. Repeatedly. As are crossbow bolts, arrows and knives.
The fighting evokes images of ethnic cleansing as Telmarines seek to eradicate the Narnians from their own land. Defending the assault, Miraz hisses, "They've been breeding like cockroaches under a rock." A soldier's head is severed at one point. It's swift and not overly graphic, but we do see a helmet-clad orb roll away from the body. A minotaur is pushed off a high castle balcony, and the camera never blinks as he tumbles, crashes into a bulwark, then thuds to the ground, presumably dead. Equally intense is a scene in which another minotaur holds up a descending gate to allow his comrades to escape. The Telmarines riddle his body with arrows and he collapses, the gate slamming down on top of him. The remaining Narnians are trapped and await their doom.
Huge catapults hurl boulders at the Narnians' makeshift fortress, blasting walls, bringing down doorways, etc. A ploy by the Narnians to collapse the earth underneath their enemies' feet succeeds, and we see dozens of horses and riders fall into the pit that's created. Trees awaken and wipe out sections of armored men and animals with their flailing roots and limbs. The river-god—depicted as water that coalesces into the rough form of a man—rips a bridge from its tethers and destroys everyone on it.
Hand-to-hand combat also gets front-and-center attention. Peter and Caspian violently cross swords before they discover they're on the same side. Caspian puts a sword to his uncle's throat, forcing him out of bed. And Peter takes on Miraz in an interminable and armor-denting test of superiority. Then, when Peter refuses to kill his fading opponent, one of Miraz's generals finishes the man off. (We see his body crumple with an arrow sticking out of it.)
The dwarf Trumpkin is bound and gagged in a boat, then thrown overboard to drown. When Peter's shoulder is dislocated, Edmund wrenches it back into place. For a moment, Susan dangles (frighteningly) over a high ledge. In England, Peter gets into a frivolous fight with another boy. They push, shove, hit and kick.
One exclamation of "oh my gosh" from Lucy.
Susan lies about her name to divert the attentions of a boy from school.
Kids typically get hooked on Lewis' Narnia books between the ages of 8 and 12. Then they graduate to, say, The Lord of the Rings. So it would seem The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian should be targeting tweens and pre-tweens. It's not. This isn't a kids' movie. Or even a "family" movie.
It's a war movie.
From start to finish, battle scenes dominate the landscape. Caspian slashes his way out of Miraz's castle. He battles with Peter when they first meet. He and Peter lead a surprise attack on the castle. Peter goes mano a mano against Miraz. And then it's as if the Mongol hordes have descended as the Telmarines face off against the Narnians in a Return of the King-esque mega-conflict. Even the cute creatures are deadly here. The mouse Reepicheep goes straight for the jugular, dispatching numerous rivals with his small-but-effective sword.
By war movie standards, of course, Prince Caspian is restrained. Blood makes infrequent appearances. And bodies flop, drop and crumple instead of exploding into dozens of pieces. We don't see Reepicheep's sword piercing flesh. But by family movie standards, there are more cautions than one might expect. There's a decapitation. Scores of stabbings. And while the body count may not exceed what's seen in 300, it's headed in that direction.
Director Andrew Adamson seems well aware that he's pushing further than he did before. "This film is probably a little darker and grittier than the last one, partly because the children are older, making the story more adult in nature," he says. "In the last film, I think we went to some pretty dark places. Aslan's death, certainly, is one of the darkest moments in the film. I think this movie has the potential to be even more sinister. Miraz is potentially someone that we might actually see in real life, which makes him and the story that much darker." William Moseley, who plays Peter, adds, "The White Witch was scary, but you've seen nothing until you've seen Miraz."
So it's as Trumpkin says, "You may find Narnia a more savage place than you remember."
It is also a place that's filled with more life lessons than you may remember, though. Between battles, brief as those interludes are, there emerge some pretty compelling allegories, both spiritual and cultural. At the fore is the assertion that even in a world devoted to reducing stories of God's faithfulness and miraculous interventions to mere myth, we can make a choice to believe. And that choice will, quite literally, be our salvation.
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Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian; Georgie Henley as Lucy Pevensie; Skandar Keynes as Edmund Pevensie; William Moseley as Peter Pevensie; Anna Popplewell as Susan Pevensie; Sergio Castellitto as King Miraz; Peter Dinklage as Trumpkin; Warwick Davis as Nikabrik; Liam Neeson as the voice of Aslan
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To manage odor complaints, Spokane Clean Air will charge fees for marijuana growers
By Wilson Criscione
The Spokane Clean Air Agency has received hundreds of complaints about the smell of this plant
In response to complaints of marijuana odor emitting from certain farms, the Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency will start charging fees that could cost producers and processors in the county up to $1,250 this year.
But the agency's board promised to re-examine the fee schedule before next year, when higher fees of up to roughly $5,000 could be charged, depending on the size of the grow operation. Still, marijuana producers and processors say the decision seems like a burdensome regulation that could harm their business and the industry locally.
"It's another fee and another regulation for the farmers who are already struggling under the weight of overtaxation and overregulation," says Crystal Oliver, owner of a pot farm north of Spokane.
The Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency proposed the rules in the fall, after the agency said it received more than 300 marijuana odor complaints from July 2014 until August 2017. A majority of those complaints, however, came from neighbors around only a couple of farms.
Julie Oliver, executive director of the clean air agency, says the volume of complaints put a strain on the five agency inspectors. It also cost the agency hundreds of thousands of dollars during that period.
As part of the new rules adopted Thursday by the agency's four-member board of directors, people growing and packaging cannabis must register with the agency and pay an initial registration fee ranging from $750 to $1,250. Those rules go into effect this year.
The board also approved an annual registration fee starting next year that, depending on what kind of farm it is, ranges from a fee of $528 to nearly $5,000. But that annual registration fee, the board decided, will be suspended until the agency can further study its impact on local businesses.
The new regulations also mandate that farmers give the clean air agency a harvest schedule.
The members of the board who unanimously passed the resolution included Spokane County Commissioner Al French, Spokane Valley Mayor Rod Higgins, Millwood Mayor Kevin Freeman and citizen Tom Brattebo.
Local marijuana growers spoke at the meeting in opposition to the new fees, saying it puts additional strain on their business.
Aaron Juhl, the owner of Funky Farms, called the fees "completely unfair for growers in Spokane County."
"In comparison to what we're actually making, it's just too much," he says.
In addition to the fees, the farmers object to having to offer harvest schedules to the clean air agency, feeling it could put the security of the farm in danger. But the clean air agency maintains that information is necessary for enforcement.
"I understand the concern of having to report the harvest schedule," French told farmers on Thursday. "It's important because if you're not in a harvest, then there's no reason for us to go out and inspect."
The clean air board insisted that the agency will keep examining how the fees should be charged. French noted that the industry is "still in flux," referencing the decision Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced today to roll back the Obama-era policy guiding marijuana enforcement in states where it has been legalized.
"What we knew yesterday is different than what we know today," French says. "I don't know what's going to happen as a result of federal intervention based upon what [Sessions] has said."
Crystal Oliver, the marijuana farmer, is not optimistic that the more time the clean air agency devotes to determining fees will result in lower costs to local farms.
"I don't know many regulatory agencies who lower fees," she says.
The Sessions announcement combined with the new clean air rules only provides more uncertainty for a budding local industry, Oliver says.
"It's a day in the life of marijuana farmers," she says.


At the end of her diary entries for 1922, Viola wrote a list of the birds that the Gargunnock Estate Gamekeeper and his son claimed to have seen on the estate. Some of these are quite likely, some less likely and one pretty much impossible. Viola notes at the bottom of the list that she 'cannot vouch for the accuracy of any of these' and is quite rightly sceptical about what she has been told. One wonders if the Gamekeeper is testing her credulity with his stories. Judge for yourself how likely it is that the following birds might have been at Gargunnock at this time.
The 'butcher bird' referred to is the red backed shrike. This is now a very rare bird in the UK but would have been less so in 1922.
It is known as the 'butcher bird' from its habit of impaling its prey on thorns or spines as a kind of larder. You can find out more about these elusive birds here.
The nightjar is a nocturnal bird and a summer visitor to the UK. It does not usually come as far north as Stirlingshire but it could have found its way to Gargunnock in the 1920s.
Find out more about the nightjar here.
The nightingale, known for its distinctive and beautiful singing voice, is another summer visitor to the UK. However, it is not normally found anywhere other than the south of England.
It is not that distinctive a bird visually and is very secretive, hiding in thick cover and being apparent largely from its lovely song. You can read more about this bird here.
The magnificent golden eagle has been sighted relatively recently in the Stirlingshire area so it is possible that one could have made its way to Gargunnock.
The hobby is a small bird of prey and is another summer visitor to the UK. They have been recorded in southern Scotland so it is debatable whether one might have been seen at Gargunnock.
See what you think after reading more here.
Another raptor, the peregrine falcon is found all over Scotland and is a year round resident.
It is a very beautiful bird and Viola is likely to have seen one herself on the estate. Read more here.
Great spotted woodpeckers are definitely found in Scotland as we saw one on the bird feeder outside the Archives a couple of years ago, so this bird is definitely something that would have been seen at Gargunnock.
Hooded crows are also commonly found in Scotland being a year round resident here and across Ireland.
The bird that Viola is most sceptical about, and rightly so, is the snowy owl. This is not a resident of the UK or a visitor, being found in arctic regions. There may have been some confusion here with the barn owl, which is a pale bird and can look white in flight.
More likely to have been seen at Gargunnock is the raven, which is a year round resident in parts of the UK.


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THE LAST "REAL" POST OF THE DECADE, AS IF THAT DOESN'T BRING A TEAR TO YOUR EYE!
Like I promised, here's a mini-smidgie kinda post to sorta top the year off before I pree-sent to you my not-so-massive year's end roundup this Thursday. Not much to say in the way of anything earth-shattering or life-reaffirming, but I thought it would be pleasing as punch to give mention to a few little items that have wormed their way to the bunker before we cap these oh-oh's off for good. I have no idea what this particular post is going to mean (for you, me or the bedpost for that matter) as far as anything aerie/philosophical-like, but I thought it would be a good way to "get rid" of a few reviews before 2010 clocks in and we all start anew. Anew at what I have no idea of either.
One good thing for you avid BLOG TO COMM readers to look forward to in 2010 is more Dee-Vee-Dee reviews! With my computer's DVD drive acting extremely finicky either rejecting disques totally or playing them at warp drive (meaning they play as if they're warped!), it was sure heartening to know that my very own mother has received not only a DVD player of her own on which she can spin her opera and JAG disques, but a mini-sized screen planted smack dab in the privacy of her own bedroom (since the tee-vee we have hitched up to the satellite is too old to accept such new technology as DVD players) as well! This means that, at least when nobody else is home, I can sneak into her room and watch a huge backlog of platters I myself have acquired, so expect some hotcha writeups of everything from THE CORPSE GRINDERS to THE HOWDY DOODY SHOW in the coming months! I spent a good portion of Sunday watching a few episodes of GOMER PYLE, including the huge guffaw-inducing one spoofing THE DATING GAME where Gomer remarks to Sgt. Carter how the other contestant's even handsomer than Rock Hudson and sounds like Cary Grant! Sounds like a date that can go three ways, at least if the rumors that have been going around for years can be believed! And the "OK, let's hear it for Henshaw" one had me rolling in the aisles, or at least in the comfy chair!!! Also watched were a few episodes of AMERICA 2-NITE which were really boffo though I recall "The First Fifty Weeks" special (touting the first fifty weeks of the UBS Network, whose motto is "We put U before the BS"!) being way funnier than what actually transpired thanks to a thirty-plus-year memory hell bent on embellishing everything to the point of rose-colored nostalgia rear-viewing so to speak. Whatever, this "replacement" series for MARY HARTMAN X2 remains a whole lot better than anything that has been broadcast since 1979, not counting reruns that is! Expect reviews of both of these series and of course much more in up and coming BLOG TO COMMs!
And now, here is the pittance I have been promising you:
Tin Huey-BEFORE OBSCURITY; THE BUSHFLOW TAPES CD (Smog Veil, available through the usual sources)
I remember getting grief from a few people (OK, maybe two at the most!) in the eighties for mentioning my like (not quite luv) for this bunch of Akron confusionites who weren't quite sure whether they wanted to be punks or Canterbury-derived art-rockers. The memories of Huey's solo major label output on Warners, CONTENTS DISLODGED DURING SHIPMENT, really must have thrown 'em for a loop and although I must confess to having loved the dickens outta the platter at the time (enough that I even own two copies of their "I'm a Believer"/"Hump Day" 12-inch promo single, one autographed by the band!) I should also admit that I ain't played the thing for nigh on twenny-five years! Not surprisingly, I find myself preferring the group's early "self-produced" seven-inchers on the local Clone label not to mention a number of early live and studio tapes that fell into my mitts during the late-eighties, a time when it seemed as if my yearnings for the seventies underground were growling louder and louder because that eighties stuff just wasn't cutting it and no matter how hard I tried the Membranes just weren't gonna replace the likes of Huey and MX-80 Sound in my book!
Smog Veil seems to be doing its job, albeit slowly, in bringing the seventies NE Ohio underground to the present with this Tin Huey collection being just the latest. Most of it was taped in '78, live as well as at the group's Bushflow Studios, and even at this later date the group still sound a whole lot more than the eighties ginchy goo Devo music this stuff eventually evolved into. (Which is saying something since one track features the more or less debut of the Waitresses complete with new wave songstress Whatzername Donahue fronting the '78 Huey lineup!) Looks like Harvey Gold was scouring the used and import bins of the area for all the Soft Machine and Amon Duul II albums he could find just like I and presumably you were. You can hear how the group had honed itself into a sleek underground rock act emanating out of the Industrial Midwest...of course I prefer their early raw material but it's sure nice listening to them being true to their punk roots while presenting them in a more stylish, professional way. Well, at least to the point where they're not going to make you sick with that eighties-bred Pee Wee Herman new wave music that ex-Huey Ralph Carney was excelling in after the group's 1980 break up.
And what is this??? Some early (1973) live tracks have been tagged on at the end, taken from that show recorded at the Townhouse which has been making the rounds at least amongst serious tape-trading circles for quite a long time! Showing the Hueys as a quartet in their pre-Carney days, these songs have that ragged, rawer and thus more appealing sway which'll give you an idea of how Huey sounded back when they were opening shows for Rocket From The Tombs and Mirrors and Peter Laughner was writing articles about 'em in the local entertainment rags. They had a stronger, more intense punk approach at the time with covers of the Velvets and Stooges rife in their sets amidst the krautrock, and although I would have preferred hearing the entire show including the show-stopping closer "Sister Ray" 'stead of the newer recordings that make up the bulk of this disque I guess beggars can't be choosers or so they say.
One major beef I have with this package is the uh-glee cover art which doesn't conjure up visions of seventies hard-flash but nineties/oh-oh's alternative kitsch seen in way too many record ads that were and continue to pop up in the "'zines" of then and now. I guess they couldn't get whoever did the artwork for that boss debut EP from '77 so they hadda settle for one of those Coop/Kozik-derived cartoony-time delineaters who continue to be in vogue even as we dig deeper and deeper into the new millenium. Well, I guess with a lot of alternative/underground clubs closing up and groups folding by the score they need to get some work considering all of the posters they won't be drawing in the upcoming years!
ACID DREAMS EPITAPH CD (Past & Present, available through Forced Exposure)
Another questionable purchase considering how I have most if not all of these tracks on other albums and disques throughout my collection, and the selection really isn't quite as obscure as the blurb-writers would have you believe. Ranging from the familiar (PEBBLES lifts, Norton label signings) to the less-than (the Journey Men, the Sweet Acids), at least the sound is clearer and if you haven't been paying that much attention for the last ten or so years these do remind you of just one reason why listening to rock & roll music back in the late-seventies was a rather enjoyable task. Still, it doesn't match the wonderment on a boy's face when he'd go to his favorite local record shop and espy a copy of PEBBLES VOLUME ONE thinking it every bit as exciting and as adventurous as a moon rock, and in many ways he was right!
HANK KETCHAM'S COMPLETE DENNIS THE MENACE 1951-1952 (Fantagraphics, 2005)
Look what Santa (aka Bill Shute) got me for Christmas! Never would have expected getting this collection of early Dennis the Menace cartoons sent to me and I'm glad that Bill knew what one needs for Christmas is not socks or underwear but fun unadulterated reading material like this! It sure beats the heck outta that one X-mas when I was ten or eleven when ever-sagging grades prompted the folks to get me books like MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH and TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST (along with some "scientific" games that were meant to educate me but were about as informative as a Julius Sumner Miller Physics Demonstration) in a vain attempt to "uplift" myself so to speak. A big hearty thanks to Mr. Bill for at least realizing that a dolt is a dolt and there's nothing you can do about it!
Since none of the very early stories were available in paperback when I was eleven and a huge fan of the comic and tee-vee show these are all new to me. It's interesting seeing the way the drawing style and the character developed during the comic's first two years, almost unrecognizable at the beginning but starting to take shape by the time '52 clocks out, and even at this early stage DENNIS THE MENACE was a fun, guffaw-inducing comic that was only hinting at the raw carnage that would take place once the strip "developed" into what we know it as in the mid-fifties. No Mr. Wilson yet (Mrs. Wilson does pop up later on) and you could expect a proto-Margaret here 'n there, but some of the great gags we all love like Dennis getting his wimpass dad into hot water with musclebound bullies are popping up and being used to good effect. And for you homos out there, Dennis even makes a few butt-naked appearances which I'm sure will get your jollies up even more than a few other things, if you know what I mean. The one where Dennis shows up nude at his (male) friend's door asking his mother if said pal wanted to join him for a bath will really get a lotta titters at the clandestine bar with the double-entendre name closest to you!
Anthrax-"HyProGlo"/"Got The Time" (live) promotional CD (Elektra)
I may be wrong, but weren't Anthrax one of the better eighties heavy metal aggros making a far superior holy racket in the face of a load of pale imitations that cluttered up that decade with nothing but a lotta hair? This promo disque does give a good sample of why they were so good next to the competition...while loads of eighties metal seemed to be distorting seventies accomplishment or utilizing the worst aspects of its late-seventies variations, Anthrax remained true to metal's early-seventies thud-credo making them avant garde (with a retro attitude) the results which certainly sounded better'n what the anagram metal brigade (WASP etc.) were dishing out at that sorry time.
One studio and one live...a short deal but if you got it cheap you have a pretty good enough taste. Well, at least these guys came closer to the Alice Cooper credo than Alice himself did long after his fame ran out even if that ain't saying very much!
Hmmmm, that was longer than I had planned...aren't you peons lucky?
Posted by Christopher Stigliano at 10:17 AM
Totally OT, but this may be the only place in the bloody unisphere that may be able to help me...
Am I going mad or do I remember reading about (prolly in the early 80's) a NEW YORK (?) band called "FUCKALL" who signed to Atlantic (?) around 1972 and recorded an as yet unreleased LP??? I remember all this as cleara s mud, but having found nothing to back up my fading memory, I'm beginning to think I made it up??? HELP!
Anyone out there able to help this guy???? I know that I'm totally in the dark, at least about this group!
diskojoe said...
My favorite one-two punch in TV watching back in the day was watching You Bet Your Life reruns & Fernwood Tonight on Channel 56 Boston circa 1977-1978.
Serena WmS. Burroughs said...
Chris, there's another year to go in the decade (they go from 1 to 10), the same way that the twentieth century didn't end until Dec. 31st, 2000.
Also, here's a post on that vehicle website I hepped your Japanese car post that I contributed to that involved ancient car wrecks in the Witch City that might be of interest to you:
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/12/29/on-their-worst-days/#comments
To AK Panda---you're being scientific, I'm being cultural.
Correction...you're being "mathematical", I'm being cultural!
Ahh, that reminds me of when I was doing a one-off gig with Terry Hartman playing the other guitar
(and probably Jim Ellis on bass and Dave Blaze of Public Enemy--the original PE, a Cle punk band, not the Long Island rap group--on drums), and I was talking about the "mathematical" structures of the songs, and TH said, "That's not mathematical, it's ridiculous!"
Then, he said that if they (the other musicians) got lost, they'd "just go into "Louie, Louie" and look at me like I was crazy."
Which also reminds me of that video of Henry Flynt talking about doing a performance at Yoko Ono's loft, and the Rock'n'Roll influence in some of his music, and how someone had to "explain Little Richard to John Cage," which is something that I would really like to hear. Also, I'd like to hear a tape of someone explaining John Cage to Little Richard. A collaboration between those two would probably be even better than Cage and Sun Ra...
maybe Glenn Ligon could do a piece about it...
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LORDSTOWN (AP) — With too abounding factories authoritative slow-selling cars, General Motors can't allow to accumulate them all operating after authoritative some boxy decisions. But the political atmosphere ability be attached its options.
A accessible scenario, analysts say, is to abutting its sprawling Lordstown bulb in northeastern Ohio because the bunched car it makes additionally is congenital in Mexico. The once-bustling branch already has absent two of its three accouterment and 3,000 abutment jobs aback the alpha of aftermost year.
But affective that car, the Chevrolet Cruze, south of the bound brings the accident of afflictive a backfire and tweetstorm from Admiral Donald Trump. And GM additionally isn't abiding whether he'll accomplish acceptable on threats to appoint 25 percent tariffs on cartage alien from Canada and Mexico.
Altogether, GM has bristles car factories with affluence of bare accommodation in Kansas City, Kansas; Lordstown; and Detroit-Hamtramck, Lansing, and Orion Township, Michigan.
Three are active on one about-face per day, which is inefficient and costs GM money. Automakers like to run plants on at atomic two circadian shifts.
To accord with the overcapacity, GM will either accept to eat the added costs, abutting one or added plants, or retool them to body trucks and SUVs that now are advantaged by U.S. buyers.
GM's abutting competitors, Fiat Chrysler and Ford, plan to atom best car models and catechumen plants to trucks and SUVs. GM, however, afresh revamped abundant of its car calendar and banked on sales stabilizing. But aftermost month, trucks and SUVs accomplished a almanac 68 percent of U.S. new-vehicle sales.
In the U.S., automakers accept abundant branch accommodation to body about 14 actor cartage per year, but aftermost year they bogus alone 11 million. Added than one-third of that abandoned accommodation — 1.3 actor cartage — is in the bristles GM car plants that are operating at 37 percent capacity, said Kristin Dziczek, a carnality admiral at the Center for Automotive Research, an industry anticipate tank.
GM car plants are operating at 37 percent of their capacity, she said. Abounding barter and SUV plants, however, several of which run three accouterment a day, are at 105 percent capacity.
So that leaves the automaker with the three choices: Run plants beneath accommodation and accident bargain profits, abutting at atomic one bulb and move its artefact to another, or move articles to the U.S. from added countries, mainly Mexico, to ample the underused factories.
Dziczek thinks GM will booty the final choice, converting car plants to trucks and SUVs, abnormally if the Trump administering slaps 25 percent tariffs on alien vehicles.
GM, which imports some of its profit-rich auto trucks from Silao, Mexico, and SUVs from China, would be hard-pressed to blot the assessment cost. So in adjustment to say competitive, it would move, Dziczek said.
"They'd attending to catechumen as abundant as they can to body what anybody is buying," she said.
Moving articles aback to the U.S. could accumulate the car factories accessible and save absolute jobs. If abundant cartage came aback from added countries, the companies could add jobs. Currently, the bristles GM plants accept about 7,400 alternate workers.
While all this plays out, there's affluence of all-overs in Lordstown, breadth the GM bulb is one of the region's few actual automated anchors.
UAW Local 1112 Admiral Dave Green said he's not abiding what Trump's blackmail of tariffs will beggarly for the plant's future.
While the UAW nationally accustomed Hillary Clinton for admiral in 2016, abounding Lordstown workers, including Eric Vasko, voted for Trump.
Two of Ohio's best arresting Democrats — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Rep. Tim Ryan, who represents the Youngstown breadth — both said they accept talked with GM CEO Mary Barra but came abroad after any charge to befitting the Lordstown bulb running.
What absolutely angered Ryan and the plant's workers was that on the day Lordstown's additional about-face concluded in June, GM appear affairs to body its new Chevrolet Blazer in Mexico.
Although GM could catechumen some car plants and add new SUVs, that won't be abundant to advance all of its balance car-building capacity, said Navigant Research analyst Sam Abuelsamid. "In all likelihood we'll about absolutely see one, maybe two plants closing," he said.
Further complicating GM's branch bind is the United Auto Workers, which has a arrangement that expires abutting year. Closing a bulb afore negotiations could accompany a civic strike, or could abet a bang during the arrangement talks.
Already the UAW's administration has taken a harder band than in the past, announcement GM's accommodation to body a new adaptation of the Chevrolet Blazer SUV in Mexico back U.S. workers at car plants are unemployed.
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of interplanetary magnetic field lines.
When a spacecraft breaks away from the influence of the Earth's magnetic field into interplanetary space, it finds there a weak magnetic field. The field may be weak, but it extends over huge distances, and can have important effects. From the observed direction of interplanetary magnetic field lines, we believe this field comes from the Sun, carried by magnetic field lines dragged out by the solar wind.
Here this "dragging" process will be explained, and it will be used to obtain the expected shape of those field lines.
When some process moves plasma inside a magnetic field, what happens depends of the relative strength of the two. If the magnetic field is strong--as happens in the corona, close to the Sun--then it dominates, and determines where the plasma can or cannot go. That is why magnetic field-line loops tend to keep back the solar wind, unlike the outward-bound lines in the "coronal holes" between them.
If two or more ions start out located on the same field line, they will always share the same field line.
If they then manage to move, the field line gets deformed: it is as if the magnetic field is "frozen" into the plasma.
Using this "law of field line preservation", we will now derive the shape of interplanetary magnetic field lines.
Draw from the center of the Sun a line perpendicular to the bottom of the page, extending most of the way to the top. Using a protractor and a ruler, draw on each side of that line 3 additional radial "spokes" from the center of the Sun, each making angles of 13.3° with its neighbors.
(Alternative method: Let center of the Sun be the origin of a system of cartesian coordinates, with the x-axis parallel to the bottom of the page. Draw the two axes, with the y-axis extending to near the top of the page. With a pencil, draw faintly the line y=4, parallel to the x axis but 4" (4 inches) above it.
On that line mark points at distances 15/16", 2" and 3 3/8" on both sides of the y-axis, then draw radial lines from the center of the Sun through those points, extending them until they are 1/2" from the sides of the sheet or 1" from the top.
On each of the spokes, mark the point where it emerges from the Sun, and mark from there, along each spoke, additional points at intervals of 1.5 inches. Each interval marks the distance the solar wind covers in one day.
The magnetic field at all these points is already so weak that the solar wind overpowers it and shifts its field lines, while its own motion--radially outward--remains unchanged. We will now derive the shape of those lines.
Since the Sun is viewed here from north, and it rotates in the same sense as the Earth, on this scale drawing, does it rotate clockwise... or counterclockwise?
Go to the next "spoke" on the left of the first one. The Sun is drawn here as rotating counterclockwise (yes!), so on day 2 all of them are at the base of that line--except for the one which started the previous day, which has moved radially and is now at "first base," the next point on the first line. Also, still another ion has just started moving outwards from the starting point. Mark both points with the number 2.
On day 3, the ion which started out first is at "second base," and the one which started on day 2 is at the first point out on its spoke. All others are at the base of the 3rd spoke, to which the Sun has now rotated, and one more ion has just begun to move. Mark all three point with the number 3.
On day 4, the Sun has rotated to the 4th spoke and 4 ions remain at the base point of that spoke, including one which is just starting to move. The other three, in the order they were released, are at 3rd, 2nd and 1st "base." Mark all four points with the number 4.
And so on, day after day. The points marked 5, for instance, are where the particles are on the 5th day. Obviously, you must give up on marking any ions which have gone past the limits of the paper.
Each of the radial lines is now marked with the day on which "its" particle reaches each marked point. If any unmarked points are left, you may, if you with, extend the marking further (8, 9, ...), to days for which we have no starting particle.
Now connect--preferably with a red pen, or in some color different from that of the rest of the drawing--all points with the number 2, also the ones with 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7, and perhaps also those with 8, 9 and 10. Take those marked 6: they show where the ions are after 5 days have passed--about the time the first of them reaches Earth's orbit. Since at the beginning they were all on the same magnetic field line, after 5 days they still are. The line you have drawn therefore gives the expected shape of an interplanetary magnetic field line.
You may use a straight ruler for the connection: the actual lines curve smoothly, but even with lines composed of straight sections it becomes clear that the shape is a spiral. This agrees with observations at the Earth's orbit, where the average interplanetary magnetic field is found to make an an angle of 45° with the flow of the solar wind, similar to what the drawing shows. In other words--after being 5 days on their way, and reaching 150,000,000 km from the Sun, the magnetic field lines still "remember" the Sun's rotation.
They "remember" it for months afterwards, even as the solar wind speeds past the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. If you continue this graphic excercise to such large distances, you will find that the spiral gets wound tighter and tighter, until the field line direction is very close to that of circles around the Sun. The space probe Voyager 2 has shown that this indeed does happen.
As noted at the beginning, two extreme modes exist in the interaction between a plasma and a magnetic field. If the plasma is rarefied, even if its particles have high energy, its motion is guided and channelled by magnetic field lines. On the other hand, if the plasma is dense and the magnetic field relatively weak--the situation in most of interplanetary space--instead of the magnetic field deforming the plasma's motion, that motion deforms the magnetic field.
It was also noted that with increasing distance from the Sun, the spiral shape of interplanetary magnetic field lines becomes more and more tightly wound, until their shape differs little from circles.
Both points were well illustrated by the phenomena that followed intense solar activity in April-May 1998, reported by Robert Decker of the Applied Physics Lab of the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. That activity created a disturbance in the solar wind, as well as a rarefied cloud of protons with energies about 1000 times that of the solar wind. Both were observed by a number of spacecraft--ACE at the L1 Lagrangian point (near Earth, distance from the Sun about 1 AU), by Ulysses (5 AU), by Voyager 2 at 56 AU and by Voyager 1 at 72 AU.
The disturbance in the solar wind arrived at Voyager 1 about 7.5 months later, propagating radially at the velocity of the solar wind in which it was embedded. The protons, on the other hand, although moving much faster, were relatively few in number, which forced them to spiral along field lines. They were observed by Voyager 1 after 6 months--1.5 months before the disturbance in the solar wind reached that distance--and Dr. Decker calculated that their spiral path took them 10 times around the Sun, a total distance of about 2000 AU.