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Players Coalition seeks federal probe of Georgia shooting
By The Associated PressMay 9, 2020 GMT
REMOVES "UNARMED" AND ADDS THAT AUTHORITIES HAVE NOT CONFIRMED THAT ARBERY WAS EITHER ARMED OR UNARMED - People react during a rally to protest the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, Friday, May 8, 2020, in Brunswick Ga. Two men have been charged with murder in the February shooting death of Arbery, a black man in his mid-20s, whom they had pursued in a truck after spotting him running in their neighborhood. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
The Players Coalition and dozens of professional athletes sent a letter Friday to Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting an immediate federal investigation into the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia.
The letter was also sent to Eric Dreiband, assistant attorney general for the civil rights division. It was signed by such sports stars as Tom Brady, Steve Kerr and Players Coalition co-founders Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins.
The coalition was formed in 2017 to raise awareness about police and community relations, criminal justice reform and education and economic advancement. It developed out of the dispute between NFL team owners and the players who were kneeling during the national anthem to bring a focus to social injustice.
The letter requested that the FBI and the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division lead the investigation into the shooting of Arbery, a black man, on Feb. 23. Two white men, Travis and Greg McMichael, were charged this week with murder and aggravated assault after a video of the shooting was leaked.
National outrage over the case swelled this week after cellphone video surfaced that appeared to show the shooting.
LeBron James reacted with a coupletweets Wednesday, saying: "We're literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes! Can't even go for a damn jog man!" Fellow NBA star Stephen Curry wrote on Instagram: "AHMAUD ARBERY. Sickening what's STILL happening out here. Don't watch the video. Respect this man and his family. Remember the name.""
A similar request for a federal investigation was made by the lawyer for Arbery's family.
"The FBI has said it's assisting and as is standard protocol we look forward to working with them should information come to light of a potential federal violation," Justice Department spokesman Matt Lloyd said Wednesday.
The coalition's letter cites alleged delays by Georgia prosecutors and asks for a "robust federally led investigation ... the only way to restore community trust that Mr. Arbery's death will be fully investigated."
It includes 64 signatures, including Pro Football Hall of Famer Aeneas Williams and the NFL's director of football operations, Troy Vincent.


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The V.23 specification is for a Dial or leased line modem operating at 600/1200 bps over 2 wires in one direction. It has a backward channel of up to 75 bps for error control.
Bell 202T specification is a 0 to 1200/1800 bps modem for 2 or 4 wire private line modem. It is capable of operating on multi-drop circuits for polling applications.
The mark space frequencies are close enough that many 202T modems can communicate with V.23 modems. Many times V.23 is mistakenly used to identify a 0/1200 bps modem in applications outside the U.S. V.23 is NOT 1200 bps in both directions.
The 202T will work perfectly in a V.23 application since it is transparent to the Data Terminal Equipment (DTE) speed, including /75/600/1200 bps in both directions.
Or an application where the same modem type must do both dial and leased line operation. There are very few TRUE V.23 modems.


No online start up, blog or website owner should under estimate the power of search engine optimisation if it wants to excel. Search engine optimisation are a bunch of simple tips and tricks that allows your website rank on search engines. Truth is, if your website doesn't rank on the first page during search queries the you should't expect much site visitors, no matter how good your articles are.
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Digital Marketing agency was founded in 2002, it's revenue is Above $10 million, has a full time staff of over 80+ and over 500+ clients. Some of their popular clients are; Jet.com, TripAdvisor.com, Kohler, Williams Sonoma, Avvo.com.
This SEO company was founded in 2008 and has a revenue of between $5 million - $10 million. It has a staff strength of 50 persons and boast of over 300 clients.
Some of their popular clients are; Ebay, PBS, Orange Theory Fitness, Allied Van Lines, WarnerBrothers.
Established in 2004, this SEO company has a revenue of $5 million - $10 million, its staff strength is 48 and has over 200 clients.
They are very good at Search Engine Optimization, Web Design, Ecommerce SEO, Pay Per Click Management.
Founded in 1996, this should tell you they know their onion having been in the business of SEO for such a long time.
They have a portfolio of say $5 million - $10 million, a total of 85 staff and over 40 clients.
They are pros when it comes to Social Media Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Link Building, Local SEO.
Will I recommend you do business with these SEO comapnies anywhere around the world? Yes!


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Podcasting and Video Are Still Untapped Markets
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Video and podcasting are not new marketing tools. Video has populated content plans for years, and podcasting shows up more every year. But one big takeaway from Casted's The State of the Content Marketer Report is that video and podcast content still have room to grow.
When done well, video is the most effective content type you for reaching your audience. Surprisingly, we found that although virtually everybody does social media (98%), emails and newsletters (96%), and blog posts (93%), only a little over half of content marketers are consistently putting out videos and webinars (61% for each).
For that hesitant 39% out there, here's why video can be so powerful:
A full 86% of people want more video from brands in general, and 54% specifically want marketers to produce more video content.
On average, audiences watch 16 hours of online video a week—up 52% in the last two years.
However, as Casted discovered in its recent study, only a little over half of brands use video as part of their marketing strategy, and only one-third are producing podcasts. So, what gives?
Customers, prospects, and consumers want more video, and over the last few years podcasting has continued to grow as an inexpensive content marketing channel.
That presents a huge opportunity to deliver both kinds of content to your audience, and it's good for your team, as well. Video and podcasting—both audio and video—offer some of the most creative content a marketer can produce. It's also most effective at engaging your audience. Why aren't 100% of brands producing such content?
Casted conducted a survey to figure that out, and we analyzed responses from 100+ B2B content marketers in the US. The result is The State of the Content Marketer Report, for which a lot of questions were asked about the effectiveness of content in different formats and channels, how those channels are changing, how content marketers are adapting, and how brands have (or have not) adopted video and podcasting content.
Why Video Has to Be a Big Part of Your Content Marketing Strategy
It's no secret that people find video more engaging than text and images. A full 66% of people said they prefer watching a product video over reading a blog post on the same thing, according to a Wyzowl study.
Why? Well, video is easier to consume and more convenient than a blog post. Plus, the medium allows brands to use conversations, music, and rich imagery to evoke an emotional response from viewers. In advertising, emotive video campaigns outperform those that don't use video—in some cases with a success rate as high as 31%.
1. The pandemic accelerated the demand for video
As the Internet developed, people had to scroll through mountains of text, and although we managed to learn things here and there, humans have always needed easier ways to learn about subjects and research purchases. That's where video—and the tech that makes it conveniently work wherever you are in the world—changed everything.
For example, video is still growing as one of the most preferred content formats by audiences:
This year, online videos will comprise more than 82% of all consumer Internet traffic—15X growth since 2017, Cisco predicts.
In 2019, just 46% (less than half) of brands were consistently producing webinars, but in 2020, webinar use rose to 62%.
By June 2020, there had been an 800% increase in global watch time of ad-supported and purchased feature-length movies over the previous year.
That consumption increase is further illustrated by 68% of consumers' saying the pandemic has affected the amount of video content they watch online: The overwhelming majority (96%) say they're spending more time viewing video.
When they need to learn about new products or services, 68% of consumers prefer video over blog posts, infographics, e-books, and presentations.
Viewers retain 95% of the content when they watch a video, compared with 10% when they read text.
A video ad persuaded 79% of people to buy a product, they reported.
The shift toward video sends a clear message to content marketers that audiences want video, particularly four main types: product demos, explainer videos, how-tos, and testimonials. For example, 94% of shoppers said they watch explainer videos to learn more about a product or service, and 84% reported that videos influence them to purchase.
2. Brands that do video have higher ROI
As determined by Casted's report, content marketers are responsible for pipeline and conversion. So, with the bottom line in mind...
A full 87% of marketers creating video (up from 33% in 2015) think video gives them positive ROI.
Blog posts with embedded video garner 3X as many inbound links as posts with no video.
When you include video on a landing page, you can increase conversions by 80% or more.
Marketers who include video in their campaigns have 34% higher conversion rates.
3. There is rising demand for embedded video clips
Another takeaway from the report is that most brands are not amplifying their webinars and video across multiple channels. Video is easy to promote when you can cut it up into nice bite-size clips and embed in other formats. As for or webinars, everyone we surveyed publishes them on their own websites, but only 48%—less than half—are using clips from webinars in their social media and email channels.
Content marketers want tools to amplify and promote their video content. In the report, 87% are already embedding audio and video content in their social media, but far fewer are including video clips in blog posts (31%) or email/newsletters (11%).
How Podcasting Should Fit Within Your Content Marketing
People gravitate toward expert conversations when they want to learn more about a topic, industry, or product. Podcasts give brands a whole new channel for disseminating content; and, best of all, podcast listeners consume more of each episode than they do of a blog post or an e-book.
B2C and B2B podcasts are steadily gaining listeners, yet...
Only 32% of content marketers say podcast content is an effective channel, The State of the Content Marketer Report found.
Despite podcasting's low barriers to entry, most brands are not investing in podcasts as a content marketing channel (only 32% reported putting out podcasts—fewer than all other content formats, including whitepapers and webinars).
That spotlights an enormous opportunity for brands to develop the channel. The right tools and mindset can enable you to create well-executed, branded podcasts that...
Expand audience reach
Lend credibility to your brand
Create top-of-mind recall
Help drive deeper customer engagement
How Podcasting Influences Brand Awareness, Audience Reach, and, Yes, Even ROI
Podcasts are one of the most effective ways to achieve brand awareness, for a few reasons:
People want to hear expert conversations.
People turn to podcasts to learn new things.
Content marketers can repurpose podcast content, cut it up into clips, and use it to promote the podcast through other channels, such as social, blogs, and email.
Yes, the path to purchase from consuming podcasts can be long and hard to plot (there's a great demand for better analytic tools). But more and more, content marketers are noticing their podcast content converting.
Although video revenue attribution is easier to track, don't dismiss how much a podcast can contribute to your bottom line. According to stats cited by Buzzsprout...
Podcast fans are highly engaged: a full 80% say they listen to all or almost all of every episode they start.
Some 69% of podcast listeners say that podcast ads increase their awareness of brands, products, and services.
Some 60% of podcast listeners say they have purchased a product because of a podcast ad.
Podcast fans are super loyal: 72% say they have purchased something from a sponsored ad on any podcast they've listened to for four or more years
A full 81% of those who haven't purchased because of an ad say they still pay more attention to podcast ads than they do to the equivalents in TV, radio, digital, and social media.
Because the effectiveness of various kinds of content changes along with audience preferences, content marketers need tools to keep pace, and they need buy-in from leadership to constantly improve process and strategy to better serve their audiences.
Considering how engaging video is and how well it brings in leads and revenue, it's surprising that it's still not something every brand does.
On the other hand, reluctance to get into podcasting can be chalked up to a fear of the unknown. But if you're listening to your audience's feedback, then you know what they want—they prefer to listen to experts discuss a topic rather than to read a blog post about it.
If you want more insights into the challenges B2B content marketers face and the solutions they need to create and amplify excellent content, check out the full report.
Casted is the first Amplified Marketing Platform and only audio and video podcast solution designed for marketers. Casted's platform empowers B2B companies to activate, amplify, and attribute audio, video, and written content while increasing brand awareness, driving lead generation, and bolstering customer engagement.
You may like these other MarketingProfs articles related to Content:
How Being Strategic About Content Development Can Boost Results and Save Time and Money: Ahava Leibtag on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]
Five Serious Content Marketing Mistakes You Need to Avoid
Your First New Content Marketing Tool for 2023 Should Be Your Sales Team
How to Create a B2B Marketing Podcast in 2023—And Why You Should
Eight Graphic Design Trends That Will Dominate 2023 [Infographic]
A Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content: Ann Handley on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

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The past two releases are broken to the point of not being usable so the stable release has had its license expire.
Can there be a release to bump the license?
You need to remove them manually; don't use the plugin manager.
Once you have installed the latest build (130.1486) then you can use the plugin manager to get the latest versions of the plugins (though I haven't risked it).


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Q: LAMP Stack - Multiple Websites Isolation I would like to host multiple websites on a VPS (LAMP stack - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS). For security reasons, I'd like to properly isolate each website/vhost from each other and also prevent access to other/system files. This shall mitigate the risk of website visitors exploiting a vulnerability of one website to manipulate files of other websites or access arbitrary files on the system.

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*Apache: The DocumentRoot directive specified in the virtual host config file of each website sets the directory from which Apache can serve files [1]. Is this sufficient to prevent Apache from accessing files outside of the DocumentRoot (e.g. /var/www/site1, /var/www/site2)? Because technically the Apache user (www-data) has read access to other files on the system as well. But I guess these are two different things? Meaning, Apache is programmed in a way to only serve files from specified directories to website visitors and Apache itself wouldn't serve any other files even though it has the required privileges to access/read other files on the system as www-data?

*PHP: The open_basedir directive limits the files that can be accessed by PHP to the specified directory-tree [2]. Is it sufficient to set this directive to /var/www/site1 in the vhost config file of website 1 (/var/www/site2 respectively in the vhost file of website 2 etc.) to prevent PHP from accessing any files outside of these specified directories? Furthermore, if I limit PHP's access to files in this way, do I also need to specify directories other than the websites' root directory for PHP to work properly?

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*Apache: Is it possible to create isolated Apache processes/users for each website? When I did my research, the same Apache user was used for all vhosts. Does this mean for websites to be isolated from each other, Apache doesn't need to be separated?

*PHP: From my understanding, separate PHP-FPM pools can be used for each website to completely isolate them from each other (isolated PHP environments). Is this correct? Would I also need to create folders for each website to store their respective PHP session data? Or is PHP session data isolated by default, i.e. unique to each website (unique to each domain and also subdomain)? I don't want a situation where two websites share the same session data. For example, if I have two subdomains sub1.example.com and sub2.example.com and both sites have WordPress installed, I don't want a user who logged in on sub1 to be automatically logged in on sub2 as well.

I'd be grateful if someone could tell me if these measures would be enough to securely isolate multiple websites hosted on one server - if not, please point out the things I've missed.
Lastly, I suppose using the same MariaDB database server for all websites is alright? For each website I would create a database and a respective database user.
Thank you in advance for any responses!

A: In 2022 the almost perfect isolation is possible with Docker. I'd not bother with trying anything else, seriously. Everybody went this way, you will find a wide community and commercial support.
For instance, there is a Docker image with Wordpress already installed which was made by the Wordpress developers, so you can just use it and not bother with configuring PHP and Apache.
What you will need besides that is a reverse proxy which will detect requests to different websites and direct them to different containers.

I don't want a user who logged in on sub1 to be automatically logged in on sub2 as well.

This is entirely different kind of concern. It doesn't depend on isolation of processes from OS standpoint, rather it depends on the browser behavior when sending cookies (e.g. which cookies to send where). I suggest to ask about this part at Webmasters.

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NOTE: The following letter was published in the May 17, 2018 edition of The Catholic Spirit, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Metuchen.
It is Mother's Day weekend and I am writing to you from Warren County. I always enjoy being in this beautiful part of our diocese. Father Guy Selvester, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Washington, is hosting me in his rectory on Friday and Saturday night, and hence has given me the opportunity to visit Ss. Peter and Paul Parish in Great Meadows and St. Jude Parish in Blairstown for Sunday Mass, and administer confirmation at St. Theodore Parish in Port Murray as well as at St. Joseph.
On Sunday afternoon, I will offer Mass at our Blue Army Shrine and celebrate the 101st anniversary of the first apparition of our Blessed Mother in Fatima. With May being Mary's month, this Mass will be especially meaningful. Afterwards, I will drive to my parent's home in Collingswood to be with my family for Mother's Day. After being away for so many years on Mother's Day while living in Rome, it is a blessing for me to be able to be with my mother on this special day. She has been one of the great blessings in my life, along with my father. I am so grateful to have them living so nearby. My mother says that Metuchen seems like her backyard after my being in Rome! Even Pope Francis, who has met my family, has reminded me when I have seen him over these past two years, "You are near your family, enjoy them!" Gratefully, I am able to do so.
Amidst my many visits to parishes this weekend, I have also been taking time to reflect on a very special anniversary of mine. On May 3, it was two years that I have been your bishop. Wow! I am so grateful that God in His mysterious ways has for some reason brought me to minister with you in this wonderful diocese. It is a blessing to have Bishop Paul G. Bootkoski nearby. Thankfully, he always reports that he is enjoying his well-deserved retirement but is keeping quite active too.
I am told that within the next few weeks, I will have celebrated Mass and visited all our parishes at least twice since my arrival, and many pastors have been kind enough to host me more frequently for Masses on various occasions. Likewise, I have visited all of our elementary and high schools and have prayed with our students. I decided early on in my time here to only celebrate confirmations during the weekdays, so as to leave the weekends for diocesan events and parish visits. This has been a joy for me and gives me great encouragement in my episcopal ministry.
God bless you all and be assured of my prayers for you during this great novena, and please, remember me in your good prayers as well!


Sweden's first FBO, Grafair Jet Center, was built in 2004 at the Bromma Airport.
Because of Stockholm Bromma Airport's relatively low elevation of 47 feet, planes can take off or land at Stockholm Bromma Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
There is parking at the airport, both at the terminal, short-term and long-term parking lots.
Stockholm Bromma Airport (BMA) currently has only 1 runway.
The closest airport to Stockholm Bromma Airport (BMA) is Stockholm Arlanda Airport (ARN), which is located 21 miles (33 kilometers) N of BMA.
Expansion of the airport is limited by noise issues, a lack of space, and the necessity to preserve the cultural heritage.
In addition to being known as "Stockholm Bromma Airport", another name for BMA is "Stockholm-Bromma flygplats".
The furthest airport from Stockholm Bromma Airport (BMA) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,204 miles (18,030 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.


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#MOG100
Rules & Info
2020 Race Manual
100 Mile Course Maps and Descriptions
100K Course Map & Descriptions
42K Course Map
Aid Station, Cutoffs, Crews/Pacers Info
Crew Driving Instructions
Course Photos >
2016 Race Photos - SweetM Images
2015 Race Photos - Andrew Pielage
2013 AP Photography Photos
2012 Inaugural Race Photos by AP Photography
2020 Results & Photos
2017 Results & Race Reports
FINAL UPDATES - 2014 - 3 DAYS OUT
Half the course marking crew last weekend!
Rim Road #300 headed back towards Washington Park.
Here are some final updates for everyone's information. As we are obviously very close to the race and many of our are packing or already traveling, here are the last thoughts and items you should know.
Weather - It's going to rain. Bring a jacket. I strongly suggest a hat and gloves in your drop bag at Washington Park to take out with you to Hell's Gate and your trip to Buck Springs AS. I don't care where you live right now, it's cold as heck up on the Rim when you are wet and it's 2am. It may only get to 25-30 degrees but it's a very bitter 25-30 degrees. We had a number of runners reaching hypothermia for the late miles on the Cabin Loop last year. A fresh set of dry clothes at Buck Springs or Pinchot would be a great idea.
Drop Bags - You can leave them at the start from 5am Saturday until you take off. We'll have them lined up in the parking lot to just drop off by the sign for that respective station. No drop bags for Hell's Gate and make sure you can easily see your bib number and names on each bag. We'll bring all drop bags back to the finish line as each station closes so you can pick it up there.
Crew - There are a number of maps on this website that are useful for finding your way around the course with your runner. http://www.mogollonmonster100.com/crew-driving-instructions.html I don't suggest visiting Pinchot Cabin aid stations. It's just a lot of driving along dirt roads but you're welcome to it if you want. If you drive to any aid station as a crew please make sure you park safely along the road leaving ample space for emergency vehicles access if necessary. If you are going to Washington Park aid station you likely won't be able to park all the way at the top of the station. Please park on the right (east) side of the road again leaving plenty of space for fire trucks/ambulance. This is VERY IMPORTANT. You cannot access Hell's Gate Aid station. Don't even try, you'll destroy your vehicle.
Camping - Many people camp out for this race all weekend. This is possible anywhere within the Coconino National Forest (top of the Rim) and most anywhere on the lower part of the Rim which is Tonto National Forest. Both these agencies we receive special use permits for use of the area with this race. Due to several reasons the Tonto NF has closed down camping at Washington Park. IF YOU CAMP THERE YOU CAN RISK OUR FUTURE ABILITY TO GET A PERMIT. You can also get a ticket. That's on you, but please do not camp along the river, they are beautiful and tempting spots but they are no longer available. Blame the leopard frog and lazy white trash people that throw diapers in the river. We are only allowed for overnight use for the aid station, nothing along the river or "no camping" signs. It's unfortunate and hopefully changes in the future. All the other aid stations it's OK to camp, go for it.
Course Marking - Nearly the entire course is marked with yellow 3" plastic ribbons that say "MOG100." Follow these and anything that is yellow. There are some shorter sections that are 1" yellow ribbons without "MOG100" on them. Those are ok too, we had someone steal some ribbon rolls and reflective tape...so had to improvise...yellow is good. Red is bad.
There is a lot of yellow high intensity 3M reflective tape out there on the trees, manzantia, on the ribbons themselves, on the trees which have "official" trail markers. We put it out there to make it easy to follow in the grassy sections, open meadows, and in general the night sections. During the day these are also nice confidence markers. Overall, the course has more markers on it than last year. Its still a challenging area to navigate at times. Study the course map, pay attention and don't always trust the person in front of you. Bring a map. It's no coincidence the last two years winners meticulously studied the course maps on their own and carried it with them.
I will not be able to answer any last minute emails or requests until packet pickup at THAT Brewery on Friday. We'll be there from 4pm-7pm and a little after for those that can't get up sooner. We'll also provide bibs/packets from 5am -5:45am on race day at the trailhead. We'd like to have your pacer's contact information (cell is fine) provided and an updated emergency contact number that we'll have you fill out when you check in.
ALL RUNNERS have to check in with us on Saturday morning. We'll have a small table set up, please make sure we have checked you off as present before we start. You need to do this even if we saw you the night before.
5:45am I'll have a few quick updates on the course, and then we'll get you all off. There are three porta-potties at the trailhead as of Friday afternoon. Camping is open at the trailhead and you can leave your car there all weekend. We'll shuttle you back to the car after you crush those 106 miles.
Anyone that sprints the last 100 meters through the finish line will forever be my hero.
Don't finish with anything in the tank. Leave it in Pine.
Highline Trail...mile 52 ish...yes, that's a lot of grass
Yellow "MOG100" markers - Follow these and all yellow markers
Zane Grey 50 Mile Trail Work Weekend
We set out to clear a big section of the Highline Trail and we finished it. One manzanita at a time.
We started out at Hell's Gate and split the two groups up. Justin Lutick and I went east on the Highline towards Myrtle Trail and Chris Thornley and the rest of our volunteers (Jon Roig, John, Kevin, Kristin, Kelly and Chris) all headed back west to Washington Park. They had two chainsaws to clear downed trees and we had a pair of loppers. We cut through swaths of confusing manzanita that now present the Highline Trail as it should be, a trail. It's still very rough, rocky as hell and the elevation profile hasn't changed at all. But at least now it's little less confusing which what you need to go. Those that have done this race in past years will appreciate it. First timers will think, "This is an improvement...???"
A HUGE thank you to Chris Thornley and guy Chris from Agassiz Cutting out of Flagstaff. Chris has been one of the main reasons the trail is even remotely usable in past years. He's blazed the trail back year after year with his chainsaw's, lugging that thing so far into the backcountry and doesn't get nearly enough credit for all the work he does. Justin Lutick is basically a Highline Hobo at this point he spends so much time up there lopping away at manzanita. There isn't a person alive that is more dedicated and passionate about the Highline Trail. He sacrifices a lot of his time to get the trail in shape and still goes out and kills it on race day.
It's rare to get so many people out for trail work on the Highline and even more challenging to find a group as hard working as the ones we had. They had an unbelievable work ethic and helped us get a huge amount of work down in only two days. I can't thank them all enough and really appreciate Chris and Justin for continually getting out there and knocking it back.
They are going back up again THIS weekend the 12th/13th to tackle Fish Hatchery west to Myrtle and vice versa. If you are interested let me know and I can connect you with Justin directly or you can sign up through the Zane Grey website, www.zanegrey50.com.
I uploaded some pictures from the trail work below. I apologize the verticals are showing as horizontal. I can't get it to rotate and starting over is not in the cards tonight...
For the Monster these pictures are of what is Hell's Gate to Myrtle Trail. Mile 57-60 or so. This work we did will make a HUGE impact on runners navigating this section during the night. It also makes marking the course and following the course so much easier as we've eliminated a great deal of the "which one of these five elk trails is actually...THE trail??" feeling. It's pretty evident now which way to go and we've returned the trail back to the original course in several places where overgrowth has naturally forced animals and hikers/runners around large manzanita.
Good talk. See you out there!
2014 Race Updates - Zane Grey, Mudders, Monsters...
Welcome to 2014!!
Pre-Race briefing 2013
https://ultrasignup.com/entrants_event.aspx?did=26358
As of March 6th the above link is the current entrants list. 36 runners total at this point. We've got an exciting mix of runners and I'm excited to see how it turns out. Lots of returning runners in Jim Crosson, Honey Albrecht, Geoffrey Foote, Morgan Goff, Rod Sinclair, and Angel Vega. All with their own stories and only Morgan having previously finished the race. I'm sure each are coming back for their own reasons and excited to see them come through the finish line in Pine this year.
There are a fast group of runners this year as well with local speedster Christian Rios taking his chances against the Monster. Jeremy Bradford is joining us, winner of the Black Hills 100 the last couple years, a course that plays well for the Highline trail, and winner of a number of other hundreds over the years. Angela Shartel recently entered and last year broke the course record at Angeles Crest 100 in 21 hours and change. Liza Howard can break 20 hours at a hundred breast feeding her way through the course and locals like Erin Phelps help with a great field to see if the woman's time from last year (only year with female finishers) goes down and by how much. Brandon Worthington won the tortoise race at Run Rabbit run last year which would have beaten a lot of the hares and will be out there. Lorenzo Sanchez is fast and from Texas. That worked out well for Steven Moore last year...
Brian Hopton-Jones has done well at Zane Grey in the past. Michael Miller of Scottsdale is one of the toughest runners on the circuit and I know will do well on the course. Even if he tries to tell you he's slow, old and sweaty, he'll probably pass you somewhere around 75 miles...and he'll probably offer you his last gel and water as he goes by. Be sure to thank him.
Andy Pearson finished 2nd place in the first year in a strong 28 hours and has since gone on to crush a lot of races against some great competition. Assuming his wedding doesn't get in the way of him coming back he's a smart runner and handled the rocks in his slippers better than I could have imagined. I hope he makes it back to Pine this fall.
Part of what's great about ultrarunning is ten "elite" runners can show up to a race half of them get beat by people you otherwise haven't heard of buy maybe are speedy local runners or a specific course or conditions played to their strengths and the killed it. Marius Toma is one of those guys. He lives here in Arizona, doesn't run a lot of races but has finished the Monster the only two years we've had it, the only person to have done so, and finshed third this year passing three guys on the final descent. Gabriel Szerda finished 2nd last year and lives in NYC. He lives at sea level and it was his first 100...of course I later found out he wrested in the Sydney Olympics for Australia so he's obviously a competitor but it just goes to show you, anyone can win any race. Especially one so technical and with so many unknowns as the Monster with weather, heat and cold affecting runners throughout the race. It's a lot of fun to see it all unfold come race day.
Team Red White & Blue (Team RWB)
I get emails asking what organization or charity the race supports with portions of the entry fee's. For anyone that has started a race from scratch before...the first few years are not exactly revenue generators and therefore allocating funds to a charity or cause is challenging. In 2013 I started my involvement with Team RWB and that involvement continues into 2014 and now the Mogollon Monster 100.
Team RWB is a foundation built around the need and drive to enrich the lives of America's veterans by connecting them to the community through physical and social activity. It's an organization I choose to be involved with an support because the people behind it are real, honest and passionate about making a difference in our veteran's lives. And its working.
This year we have several Team RWB members running the Monster and we're donating a portion of entrants fee's to Team RWB at the end of the registration period in hopes our small contribution can continue to help both our local chapter as well as those across the country. Having runners wearing the RWB "Eagle" shirts along the course is something special to see and I hope more and more sign up throughout the year to fill the trails with Red, White and Blue come September. If you are interested in learning more about Team RWB visit their website at www.teamrwb.org. You don't have to be a veteran to join. There are chapters all over the country now and if there's not, then maybe you can start one for your community. It's all on the website and this video gives you a great overview of the cause Team RWB supports. We are fortunate to have Liza Howard, Bill Egan, John Markham, Rainer Schulz running the race (and I think I'm missing someone...) as well as Jay & Traci Danek and others volunteering on race day.
We'll be running the Mountain 2 Fountain 15K road race as the Team RWB team this Sunday! More exciting news on the Team RWB front as we get closer to race day!
Mogollon Monster Mudder - June 7th, 2013 - Payson, AZ
Mudder races have never really interested me. Yet last year the Town of Payson, Arizona added one to their annual Mountain High Games they have each spring and called it...
"The Mogollon Monster Mudder 5K"
I was admittedly annoyed at the name as I knew I would start getting emails mixing up the two races. It was unavoidable and sure enough...still happens.
So I signed up last year the same day and was thrown into one of the last heats. Some local kid, tall Varsity Blues 6'3" 18 year old star QB was in my heat and everyone was talking about how he was going to win the entire race, out of all 300+ people. Having never done an obstacle course except for those in the Army years ago, I wasn't quite sure how to pace an event like that. So I just fell in behind this kid who went out like a rocket. After the first two walls and 1/4 mile we were carrying 50lb bags of sand through thick (and rocky) mud. He walked, I ran. As I went by him I gave him a little encouragement to pick up the pace and we took off. I hammered the rest of the course and beat him despite being stuck behind the last people in the heat in front of me on the ladder obstacles and unable to pass. We finished a few minutes apart but ended up 4th and 5th place overall respectively. I left the race completely battered, bruised and bleeding.
It may have been a 5k but even the 5k's in the Mogollon Rim country are rocky, rough and brutal.
And I can't wait to go back! http://paysonrimcountry.com/Portals/0/2014_Mud%20Run_Information_Registration_packet.pdf
Click on this picture for a world of bigfoot knowledge...
It continues to amaze me how much is available on the internet regarding the Mogollon Monster and search to find him/her. Click on the photo above and you'll see...it's out there.
Trail Work Weekend - April 5th & 6th, 2014
The Highline Trail #31...
Trail work is a constant effort on the Mogollon Rim. Manzanita grows annually over the trail and needs to be cut back or it cuts you. Many trails of the Mogollon Monster are clear, many need work. The winter and heavy snow and runoff wreck havoc on erosion bars or cutting away new sections of trail and creating misleading turnoff's on the trail. It requires a lot of work and the reason that we require 8 hours of volunteer work along with the registration. Because this isn't the only race that needs this kind of help, it's required all over the country with simply different degrees of need.
So April 5th and 6th we will be basing out of Washington Park Aid Station (Mile 26,51 and 86 of the race) and working along the Highline Trail to clear brush, manzanita and areas of need before the upcoming Zane Grey 50M race. We'll start at 8am on Saturday and 8am on Sunday and will work sections throughout the day. We'll be camping overnight and will provide food and drink for anyone that wants to stick around or camp. Any amount of help is appreciated, either one day or two or partial days. We'll take whatever you can provide. Please bring gloves, a chainsaw if you happen to have one and you obviously can safely use one. We'll provide the rest assuming you have a pack to carry your own water and trail food while out working.
The Highline Trail is beautiful in the early spring with occassional snowfall on the Rim above the trail. It's an opportunity to fulfill 8 hours of trail work needed for not only Mogollon (we also accept volunteer hours at ultras) but also for other 100's you may be running this summer with the same requirements. We can sign off on that for you and happy to do so with your assistance. If you are interested in joining us for one or both of the days please email me at azadventures@getoutgetlost.com so I know how many will be joining us.
RD's wife Jen now carrying baby #2!
And just to keep things interesting...we're adding to the family on July 22nd this year. Jen and I are welcoming our second child, a baby girl, into the Monster family this summer and Dean will be almost 2 and a half come race day. First an infant at the race the first year, then running around this past year. I think I can get him to carry 5 gallon water jugs by 2015. :)
Safe training and we'll see you out on the trail soon! Monthly training runs to be detailed soon with dates and routes after Zane Grey concludes in late April.
Have you seen this video yet? Seriously, it's incredible. http://zanegrey50.com/
Andy Pearson
Angela Shartel
Arizona Trail Running
Black Hills 100
Cabin Loop
Fred Haught
Gabriel Szerda
General Springs
Geronimo Aid Station
Goodpeoplerun
Hal Koerner
Hardrock 100
Highline Trail
Houston Brothers
Jay Danek
Joe Galope
Justin Lutick
Liza Howard
Mogollon Monster
Mogollon Mudder 5k
Noah Dougherty
Payson Mountain High Games
Pinchot Cabin
Pine Arizona
Pine Canyon Trail
Scott Bajer
Team RWB
Turkey Springs Trail
ULTRAmarathonrunning.com
Ultrarunning
Western States 100
West Webber Trail
White & Blue
Zane Grey 50
38 Hour Time Limit
18,000+ ft in Climbing
??? # of Monster Sightings...
The Mogollon Monster...It's out there....


Marquette Golden Eagles forward Jamil Wilson (0) and Ball State Cardinals forward Chris Bond (20) battle for control of the ball during the first half at BMO Harris Bradley Center.
"I thought it was good in a lot of respects," Marquette coach Buzz Williams said. "I thought it was Chris (Otule's) best non-conference game since he's been here. I think Juan (Anderson) is continuing to evolve. I think Deonte (Burton) and Jajuan (Johnson), it was definitely their best overall game.
"We've got to continue to grow, we've got to continue to mature regardless of where we play, regardless of who we play. We all need to be held accountable for our growth and maturity. I thought in many respects we were able to build off of what we did Saturday."
"I think they are really good for our confidence," junior point guard Derrick Wilson said. "I feel like we are playing more as a team. Everybody is scoring, everybody is getting stops. You can put five different guys out there out of an 11-guy rotation and everybody is getting stops and scoring. There really are no problems.
"I think that's good for our team. You kind of work the kinks out playing in a real game. I think we've been a lot more alert defensively and there's more urgency on the court. I think that has helped us out a lot."
"Those two guys have to be in the mix more," Williams said. "Not kind of a second and a half delayed on what's next. Part of that is maturing, part of that is getting a lot of playing time. I've tried to manage that as best as I could.
"I told 'JJ' sometime in the second half, 'In your eleventh game, it's the first time that when I look at you, your body language projects confidence. It's the first time that when you catch the ball offensively, you don't immediately floor it or hurry up and try to shoot it. You are trying to execute.'"
"I think that's the big thing for us," Derrick Wilson said. "Our defense really helped our offense. I think switching up some of our defensive schemes helped us on offense. I think we had more transition points the last two games which is good for us because we have a lot of athletic guys who can finish."
"It changes the complexion of our team when we are able to score in transition," Williams said. "The best way we are able to score in transition is like most teams, we need to be able to get consecutive stops. The best way for us to do that is to extend the pressure.
"When we are able to extend the floor, I think it just engages us. I think that allows us to play more guys shorter periods of time, which I think is best. The longer I coach this group, I think that."
"We have to keep going," Williams said. "We can't be one step forward and two steps back. We're not dancing, we're trying to mature. I do feel like how we've worked, how we've practiced, it has continued to get better. But I still think that we have a long way to go.
"We have to get better. We have to get better before we get to Vegas on Saturday."
"I think he broke his nose," Williams said. "I've broke my nose, that's why I have a big nose, but it didn't look good."


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JediMasterMaya
Allright everybody, I need your help, once more. Our next mission is going to be on Ord Mantell and I'm trying to get some info on the planet the way it would have been during the RoTE era (we're rougthly about 6 months after Episode 1 now, I guess...).
I know it's my own fault, I shouldn't have given my players this planet for their next clue if I didn't know enough about it, but it made sense at the time. So, could you please help a lost GM? Thanks you. :D
Jastor
isnt the planet just a big junkyard? i checked the official star wars encyclopedia but my version (8.0) didnt contain any information of interests except Han Solo and the bounty hunters.
Originally posted by Jastor
Not quite sure... I managed to find some things in the "unofficial SW encyclopedia". It said that it was colonized by corellian colonists some 12 000 years before Endor as a military outpost. But, in other descriptions I got, there are hotels, a store, casinos, and even a story on a land baron who was in control of most of the moisture farm properties on the planet during the last decades of the Old Republic.
It says he killed the existing land barons, so there must have been some colony on the planet before then. Now, what confuses me is that it talks about moisture faming, but in the description of the planet itself, it says it has a temerate environment... :? Aren't moisture farms in the desert like on Tatooine?
If I can't find anything about the planet, I can always have the characters receive a message saying that the person they were after has left Ord Mantell and is heading for somewhere else, but I'd rather avoid it... Boy, that's why I usually make up my own planets, at least I know what they're like and what one can expect there... :D
Jak Knife
In Gamer 1 there is a adventure which takes place in Ord Matell, if you have access to it I would suggest getting hold of it. But in a quick break down of the place it is a want-to-be shadowport to some extent. There is a space station, which is where most of the action takes place. On planet there is a whole slew of criminal elements and just plane thugs. Planet side is somewhat harsh with a lot of rock formations (at least where this adventure takes place) so the idea of moisture farming isn't that far removed. It may be a temperate planet but there isn't a lot of water.
It is a planet of fringers, scoundrels, thugs, scouts heading out to bigger and better places and mercenaries. The populace is a wide variety of aliens (about 4 billion or million depending on who you believe) who tend to be a little more on the violent side such as rodians, twi'leks and trandoshans. The little imperial presents would be on the space staion if any.
I know it's my own fault, I shouldn't have given my players this planet for their next clue if I didn't know enough about it, but it made sense at the time.
Don't beat yourself up on this one, even though it is mentioned in several EU books, there is very little RPG stats on the place believe me I have looked and some of them are contradictory.
Depending on what era you are playing, will determine the Gov. It does belong to the New Republic eventually and as I said before there would be a limited imperial presence during Rebellion but probably not during the RotE.
I tend to run it like Tatooine with a space station, an all a round want-to-be attitude and replace the desert with rough terrain (lots of mountains and wilderness areas).
I hope that helps you out.
DarthMalaryush
WEG put out a Solo adventure, (Featuring Han Solo, ha, ha, ha) Basicly a pick you path adventure story, He is on Ord Mantell before Hoth (IE. "The bounty hunters we ran into on Ord Mantell changed my mind!") Anyway the impression i got was that it was a minnig colony, with bad air on a lawless rock. Picture mars from Total Recall. hope this helps.
Well, sounds like it's time for our Jedi or our Force User to have a "vision" of another place to go... :D
I actually thought people lived on the surface of the planet... A space station with lots of thugs and criminals would do just fine for encounters, but it's not the setting I need to start off. So, what planet would still have enough criminals to provide encounters on the streets and make it dangerous enough for heroes, but has a population living on the surface? I know there are plenty, but I gotta think about where it would fit best.
You see, our main villain is at the head of this organization and he has been trying to teach his son (14 y.o.) the tricks of the trade so he can one day take over. In an earlier mission the said son and a few others from the organization escaped emprisonment on Lianna. I since made up a story on how the son has a change of heart and doesn't want to follow in his father's footsteps and ran off to meet his mother and hide. Our heroes intercepted a transmission from his father to some person on Ord Mantell to find him and bring him back so he can teach him what he does to people who don't listen to him.
Heroes decided to go there and see if they can bring down another one of Phoenix's plans down (he destroyed their apartment and his assassin almost killed our wookie with poison, so they have a bone to pick with him. Well, the Jedi doesn't really, she just is along for the ride when trouble comes calling, or when the Council sends her along for her training. But she would like to bring him to justice if they ever find him).
Anyway, I was thinking they would go to Corellia where the message originated first, but they decided for Ord Mantell, so off we go to see if boy is there. I had thought they would meet his mother who would be looking for someone to protect and escort him to Corellia where she has some friends who can help. Only thing is the boy is hiding and even she doesn't know exactly where he is... His only friend there is kidnapped while the heores arrive to his house to ask if he knows anything.
But that's another story... I'm going back to the drawing board and see where else I could tip my players to go... if they take the bait, otherwise we'll stick to Ord Mantell and just make up something there...
Thanks anyway. :)
Originally posted by JediMasterMaya
Didn't mean to mislead you with the space station thing, there are plenty of people/criminals of the planetside (after all there are 4 billion people there). From what I read of your adventure idea, it should work find because there are a lot of places to hide with sufficient people on the planet. The people planetside tend to be the desperate kind without much future.
One of the cities is called Great Rock, a washed up mining town with the only thing really keeping going is the local crimelord (a Bothan going by the name RedEye). In the town is a bar called Qexi's, owned and operated by a Sullstan of the same name. The terrain surrounding the area is filled with quicksand pits, poisonous shrubery and unstable hillsides (requires a DC 15 survival check to avoid).
If I had a character I want to hide I would definently think about that place.
Red Menace
Ord Mantell is depicted in the Shadows of the Empire Computer game, atleast one localle is. The atmosphere is breathable though very likely polluted and people live and work on the barren surface. the impression is of a cooler version of Tatooine.
In the game you see a vast salvage yard done on a Star wars scale with junked walkers and, if I remember right, a significant chunk of a star destroyer. The various heaps of salvagable debris is piled up haphazardly making a series of canyon like structures at the bottom of which are deep streams and pools of intermingling ascidic chemicals and toxic waste.
There is a series of monorail tracks to transport material and personel across the salvage yard. These are guarded by automated droid blaster emplacements and free roaming probe droid like drones.
There must be workers quarters, places for the workers families and some kind of center for commerce.
Not a lot. I know.
Ghost In The Holocron
I was rooting around the net for SW pictures and found some on Ord Mantell and remembered your query. These are thumbnail-sized pics of two paintings by the Bros. Hildebrandt, who have done a whole lot of SW stuff. The links are:
1. Dash Rides Ord Mantell Hovertrain (http://www.spiderwebart.com/productsd.asp?snob=100966).
2. Dash Battles IG-88 on Ord Mantell (http://www.spiderwebart.com/productsd.asp?snob=100967).
From what the pics show, Ord Mantell looks very frontier (as the others on this thread have explained). Somewhat small pics, I know, but I hope they help (and get to you in time). Have fun with your game!
Frobi-Wan Kenobi
The planet is also depicted in the young jedi knights book called Return to Ord Mantell or something like that. Also in SWGamer #1 they have an adventure that deals with the planet. And don't forget the Mantellian savrip from WotC Alien Anthology but that doesn't give a depiction of the planet. If you wanted the best source I'd go for the SWG.
scourgicus
Ord Mantell is described somewhat in the NJO book Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial. Leia has an amusing conversation with one of the government types there about the local topography that might be useful. Though set in 25 ABY you can probably gather info from there. In ROTE I imagine its pretty much a slightly nicer version of Tatooine. With a different climate.


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I live in Sydney, so I will unfortunately not be touching anyone this weekend. Luckily, though, I have the pleasure of watching other people also not touch anyone in Too Hot To Handle, with a second season that is somehow even hotter, even hornier, and even more salacious. Let's ride, baybee.
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As Camus said: "In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." This is a quote that I have very much taken to heart, except by "within me" I mean "on Netflix" and by "summer" I mean hot girl summer. By "summer" I mean "of love". By summer I mean the "white boy" variety (or at least its initial promise). By summer I mean "of 69" (quite literally).
By "summer" I probably do not mean Midsommar, although what I do mean — which is the tropical club paradiso of Too Hot To Handle — shares one element in common with Ari Aster's cottagecore nightmare and that element is a group of people gathering in a segregated area with the express purpose of fornicating. Unlike Midsommar, however, these people do not actually get to fornicate.
Me after watching four episodes of Too Hot To Handle without moving an inch from my computer
If you think what I am saying is that the only thing keeping me warm throughout this tedious and interminable winter is the sheer schadenfreude of watching hot people literally suffering through physical pain in their efforts to avoid getting down and dirty with other hot people, you would be absolutely correct; that is exactly what I am saying. It's also the cornerstone to why Too Hot To Handle is — as they say — binge-worthy viewing: the level of almost-too-much debauchery, the sheer will-they-won't-they suspense dialed up to astronomical (and astronomically horny) levels, the fast and furious editing, the delightful cruelty of watching the reality show equivalent of a chastity belt! But I digress.
The premise of Too Hot To Handle, by now, is well-known: a cadre of beautiful contestants gather on an island getaway where any and all sexual contact will cost them a chunk of their $100,000 prize money. There are Bachelor-esque dates, there are raunchy exercises, there are lots of slo-mo shots of extremely oiled-up skin on extremely oiled-up skin. And of course, all of this occurs under the watchful surveillance of Amazon-Alexa-slash-anti-sex-security-guard Lana, who I'm pretty sure Foucault wrote about or something. It's Lana's panopticon, we're just living in it.
Friendship ended with Big Brother now Lana is my new best friend
A new season brings us a new array of people who describe themselves as maneaters, firecrackers, and "a set of open legs" (this is also what my Tinder bio says BTW, please DM me if you are interested), all of whom unfortunately think that they are participating on a made-up show called 'Parties in Paradise'. What they want is Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club but sadly what they get is no sex and a digital overlord who is watching them at all times. Among the unfortunate: New Zealand's answer to Elle Woods AKA Larissa, resident Frenchman Marvin (that's mahr-VAN to those of you who have now learnt how to correctly pronounce lu-PAN), bottle rocket Melinda, and many other himbos and bombshells.
One thing to note about the show this time round: unlike its debut season, the contestants now know what Too Hot To Handle is, and even after the 'Parties in Paradise' ruse is up, they are simply unafraid to flout the rules openly and egregiously. The characters are bigger, the stakes are higher, and their prize pool is rapidly diminishing. There's also...ostensibly...a plot around finding ~ deeper emotional connections ~, but let's not kid ourselves: we all know the real reason we're watching. After a year spent not touching a single person, there's nothing more relatable than watching the hottest people in the world stoop to our level too.
The first episodes of Too Hot To Handle are now streaming.
Watch these too:
Two other ~ twisty ~ reality shows:
The Circle, which is like Big Brother if Big Brother took place during lockdown and everyone was confined to their rooms and couldn't meet each other and could only talk by dictating text to a digital interface called The Circle and also could lie about their identities.
Love is Blind, a dating show where — as the name implies — participants date and get engaged without ever seeing each other first. Also it is hosted by Nick Lachey, who is famously invented marriage on his first reality show.
Two spinoffs:
Too Hot To Handle: Brazil and Too Hot To Handle: Latino, because, really, what is hotter to handle than people speaking in other languages????
And one trailer:
Sexy Beasts, a show which extends the Masked Singer industrial complex into its final frontier: dating.
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This tweet, which an unfortunate number of people have sent me…I get it, not everything is camp, but have you considered that saying something is camp when it's not camp is...camp? Thank you for coming to my TED talk. (Also note that I haven't used the word camp in the past three newsletters; this is called growth).
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French director Claire Denis' Instagram account, which has the two hallmarks of any hot Instagram account, AKA a BTS photo of Robert Pattinson and a two-digit following count. Claire Denis is the titular hot girl of hot girl summer.
On Becoming a God in Central Florida, which everyone must watch, now that it is streaming in Australia and New Zealand. This one is for all the Kirsten Dunst girlies. This one is for every zoomer who uncomfortably and incorrectly romanticises the 90s. This one is for every person whose family friend tried to sell them multi-level marketing scheme products to the point where they kept showing at their house at creepy hours even after they had been told that no-one wanted to buy $950 worth of fibre supplements!!!!!!!!!!
And apropos of nothing, a video of Blake Lively saying "it's all good, just another Tuesday":
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PRP procedure takes about 30 minutes to draw your blood and centrifuge out the plasma and then separate the platelets from the plasma. The final step is to inject the PRP solution into the joint.
Here are some videos discussing PRP and the injection technique.
Side effects are uncommon. The risks are minimal, because we are using your own blood, there are no risks of adverse reactions from the material itself. With any injection technique there is always some risk of infection. However, PRP has some antibacterial properties, so that risk is minimized by the properties of PRP. The most common side effects are an increase in pain and inflammation at the injection site.
What are the cost of PRP injections?
We charge $1,000 for a single PRP treatment or $500 if used with another procedure such as prolozone or stem cell therapy.
Are PRP covered by insurance?
PRP injections are not covered by most insurance companies.
Patients on anti-coagulation therapy (such as Coumadin), patients with cancer, active infections, or pregnant.
PRP therapy is usually done as a single treatment.


"Thanks Chipukeezy Of NACADA I Went To Rehab," Ringtone says.
This offer came after the Nacada Director disclosed that Ringtone was willing to be taken to a rehabilitation center after he had held a meeting with him at his Karen home.
Chipukeezy made the remarks jokingly following the singer's recent posts on fellow artistes, referring to some of them as devil worshipers.
His fans wanted to know whats he is addicted to though he didn't give them an answer.
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All of the reasons I kept my mouth shut.
It was my choice. It was my vote. It was my opinion.
And quite frankly, no one cares what I thought because they were too caught up and focused on what they thought. I couldn't sway anyone or change their opinions over a shared Facebook post, nor is it my place to even try to do such a thing. Posting a political opinion was like setting off a ticking time bomb: nothing good ever came from it, especially considering how controversial this election came to be. The last thing we need in this world is more negativity, hate and division. Social media political debates succeeded over and over again in doing just that, and I refused to be part of the reason why.
I kept my thoughts to myself because I didn't want others to see me in a different light because of my political stance. How many times in the last few months have you seen someone post something you thought was so repulsive, so ridiculous and just so completely off the walls that you haven't been able to look at them the same way since? How many times have you seen someone degrading and dehumanizing another user simply because they don't agree? How many times have you seen someone you thought was respectable call someone "dumb" or "stupid" or "uneducated" because they were voting for a different candidate? How many times have you seen an engagement where an individual is forcing their beliefs down someone else's throat?
This election changed how I see people. There are some people who I thought were respectable, intelligent and kind; but because of the choices they made on social media and how they portrayed themselves, I don't think that way of them anymore. I don't want anyone to feel that way toward me. I don't want to be seen as anything less than a respectful, understanding and compassionate person on and offline.
Whenever I saw something that I passionately agreed with or wanted to click "share" on, I didn't. I was scared to post my opinion. People are so mean, and vicious and condescending. I didn't want to be the next victim of the "Politics Police" (and you all know exactly who they are on your timeline). For some reason people feel this undying need to fiercely defend their candidate, comment on every post that contradicts with their personal views and lash out at anyone who disagrees. I've watched adults come after kids and good friends become strangers, all over a vote. Why is there so much hate and anger? Why do we attack people behind the safety and security of our computer screens?
What I wish was more widely understood is that it's not the President of the United States that is going to make the change we want to see in our country. It's us. We make the change. We are the change.


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I need to set-up XA-datasource using teiid adminapi. Currently we are creating non-xa datasource.
Can we create using admin api ? What all properties specifically we need to set for creating XA-Datasource using admin api ?
I need to create/Setup XA Datasource with the Admin API (org.teiid.adminapi.Admin) I am using Teiid 8.13 version.
Below is the way, I used to create NON XA Datasource.
Similarly by using Admin API, I need to setup XA datasource.
--new-connection-sql="set datestyle = ISO, European;"
I have created a JIRA for same as "[TEIID-4311] Teiid Admin Api not support to create XA datasource on Jboss server. - JBoss Issue Tracker"
Only MySql data source able to create through admin api and able to test successfully.
For SqlServer and Oracle below xa-datasource-property not able to set through admin api code , as result Data source able to create but test connection failed.
What have tried? Can you post the code?
NOTE - For property I have referrred xml file form "teiid-9.0.2-wildfly-server\teiid-9.0.2\docs\teiid\datasources\******\******-xa-ds.xml"
Out of these three data sources, I able to do a test connection for MySql DS only.
1. Instance property is mentioned in jtds/sqlserver-xa-ds.xml (I am using JTDS).
1. DatabaseName, PortNumber, ServerName are not in example xa ds xml file but admin api code need database name else it through error as "TEIID70054 Invalid empty or missing value for property DatabaseName."
3. If manually I removed DatabaseName, PortNumber, ServerName and and URL property , it work for me.
> Instance property is mentioned in jtds/sqlserver-xa-ds.xml (I am using JTDS).
You need to add "Instance" property as following. Any custom properties needed to be added this way.
"connection-properties" takes the comma separated property list, so you can supply more than one.
Especially to support Oracle, you can choose to supply either "connection-url" OR DatabaseName, PortNumber, ServerName properties. if all the properties are present, then "connection-url" is given preference. Property name is "connection-url" NOT "URL" as you defined in your code. BTW, the exception with TEIID70054 does not match the code you shown, it says DatabaseName is null or empty, you showed value, either provide it, or omit it, do not provide empty value.
Both Datasources are work when I set connection-properties parameter through java.
Any way, Thanks for you help.


House and Senate Republicans offered competing plans Thursday to resolve Washington's debt-limit and government shutdown crises, as President Obama held the latest in a series of meetings aimed at persuading them to accept at least short-term solutions with no partisan strings attached.
The White House described President Obama's conversation Thursday afternoon with House Republican leaders as a "good meeting," but said no deal was reached to reopen the government.
Obama's meeting with about 20 House Republicans, including Speaker John Boehner (Ohio), lasted about 90 minutes. Obama was accompanied by Vice President Biden, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and deputy chief of staff Rob Nabors. The White House statement said the administration officials "listened to the Republicans present their proposal," adding that Obama's goal remains to both raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government.
House Republican leaders initially offered a six-week increase in the federal debt ceiling in exchange for negotiations with President Obama on longer-term "pressing problems," but they stopped short of agreeing to end a government shutdown now in its 10th day.
House Republicans have proposed funding that amounts to about one-third of discretionary funding. See the bills here.
Later in the day, Senate Republicans put forward a plan that would reopen the government and raise the federal debt limit for as long as three months.
Returning to the Capitol after meeting with Obama at the White House, members of a 20-strong House Republican delegation described the session as a good first step.
The White House denied a news report that Obama had rejected the House GOP's proposal outright, saying that "no specific determination was made" after Obama, Vice President Biden and top officials listened to the presentation.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said the gathering was "a very useful meeting" and indicated that conversations would continue into the evening.
"It was clarifying, I think, for both sides as to where we are," he said.
Obama is "happy" that House Republicans agree a federal debt default is not an option, but he would prefer a longer extension of the debt limit, White House spokesman Jay Carney said after the plan was disclosed.
Boehner did not immediately tell reporters specifics of the plan. But the speaker made clear that House Republicans were not agreeing to Obama's demand that they pass legislation to fund the government without partisan riders, thereby ending the first government shutdown in 17 years.
In any case, Boehner's proposal fell flat in the Senate, where members of both parties were clamoring to end the shutdown.
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), speaking to reporters after a White House meeting between Obama and Senate Democrats, said the shutdown must end and the debt ceiling must be raised ahead of negotiations with the Republicans, who he complained keep changing their demands.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), meanwhile, was consulting fellow Republican senators to develop a proposal, advanced by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), to end the shutdown and raise the federal debt limit for as long as three months.
The package sparked the first bipartisan negotiations since the standoff began in early September. But Collins's proposal called for Democratic concessions including repeal of a tax on medical devices needed to fund Obama's health-care initiative, and it would maintain deep budget cuts known sequestration through at least March.
The House GOP plan would suspend the debt limit until Nov. 22, the Friday before Thanksgiving, while also forbidding Treasury Secretary Jack Lew from using "extraordinary measures" that his department has used in recent years to extend his borrowing authority for weeks after the ceiling is reached, according to a senior GOP aide who was in the room. This creates a hard "X date," as financial analysts call the issue, leaving no wiggle room beyond that day.
The House Republicans essentially are offering a "clean" debt-limit increase in exchange for negotiations over reopening the government, aides said. The government shutdown would not end until Obama agreed to "structural reforms" to the tax code and federal health programs.
The Republican plan for a six-week increase in the debt limit, without conservative strings attached, was aimed chiefly at calming jittery financial markets, according to senior GOP advisers.
Financial markets soared earlier Thursday on the first sign of optimistic news out of Washington in almost a month, with the Dow Jones industrial average up 169 points in the first 15 minutes of trading. The rally continued when Boehner confirmed the plan at an 11 a.m. press briefing, and by 1:30 p.m. the Dow was up more than 225 points.
The plan was presented to the House GOP caucus Thursday morning after Lew warned lawmakers that he would be unable to guarantee payments to any group — whether Social Security recipients or U.S. bondholders — unless Congress raises the federal debt ceiling.
If the GOP plan goes over well with rank-and-file Republicans, Boehner could put the legislation on the floor for a vote late Thursday, aides said.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) described the plan at the news briefing as "a temporary extension of the debt ceiling in exchange for a real commitment by the president and the Senate majority leader to sit down and talk about the pressing problems" facing the country. Rep. Kevin McCarty (R-Calif.), the House majority whip, characterized these problems as "drivers" of increasing federal debt.
Obama has indicated he could support a short-term debt-limit hike, but he has also demanded that Republicans allow the government to reopen before he would negotiate with the GOP.
Carney, the White House spokesman, told reporters Thursday afternoon: "The president is happy that cooler heads at least seem to be prevailing in the House, that there at least seems to be a recognition that default is not an option." However, Obama "believes it would be far better . . . to raise the debt ceiling for an extended period of time," as Senate Democrats are proposing.
The first reactions from Republican House members appeared generally positive. But several insisted they would back the measure only with a commitment from the president to open negotiations over the next debt-ceiling hike.
Meanwhile, several of the House's most conservative members withheld comment about the proposal. "I'm not very enthusiastic," Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said without elaborating.
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), chairman of the Republican Study Committee, was noncommittal when asked about the plan and said his support depends on what happens in the meeting with the president Thursday.
Heritage Action for America, a conservative advocacy group influential with tea party Republicans, said Thursday that while it remains committed to fighting Obama's health-care law and opposes "clean debt ceiling increases," it wants to give House GOP leaders "the flexibility they need to refocus the debate on Obamacare." Therefore, the group said, it will not include votes in favor of the proposal in its rankings of lawmakers' conservatism.
The plan would meet Obama's demand for an increase in Treasury's borrowing authority without any legislative attachments. But it would set the stage for tough negotiations, possibly lasting until Thanksgiving, over bigger fiscal matters, since the tentative plan calls for only a six-week increase of the debt limit.
Advisers cautioned that Boehner's often unruly caucus, which has repeatedly rejected leadership initiatives in the past, needs to sign off on the plan before it can advance.
Financial experts much prefer a longer-term extension of the debt ceiling, but even a brief extension would ease some of the turmoil that has been brewing on Wall Street. By the time markets closed Monday afternoon, the Dow had dropped 900 points in 14 trading days, losing almost 6 percent of its value.
Just three weeks ago, Boehner's leadership team presented a plan to lift the debt ceiling accompanied by a one-year delay of Obama's health-care law and a litany of other conservative domestic policy demands.
With Washington in gridlock and a key deadline in the debt-limit debate just one week away, Lew told the Senate Finance Committee Thursday morning that he would do all he can to minimize the pain of breaching the $16.7 trillion debt limit. But Lew also told the senators that in an unprecedented situation in which he would be relying entirely on the erratic flow of incoming revenue, the economy would suffer and there would not even be certainty that the government could make all interest and principal payments.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a key conservative with ties to leadership and more junior tea party-backed colleagues, said Thursday morning that he and his colleagues "potentially" could support the new GOP debt-ceiling plan.
Asked whether he could support a short-term increase without related cuts, Jordan said he expected that question would be the primary topic of conversation among House Republicans on Thursday.
Amid growing anxiety about a debt default, Republicans in the House and the Senate floated ideas Wednesday for raising the debt limit — if only for a short time — in hopes of forcing Obama to the negotiating table.
One of the most significant ideas was brewing in the House, Ryan briefed conservatives on a plan to raise the debt limit for six weeks, which would give party leaders time to negotiate a broad agreement to overhaul the tax code and trim federal health-care and retirement spending.
The plan, which Ryan sketched in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece Wednesday, was short on details. And it called for spending cuts of roughly $200 billion to cover the cost of raising the debt limit even in the near term — although senior GOP advisers said late Wednesday that they were also considering an increase with no strings attached.
Lew's appearance is the first public confrontation between a senior administration official and Republicans since the fiscal showdown began last month. The meeting comes as some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are questioning whether the administration has been too alarmist about the threat of going past an Oct. 17 deadline to raise the debt ceiling. Republicans have cited reports by credit-rating firms saying that the United States would not technically default unless it fails to make interest payments on its debt — which they regard as unlikely.
Echoing points made by Republican presidents and officials in prior administrations, Lew is tried to counter that argument by highlighting the broad risks of leaving the government with no borrowing authority.
For example, officials say, Lew pointed out that the Treasury routinely refinances about $100 billion in debt every week, paying back principal and taking on new debt. He noted that should investors back away from Treasury debt, it could make refinancing difficult and throw the country's financial markets into even greater chaos.
Lew said the administration will face a series of difficult decisions even if Treasury can avoid what the credit-rating firms consider a default. In a scenario where federal spending will far exceed revenue, he said, the administration would have only imperfect options in deciding whom to pay. Officials say Lew will try to push Republicans to decide whom they wouldn't pay — Social Security recipients or veterans.
A Treasury official said Wednesday night that Obama would have to make the final decision in such a scenario.
Lew confronted a Senate Finance Committee stocked with Republicans who have been skeptical about the administration's claims that breaching the debt limit would be catastrophic.
Among the committee's members is Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.), who has championed the notion that the Treasury Department could avoid chaos in financial markets by continuing to make interest payments to investors.
Thursday's meeting is the second in a series the White House announced Wednesday aimed at breaking the impasse, reopening the government and raising the $16.7 trillion debt limit. Obama met first with House Democrats late Wednesday and plans to meet with each party in the Senate in the coming days, starting with a meeting with the Senate Democratic caucus Thursday.
Obama invited the entire 233-member GOP House conference to join him at the White House, but Republicans decided to send only an 18-member group comprising top leaders and key committee chairmen, including Ryan, Appropriations Chairman Harold Rogers (Ky.) and Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (Mich.).
The White House said Obama is "disappointed" by Boehner's decision to limit Republican attendance and emphasized that Obama will not be negotiating.
"The president thought it was important to talk directly with the members who forced this economic crisis on the country about how the shutdown and a failure to pay the country's bills could devastate the economy," White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.
Republicans on Capitol Hill, meanwhile, circulated a memo from one of the nation's leading credit-rating agencies that seemed to play down the threat of default. In the memo, Moody's Investors Service said the Treasury Department is likely to continue paying interest on the government's debt even if Congress refuses to lift the limit on borrowing, preserving the nation's sterling AAA credit rating.
The memo offered a starkly different view of the consequences of breaching the debt limit than is held by the White House, many policymakers and other financial analysts. Over the weekend, economists at Goldman Sachs said the economy would take a devastating hit even if Treasury kept making payments on the debt, because the pullback in federal spending would amount to roughly $175 billion, or 4.2 percentage points of gross domestic product.
Mohamed El-Erian, the chief executive of PIMCO, the world's largest bond company, agreed that the administration could take steps to contain the worst damage. But, he said, there would still be severe consequences.
William Branigin, Rosalind S. Helderman and Scott Wilson contributed to this report.


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The Tortoise and the Geese by Maude Barrows Dutton
The Tortoise and the Geese
The Fox, the Hen, and the Drum
The Carpenter and the Ape
The Poor Man and the Flask of Oil
The Rich Man and the Bundle of Wood
The Scorpion and the Tortoise
The Partridge and the Crow
The Hunter, the Fox, and the Leopard
The Youth, the Hawk, and the Raven
The Bleacher, the Crane, and the Hawk
The Gardener and the Bear
The Hen and the Falcon
The Three Fish
The Frog, the Crab, and the Serpent
The Tyrant Who Became a Just Ruler
The Apes, the Glow-Worm, and the Popinjay
The Fox and the Piece of Meat
The Blind Man and the Snake
The Farmer, the Sheep, and the Robbers
The Sparrows and the Snake
The Ape and the Boar
The Rustic and the Nightingale
The Partridge and the Hawk
The King, the Falcon, and the Drinking-Cup
The Hare, the Fox, and the Wolf
The Merchant and His Iron
The Lean Cat and the Fat Cat
The King, the Hermit, and the Two Princes
The Two Travelers
The Lion and the Hare
The Crane and the Crab
The Ass, the Lion, and the Folk
The Crow, the Jackal, the Wolf, and the Camel
The Camel Driver and the Adder
A hungry Wolf was passing through a wood when he came upon a Hare sitting up on her hind legs at the foot of an oak tree. He was about to spring upon her, when the Hare suddenly spoke to him.
"Sir Wolf," she said, "I know that you are faint with hunger, and that you are out in search of food. But before you swallow me, I ask you to think of my size, and remember that I shall be but a solitary mouthful for your Highness. Now about a furlong from here there lives a Fox, who is so plump and fat that he can scarcely walk. If you should eat him, then you would indeed feel that you had truly dined. If it is pleasing to you, I will pay this Fox a visit; entice him from his hole, and, if he prove to your liking, you can devour him."
The Wolf was easily persuaded by these words, and told the Hare to run on ahead to the hole of the Fox. When she had arrived there, she bade the Wolf remain outside while she went in.
"Ah! now not only am I free from the Wolf, but I will have my revenge on this old Fox, who has so often chased my white tail through the bushes," she thought to herself.
When she came to the Fox, she put on a very meek expression, and bowed low. The Fox was very civil, and asked the Hare what good fortune it was that had brought her there.
"Only the great desire to see your Worship," replied the Hare humbly; "and there is one of my relations at the door who is no less anxious to kiss your hands, but he dares not enter without your permission."
The cunning Fox mistrusted the Hare's flattering words, but he said to himself, "I will repay her in her own coin." At the same time he answered aloud, "Madam, you do me great honor. Your friend shall be most welcome. But," he added, "before receiving him I must ask you to allow me first to sweep out the corners of the house and spread down my best carpet."
The Hare therefore went out and told the Wolf all that had happened. The Wolf's mouth fairly watered with the thought of his fine dinner.
But the Fox was by no means the stupid creature that the Hare took him to be. He had long ago built a deep pit in the centre of his passageway, and covered it over with sticks so that no one besides himself knew that it was there. He now hastened to take away the sticks and cover the pit merely with straw. When this was done, he asked the Hare and his friend to walk in. The Hare, curious to see the finish of her little game, followed the Wolf, and before they knew it, both found themselves rolling together in the bottom of the pit. The Wolf, believing that the Hare had planned this device, immediately fell upon her and ate her up, while the Fox stole out of his hole by a secret door.
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est une ville de la préfecture de Saitama, au Japon.

Géographie

Démographie
En 2010, la population de la ville de Toda était de  pour une superficie de .

Histoire
Toda a été fondée le .

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Liens externes

Ville au Japon

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