A real estate owner/manager/operator principally of marinas was in significant growth mode. Their portfolio consisted of both lakefront and coastal marina properties, each providing an umbrella of services including housing, restaurants, and complete recreational facilities. The company's recent loss history was mostly attributable to weather-related property damage. Their broker and insurer had recently advised them that their insurance premiums and deductibles would both be increasing, and their coverage would be restricted with reduced limits and coverage terms while settling the outstanding damage claims. The reserves on outstanding claims continued to impact the company's loss experience, giving the insurer more leverage to push premiums higher and reducing the company's negotiating power. Their policy renewal was just four months away.
The senior management for the marina company extensively vetted UIC, Inc. for our overall risk management experience, as well as our expertise with special-interest real estate. According to the Association of Marina Industries (AMI), most of the approximately 14,500 US marinas lack adequate risk management processes, and this client wanted to be at the forefront of establishing a set of best practices to address the most common risk exposures at marinas. First and foremost, their goal was to mitigate any premium increases. Second, the company wanted to shore up any structural issues to their overall risk management program without exceeding their original budget, to allow them the financial flexibility to acquire more properties.
UIC, Inc. performed an independent risk management audit, and was provided complete access to senior management and all appropriate information. Our team not only reviewed the breadth and depth of insurance coverage in place, but also interviewed senior management on the existing procedures in place for all properties focusing on operational safety, loss prevention, and loss control. UIC, Inc. outlined several issues concerning inconsistent coverage, and pointed out several small fractures in their existing risk management structure. We proposed a detailed shift in their risk management strategy, specifically designed to achieve their goals within the existing budget.
The proposed shift in risk management strategy received the full support of senior management, but the incumbent broker and insurer were not convinced. They were not in favor of the structural changes we proposed, and they were uncooperative during the audit.
UIC, Inc. implemented the agreed-upon strategy, corrected coverage inefficiencies, and implemented a robust and cost-effective risk management program. Our plan not only mitigated the rationale for a premium increase, but also reaped the client an annual financial savings of 15%-40%. The new strategy not only garnered broader coverage, but also allowed the company more flexibility, which was a distinct competitive advantage in the race to accelerate growth and acquire more waterfront properties.
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UIC, Inc. worked with company's senior management to effectively notify and educate all personnel at the individual properties of the new insurance programs in place, establishing effective risk control protocols and claims safety and notification practices.
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Thank you for sharing the photos and video history of St. Nicholas including my Grandfather, Rev. Michael Rapach.
I am a retired pastor living in Barberton. I pass by your electronic sign quite often.
It frequently says: Life is tough, we are praying for you.
I am so encouraged that you are praying for all of us. I pray the Lord richly bless you!
Thank you for presenting your informative website.
Thanks for sharing your website and photos of your parish. It is really nice to look at.
Very nice and informative site. Just before Christmas one should focus on the essentials.
Congratulations! on having so many visitors to St. nicholas's Church website.
Schone kirche. Wir kommen bald wieder.
Thank you so much for bringing the life of Archbishop Fulton Sheen on screen to our area.
Your hospitality to all who have come to the Cultural Exhibit has been wonderful.
I would hope that all parishes in our area would schedule to see this film. It is so inspirational!
To support Archbishop Fulton Sheen\'s opportunity be made a saint in our lifetime is very exciting and at the same time challenging.
When this happens...we need to come back to St. Nicholas Church and celebrate.
God Bless Fr. Miron, his family, and his parishioners !
We would like to wish you, Marcela, Miron and all the wonderful people at St. Nicholas a very Happy and Blessed Easter.
Everytime we spend time with all of you for the various functions we feel so welcomed and part of your group. Thank you for the hospitality and all the fun we have with everyone.


Bikini Season with European Wax Center!
I don't know about you, but I've been trying on lots of swimsuits, shorts, and skirts lately in anticipation of sunny days ahead. I can't wait for bikini season! I love laying out by the Charles and hanging out at Singing Beach. To prep for the season I booked a bikini wax at European Wax Center in Beacon Hill. My waxer Lynn was amazing, I was in and out in under 15 minutes!
When I mentioned my concerns about ingrowns, they sent me home with some new products to try. Immediately post-wax Lynn applied some of their Ingrown Hair Serum. It's not sticky, absorbs quickly, and and works well when used daily for a week or two post wax. Every couple of days before showering I've been using The Exfoliate, a light gel exfoliator. Apply a thin layer, let it sit for a minute, rub in circular motions, and rinse. You'll be amazed at how much dead skin is removed with this product! And last but not least their Slow It Body Wash has been warmly welcomed into my shower routine. It smells amazing and lightly exfoliates while being specially formulated to reduce ingrown hairs.
Products are available both in stores and online starting at $20. You can easily book an appointment at your local European Wax Center online as well! They'll be opening a super convenient location on Newbury Street as well as the Brookline area soon. If you book an appointment at Beacon Hill try to snag an appointment with Lynn, she's the best!


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Crkva sv. Ivana Krstitelja i kaštel u Povljima, općina Selca, zaštićeno kulturno dobro.

Opis dobra
Vrijeme nastanka: 6. do 20. stoljeće. Trobrodna župna crkva sv. Ivana Krstitelja podignuta je na predjelu Lokve nad uvalom Povlja. Sagrađena je uz monumentalni sklop ranokršćanske bazilike s transeptom i upisanom apsidom. Ranokršćanska krstionica, sačuvana do krova s krsnim zdencem, postala je svetište kasnije crkve posvećene sv. Ivanu Krstitelju. U 12. st. ugrađen je nadvratnik s ćirilskim natpisom, poznat kao Povaljski prag, kojeg je izradio majstor Radonja (danas u Muzeju hrvatskih arheoloških spomenika u Splitu). Za postojanja benediktinske opatije nad svetištem ranokršćanske crkve podignut je kaštel s kruništem. Današnja crkva ima zvonik iz 1882., a južni i sjeverni brod pridodani su 1924. god.

Zaštita
Pod oznakom Z-5514 zavedeni su kao nepokretno kulturno dobro – pojedinačno, pravna statusa zaštićena kulturnog dobra, klasificirano kao "sakralna graditeljska baština".

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Zaštićene sakralne građevine u Splitsko-dalmatinskoj županiji
Utvrde u Hrvatskoj
Ivan Krstitelj, Povlja
Građevine u Povljima
Zaštićene vojne i obrambene građevine u Splitsko-dalmatinskoj županiji
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Hurley is a laid back active wear brand that offers a broad range of quality active wear and swim wear for men, women and kids. Take a look through their latest collection of casual clothing with a main price point of $60.
Hurley brings chill beach vibes and casual wear together to make the most versatile casual clothes for men, women and kids.
Whether you're going out to dinner or on your way to the beach, Hurley will help you find whatever you need that's versatile enough to do both. Their beachy and casual clothes range from comfortable board shorts, the cutest bikini's, everyday khaki's and much more. Hurley allows you to shop the best in casual wear for the whole family at great prices that can cost as much as $200.
If you want to check out similar brands to Hurley check out Rip Curl, Billabong, Quicksilver and other brands that carry the same aesthetic.
Hurley accepts returns within 30 days of the orders purchase date.
Volcom is a lifestyle brand that creates clothing and accessories for men, women and kids who are true to their passion. Complement your adventures with sporty street style available at a main price point of $55.


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Pottayil Radha Vs. State of Kerala and Anr.
[Review Petition (Criminal) No. 407 of 2021 in Criminal Appeal No. 853 of 2020]
The High Court had reduced the substantive sentence to six months which view was not under challenge either at the instance of prosecution or by the complainant.
Considering the entirety of circumstances, the accused was directed to deposit Rs.2,50,000/- so that the complainant could be sufficiently compensated. Despite having been served, the complainant (Review Petitioner) chose not to enter appearance in this Court.
In these circumstances, the substantive sentence was reduced but at the same time, the amount of Rs.2,50,000/- was directed to be made over to the complainant.
The complainant is now seeking review of the order passed by this Court.
We have gone through the grounds raised in the Review Petition and do not find any error apparent to justify interference. This Review Petition is dismissed.
..............................J. [Uday Umesh Lalit]
..............................J. [Vineet Saran]
..............................J. [S. Ravindra Bhat]

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Belvedere CMO Sustainably Shaking Up the Spirits Industry
By Nadine Dietz
What's a refreshing marketing cocktail consist of? "Equal parts brand truth and consumer truth," shared Billy Paretti, CMO of Belvedere Vodka at Moët Hennessy. Shaken, not stirred.
I sat down with Billy on the latest episode of CMO Moves to discuss how the premium vodka brand is "Made With Nature" and how this brand truth was the inspiration behind Belvedere's new multilayered campaign platform that consists of striking cinematography, impactful CSR pledges, and an innovative new product reinforcing the brand's new commitment. In between his sharing of brand learnings and consumer insights, Billy also shared his own tips of the trade regarding internal communications and how important it is to give people the benefit of the doubt.
According to the latest campaign, Belvedere is created from rye, pure water, fire, and nothing else. "The campaign is really bringing our intrinsics to life in a very emotive arresting format. Often, as you see in our category, brands market in a lifestyle format, not an intrinsic product related format, at least not within the super premium category. We really wanted to show why Belvedere is honestly as fantastic on the inside as it is on the outside."
"What we found from the research that we did when we asked specifically about Belvedere, consumers who drink Belvedere or those who are aware of it know that Belvedere is a premium vodka. They think it's packaged beautifully, they think it's very high end, but they can't tell you why. So we wanted to bring the liquid benefit to life so people can understand that we are really an exceptional, super premium vodka that is made with the most simple ingredients that is built with the utmost integrity. And it still imparts exceptional taste."
The campaign was built long before the pandemic hit, but the team firmly believes it makes sense now more than ever and will really connect with consumers. Bringing the campaign further to life is Belvedere's corporate social responsibility pledge to be zero waste by 2025. The team is adamant about looking at their carbon footprint very carefully and ensuring they deliver the most exceptional results in the most responsible way. "We understand we are a spirits company. We understand that we manufacture things. We understand that we have a footprint, but it's really about doing better until you can do your best and doing things in a mindful format."
Billy credits his team's success with internally making sure everyone believes in and feels connected to the brand's platform. "We need to all be, let's say, participants and influencers within the organization to move this initiative forward."
We talked about the importance of having the right people on the team and what to do in a situation where a team member is not the best fit. "I think it's really important and fair as professionals and as humans to give each other the benefit of the doubt and to learn how the situation can be addressed in a variety of ways. Sometimes it's a more complicated route to a better way of operating, but I think it's fair. I've had fantastic mentors in my working history and I've also had terrible leadership. I've learned to work around that and I've always wanted to have a certain type of manager or leader over me. So I try to be that person for my team."
Tune into this week's CMO podcast to find out more about Billy's Belvedere journey and the brand's all natural campaign launching this month.
Nadine Dietz
nadine.dietz@adweek.com Nadine Dietz is chief community officer at Adweek and host of the CMO Moves podcast.


Smart marketers know they need to build a presence on the information giants, Facebook and Google, to remain relevant in today's digital age. Facebook and Google currently dominate online advertising, search, and traffic. The problem many businesses face is that the two companies constantly change their algorithms making it difficult for businesses to be found. Lack of online visibility makes it even harder for businesses to monetize their content.
It's time to focus on change, context, and website traffic to remain relevant online and generate revenue from your content. If you're not willing to do that, then you're leaving money on the ground for your competition to pick up.
Here are four ways to monetize your content in the age of Facebook and Google dominance.
Google and Facebook account for more than 49% of digital advertising dollars spent by businesses. This continued growth is partially contributed to being household names. Native advertising drives leads back to your blog, website, or landing page through paid advertising efforts.
Facebook recently announced a change to their newsfeed algorithm with plans show more family and friends updates and less business content. This change forces businesses to spend more on advertising if they want their content viewed by users.
They tell your brand's story.
They deliver content the user can relate to.
They don't focus on selling your products or services.
Native advertising is predicted to be a $21 billion industry by 2018, making it too big to ignore. They are gaining traction from mobile users with click through rates being 137% higher on mobile devices than desktop.
Native advertising is the best way to get your content seen by a large audience, drive traffic to your website, and increase sales. They work because they are less invasive than traditional advertising and users are genuinely interested in the message you are sharing.
Content upgrades are special bonus content pieces or mini-lead magnets placed in your existing content. Businesses create eBooks, free reports, subscription membership sites, and online workshops based on the content they already wrote about on their blog or website.
Don't just place content upgrades on every page of your website or blog. Use your Google Analytics account to pinpoint which pages are the highest performing. Add content upgrades to the pages that are already performing well. This bonus content is a more in-depth look at a topic the website visitor is already interested in making them more likely to hand over their e-mail address.
Leads responding to free content upgrades are a better quality because not every website visitor will find the upgrades. Those that do are invested in finding more information, highly engaged in the information you are providing, and are more likely to start a customer relationship with you.
Your number of paying leads will increase drastically when your membership website or online workshops offer value your visitors can't find for free somewhere else. Partner with influencers to make these offers more appealing.
Google and Facebook launched instant articles solutions to publishers in the past year. Facebook Instant articles were opened to the public in April 2016. Google Accelerated Mobile Pages were released in January of 2016. Both offer Internet users, especially mobile users, a better user experience. They load instantly unlike articles published on your unique URL.
Facebook's research shows 70% of users are less likely to abandon an instant article – which means more individuals are actually reading your content, seeing your offer, and taking action. More importantly, 70% of mobile users take action within an hour of completing their online search.
At this point, it doesn't seem like businesses have anything to lose by publishing content via instant article solutions. They experience a decrease in abandonment rates, increase in audience reach, and increase in engagement rates. However, businesses have been slow to make the move, making this a valuable resource.
Take action now before your competitors. You'll be known for your instant load times, easy access, and positive experience. Why now? You never know when Facebook and Google will give 'extra credit' to those already using the features and move you up in your search results.
If you browse the Internet at any given time, you are likely to see videos in your news feeds and search results. Google and Facebook like video and they both give businesses using video more power in their algorithm by showing them first.
In addition, Facebook is investing a lot in securing live video as an important trend in 2017. They recently paid $50 million to companies and celebrities willing to publish content using Facebook Live.
Offer unique and valuable information to users.
Businesses using video today in their online marketing strategies see higher engagement, increased lead conversions, and a better quality of leads. Individuals want you to make it easy for them to understand your message and they want to feel like they know you on a personal level. Video makes it possible to accomplish both at one time.
Use videos to demo products, share your mission, highlight customer testimonials, and interview team members. Viewers will gain an instant connection to your brand and will want to start a relationship with you.
5. Don't want to join them? Beat them.
Of course, if you are not too keen on joining the cartel-like hegemony of Facebook and Google, you can always opt to build your own content powerhouse. The web offers a number of solutions that help you control the means of creating content, from inception to distribution. Try a solution like Kajabi which allows you to create a website, sell your digital products, and grow your customers – through one platform. With the platform, you can set up your own course and sell your knowledge to a wide audience. There are of course a number of tools that allow you to create and distribute content, and more often than not, your best bet for distribution is – rather surprisingly – Facebook and Google.
There is no predicting Facebook or Google's next step. The secret to keeping up with both is to create a well-rounded and unwavering online marketing strategy. Stay updated on their rules to make sure you are easily found online. Being found is the first step to monetizing your online content. Businesses not willing to play by their rules become a tiny speck in business history.
Itai Elizur is the COO at Inbound Junction, a content marketing agency specializing in helping startups and business increase their online visibility. Prior to joining the Inbound Junction team, Itai worked as a Creative Manager at Wix.com, and as the Director of Marketing at Infolinks, the 3rd largest website network in the world. Itai specializes in helping business develop and optimize large-scale user acquisition strategies through content, brand messaging and marketing automation.


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Futures Action Centre is closing on July 25
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The Futures Action Centre that opened here after last year's closure of the A.O. Smith plant will be closing its doors for good on July 25.
Fergus resident Cal MacDonald worked at the factory for over 27 years and has been working as the coordinator at the centre, a joint effort between A.O. Smith, the United Steel Workers Union and Employment Ontario.
MacDonald said he feels the centre will be able to close later this month on good terms, knowing it has helped many of the 300-plus employees set adrift last summer.
The centre now has approximately 200 clients, of which 47 per cent are currently working and 17% are completing courses and workplace training programs.
In the last 12 months, the centre has run 43 training sessions, including resume writing workshops and tutorials on job search strategies. There are also computer work stations set up at the office and a job board that was constantly updated.
Some have struggled with finding new work – particularly older employees – while others have been pleasantly surprised with a new career path.
Centre Wellington Mayor Joanne Ross-Zuj acknowledged the successes of the action centre.
"However when you talk to the families, you can see that it's been a very painful year," she said, later adding, "For some, they've been able to find a new niche somewhere, but there are others even after one year who are still out there in school trying to get new qualifications."
Wellington-Halton Hills MPP Ted Arnott said he too believes the effects of the closure are still being felt throughout Centre Wellington.
On a personal level, MacDonald says his time at the centre helped him learn many new skills, including bookkeeping and statistical analysis.
Though he will once again be out of work come July 25, he is taking it all in stride.
"I'm close (to retirement) so I'm not looking for another factory job," he said.
"I'm looking for something I can just work away at – something that I really enjoy."
For those seeking employment services in future, MacDonald encourages them to visit many of the businesses that assisted the Futures Action Centre throughout the year, such as Northern Lights and Second Career.
Noting the pending employment centre closure, Ross-Zuj also highlighted the services offered by Northern Lights and Second Chance, which can offer assistance.
She said the township's role is now mainly in the area of communication.
"From the township's position, we are still on top of making certain where everything is at," the mayor said. "But there is still a lot of pain, that is the emotional part you cannot discount."
Former A.O. Smith employees and their families are also invited to a family barbecue on July 6 from 2 to 5pm in Marden Park, which is being organized by the centre.
– With files from Mike Robinson and Kris Svela


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A project I worked on a while back suddenly introduced a swiping-in System. It was surprising how many employees were not actually turning up for work. The following is from the Guardian about a Spanish water engineer:-
Only when Joaquín García, a Spanish civil servant, was due to collect an award for two decades of loyal and dedicated service did anyone realise that he had not, in fact, shown up to work for at least six years – and possibly as many as 14.
García, a 69-year-old engineer, began working for the local authority in the south-western city of Cádiz in 1990, according to el Mundo, and in 1996 was posted to the municipal water board, Agua de Cadiz, where his job was to supervise a waste water treatment plant.
In 2010, when García – who has now retired – was due to collect his long-service medal, the man who had hired him, deputy mayor Jorge Blas Fernández, wondered where he was: "He was still on the payroll," he told the paper. "I thought, where is this man? Is he still there? Has he retired? Has he died?"
After the former manager of the water board, who had the office opposite Garcia's, told Fernández he had not seen his employee for several years, the deputy mayor called the engineer in. "I asked him: what are you doing?" Fernández said. "What did you do yesterday? And the previous month? He could not answer."
A court this week fined Garcia €27,000 (£21,000), the equivalent after tax of one year of his annual salary, having earlier found that the engineer did not appear to have occupied his office for "at least six years" and had done "absolutely no work" between 2007 and 2010, the year before he retired.
García told the court that he had turned up to the office, although he admitted he may not have kept regular business hours. He said he was the victim of workplace bullying because of his family's socialist politics and had been deliberately sidelined at the water board.
His friends told El Mundo that the engineer had been unwilling to report his allegations of harassment because he "had a family to support" and was worried that he would not find another job at his age. He had been so depressed by his situation that he had seen a psychiatrist, they said.
The tribunal concluded that the water board had believed García was the responsibility of the city council for most of the period of his employment, while the city council thought he was working for the water board.
The engineer made the most of the confusion, becoming an avid reader of philosophy and an expert on the works of Spinoza, the Dutch philosopher credited with laying the foundations of the Enlightenment.


Every day a young moose would stand on the hill overlooking the small village just beyond the forest. His mother would find him there and walk beside him as he looked with wonder. She would always encourage him the same way each morning.
"Do not ever go into the village because we live in the woods and we are moose. The people in town don't like us."
One day the young moose saw children playing at the bus stop. He had no friends and wanted to play with the children. His mother had left and so the moose thought he would go closer to see why they were so happy. He was old enough to start growing his horns and they were getting big!. His big head poked out of the bushes near where the children played along the road.One of the children saw him and yelled.
"Lookout the moose is coming."
The children were not afraid and jumped around with pleasure to see the young moose; pointing at him and hollering for their friends to come take a look. This made the young moose happy. They seemed to like him he thought and that made him very happy. Despite what his mother had told him he walked out from the bushes and slowly trotted toward the children playing at the bus stop. He didn't know what a bus stop was and had never seen a school bus before. As he approached the happy children they hollered even louder.
"Lookout, the moose is coming, the moose is coming!"
even faster to go play with his new found friends. The bus pulled up in front of the children as they hollered.
"Lookout, the moose is coming!" They jumped onto bus just as Lookout arrived. He followed the last little boy right up to the step of the bus; trying to stick his big head into the door. Just then the bus driver yelled to the children now on the bus.
"Lookout, the moose is coming!" He said with an excited but worried voice.
The children laughed and stuck their noses up to the windows of the bus, trying to get a better look at the moose. The silly moose now tried to squeeze up through the doorway of the bus and get on board himself! The bus driver still yelling at Lookout, tried hard to close the door, but Lookout was stuck in the way. The children laughed and hollered even louder.
"Look out! Look out!" This made Lookout very happy. So many new friends liked him and called out his new name!
The driver finally was able to get the moose out of the way. and shut the door. Then he threw the bus into gear. The bus lurched down the road. Lookout stepped back out of the way and saw every smiling face in the windows of the bus as it went past down the road toward the schoolhouse. So Lookout decided that he should follow the bus and see where his new friends were going. He was having so much fun and wanted to play some more with the children.
As Lookout came down the road near the school, he noticed a man standing in the middle of the street. He had on white gloves, a white hat to match and a nice blue suit. He had his back to Lookout. His arms were out and something was in his mouth. He was helping the children get across the street to the school. Just as the children passed the crossing guard they saw the moose and began to yell just like the other children on the bus.
"Lookout, here comes the moose!" Then they ran as the crossing guard turned around, now face to face with Lookout! He blew his whistle and then ran right past the school children. Lookout thought that the sound of the whistle was a signal to start running! So he ran after the crossing guard whom he thought was playing also. As the children rushed into the school, Lookout was following right behind. When he got to the door, the man with the whistle tried to shut the door on poor Lookout! The young moose tried and tried to fit into the door. He could hear all the children inside calling his name and laughing. He was having so much fun and wanted to go to school just like his new friends! However, he just couldn't quite fit through the door! Then a loud school bell rang surprising Lookout. The door slammed shut and soon no more voices could be heard. Lookout walked all the way around the school but could not find a way in. He couldn't find any of his new friends to play with either. This made Lookout sad. He was having so much fun. Where did everyone go?
He looked down the street and saw that he was close to the stores in town. Perhaps he would find someone else to play with. So he went off to find out. He came near one store where an old man was sweeping the sidewalk. When the man saw the moose coming, he yelled too.
"Lookout! The moose is coming, the moose is coming!" He shook his broom at Lookout and the moose thought that it was someone else to play with. So he grabbed the broom with his mouth which made the old man surprised. Lookout would not let go of the broom. so the shop owner slowly backed toward the door. Lookout followed the man with the broom still in his big moose mouth as the man tried to get in his door while trying to get his broom back. Lookout tried to follow him and see what was inside the store. There were so many smells coming from inside. It was a bakery shop. The smells filled Lookout's big nostrils so he tried to go in. However the broom in his mouth kept getting in the way. He didn't want to drop the broom because it was part of the new game he was playing with the baker. He tried and tried but only part of his head got into the door.
"Lookout. There is a big moose trying to get into my store and eat my cakes and cookies!" The baker yelled! The man let go of the broom in Lookouts mouth which sent the moose backwards. Then the moose watched the man grab something and hold it up to his head. So Lookout quietly moved closer to the door again. Maybe he was going to get some cakes and cookies thought. Or maybe play some more. So he stood there patiently. Then the baker slammed the door shut right in poor Lookout's face. It hit his nose and the broom dropped to the ground. The man inside pulled the shade down so Lookout walked over to the big window to look and see where his new friend had gone. Finally he turned to walk away. All of a sudden, down the street, some more people began calling out his name.
"Lookout! There's a moose." They cried!
He trotted down the street once again. Now even more people were calling out his name. He liked his new name. Everyone seemed to know him. There were people he had never seen or met before. However they all knew him by name and that made him proud. He was having a great time and didn't understand why mother did not approve of him going to town. Lookout decided he wanted to live in town now too! All the people were real friendly and they all knew him!
The more the people called his name, the farther he walked into town. There was a large building with three great big open doors to it. So he thought, " surely I can find someone in here to play with!" There were great big red trucks as big as the school bus he tried to get on. However these trucks had no seats in the back for children and there was no driver. In between the trucks there was a long pole that went right up to the ceiling. Lookout stood there and looked all the way up the pole and saw a door at the top. He could here faint voices up there and wanted to find out who it was. Just then a loud bell began to ring, along with a siren that grew louder every second. He could hear men yelling. First one man came sliding down the pole, then another. Then they began yanking on boots and jackets. They didn't notice that a moose was standing right there. As they ran for the trucks, the moose watched closely. Lookout wanted to go too. He walked to the nearest truck and poked his big head inside. A man with a big funny hat blew a loud horn and Lookout jumped back. He almost landed on another man, also dressed in funny clothes and a big hat. The man took one look at the moose and yelled, "Lookout for the moose!" Then he jumped into the loud red fire truck.
The truck made lots of noise and soon Lookout could not hear anything when the sirens started blaring. So he ran out into the street ahead of the trucks. He stood there for a second until the trucks came out of the building and headed right for Lookout. He ran down the middle of the street, every once in a while turning his head to see where the trucks were at. They were right behind him! He tried to run faster but he was too slow. Every once in a while he thought he could hear someone call out his name. He didn't understand why they wanted to play though.
"Lookout you dumb moose!" they would cry. But every time Lookout would stop to wonder the big red trucks would blow their horn and someone inside would yell.
"Lookout you big dumb moose!" However, Lookout could not figure why there was so much confusion.
Further down the street he heard a faint voice cry out. " Lookout, there is a fire! My little dog is inside!" A little girl cried standing next to her mother. She had been home sick from kindergarten when the fire started.
Lookout got there first before the fire trucks arrived. He caused such a big traffic jam! He didn't know he was in the way. The tiny little girl was holding a toy stuffed animal. It looked just like a moose and Lookout wanted to go take a look at it. So he walked up to the little girl who was crying. She looked at the big moose standing over her and then at her little toy moose. Then she looked back up at the big moose. He could see the tears in her eyes. Just then she said,"Lookout there is a fire and my little dog is in there." Then she pointed to a window on the side of the house.
Lookout had never seen a fire before but could hear the dog barking inside. He remembered one day in the woods that a dog chased after him! When he chased back, the dog ran around and played with him. He still wanted to play. So he walked over to the window and saw the small dog jumping up at the window. But he was too small to get out! The fire truck stopped out front and a fireman pulled the mother and her little girl back farther. The little girl screamed as loud as she could and pointing at the window where her dog was.
"Lookout! My dog is in there! Save my dog, Please!" But the fireman moved her away from the house. The dog barked frantically as the fire grew bigger. The firemen yelled for everyone including Lookout, to get back as they unraveled their fire hoses. But Lookout still wanted to play. He heard the little girl yelling his name over and over again and something told him that he had to get her dog. So Lookout stuck his big head into the window as far as he could, while the little dog jumped into the air barking wildly. Soon everyone was yelling.
The moose knew he had to do something. So just as the little dog jumped one big leap again at the open window, Lookout grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and carried him away. The little girl screamed and tried to pull away from the firemen, yelling, Lookout, that is my dog! The tiny dog barked wildly and Lookout saw the little girl's happy face. So he brought the dog to her and set him down.
The people gathered around while others yelled, Lookout! When they saw what Lookout had done they were amazed. Other children came close and some parents said, "Lookout, don't get too close to the moose!" Still everyone wanted to come closer to him.
"Everyone likes me," he thought. "Mother was wrong!" Just then it occurred to Lookout that it was getting late. He looked off toward the woods and thought he saw his mother. The little girl looked up at Lookout, while hugging her dog; sitting on the ground. She smiled then stood up and thanked the moose.
"Lookout everyone, I think he wants to go home now!" So she waved her hands so everyone would move out of the way.
Everyone patted Lookout on the back as he walked past. He never imagined that town would be so much fun. He had to go home but turned once again as the little girl reminded him of one more thing.
"Lookout that you don't get in any trouble on the way home." She smiled again and waved goodbye. Then everyone waved goodbye to Lookout as he wandered back into the woods. He was going to go home and tell his mother that the people in town were all nice and friendly. He couldn't wait to get back home and tell mother his new name. Lookout!
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SCHOOL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT – SARVA SIKSHA ABHIYAN – Posting of certain Project Officers, SSA in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram Districts in relaxation of rules, on deputation basis under Foreign Service terms and conditions – Orders Kept in abeyance – Cancellation of abeyance orders - Issued.
10. From Hon'ble M(HRD), Note.No.4840/2018, Dt:13-11-2018.
11. G.O.Rt.No.395, School Education (Prog.II) Dept. dt:14.12.2018.
12. G.O.Rt.No.397, School Education (Prog.II) Dept. dt:18.12.2018.
The Government have reviewed its orders issued in the references 11th and 12thread above and hereby withdrawn the abeyance orders issued in the reference 12th read above. Consequently, the orders issued in the reference 11th read above will come into force with immediate effect.
2. The State Project Director, Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, A.P. / the Spl. Commissioner of Collegiate Education, A.P. / the Director General of Police, A.P. / the District Collectors, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam/ the Panchayat Raj & Rural Development Department shall take necessary further action accordingly.


Master Czech Folk Artist, Marj Nejdl of Cedar Rapids, led the older division Czech School students through the steps of kraslice, the art of decorating eggs.
Students learned how to use wax and dye to create designs and layers of color and even how to blow the yolk out of the eggs, at the Glovik Parish Center at St. Wenceslaus Church.
Nejdl, who learned the art from her uncle years ago, regularly teaches egg decorating classes that sell out at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids.


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US Commemorates 9/11 As Its Aftermath Extends and Evolves
Posted 5:48 AM, September 11, 2019, by Associated Press, Updated at 05:46AM, September 11, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — People who were too young on 9/11 to even remember their lost loved ones, and others for whom the grief is still raw, paid tribute with wreath-layings and the solemn roll call of the dead Wednesday as America marked the 18th anniversary of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.
"Eighteen years. We will not forget. We cannot forget," Bud Salter, who lost his sister, Catherine, said at ground zero.
President Donald Trump laid a wreath at the Pentagon, telling victims' relatives: "This is your anniversary of personal and permanent loss."
"It's the day that has replayed in your memory a thousand times over. The last kiss. The last phone call. The last time hearing those precious words, 'I love you,'" the president said.
Later, former President George W. Bush, who was in office on 9/11, and then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld attended another wreath-laying at the Pentagon.
Near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the third site where planes crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, Vice President Mike Pence credited the crew and passengers who fought back against the hijackers with protecting him and others in the U.S. Capitol that day.
"I will always believe that I and many others in our nation's capital were able to go home that day and hug our families because of the courage and selflessness of your families," said Pence, who was an Indiana congressman at the time. Officials concluded the attackers had been aiming the plane toward Washington.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed when terrorist-piloted planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the field in Pennsylvania.
After reading part of the long list of names, Parboti Parbhu choked up as she spoke from the ground zero podium about her slain sister, Hardai. Even after nearly two decades, "there's no easy way to say goodbye," she said.
By now, the heritage of grief has been handed down to a new generation, including children and young adults who knew their lost relatives barely or not at all.
Jacob Campbell was 10 months old when his mother, Jill Maurer-Campbell, died on 9/11.
"It's interesting growing up in a generation that doesn't really remember it. I feel a connection that no one I go to school with can really understand," Campbell, a University of Michigan sophomore, said as he attended the ceremony.
Like the families, the nation is still grappling with the aftermath of Sept. 11. The effects are visible from airport security checkpoints to Afghanistan, where the post-9/11 U.S. invasion has become America's longest war. The aim was to dislodge Afghanistan's then-ruling Taliban for harboring al-Qaida leader and Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
Earlier this week, Trump called off a secret meeting at Camp David with Taliban and Afghan government leaders and declared the peace talks "dead." As the Sept. 11 anniversary began in Afghanistan, a rocket exploded at the U.S. Embassy just after midnight, with no injuries reported.
Al-Qaida's current leader used the anniversary to call for more attacks on the U.S. and other targets.
In New York, Nicholas Haros Jr., who lost his mother, Frances, reminded the audience of the al-Qaida attackers and tore into Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota over her recent "Some people did something" reference to 9/11.
"Our constitutional freedoms were attacked, and our nation's founding on Judeo-Christian values was attacked. That's what 'some people' did. Got that now?" he said to applause.
Omar, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, has said she didn't intend to minimize what happened on Sept. 11, and accused critics of taking her words out of context. She tweeted Wednesday that "September 11th was an attack on all of us."
The dead included Muslims, as Zaheda Rahman underscored after reading names at ground zero. She called her uncle, Abul Chowdhury, a "proud Muslim-American man who lived his life with a carefree nature, a zeal for adventure and a tenacity which I emulate every single day."
Others made a point of spotlighting the suffering of firefighters, police and others who died or fell ill after being exposed to the smoke and dust at ground zero.
A compensation fund for people with potentially Sept. 11-related health problems has paid out more than $5.5 billion so far. More than 51,000 people have applied. Over the summer, Congress made sure the fund won't run dry . The sick also gained new recognition this year at the World Trade Center site, where a memorial glade was dedicated this spring.
LOCAL Tributes
Cal Expo's 9/11 Memorial Plaza will be open to the general public from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. The Public is also welcome to attend the Memorial Service and Wreath Laying Ceremony from 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
FOX40 will have a live look at the memorial throughout the morning
9/11 Memorial Stair Climb at 8 a.m. -- Firefighters from throughout the region will be participating in the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb to honor those firefighters that gave their lives while trying to help others on the morning of 9/11/01. This year's climb will again be held at the "Renaissance Tower" located at 801 K Street in downtown Sacramento.
FOX40's Olivia DeGennaro will be at the scene
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A Huntingdon graphic designer has joined the herd with his creation of a life-size – dare devil – baby elephant.
Richard Powell, 65, of Garner Close, Brampton, was asked to paint the RAF Red Arrows-themed animal as part of the Elephant Parade's national tour, which is raising awareness of conservation issues.
Richard's elephant is currently on display as part of the 35-strong herd in Uxbridge, London.
After receiving a sketch from an eight-year-old girl who wanted to see the Red Arrows aerobatic display team immortalised in elephant form, the charity asked Mr Powell if he could help make her dreams a reality.
He was faced with a blank canvas – a white plastic resin baby elephant – and took just over a month to complete the work.
The elephants are available to buy until July 26. Proceeds will be donated to The Asian Elephant Foundation (TAEF).
INFORMATION: For more, visit www.intuelephantparade.co.uk/elephants.


How do I update my website to fit 1024px screens?
I got the background updated to a wider screen (1024px) but I am having a hard time editing the content to fit the wider background... so right now my site is all pushed to the left. How do I expand the content to fit the new wider background? In the editor it will not let me move anything to the right of the screen.
The background might be wider but the rest is still the same size it started at. You'll have to manuall resize everything.
You can resize pictures by grabbing a corner and dragging, but if it looks pixelated after you'll either have to put up with it or re-load a larger-sized picture.
I can resize and move things around in the original 800px format. It just wont let me move anything into that new expanded room.
You can adjust page width and position by using Page Settings > Advanced Settings.
Thanks. Ya it lets me widen the background but it wont let me move any of the other things into the new space created by the wider background. Like its blocked off or something.
Hello cory0592, different templates can be formatted differently, and with the template you are working in, you are going to want to move and stretch the elements to fill out the are. If you want to edit your existing elements, you will want to adjust and resize your master page elements. If you are trying to fill the space out, you may want to center align it, you can do this by clicking the Page Settings, then Advanced Settings, there is an option to Center align this page.
Your account supports multiple sites, if you are interested in trying to fill the area out a little bit more, have you taken a moment to check out the new Website Builder editor? To begin, all you need to do is go to Websites Manager page and create a new site. When you choose a new template, you will get the options to browse through newer templates.
So I can move things around in the original size (the 800px)... but It wont let me move things into the new space created by a wider background. On the editor screen it blocks off the right 400px space. Does that mean I need to create an entirely new website in order to be compliant with current computer screens?
Have you tried resizing your page elements?
I can center it, but it still leaves a couple inches on either side of the screen that I would like to use.
yes. I have resized everything on the master page.
To fill to the boundaries, resize the elements and expand your text boxes.
Thank you for your help. I appreciate it a lot. I tried resizing to larger than 1024. I was able to fill the whole screen after a few trial and errors, however I still cannot add anything to that area on the right. In the editor it is blocked out. (like in the photo I attached) I can't move anything over to that side of the screen and I can't view the whole screen in the editor. So... although the background stuff looks right, I can't add content... so I put it back to centered and "normal" for now.
Try making a page completely from scratch.
adjust and resize yourmaster page elements.


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Q: Why sometimes a value of "" is not counted as blank in Excel? I use the expression =if(cond, A1,"") in cell Z.
Why sometimes when A1 is blank and cond=True I get 0 instead of blank?
Why the cell Z is always counted in counta(), even if it is blank?
I need blank to be copied and considered as blank.
The cell is formatted as general but changing this to text doesn't change anything.

A: Nothing will make it truly blank without writing VBA. A formula has to return something and the closest you can get to truly blank is "" which is a zero-length-string and that is counted by COUNTA. You might try reducing the COUNTA with COUNTBLANK.
=COUNTA(Z2:Z10)-COUNTBLANK(Z2:Z10)

Strangely, COUNTBLANK will count a zero-length-string as blank.

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Is the Caribbean getting too dangerous?
Thanks for your advice everybody. I have just called the taxi company we are booked with from the car parking and they have assured me that they will have loads of room so no problem with the bags. Just got to drive to Soton tomorrow and we are all set for the holiday!!
Anybody know if this will just be Azura or if it will be over the fleet this time?


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Errol Flynn
Tasmania, Australia
Errol Flynn was one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1930s and '40s, famous for his boundless devil-may-care energy in the rousing adventures known as swashbucklers. Errol Flynn spent his youth in Australia and England, and his young adult years mining and running plantations in New Guinea, before appearing in his first movie in 1933, the Australian feature The Wake of the Bounty. From there he went to England briefly before making his way to Hollywood and the movies. In robust features like Captain Blood (1935) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Flynn was the dashing hero whose winning smile and daring swordplay made the ladies swoon with longing. Offscreen, Flynn had a reputation as a freewheeling boozer, womanizer and all-around bad boy. Tongues wagged in 1942 when he was tried for statutory rape (and acquitted), but the scandal didn't diminish his celebrity or his popularity. Flynn starred mostly in westerns, sea adventures and war movies, including The Charge of the Light Brigade (1935), They Died With Their Boots On (1941) and The Adventures of Don Juan (1948). He lost favor in Hollywood in the early 1950s, but we in the midst of a comeback at age 50 when he died suddenly in 1959.
Errol Flynn worked frequently with director Michael Curtiz and actress Olivia de Havilland… Errol Flynn's autobiography is titled My Wicked, Wicked Ways… The phrase "in like Flynn" became popular in the U.S. in the 1940s and is generally acknowledged as a reference to Flynn's success with women.


Updike Farmstead is open Wednesday through Sunday, 12-4 PM, with extended hours Thursdays until 7 PM. Admission: $4/person; free for HSP members. Thursdays are free from 4 to 7 PM.
The Historical Society of Princeton purchased the six-acre Updike Farmstead from the estate of Stanley Updike in 2004. The Farmstead consists of a late 18th/early 19th century farmhouse, a large barn built in 1892, wagon shed, corn crib, three-bay garage, garden sheds and chicken coops. After the purchase, careful plans were laid for the rehabilitation of the late 18th/early 19th century farmhouse and related site work to accommodate expanded operations for the Historical Society.
The Farmstead is listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places and lies within Princeton Township's Princeton Battlefield/Stony Brook Settlement Historic District. Benjamin Clarke, an early Stony Brook settler, first owned the land as part of a 1200-acre parcel he purchased in 1696. The Farmstead is along the route followed by Continental troops on their way to engage British soldiers at the neighboring Thomas Clarke farm at Princeton Battlefield. The original Benjamin Clarke property, which was divided up over time, remained in the hands of his descendants for over 150 years. In 1892, George Furman Updike Sr. acquired approximately 190 acres of the original farmland and added buildings to the site, including a large barn. In 1969, the Updike family sold 184 acres of the property to the Institute for Advanced Study. Brother and sister, Stanley and Sarah Updike, continued to live on the remaining six acres until their deaths in 2002.
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The weird cult of Greta Thunberg: she's not the Green Messiah
Martin Sewell
The activities of those following the latest fashion in political activism have been disrupting the nation's capital, and yesterday its unlikely spokesperson and poster child, Greta Thunberg, went to Westminster to urge MPs to "do more" about climate change. I speak of fashion deliberately: popular protest is in part an expression of a culture of group identification which Saul Alinski's Rules for Radicals pressed upon its supporters.
"A good tactic is one your people enjoy", he advised, and "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag." So we drift from one pressing crisis to the next, the better to demonstrate that people like us truly care. Greta Thunberg duly arrives to authenticate the sense of self satisfaction of those exhibiting their collective virtue, usually in a nation's capital. It is a moveable feast. Over the years it has had many incarnations: CND, 'Save the Whales', 'Stop the War', 'No Cruise Missiles', Anti-Racism', 'Anti-Hunting' have all come and gone without obvious success. Its regular adherents like to quote, but rarely feel inclined to take the supposed advice of Albert Einstein, that the definition of madness is repeating the same thing and expecting different results.
Still, such adherents will enjoy a sense of being 'better informed' and 'more caring'. It allows one to proclaim "I was there" to one's friends, and maybe appear on television with a particularly witty home-made sign. It makes a change from the printed versions generously handed out by the Socialist Workers Party who are known for such selfless public service.
We all know the television clichés. Part of the kabuki of public protest is the charismatic figure whose public trajectory rises and falls. Once there was the 'Red Dean' of St Paul's, Canon John Collins, then Monsignor Bruce Kent, then Swampy – all had their 15 minutes of fame in these contexts and now, with our latest obsession of 'Climate Change', we welcome Swedish ingenue Greta Thunberg, who encapsulates the angst of the woke to reassure them that "the world is listening".
It is perhaps significant that a child with vulnerabilities should be blessed with such elevation to prominence. Subjecting an adolescent idealist to severe critical analysis is not a good look, akin to whacking a soufflé with a spade, but if she is elevated to be the spokesperson of a generation, it is both necessary and appropriate to examine what is – and what is not – going on. Her youth and the fact that she comes from a family in the performing arts, and moreover, reportedly suffers or suffered from Asperger Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, depression, and selective mutism (aka passive aggression?) offers a variety of ways of looking at this 'phenomenon', for that is what it is.
We have to acknowledge her significance, if only to address the exploitation of her vulnerabilities. She has secured audiences with leading members of Parliament; she is accorded a gentle interview in the prime spot of the BBC Today programme by Nick Robinson, rather than a grilling by the more robust John Humphries; three Norwegian MPs have already nominated her for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following on from Barack Obama's receipt of his, after just 11 days in office, it can't be long before the first posthumous award is made to Caligula's horse.
Trying to make sense of this it is necessary to think of multiple levels. It may not be insignificant that her family is from a successful arts background. It is hard to think of a truanting child of a Barnsley single mother (without Asperger's) attracting attention for saying much the same kind of thing. Insouciance towards building a secure career is a luxury of the one per cent, of which she is undoubtedly a privileged member. She is able to indulge her passion by travelling from Norway to London by train (courtesy of German coal-fired and French nuclear electricity). It is a stately progress of near Edwardian inequality. Jo/Joe Public could scarcely imagine such indulgence, and would inevitably hop on Ryanair. That, of course, is the People's mode of transport, so until she arrived the BBC Daily Politics programme wheeled out a Rupert for us to explain that it has to stop.
Praise for her 'bravery' is never replicated in other cases, such as that of Brexit campaigner Darren Grimes, a young gay man persecuted and abused for having the effrontery to have required the establishment to deliver its promises to just the kind of ordinary North Eastern family from which he comes.
Unsurprisingly, Greta Thurnberg has a resolute confidence in her own rectitude which feels no need to engage with challenging alternatives. Like many of the new Left, her veneer of open mindedness is worth questioning.
She was able to tell Nick Robinson that "nobody is listening" and that the UK "must do more", without acknowledging our pre-eminence on the international stage in moving towards carbon-free energy production. If there is a major economy doing more, she has not yet identified it for us. Similarly there was apparently no purpose in her talking to President Trump. Perhaps he would be impervious to her charm; he did, after all, build his career in the hostile environment of tough negotiations with hard-nosed New York money men and construction unions. But this is probably only part of the reason. Groupthink requires the enforced cohesion of soft prejudice, and part of the gravitational pull of the movement depends upon certain unquestionable mantras which always bring the tribe together. Listening to the President's concern for the livelihoods of working miners would, of course, damage her juvenile street cred.
Whilst setting no example herself, she urges politicians to listen (presumably to those who 'know') yet leads a movement that purports not to need to engage with opponents. It is increasingly hard for those questioning the current orthodoxies to secure a platform to question their certainties. Paradoxically those protesting actually are the currently orthodox: try offering a note of scepticism on this subject on a social occasion and note the reaction.
It is a pity Greta Thunberg is not a little more questioning. She told her interviewer that the genesis of her activism was being taught in school about starving polar bears. At the time she was ingesting this with her mothers milk, the bear population was well into an upward curve of population growth which continues unabated. She was also told of incipient disaster through predicted rising temperatures, yet the one sure fact of the global warming debate is that there is no reliable correlation between the many expert predictions and computer models that fuel her current exhortation to 'panic', and the real world data that emerges after the event. This is important. We know what was said and we know for sure what happened. Responsible environmentalists start from there.
None of us can know the future, yet we can and do know the past if we look. That applies scientifically, it applies economically and it applies environmentally. The emotional appeal of a young girl with restricted life experiences is not the firmest basis to respond to perceived problems, and panic is the last thing to do in a crisis.
I recently read the biography of Rob O'Neill, the Navy Seal who killed Osama Bin Laden. He recounts that in the course of training these men are deliberately put into mortal peril in order to learn to identify and then overcome the natural predisposition to panic. The trading routinely includes the candidates for selection being bound hand and foot and thrown into a deep swimming pool. Men can and do die. The warriors who emerge have learnt that if you have but a three per cent chance of survival, choosing one's options well becomes critical, and that panic is your greatest enemy.
Greta Thurnberg and her acolytes have no such wisdom base. Self-destructive emotionalism would not save her in extremis and neither will it save the planet if it were about to die – which it isn't. Perhaps Ms Thurnberg would benefit from going back to school and finding better instructors.
So let's grow up and consider the question 'What is to be done?' – my sole concession to Leninist thought.
Well first, if we only have until 2050 to save the world (estimates vary – consult your local press for details) we had better stop wittering on about overthrowing capitalism. Based on historical record, we have neither the knowledge, time, nor expertise to remake the entire world economy before the apocalypse arrives. It just can't be done. The country most advanced in attempting such a constrained control of capitalism is China, which currently creates 75 per cent of its electricity by coal-fired power stations and already has plans in place to add the equivalent of the current energy generation of the entire USA to its portfolio.
Three weeks before the Paris Conference in 2017, the Chinese made an astonishing admission. For years they had been under reporting their carbon emission by 17 per cent. The shortfall was the equivalent of the German economy – itself the fifth-largest carbon emitter. The conference was to discuss how disaster would strike if such emissions occurred, but in fact they were already happening and over many years billions of tons of carbon had already been added. What is truly extraordinary, and seems to have passed most protestors and commentators by, is that for all the expert predictions, scientific measurements, investment in studies and computer modelling, nobody noticed!
This may not mean that one can ignore the concerns, it may simply be that the earth's coping systems are more robust than we thought. But at the very least, isn't a teensy-weensy bit of climate-change scepticism allowed into the room?
Putting faith in Citizens' Assemblies is similarly an unlikely way forward. Has anyone explained how they will work in a manner that is terribly different to Soviets' and Workers' Councils? Historians among us might remind the young that such Marxist constitutional innovations bequeathed to us Chernobyl and Pol Pot's Year Zero which, if nothing else, had the environmental benefit of containing Cambodia's population growth. Who say Marxist idealism can't work?
The serious point is that irrationality and not evaluating the evidence have nothing to contribute to solving the problems of the environment, and millennarian projects should always be scrutinised with care. I say this as one who became active in the early Green Movement and made more than my share of alarmist predictions which never came to pass.
If you read the seminal books of Green politics there are good ideas on offer, such as developing sustainable energy, devolving decisions to the lowest appropriate practical level, and regarding materialist consumerism with suspicion. But it is also clear that time and again wild and inaccurate prophecies are made which are invariably falsified by events.
We used to insist that the world's oil supply would have run out by now. In fact there are no less known reserves today than there were in 1950. We predicted similar exhaustions of mineral resources such as gold, silver, copper, tin etc, and we had convincing figures, pie charts, graphs and experts opinions to prove it. We were also going to run out of food, until the agricultural Green revolution stepped in with selective scientific plant-breeding programmes which came to our rescue. India was once beset with famine but is less so now. The world has periodic food scarcity for political reasons, but none to do with limits to growth as we once confidently but erroneously asserted.
There was, however, one area in which the early Greens got things absolutely right, and yet it is the one they never talk about now. We predicted massive population growth, and it has come to pass. We once worried about a global population of eight billion people, now it looks more likely to be reaching 10 billion. The pressures on the environment will grow, in term of deforestation, water supply, pollution, and land use. Yet most significant may be their choice of dirty fuels: wood and dried animal dung. There is huge dependence on these among poor people, and this is a primary pollutant and health hazard. It's not all about oil companies however much the protestors may beat their breasts.
With population growth comes urbanisation, both local and through migration. There were specific predictions in the 1980s of movements into Southern Europe from Sub-Saharan Africa which came to pass. Early Greens were ready to consider the attendant practical, social, and economic consequences of such rapid change, but one senses that this cannot be discussed in those quarters today for fear of being infected with 'right-wing populism'.
The environmental lobby is thus silent about this singularly successful prediction. Political correctness became prioritised over environmental concerns, and rather than question how a net increase of 300,000 people per annum might impact the UK, its social cohesion and its resource allocations, the Greens appear decidedly relaxed about it all. Perhaps things are not as urgent as we once thought.
Like Karl Marx, the early Greens underestimated human ingenuity and technology. I recently dipped into the book Seeing Green in which my old Green Party colleague Jonathon Porritt attempted one of the earliest analyses of what a green economy might look like. In 1984 he wrote that while some saw computers as offering greater employment prospects there was no way they could offset the loss of jobs in the manufacturing sector. I flag this up not to embarrass him – he was an important and sensible commentator – but it illustrates that smarter folk than Greta Thunberg have tried and failed to predict what happens next.
Meanwhile on the bigger stage the one great success story of capitalism goes unremarked. You may read a brief synopsis of the argument by Alan Grant, but in essence, by any measure you care to name, far more people are living longer, mother and infant mortality are reducing, people are taller, better nourished and economically better off than ever before. This is manifestly good and shows what can be done in a world that prioritises democratic accountability, peace and free trade. Good things happen when we hold to those values and systems; conversely, the road of anti-capitalism has a dreadful record on privation, denial of liberty and poor environmental standards.
We can and must take the environment more seriously, but it is too important a subject for the kind of showboating nonsense passing through our screens at present. Those who know their Church history may look on Greta Thunberg and recall a similar naive optimism in the thirteen century, when Nicholas of Cologne and Stephen of Cloyes, both 12-year-old shepherd boys, encouraged the gullible to follow them on the Children's Crusade to address their then most pressingly perceived existential threat – the capture of Jerusalem by the Muslims. The movements ended up as disastrous fiascos which got nowhere near their objectives and left many of their followers tricked by the unscrupulous into slavery.
Let that be a lesson to would-be followers of Greta Thunberg.
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Quilt of Pure Love for our friend, Melly Testa, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer, and in undergoing chemo at present. A group of us decided that we needed to make her a quilt to show her how much we love her. Even though we are not there to hold her hand, she can wrap all of our love around her.
Those of us who made blocks for the quilt were Lyric Kinard, Jane LaFazio, Kelli Nina Perkins, Tracie Huskamp, Alisa Burke, Gloria Hansen, Jill Berry, Carla Sonheim, Diana Trout, Pokey Bolton, Leslie Tucker Jenison, Judy Perez and her daughter Nina Perez and me.
We each made 12" and 6' blocks with the theme of birds, which Melly would love. The color blue for healing and comfort. The back of the blocks are blue cotton flannel and the batting is wool. Lyric volunteered to stitch the quilt blocks together and made it into a quillow. This is my 12" block. I also made 4 each 6" blocks.
This girl has googily eyes and is a reminder of a memorable evening we had together in Chicago at Create last Summer. Who knows what kind of fun you can have with a bottle of wine, slap happy women, and a bag of googily eyes!
This is really touching!! The support of good friends always helps during the healing process!
What supportive loving friends. My heart goes out to Melly and I hope this quilt can bring warmth and comfort to her.
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December 28, 2035. 11:13. Bastion Lab.
Hellish journey through Pacific Northwest finally over & have returned to Bastion Lab to disseminate & examine research. Cure to Doom could be mere months away.
Originally wanted Regan's help in lab but am glad she is distracted w/her new friend. Wild-Child can barely pronounce her own name let alone prepare samples & would be a detriment to progress. Regan perfectly happy to organize Charlotte & lab (both a mess due to the chaos & our absence plus events in Bastion over past few months - will describe separately further down). Regan sees this activity as opportunity to "teach" Wild-Child. Our opinions differ on expected level of success.
Opinions also differ on significance of Bastion's declaration of independence from Novamerica. Regan sees this as reason to celebrate. Called her out as naively optimistic. Due to ideological differences btwn Bastion & Nova's thinly-veiled militocracy, am certain Nova allowing Bastion to "peacefully" secede is precursor to further conflict. Leslie & team on patrol, rather than usual Novamerican Hummers et al., was first gut-feeling that something is going on behind scenes. Regan took offense to my comments that Leslie's appearance on the highway was a bad omen.
Hoping Bastion's spies can report further but I am out of loop & not likely to be brought in -- how could a scientist possibly have political acumen? At least I am not alone in my suspicions. Had good convo with Leslie, Dahteste & Cyril about concerns & events during my absence. Would perform own recon if cure not so pressing. Wish I had lab further away from trouble.
Hindsight, should have stayed on island and used lab facilities where research was found. Price of giving in to emotion.
Ruminating after day of preparing lab.
Should have told her everything a long time ago. Hard to. She will not forgive, I think. Journal will suffice, after I die. A coward's way to do it, but selfish part of me wants to hold onto her for as long as I can. Or go back to when she was little. When I was hero and not villain. Already I am losing her, as any parent does, to adulthood. Differences of opinion, assertion of independence. Boys. Friends. Or more than that...Wild-Child is hard to read; could be idolatry or sexual attraction.
There is the difference between us, I think. Optimism vs. pessimism. Regan looks at Wild-Child and sees her own life, had I not been there, and she sees what WC could be, given time and knowledge. She sees in her friend what she sees in all things: potential.
I see only dark pasts and darker futures.
Taught her. Showed her what was, before Doom. All the anxieties of a civilization on the brink: ideological conflicts between broken socialism and broken capitalism, between religious zealots from a modern-day Rome in Decline and a land in perpetual conflict since the days of Gilgamesh. Unflinching narcissists whose empires were built on the backs of everyone else, steering the planet uncaringly toward bloody proxy wars and hundreds of millions of souls displaced by rising oceans. Venus in the making. Fruitful multiplication until there is no more fruit. The dark truth of humanity finally laid bare in the information age as we understood what needed to happen but never would: the prudence of sustainment, instead of the allure of growth.
She was taught all this, but it is like a storybook to her. A lesson, no more. She did not live it. Instead, Regan digests this 21-st century Morality Play but believes in the brightness of the reset button. Novamerica does not frighten her because war has always been small-scale. Tribe on tribe -- the modern Athens vs. Sparta. But our Xerxes will force his march soon & I fear we do not have a Thermopylae or a brave 300. The ghosts of our past are soon to return and haunt us, and they will be flying fighter jets and driving tanks.
Maybe it was my own optimism that created this. Should have killed Marshall years ago. Tried to believe the best in people, after Doom. Failing.
Must take care to protect the cure. Sharing it freely could have disastrous consequences.
Once I was the teacher, the guide, and she was my little shadow, emulating, growing from sweet child into capable woman. She has countered my expectations in two ways: her optimism, and her defiance. If I told her a new space program wouldn't likely emerge for centuries, she would build a rocket tomorrow.
Already Wild-Child is adapting remarkably to society. Regan got her talking and now it doesn't cease. I am reminded of Regan when she was two: what's this? how does it work? why? why? why?
I kicked them out of the lab for impairing my ability to concentrate. I can't be too annoyed, though. I thought I would always be the mentor, yet Regan has become the teacher, as I learn that what is does not dictate what will be.
Somehow, despite my best efforts to ruin her with my jaded view of truth, Regan turned out to be a better person than her father, and now others are pulled into her orbit, satellites hoping for a brighter future.
I have not failed her. A single regret remains in this unexpectedly long and complicated life of mine.


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Humble Monthly
Humble Choice: A Review (+December 2019 Titles)
by Naithin · December 7, 2019
Right. So, with the last of the Humble Monthly posts out of the way, it's time to crack the lid on Humble Choice and see how it's doing, now that the reality of it is here in front of us.
It's fair to say I was rather excited about the changes. I loved the idea of taking out the monthly mystery and just straight up providing a choice of which titles to keep and which ones to leave behind.
Better still — as an existing subscriber of the service, I kept the old pricing and received an additional game to keep each month. Admittedly — this practice is essentially a lock-in contract. If you ever 'cancel' the service you can never come back to the old pricing.
And compared to the new pricing of the closest equivalence in value, that's quite a gut punch.
But that doesn't quite tell the whole story — as there is the ability to 'Pause' a subscription without loss of your grandfathered benefits. And as it turns out — I think this Pause function is going to be rather pivotal to the new 'Humble Choice' experience.
Because without any further beating about the bush: This first Humble Choice selection of titles has disappointed me. Greatly. I'll get to what they are exactly a little later — but just hold up a minute and let me acknowledge that my disappointment need not be yours.
Beyond the obvious of game choice and excitement being highly subjective in the first place — it's going to depend on what you already have. The one, singular, halo-title for this bundle was Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition.
And I already own it.
And to be fair, I can see what likely would've formed the other two early reveal titles — perhaps for some others those might be a potential halo-title.
In any case, I didn't necessarily expect that all of a sudden the Humble Choice bundles to start being full of high impact, high value titles — especially given they won't yet have received any real benefit from the assumed additional revenue from putting the base prices up for rest of the market.
But we're talking the first ever look at Humble Choice, here. The one that should be trying to convince everyone who has been holding out on the Humble Monthly bundles to date to jump on board.
And in that respect — even putting aside my personal circumstance of already owning the major halo-title — I don't think Humble Choice measures up.
A New (Better) Way of Thinking About the Choice Bundle
Here's where things take a bit more of a positive turn.
The old Humble Monthly bundle kept subscribers from pausing on the basis of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). The fact that there might be something you wanted in the hidden titles gave people a higher inclination to just let the subscription role even if there wasn't anything particular of interest in the headliners.
Humble Choice by contrast has become a more considered purchase month on month. There is no hidden information. Nothing behind the scenes to cause you to later regret your pick — or fear that you might later regret your pick.
You have the time to dig into reviews for titles of potential interest. You can form an opinion on whether the current month's bundle holds enough value for you — or not, and then act accordingly.
Don't want it? Pause.
Check again next month. Don't want that one either? Pause again.
So with that in mind… Am I going to buy this month's bundle?
The December 2019 Selection
Humble Choice switched which side of payment a bundle belongs to — so there are two bundles this month. The old Humble Monthly and this, the new Humble Choice.
You can still pay early to get immediate access to the lot, but by default the payment will happen last Friday of the month — just like before. Only now you'll then immediately get your full set of choices rather than waiting until early the following month.
With that out of the way, what do we have?
I'm going to list them in order of interest to me, from most interesting to least interesting.
Interest Rank Games and Official Descriptions
1 Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
In Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition experience the final chapter of Lara's origin as she is forged into the Tomb Raider she is destined to be. Combining the base game, all seven DLC challenge tombs, as well as all downloadable weapons, outfits, and skills, Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition is the ultimate way to experience Lara's defining moment.
2 Phantom Doctrine
Phantom Doctrine is a strategic turn-based espionage thriller set at the peak of the Cold War. Drawing on a wide variety of influences and capturing the subtle intrigue of classic spy films, the game thrust the player into a mysterious world of covert operations, counterintelligence, conspiracy and paranoia.
3 Ancestors Legacy
Take command of your army as you storm through medieval Europe in an extensive series of campaigns. Choosing one of the four available nations – Viking, Anglo-Saxon, German, Slav – you will be tasked with more than just conquering, raiding and pillaging enemy camps, villages and towns. Only by utilizing the full range of available tactical options, taking strategic advantage of the environment, and managing your temporary bases and settlements, will you emerge victorious.
4 Blasphemous
Blasphemous is a punishing action-platformer that combines the fast-paced, skilled combat of a hack-n-slash game with a deep and evocative narrative core, delivered through exploration of a huge universe comprised of non-linear levels.
5 Aegis Defenders
In a world where control over ancient technologies means power, a ruthless Empire has arisen. You play as a team of Ruinhunters searching for the one thing that can save their village – a legendary weapon known as Aegis.
Explore, build, & defend in this 2D platformer that blends Metroidvania style combat with Tower Defense strategy.
6 X-Morph: Defense
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
7 Dead in Vinland
DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.
8 Horizon Chase Turbo
Horizon Chase Turbo is a racing game inspired by the great hits of the 80's and 90's: Out Run, Lotus Turbo Challenge, Top Gear (SNES), Rush, among others. Each curve and each lap in Horizon Chase Turbo recreates classic arcade gameplay and offers you unbound speed limits of fun. Full throttle on and enjoy!
9 Dark Future: Blood Red States
Step into the extraordinary, dystopian world of Dark Future, filled with danger, chaos and adventure. A game of both action and strategy unlike any other, featuring a unique time dilating command mode to help you make tactical decisions on the dangerous highways of this world.
10 Desert Child
You're broke, you're hungry, and your only friends are a vintage hoverbike and a bowl of ramen noodles.
In Desert Child, you are a young and talented hoverbike racer who needs to figure out how you can scrape enough cash together through racing and odd jobs to punch your one-way ticket to the Red Planet to enter the biggest race in the universe, the Grand Prix.
Sidebar: I don't think I like this format. I'm going to have to experiment with how best to lay this out I think.
Anywho. With all those in mind and listed, am I interested in this bundle? Especially given I already own Shadow of the Tomb Raider?
For me the question comes down to one of: Is Phantom Doctrine worth $12 USD to me?
Because being honest with myself — even though some of the others do seem at least a little interesting — they'll probably never see the light of day once put into my library. Certainly none of them leap out as being something I would play in the near future.
And from the Extracting Value post a little while ago, one of the concepts I quite liked was measuring purchases in the here and now against likelihood of playing soon (not 'Soon'(tm)) and only going ahead if the likelihood is somewhat high.
A Spy orientated XCOM / Commandos mix? … Well OK.
I'm going to give it a tentative 'Yes'… i.e., I'm not going to immediately pause it. But I might end up doing so later in the month before the final Friday.
With Transport Fever 2 coming shortly and still more to do in The Outer Worlds, with Jedi Fallen Order lined up after that… I just don't know if it's realistic to expect to fit anything else in 'soon'.
But there's time to decide yet!
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