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The retail sector has been volatile in recent years, with the financial crash having a huge influence on people's spending, it saw many high-street stores close down. But where there is demand, there is supply too, especially online.
The supply chain continues to play a hugely important role in keeping the retail sector connected and moving, especially now there is such growth in online shopping. Next-day deliveries are also seeing a boost in usage of courier companies. In March 2017, it was found that UK shoppers had spent £1 billion in a week – this was up by 19.5% on the same month the year before. Overall retail sales were also up, with a year-on-year growth in March 2016 by 1.7%.
'Delivering Tomorrow, Today' will be released in 2019. If your organisation would like to contribute or feature in the programme, please contact Alan Mason by email at alan.mason@infocusbroadcasting.com
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Steve Noble, 4 piece drum set, cymbals & percussion.
Cover Painting : Keiji Haino.
Recorded at The Blizzard Condition, Leeds on 14 June 1996.
Design and layout by SHF.
Alan Wilkinson, alto and baritone saxophones.
Simon H. Fell, double bass.
Recorded at Sonic Solutions on 26 November 1997.
Recorded summer 1995 at UPS Studio, London.
Derek Bailey, acoustic and electric guitars.
John Butcher, soprano and tenor saxophones.
Our world as we know it recorded in concert at the Incus Records night.
Painting Pink polka-dot. P40. Pup by Dennis Palmer.
Steve Beresford, keyboards, small trumpet.
Recorded in Leicester, England in November 1992.
CD booklet design by Karen Brookman.
John Stevens, drums and mini trumpet.
Tracks 1 to 4, 9 and 10 recorded at the Red Rose Theatre, London on 5 December 1994 by Martin Davidson; tracks 5 to 8 recorded at Pathway on 14 April 1994 by Justin Underhill.
Cover sculpture 'Respiritus' by Richard Mackness; CD booklet design by Karen Brookman.
John Butcher, tenor and saxophones.
Recording by WDR Cologne, 8 April 1992.
Cover painting The singer by Tony Oxley, photographed by Max Lautenschlager.
Matt Wand, drum machines & tape switchboard.
Pat Thomas, electronics & keyboard.
Tracks c and d recorded at Hawth Centre, Crawley on 4 September 1988 by Michael Gerzon.
Cover drawing by Tony Mostrom.
Recorded by Michael Gerson at the Old Fire Station and the Pegasus Theatre Oxford, on 9 & 11 September 1988.
Greg Kingston, guitar, toys, recorder, tapes, etc.
Matt Lewis, percussion, cello drum, bird calls.
The only issued recording by Joseph Holbrooke.


As we reflect on another New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, it can seem ironic that such an ecstatic event could have been an indirect result of one of history's most horrific episodes: the Atlantic slave trade. Without the forced interaction of such diverse cultures there would be no jazz, blues or rock music as we know it today. In 2014, the newly restored Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana opened as the first American house museum to reveal what plantation life was really like. Among the historic displays are some startling contemporary clay sculptures by Woodrow Nash. Perhaps the most haunting are some life-size children who turn up in various settings like side characters in Mark Twain stories. Unlike other such museums, the Whitney elucidates the harshness of plantation life, a brutality made all the more unnerving by the vulnerable innocence of Nash's children.
A more varied array of his works on view at the Angela King Gallery includes some sinuous lifelike figures inspired by 17th-century African styles of dress and adornment. Although rendered with hints of art nouveau and Matisse-like flourishes, their presence is as elemental as Africa itself, and the colorful glazes seen in a view of the artist and his creations (pictured) reinforce that sub-Saharan aesthetic. For instance, a sculpture of a tall, slender woman, Almitra #9, conveys the lithe grace of a Masai princess with large copper disk earrings and vibrant African fabric patterns underscoring her regal aura. A bust of a male warrior, Husani #4, sports a white glaze reminiscent of the pigments used in tribal rituals also, while highlighting the patterns etched into most of the adult figures — incised designs that suggest scarification but also probably help them survive the intense heat of the ceramic kiln. At the entrance to the gallery, a cluster of Nash's ceramic children recalls old New Orleans' ever-present street urchins; it doesn't take much to imagine them as the young Louis Armstrong's ragtag friends and playmates.


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Q: C, SQL Server, and mysqlclient -- Program can't connect using mysql_real_connect() to local DB I am trying to troubleshoot a C program that connects to a local SQL database and then runs a series of commands.  Should be SQL Coding 101... but I'm missing something fundamental.  I'm working in a Linux container, which supports both the SQL server and is where my C program runs.
Some basics:  Here's the Linux version:
root@1234567890:/home/me# uname -mrs
Linux 4.4.0-64-generic x86_64
root@1234567890:/home/me#

I have my SQL server running, installed from the instructions here.  The service is up, and I can manually query it with SQLCMD:
root@1234567890:/home/me#
root@1234567890:/home/me# ps -ef | grep sql
root         1     0  0 15:45 ?        00:00:00 /opt/mssql/bin/sqlservr
root         8     1  0 15:45 ?        00:01:25 /opt/mssql/bin/sqlservr
root     13988 13639  0 18:38 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto sql
root@1234567890:/home/me#
root@1234567890:/home/me#
root@1234567890:/home/me# /opt/mssql-tools/bin/sqlcmd -S localhost -U sa -P 'Password01'
1> SELECT @@servername;
2> go

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
abc123456789

(1 rows affected)
1>

Not sure why there are two instances of "sqlservr", but overall, the above is promising.  Back when I set up the SQL server, I let it pick the default TCP port, 1433, and it looks like the service is listening there:
root@1234567890:/home/me# netstat -l
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.11:40962        *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:1433                  *:*                     LISTEN
udp        0      0 127.0.0.11:60893        *:*
Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node   Path
root@1234567890:/home/me#

Some Networking 101 troubleshooting here:
root@1234567890:/home/me# telnet 127.0.0.1 1433
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
^C

Connection closed by foreign host.
root@1234567890:/home/me#

Hmm.  If my SQL server was listening on this port, would this be the response I would expect to see here?  Not sure.
Now to my C code.  I have the "mysqlclient" library in on my machine and it seems to be running just fine.  Here's the code:
/*  sqlToy.c  */
#include <stdio.h>
#include "/usr/include/mysql/mysql.h"

/*  Adapted from:
    https://www.youth4work.com/Talent/C-Language/Forum/118317-how-do-link-database-with-in-a-c-program
*/

int main() {
  MYSQL mysql;
  printf("...attempting initization...  ");
  if(mysql_init(&mysql)==NULL) {
    printf("\nInitialization error\n");
    return 0;
  } else {
    printf("Initilization successful!\n");
  }

  printf("...attempting connection...  ");
  if(mysql_real_connect(&mysql, "localhost", "sa", "Password01", NULL, 1433, NULL, 0) == NULL){
    printf("Connection error\n");
    return 0;
  }
  mysql_close(&mysql);
  return 1;
}

Here's program compilation and the output:
root@1234567890:/home/me# gcc -Wall sqlToy.c -lmysqlclient
root@1234567890:/home/me# ./a.out
...attempting initization...  Initilization successful!
...attempting connection...  Connection error
root@1234567890:/home/me#

The "Connection error" message pops up IMMEDIATELY, with no waiting.
I also note that when I do a "tail -f /var/opt/mssql/log/errorlog", I never see an error message when my program runs.  Which makes me wonder if the C program's request is reaching the SQL server at all.
I suspect there are one of two possibilities going on here:
(A)  The mysql_real_connect() command in the C code is wrong, I'm using the wrong options, the wrong flags, etc.  And a failed login is not logged in /var/opt/mssql/log/errorlog.
(B)  Although it looks like everything is good to go, there's some network problem.  ie, the SQL server really isn't listening on 1433, something like that.
Any ideas?  Thanks...

A: Transferring comment into an answer.
I would expect to use the MySQL client libraries (functions such as mysql_init() in your code) to connect to a MySQL database server. Similarly, I'd expect to use the SQL Server client libraries (probably ODBC plus the SQL Server driver) to connect to SQL Server.
Expecting the MySQL client library to connect to an SQL Server database is at least 'not obviously correct'. Having looked briefly at the MySQL C API documentation, I think that it is 'obviously not correct'. So, if you want to connect to SQL Server, you should probably use ODBC (and the SQL Server driver).
There's an ODBC driver for MySQL too; if you do need to connect to both SQL Server and MySQL in the same program, it might be sensible to use ODBC for both.
Generalizing, most DBMS provide several methods of connecting to the database server.  For Java code, there is likely a JDBC driver; for .NET code, there might be a .NET driver, or it might use ODBC under the covers.  For most other languages, the usual technique is to choose between an ODBC driver for the DBMS or the DBMS's native connectivity, which goes by many different names.  You need to match the client code libraries with the database server you want to connect to.  Expecting an Oracle driver to connect to DB2 is not plausible; expecting a MySQL driver to connect to SQL Server is not plausible.  There may be techniques that allow such inter-connectivity, but they require great care.  The ODBC infrastructure has a common, driver independent layer (driver manager) and a unique-per-DBMS, driver dependent layer.  You can sometimes write code using ODBC and arrange to connect to different DBMS by having different drivers loaded concurrently.

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From Judaism to married Catholic priest
Marty Heisey/Staff
Rev. Paul Schenk, a priest who converted from Judaism at Annie Bailey's Pub in Lancaster.
Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2015 5:00 pm | Updated: 5:04 pm, Thu Jan 29, 2015.
JOAN KERN | LNP CORRESPONDENT
The Rev. Paul Schenck is a married Catholic priest.
You may think that's a poorly written sentence that should read "…a former Catholic priest who is now married." But, no, Schenck, of York, really is a married Catholic priest, one of about 200 in the nation and another 200 worldwide. He and his wife, Becky, have been married 37 years and have nine children, including "one in heaven."
And that's not all. Schenck, 57, was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity at age 16 and was a Protestant pastor for about 20 years before becoming Catholic in 2004.
And there's more. Schenck served one month in prison and 18 months in home detention for leafleting and offering support to women and their companions at abortion clinics before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor in the 1997 case of Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York.
Ordained in the Catholic Church in 2010, Schenk has served as director of respect life activities and continuing education for clergy in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg since 2008 and chairs the Washington, D.C., National Pro-Life Center, an ecumenical mission at the Supreme Court, which he founded in 2004.
Wednesday evening, he spoke about his unusual faith journey at Theology on Tap, at Annie Bailey's Irish Pub on East King Street. About 35 people attended and were so spellbound that they didn't seem to move a muscle, except perhaps to widen their eyes or cover their mouths when they dropped open in shock and disbelief.
Ethan Demme, 32, of East Lampeter Township and a member of San Juan Bautista Catholic Church, South Duke Street, introduced Schenck at the social event for young adults, sponsored by the diocese and held about eight times a year on the second floor of the pub.
"It's a very compelling story," Demme said after Schenck spoke. "I really want to talk to him because I had a very similar journey."
Schenck's journey began in Western New York, where he was raised. There he attended Hebrew school for six years, learning Babylonian Aramaic. When he was in ninth grade, two classmates — one a son of a United Methodist minister and the other who became the first female minister ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America — introduced him to Christianity.
"I listened to them very closely," Schenck said. "I grew up in a home where Jesus was respected. I was told Jesus was a great rabbi that Christians mistakenly turned into a God."
He began reading the New Testament, which he found very familiar, with names such as Isaiah, Solomon and David and references to circumcision and bar mitzvahs.
"There was nothing non-Jewish about it," he said.
Schenck used the Yiddish word mishmash to describe his family, explaining that his mother was baptized a Catholic and raised an Episcopalian before marrying the son of Jewish refugees and converting to Judaism to please her husband's father. The priest, whose twin brother is a UMC pastor in Chicago, confirmed his mother and baptized his father in the Catholic Church before they died.
Schenck graduated in 1979 from Elim Bible Institute, in Lima, N.Y. He then attended the Institute of Jewish Studies at the State University of New York because he wanted to study the Old Testament in Hebrew. He graduated from Luther Rice Seminary in 1982.
By then, he and his wife, who married at 19, had six children and lived in a garage apartment without enough heat.
"We were in desperate straits, but we didn't know it. We were enormously happy. Our family life and ministry fulfilled us. Our children were our treasures and still are."
In 1984, Schenck read "The Jewish People and Jesus Christ after Auschwitz," by Jakob Jocz, a third-generation Jewish Christian from Ukraine and a professor at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. The two met and became colleagues, collaborating on a series of articles for the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
When Jocz died three years later, he left his entire library — four floors in a Victorian townhouse, to Schenck. In a journal on Judaica, Schenck found an article about a fragment in Hebrew found in Syria before the fourth century believed to be a Haggadah, a Jewish text of the order of the Passover Seder, but which on further study was found to be the oldest known Christian Eucharistic liturgy.
"I was convinced that the Church of the Apostles, the Hebrew speaking church of Jerusalem, was liturgical and Eucharistic," Schenck said. "That led me to conclude that the earliest church was Catholic."
Although Schenck was a Protestant clergyman, he said he felt Catholic. When he learned that Pope John Paul II would grant pastoral provisions to married Anglican priests, allowing them to become Catholic priests, he joined a Reformed Episcopal Church, a member of the worldwide Anglican communion.
"I have tremendous respect and admiration for my brother unmarried priests," Schenck said, "because they voluntarily surrender what is a right that every Christian man has — a wife and a family. They do that for the love of Christ and his church. And I think that's heroic."
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The Springwood & District Chamber of Commerce represents retailers, businesses, services and not-for-profit organisations in Springwood and surrounding areas.
Increase the profile of local businesses and service providers.
To encourage people to do their shopping and business transactions locally.
To provide an opportunity for local business owners to get to know others in the area, to share ideas and develop business connections.
To create opportunities to learn new business techniques and skills.
The Chamber currently has over 40 members from the local business community keen to promote their offerings and to make connections with other local businesses and organisations.
So far several ideas have been implemented for our 'Shop Local' campaign. Shop Local branded shopping bags have been created and distributed throughout the local retail outlets to reinforce the message. To create a buzz in Macquarie Rd at Christmas time the popular Late Night Shopping Evening was created. With shops open later, a roving Santa Claus, buskers, art competitions and festive foods at local eateries it has quickly become a popular event.
To stay across major events and promotions that are happening in Springwood Village, please join us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/SpringwoodVillage.


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Fort Campbell soldier faces multiple charges in fatal wreck
Ray Howze
rhowze@theleafchronicle.com
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — A Montgomery County grand jury has formally indicted the Fort Campbell soldier charged in a fatal DUI wreck in November.
Jacob Ryan Clark, 26, was charged with vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and a seat belt violation after his 2014 GMC Sierra crashed into the back of a 2012 Chrysler Sebring, killing Roshawnda Dolson, 28, of Clarksville and seriously injuring Derrick Bradford Jr., 28, on Nov. 14.
Charges including reckless endangerment, aggravated assault and driving under the influence were added later.
He was indicted on eight counts during the grand jury's January session.
According to the affidavit from the accident investigator, Clark was driving his truck eastbound on 101st Airborne Division Parkway when he ran into the back of the Chrysler and pushed it into the intersection at Trenton Road.
"The 2012 Chrysler 200 passenger car's rear end was trapped under the 2014 GMC Sierra pickup truck's front end," the report states. "I found both of the 2012 Chrysler 200 passenger car's rear tires were pushed forward and pinned against the vehicle's frame."
Soldier was twice legal limit before fatal crash, warrant says
Dolson, the driver, was pronounced dead at the scene. Bradford was taken to Skyline Medical Center in Nashville with serious injuries and Clark was taken to Gateway Medical Center.
Bradford told investigators they were slowing down to make a right turn on Trenton Road.
The indictment states that at the time of the wreck, Clark voluntarily provided a blood sample that was tested for a blood-alcohol level at 0.18. In Tennessee, 0.08 is considered drunk.
According to the affidavit, Clark told police in the hospital that he "was at home texting and watching Netflix a little bit and 'passed out.'"
"Jacob Clark then stated he woke up then he 'drank a little bit, passed out a little bit,' and remembered getting in his truck and driving on Tracy Lane," the affidavit reads. "Jacob Clark did not remember anything until after the collision."
Clark suffered minor injuries from the crash and was later cleared from Gateway.
Clark was initially held on a $600,000 bond. The bond was later reduced to $50,000 after a request was submitted by Clark's lawyer, Eric Yow.
Reach Ray Howze at 931-245-0750 or on Twitter @rayhowze_leaf.


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About Credencys
Simple Solutions | Efficient Processes | Transformative Impact
Credencys believes in delivering efficient and simple software solutions that create a transformative impact for businesses seeking growth. With agile work practices and design driven approach, we are helping enterprises in expediting their digital transformation initiatives. These initiatives often include adapting to the latest advances in emerging technologies such as mobile, web, cloud, IoT and Big Data.
Credencys as an organization has built itself on five core values viz. commitment, passion, innovation, fun, and transparency; all of which help us in delivering wow. With people coming from diverse cultural backgrounds, these are the values which drive us as a unified team. Further, being Agile ensures open communication and collaboration across the board, which helps us achieve more with less. Taking inspiration from our leaders, we strive to achieve the best in our work and responsibilities. Over the years, numerous enterprises have partnered with us in their digital transformation efforts.
INDIA'S TRUCKING-STARTUPS HAD A DISMAL 2016
2016 was not an impressive year for many startups in India and the logistics sector was not an exception. According to a news report, as many as 212 startups had to wind up their operations including 6 logistics startups. However, a rebound is expected this year as tech-driven truck aggregators will make the most of GST, PE/VC investments and increased impetus on digital transformation.
DISCOVER HOW 2017 CAN BE A BETTER YEAR FOR INDIA'S TRUCKING STARTUPS
PEOPLE OFTEN COMMIT THESE 10 DECISION ERRORS
In an era driven by consumers, consumer behavior studies are increasingly getting relevant than ever before. Brands are constantly competing to transform consumer experience. In order to gain some control on consumer perceptions, you might have already invested in consumer studies and research. There is no replacement for insights gained from such studies. However, there are certain psychology hacks which are privy to people involved in business strategy and marketing campaigns.
EXPLORE PSYCHOLOGICAL HACKS FOR BETTER MARKETING
INDIA'S LOGISTICS INDUSTRY HAS SOME UNIQUE CHALLENGES
At any given time, highways in India have 8 million goods vehicles traveling towards their destination. Road transportation accounts for about 6% of India's GDP. Yet, trucking operations are marked with inefficiencies, corruption, accidents and poor service levels. Further, the entire business runs mostly on trust, as most companies have a pathetic record when it comes to providing shipment tracking facility to customers.
DISCOVER HOW TECHNOLOGY IS TRANSFORMING THIS LANDSCAPE
DOCUMENTATION IN AGILE CAN BE CONFUSING
People usually misinterpret one of the Agile Manifesto's declarations "Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation". Documentation is not a profanity in Agile; all the manifesto says is to restrict it to a bare minimum and not let it become an impediment. The question arises, how to gather and document software requirements in Agile Software Development environment
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The weekend rain system delivered 80mm just south of Toowoomba at Whopeminn, Upper Flagstone. Picture Jane Lowe.
Thunderstorms predicted for the remainder of the week according to BoM.
A line of thunderstorms across Queensland on Friday afternoon and over the weekend have left many producers in southern and central Queensland smiling.
Some of the big winners of the weekend rain included the Goondiwindi district receiving up to 184 millimetres while Gayndah district has received to 150mm of rain.
There are reports of up to 130mm near Oakey while the Crows Nest district enjoyed 120mm.
The towns of Toowoomba and Warwick have received an average of 100mm.
Paula Craig at Cranley on Toowoomba's western outskirt reported 109mm since Friday afternoon.
Peter Bredhauer, Cottonwood Park, Cambooya, only received 40mm over the weekend. This fall gave him his best rain since October last year.
"I still need another 100 to 120 mm to give me some sub soil moisture," Mr Bredhauer said.
Kirrily Johnson-Iseppi received a total of 92mm at Leafmore, Dalby-Cecil Plains Road, near Dalby, as well.
In central Queensland, Mac Shann, Cantaur Park, Clermont, reported on Who Got the Rain Facebook page he had received between 85 to 90mm falling into dams that have not had water in them for two and a half years.
Elders agronomist, Jordan McDonald, Dalby, said the recent rain has certainly made a difference to farmers.
"We will start to see the sub-soil moisture start to build," he said.
"It will help the late sorghum and cotton planted on in southern Queensland."
He said clients are ordering seed to plant oats of the back of these rainfalls to have available for livestock.
"Another 100mm to 120mm is needed to plant winter crops," Jordan said.
On Monday, the Bureau of Meteorology, has again predicted more storms for south east Queensland, central inland Queensland and north eastern NSW.
In north Queensland, Cyclone Trevor was officially named at 5am on Monday morning as a tropical low in the Coral Sea intensified overnight into the Category 1 system.


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"At one time a lot of us hoped that all it would take was to convince the white majority of the simple truth and justice of our cause, and the day of equality would dawn. That was the faith that created and sustained the civil rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s. The movement was a failure. Everyone who was deeply involved in it hates to admit that. When one remembers the exhilaration that came from linking hands and singing, 'Black and white together…We shall overcome.' it is hard to believe that in spite of all the passion, the sacrifices and the idealism that the civil rights movement called forth, it left little behind it but some new laws that have yet to be really enforced. The goal of the movement- integration- was not accomplished. It was not even brought closer, and that fact has at least temporarily discredited the goal.
Frustration at its failure split the civil rights movement along racial lines. One fragment became the core of the white New Left; the other developed into the militant, activist, young black movement. Two groups were equally outraged the older, white activists and black middle class. Both misunderstood and were horrified by the concept of Black Power. To their minds, Stokely Carmichael and George Wallace had the same goal- rigid segregation of the races. That interpretation of Black Power was a shortsighted one. Perhaps our young black leaders who hit upon the concept did not realize it, but they had grasped a real American political truth…How can the black minority, oppressed for more than 300 years, move forward to full citizenship? Not one by one, on the strength of individual talents and luck. That only works for a few. It means abandoning their identity, their birthrights. At the price of becoming pseudo-whites, we have been admitted in small numbers as probationary members of American society. 'Integration' on those terms was an idea that was foredoomed to be rejected by the mass of black Americans. What does it matter to them that their race has produced a few Ralph Bunches, Sammy Davises, and Percy Suttons? It does not close or appreciably narrow the gulf between them and the greater society. That this gulf would be bridged by efforts from the white side was the dream of the civil rights movement. It was a beautiful dream, but it was mainly the creation of a small group of white idealists who did not understand their own society. They did not know the facts of life, that all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice. Even the civil rights crusaders were racists, in a subtle but no less destructive way. They ran the civil rights show, as they would later run the poverty show: 'All right, here's what we're going to do.' And their black allies believed and cooperated because they wanted to so deeply to believe that it was the start of something new and wonderful, a gradual complete change of heart by the white majority. They were expecting a miracle, and of course no miracle happened." -From, "Unbought and Unbossed" By: Shirley Chisholm


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Kim Cattrall Urges U.K. Government To Preserve A Liverpool Park
Sex and the City actress Kim Cattrall is clashing with Liverpool officials about the fate of a park in her hometown. A native of the city, the actress has been campaigning hard for the preservation of Sefton Park Meadow. Kim…
EPA Says Rolling Coal Is Illegal
Mike Tuttle
If you've ever been stopped at a red light behind or beside a big truck, you know well the scramble to roll up the windows when that behemoth starts rolling and exhaust comes spewing from its stacks. If, like me,…
Paul McCartney Urges Putin To Free Greenpeace Activists
Paul McCartney has decided to help out the Greenpeace activists that are being detained in Russia. The activists have been imprisoned for protesting drilling in the Arctic, and have since become known as the Arctic 30. There are 28 campaigners…
Ash Borer Beetle Spreading in Canada
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) this week confirmed that the emerald ash borer beetle has moved into Kawartha Lakes, Ontario. The discovery raises the number of Ontario counties the beetle has been found into 32, alongside seven in Quebec.…
Google Maps Takes on the Street-less Views
When Google embarked on its mission to map out all of the world's roads with Google Maps and Google Street View, it was an ambitious mission to make the most consummate map of human development and expansion. The company's done…


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Сельское поселение Наумовское — упразднённое сельское поселение в составе Верховажского района Вологодской области.
Центр — деревня Наумиха.

Образовано 1 января 2006 года в соответствии с Федеральным законом № 131 «Об общих принципах организации местного самоуправления в Российской Федерации».
В состав сельского поселения вошёл Наумовский сельсовет.

23 декабря 2015 года сельские поселения Климушинское, Наумовское и Терменгское были объединены в сельское поселение Нижне-Важское с центром в деревне Наумиха.

По данным переписи 2010 года население составляло 900 человек.

География
Располагалось в северной части района. Граничило:
 на севере с Климушинское сельским поселением и Архангельской областью,
 на востоке с Нижнекулойским сельским поселением,
 на юге с Терменгским и Верховским сельскими поселениями,
 на западе с Верховажским сельским поселением.

Населённые пункты
В 1999 году был утверждён список населённых пунктов Вологодской области. Согласно этому списку в Наумовский сельсовет входил 31 населённый пункт.

В 2000 году были зарегистрированы деревни Черёмушки и Высокое, в 2003 году названия новых деревень утверждены Правительством РФ. С тех пор состав сельсовета не изменялся.

В состав сельского поселения входили 33 деревни.

Примечания

Упразднённые муниципальные образования Верховажского района
Упразднённые сельские поселения Вологодской области
Сельские поселения, упразднённые в 2015 году

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Cancer , a word which gives a sense of terror, fear and taboo. It is the most blooming reason of deaths across the world.
Cancer refers to the abnormal growth of cells with a potential to multiply itself numerously all over the body. We are living in an environment where we are surrounded by a lot of cancer causing agents.
Let's us have a look on some of them.
Smoking accounts for about 30% of all the cancer deaths. The lungs are at the highest risk of cancer due to this reason . Not only the lungs but mouth, larynx (voice box), throat, esophagus, kidney ,liver, bladder and stomach can also get affected. A smoker simply puts his own body on fire by smoking the cigarettes. But the ill effects of smoking can be seen in the passive smokers also. Even if a person doesn't smoke , but is surrounded by many smokers which puts his heath at an alarming bell !
We live in an era of junk food. Junk, the word itself means useless and rubbish . Ironically, we consume this junk with joy and pleasure ! Talking about the canned food, tasty food items packed in metal containers , thinly lined with a coating of plastic, positioned in chemical preservatives to keep it fresh and so on . Isn't this enough for inviting the hazards of cancer in our bodies ?
Rather than the intake of junk and canned food try sticking to whole foods and freshly made food items which will rather provide us with the nutritious values.
The grilled items especially meat , chicken and fish may taste delicious but the slightly burnt and blackened area is bad for our health.
Protein are made of amino acid which when grilled or browned get converted to heterocyclic amines . They react at high cooking temperatures which may lead to the risk of cancer. Even the crispy breads from a toaster can be harmful as the burnt area of the bread may have deposits of harmful substances.
The birth control pills can lead to a risk of breast cancer as well as cancers of cervix and liver. The female bodies have to go through a lot of hardships for the childbirth, on the other hand hindering a natural process can definitely form a way , putting young girls and women at the risk of cancer. It has also to do with the hormones , which once gets imbalanced , will always create problems within a body.
Who doesn't like their homes and cars to have a sweet fragrance ! Air fresheners are amongst the essential homecare products which helps to reduce the malodorous and spoiled stinky smell .But if we take a moment to think about it, do these easy-to-use air fresheners improves the quality of air or is it really harmless to us?
No, it actually have a bunch harmful chemicals which are enough to put our lives at a risk ! Air fresheners contain phthalates and many other hazardous chemicals such as benzene, formaldehyde, propellants, solvents, benzenes, and synthetic musks, among others. These chemicals can be easily inhaled, land on the skin and be absorbed, or accidently ingested which cause severe damage to humans.These chemicals assault the receptors in the nostrils making them weak.
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Titanfall 2 News; Single Player Campaign Coming!
Titanfall, one of the best new shooters to hit the market in recent years, is getting a sequel, coming during or before March 2017. This time around, Titanfall will be coming to the Playstation, as well as PC and Xbox. Since confirming another Titanfall game was in the works, Respawn Entertainment have kept mostly quiet. Today, however, Lead Writer Jesse Stern broke that silence, and revealed a couple of tasty details about the next instalment. Chief among them, addressing most critic's major concern with the first game, Titanfall 2 will have a single player campaign. While the first game lacked a single player mode, it was still very story focused, as far as fully multiplayer games go. With Titanfall 2, Respawn look to expand on the universe they have created, and further detail the war for independence on the frontier's of space.
"So we are doing our best to deliver a vision of grand global colonial warfare retelling the story of the American Revolution and the American Civil War in space." Stern revealed to Forbes. "We imagined the next generation of immigrants moving out to the new frontier of an inhabitable planet. Rather than taking a traditional sci-fi approach to that we wanted to look at how that would happen practically, what the ships would look like and with machines that were designed for excavation and construction, demolition and working the land, and what happens when they are turned into instruments of war."
"What inspires us is the junction of technological advancement with the inevitability of conflict and war and what the next war might look like. In Titanfall 2 there will be a lot of [scenes] where science meets magic, but keeping it grounded and dirty and human and real."
With a bigger budget to work with, Respawn have plans for a single player campaign for this next title, but to further flesh out the story, a television series is planned alongside the game. We'll just have to wait for more details, but at least now there's some confirmation on what's to come.
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Linne Hoofnagle Biography
Former staff writer for Tiger Hi-Line
Con to the question "Should Students Have to Wear School Uniforms?"
"[T]he most obvious point against uniforms is that they restrict self-expression. We live in a dynamic society, full of unique characters that make our world a spontaneous one. Cutting that off at a young age only stifles creativity and encourages conformity. We want to encourage our children to be expressive and to think outside the box. Forcing them to wear ugly gray sweater vests and starched white shirts is not the way to do that.
The gender-specific uniform guidelines often reinforce the gender binary in the school environment. The separation between females and males will only increase. If uniforms were all-encompassing and non-gender specific, this problem would not exist. However, uniforms are not all-encompassing. There are limited choices for males and limited choices for females. Though females can wear uniform pants, men are not allowed to wear uniform jumpers. Conflict would arise if a male attempted to wear the specified 'female' attire. This poses problems to LGBT progress in school environments…
[W]here did we get the idea that bullying and stereotypes would magically disappear if we implemented a strict uniform? People will not stop bullying each other based on appearance, which manifests itself in ways besides clothing. If we convince ourselves that placing limits on clothing choices will eliminate school bullying, we are kidding ourselves."
"Uniforms Limit Number of Outlets for Creativity and Self-Expression," Tiger Hi-Line website, Dec. 4, 2012
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DuGudd-Hoy is adigital business medium, in Spanish, non-partisan politics, aimed at Spanish-speaking businesswomen (and future entrepreneurs) from the United States, the Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic), and in the near future , Mexico and Latin America. DuGudd-TODAY will be published as of May 28, 2018.
At DuGudd-TODAY our vision is to eliminate economic and social barriers for Spanish-speaking women and their families.
DuGudd-HOY was created to inform, guide, communicate, support and help Spanish-speaking women over 18 (irrespective of their country of origin, economic level or ethnicity), to have economic power through entrepreneurship, leave poverty, and recover the power that corresponds to it in society through economic activity.
At DuGudd-HOY we believe that entrepreneurship is, if not the most, one of the most appropriate ways to reduce social and economic barriers that imprison Spanish-speaking women in poverty, caused in turn by discrimination based on age, gender, and country. of origin, language and low educational level, and status in the United States, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, Mexico and Latin America.


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Stirling is a city in central Scotland. At the heart of its old town, medieval Stirling Castle is on a craggy volcanic rock. On the Abbey Craig outcrop, the National Wallace Monument is a 19th-century tower. It overlooks the site of the 1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge, where William Wallace defeated the English. The Battle of Bannockburn Experience has interactive 3D displays on the history of the 1314 conflict.


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"Camera Obscura" by Lavie Tidhar (Reviewed by Livi...
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AUTHOR INFORMATION: Blake Crouch was born in Statesville, North Carolina and he graduated in 2000 with degrees in English and Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina. He has written four previous novels and a host of short stories. Two of his stories have been optioned for film adaptation. Blake currently lives in Durango, Colorado with his wife.
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A rash of bizarre murders swept the country...
Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected.
A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike.
A mass of school shootings.
Prison riots of unprecedented brutality.
Mind-boggling acts of violence in every state.
The murders increased ten-fold...
The President addressed the nation and begged for calm and peace...
The killers began to mobilize...
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All the power went out...
T o n i g h t
They're reading the names of those to be killed on the Emergency Broadcast System. You are listening over the battery-powered radio on your kitchen table, and they've just read yours.
Your name is Jack Colclough. You have a wife, a daughter, and a young son. You live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. People are coming to your house to kill you and your family. You don't know why, but you don't have time to think about that any more.
You only have time to...
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FORMAT/INFO: RUN is 281 pages long divided over thirty-eight unnamed/unnumbered chapters. Narration is in the third-person via Jack and Dee Colclough. RUN is self-contained and ends on a clear note. The book also features an interview with the author and includes excerpts from Locked Doors, Desert Places, Abandon & Snowbound. March 23, 2011 marked the Trade Paperback publication of RUN. The e-book edition was published on February 19, 2011. Cover art and design provided by Jeroen ten Berge.
ANALYSIS: Not only was I fascinated by RUN's blurb, but previously I had read Serial Uncut which was a collaborative effort between Blake Crouch and Joe Konrath. I very much liked the book's mix of horror and thriller genres and therefore contacted the author for a review copy. Mr. Crouch gladly obliged and I immediately dove in wondering how the book would measure up against such a tantalizing blurb.
RUN begins with an unnamed female arriving at an unknown site and we are left wondering what is going on? The book then shifts to Deanna "Dee" Colclough who has a scary encounter with her paramour Kiernan as he asks her to get away from him before anything happens to her. We are then introduced to Jack Colclough and his family which consists of his wife Dee, his teenaged daughter Naomi and his son Cole. Jack is a professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and Dee is a physician. They are packing their things and trying to get their bearings as they plan to flee the city when Jack's name gets called out on the radio. Jack and his family then rush out of their house and are attacked rather brutally by people who are tracking the folks whose names have been announced.
Thus begins their odyssey as they seek travel to the North not knowing who or what awaits them. The events which have caused this meltdown are alluded to and are a bit explained, but ultimately it's up to the reader to decide what triggered this situation. There is much more happening, but to describe them would ruin the surprise. The action is shown throughout the lower continental US, Northern Mexico and southern parts of Canada with Jack and Dee's journey taking them through the western half of the US as they try to avoid the 'crazies' and survive along with their children.
Because the book focuses deeply on the Colclough family, specifically the story of a father striving to do right by his progeny, RUN is immediately comparable to The Road by Cormac McCarthy. However, there's a crucial difference: the world featured in The Road is a post-apocalyptic one, whereas in RUN, the world teeters on the verge of collapse. RUN is also less dark than the Pulitzer Prize winner, although it has its moments of horror.
Blake Crouch's prose admirably fuels this high-strung tale as he showcases a slightly dysfunctional family: Jack, the father struggling to save his family; Dee, the estranged wife who has to choose between her feelings for her paramour and her family; and Naomi and Cole, the children who are shockingly thrust into a world where they have no control and no way to adapt... Mr. Crouch efficiently showcases the struggle faced by both parents as they try to explain the situation to themselves and their kids, with emotional family moments brilliantly juxtaposed by harrowing action scenes that will have readers turning the pages to see what happens next.
Besides the Colclough family, we also get bits and pieces of information about the environment from other characters we meet during the course of the story, although they are fleeting. The affected people meanwhile, seem sane enough in understanding what they are doing and the author provides clues about their motivations, but nothing is clearly spelt out.
There are very few drawbacks with the book. A few readers might get frustrated at the absence of a concrete explanation for what is happening, but like in real life, many things occur which have only theories instead of rational explanations. Lastly, the climax is a bit fantastical and detaches a tiny bit of credibility from the tale. Fortunately, the ending is not too over-the-top to ruin the overall effect.
CONCLUSION: Blake Crouch's RUN is a simple, but magical tale about survival, the bonds of family, and the endurance of the human spirit. RUN exceeded my expectations and is a book I will enjoy re-reading in the future. In short, the author is rapidly moving up my reading list and seems hell-bent on proving David Morrell's words true: "Blake Crouch is the most exciting new thriller writer I've read in years."
I thought this site was fantasy book critic.
It would be really boring if we would cover only sff, no?
Joking aside, while sff gets priority here of course, a lot of other stuff gets covered, the main criterion being interesting-ness to one of us.
Rather than mediocre sff, better the best from other genres, whether historical fiction, literary fiction or mysteries as here.
M.R.Mathias said...
I have to agree with Liviu. So many stories are on the borderline these days it's almost impossible to differentiate what genre(s) they really fall under.
SammySamIsMe said...
What happens at the end of the book?


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Bucs announce 2015 football schedule, including six home games
By N&N Admin on December 24, 2014 Local Sports
Announcement comes inside new weight room
Story and photos by Scott Robertson
The East Tennessee State University Buccaneers will play 10 football games during the 2015 season, hosting six. Head football coach Carl Torbush and Director of Athletics Dr. Richard Sander announced the full 2015 schedule during a press conference at the football team's new weight training facility in Mountain States Health Alliance Memorial Center Thursday.
Head coach Carl Torbush, Scott Carter and Athletic Director Richard Sander in the new weight room.
"We're very excited about this schedule," Torbush said. "This will be a great test for us to see where we'll be in terms of getting ready to go into the Southern Conference in 2016."
In any normal year, a football team's affiliation with its conference would take care of most of its scheduling. Once all the conference games are laid in, there are only a few blank weeks left in a season's schedule.
But since the Buccaneers' first season back in the Southern Conference football ranks won't be until 2016, Torbush said, 2015 will be anything but a normal year. "We had to fill in all the blanks in this schedule."
Torbush credited athletic administrators Scott Carter and Matt McGahee and Billy Taylor, defensive coordinator, with building the schedule from the ground up. ""We had to make sure a particular date would work with a particular team, and there were a lot of calls going back and forth. It took a lot of effort and they did a great job."
Sander credited Carter and McGahee with doing most of the legwork. "Unlike most schedules where you would have home-and-home (in which colleges alternate years hosting games with each other) being a major component to your schedule, it was very difficult for us to contemplate home-and home for 2015. But this schedule will give our fans a chance to see the Bucs play six home games, including some rivalries I think we will continue to build and grow."
Chief among those rivalries is the homecoming game scheduled for Sept. 26., against Emory & Henry. "Our homecoming game against Emory & Henry is an old-timey rivalry," Torbush said. "It's a game that if you think back to the 1940s, 50s and early 60s, Emory & Henry had a great football program that was nationally ranked year in and year out. It was a great rivalry between Emory & Henry and ETSU. So to get that game on the schedule for homecoming should mean we'll have a heck of a crowd because they'll bring a lot of people for that game."
Other red-letter games include the match-ups against Charleston Southern (coached by former Buccaneer Jamey Chadwell) Sept. 19 and Maryville College, (coached by former Buc Mike Rader) Sept. 10. The game against Mercer Oct. 17 pits the Bucs against a future Southern Conference rival.
The Bucs will play two Thursday night games, including the opener against Kennesaw State Sept. 3 and the Maryville game the following week. "I like that," Torbush said. "I think Thursday night is an exciting night to play football. You're only competing with two or three games on television as opposed to Saturday when there are 20 or 30 games on television. I think we'll have great crowds."
Sander noted that while some of the names on the schedule are not familiar to the average fan, the Bucs faced certain requirements in setting up their inaugural schedule. "Because of NCAA regulations, for us to be classified as an FCS member we have to play more than 50 percent of our games against FCS teams. That means we'll have to play at least six games against FCS teams. Those games include St. Francis Oct. 3 and Robert Morris Nov. 7.
Sander also took the first step to tempering expectations for the inaugural campaign. "All those FCS teams will have been in existence for quite a while and will have four or five classes," he said. "We will then have 18 and 19 year old young men playing against 22 and 23 year old men.
We will only have had two recruiting classes," Sander continued. "Carl strategically has had to figure out how to deal with those two classes. We can't use all the players we have because we'll use up a year of eligibility of two different classes, which would leave a big hole in our sequencing of classes."
Torbush agreed, saying, "We're trying to put this puzzle together so that in five years we don't have 70 seniors and no sophomores. We have to be careful about how many we play and how many we redshirt."
One other challenge yet to be overcome is the question of where the Bucs will play. The proposed new stadium is far from reality and a formal agreement with Johnson City to allow the Bucs to use Science Hill's Kermit Tipton Stadium is not yet finalized.
"The six home games, I don't know if they'll be (at Science Hill)," Torbush said. "They'll be 'home football games.' I don't know the finality of that right now. That'll be totally done by Dr. Sander and Scott Carter, but we'll be playing somewhere, I know that."
At the end of the day, Torbush said, the Bucs are ready to face whatever challenges await. "We're excited about where we are and where we're getting ready to go."
ETSU Buccaneer Football 2015
Sept. 3 Kennesaw State
Sept. 10 Maryville College
Sept. 19 @ Charleston Southern
Sept. 26 Emory & Henry (Homecoming)
Oct. 3 St. Francis
Oct. 17 @ Mercer
Oct. 31 Warner
Nov. 7 @ Robert Morris
Nov. 14 @ Gardner-Webb
Nov. 21 College of Faith
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We enroll children from six weeks of age through twelve years or fifth grade. Programs are located in our main facility at 2757 Route 20 East in Cazenovia, New York and at locations in the village of Cazenovia. CCH admits children regardless of race, gender, color, national origin or religion. Parents, families and guardians are welcome to visit and are encouraged to participate in our programs at any time.
CCH has grown from a small, half-day Montessori program established in 1970 to our current comprehensive child development programs serving over 150 families who live and work in the greater Cazenovia area. The center incorporated as a not-for-profit in 1985, with a volunteer board of directors comprised of parents/guardians, educators, and community and business members.
CCH has expanded several times. In 1991, we celebrated a major achievement with the construction and opening of our Route 20 facility, designed expressly for infants, toddlers, pre-school and primary age children. Funding was received through a grant and low interest loans from the state, private donations, and local community donations of land, services and equipment. In 1994, CCH expanded again and moved the 2 ½ hour pre-school and school age programs into village locations.
CCH continued the organization's mission by welcoming a Madison County Head Start program to locate in the Route 20 facility. The Head Start program is a comprehensive child development program for low income children ages three to five years and their families.
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Rocketship (band)
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Rocketship
Indie pop, twee pop, shoegazing
Nonstop Cooperative, Slumberland, Bus Stop, Darla
Dusty Reske
Ellen Osborn
Heidi Barney
Verna Brock
Jim Rivas
Robert Cartright
[1] Nonstop Co-op
Rocketship is an American indie pop band formed in Sacramento, California, United States, in 1993. Led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Dustin Reske with bassist Verna Brock, keyboardist Heidi Barney and drummer Jim Rivas, the group released the single "Hey, Hey, Girl" in 1994 and the album A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness in 1996. After the album's release, the original line-up dissolved and Reske continued Rocketship essentially as a solo project, releasing the singles "Honey, I Need You" and "Get on the Floor (And Move It)" in 1997 and the albums Garden of Delights in 1999, Here Comes... Rocketship in 2006, and Thanks to You in 2019.
Rocketship's sound can be described as 1960s-style twee pop, characterized by ringing guitars, droning organs and shoegazing influences; although, as a solo project, Reske has taken the sound in an ambient direction.
In May 2014, Rocketship performed for the first time in several years, during both SF Popfest and NYC Popfest festivals.
Albums[edit]
A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness (February 13, 1996)
Slumberland Records SLR 40
"I Love You Like the Way That I Used to Do"
"Kisses Are Always Promises"
"Heather, Tell Me Why"
"Let's Go Away"
"I'm Lost Without You Here"
"Carrie Cooksey"
"We're Both Alone"
"Friendships and Love"
Garden of Delights (1999)
Drive-In Records drive26
"We Took the High Road"
"Butterflies"
"Carved by Winds and Waters"
"Artesian Wells"
"Furness"
"The Deadly Fisher"
"Jewels from Many Lands"
Here Comes... Rocketship (February 2006)
Nonstop Cooperative Records; CD-R only available online
"The Scene Section"
"You're Too Young"
"Oh! Woe Is Me"
"The Foxes' Teeth"
"No More Tomorrows"
"They March in Line"
"The Passersby"
"I'm Gonna Take Your Place"
"This Modern Livin'"
"Good Intentions"
"Noose and Saddle Blues"
"Our New Track"
Thanks to You (October 11, 2019)
Darla Records
"Under Streetlight Shadows"
"Nothing Deep Inside"
"I Just Can't Get Enough of You"
"A Terrible Fix"
"Outer Otherness"
"What's the Use of Books?"
"Broken Musicbox"
"Milk-Aisle Smiles"
"City, Fair"
"I Don't Know Why I Still Love You"
Singles[edit]
"Hey, Hey, Girl" (1994)
7" single; The Bus Stop Label BUS034
"Hey, Hey, Girl"
"Naomi and Me"
"People I Know"
Split single with Henry's Dress (May 1996)
7" single; I Wish I Was a Slumberland Record WISH 006
Henry's Dress – "Over 21"
Henry's Dress – "Can't Make It Move"
Rocketship – "It's Going to Be Soon"
"Honey, I Need You" (1997)
"Honey, I Need You"
"She's Gonna Make Me Cry"
"Get on the Floor (And Move It)" (May 1997)
7" single; Jigsaw Records PZL005
"Get on the Floor (And Move It)"
"All the Pleasures"
Split EP with Trace (August 2003)
2-CD set; Omnibus Records omni030
Rocketship – "The Quad"
Rocketship – "James, That's All Over Now"
Rocketship – "You'll Regret It Someday"
Rocketship – "Never Going to Let You"
Rocketship – "Post-Work Comedown"
Trace – "Annuals"
Trace – "Poles and Mountains"
Trace – "Say It All Was True"
Trace – "I Want Less"
Trace – "You Should Know It"
Trace – "Hall of Doom"
Trace – "Do Loops"
Rocketship's Label, Co-owned by Rocketship
allmusic artist overview
Interview with Dustin Reske on guitargeek
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Written in 1914, "The Builders" by Joseph Fort Newton defines the origins, the history and the ideals of Freemasonry. In educated but not elevated language, Newton breaks his book into three sections. Each section proceeds logically from his assertions to his conclusion that Masonry and its ideals of liberty, fraternity and equality have benefited the world.
The first section of "The Builders" is called "Prophecy" and deals with the history of stone masonry as practiced from the ancient Egyptians to the Middle Ages. While dispelling any ideas that the Freemasons can actually trace their history back to the Temple of Solomon, Newton does provide evidence for an inspiration to be found in that Temple. From the building of the pyramids to the Knights Templar, Newton explains how dedication to the craft fostered fraternity amongst its members.
The author moves onto part two by taking on more documented "History". From the building of Gothic cathedrals to the advent of Protestantism, he outlines the influence of the Church as it waxes and wanes and ultimately persecutes its own. In so doing, the Church sets free the Masonic order from its stone mason heritage and compels it to begin its own enlightenment.
No discussion of Freemasonry would be complete without acknowledging the schisms within the order and the hostility found without it. Newton lists those who mocked and derided the order or wrote of its evils. He also writes of the various disagreements over the power of each lodge. From the times of the four Grand Lodges to the complaints of the Irish lodges, the author points out that even these disagreements were beneficial to the order. The discussion furthered the spread of Masonic ideals.
Once the Grand Lodge of England was founded in 1717, the order began to build fraternities instead of buildings. These fraternities share a philosophy and spirit the author expounds upon in the third section of "The Builders," called "Interpretation." Here, Newton teaches that all Freemasons are brothers regardless of social or economic status. Tools of the stone mason trade are used to teach lessons or morality and consideration. Every man regardless of station is asked to affirm his belief in the Great Architect and his dedication to aid his brethren.
Finally, throughout this book, Newton assures the reader that any secrecy found within a Masonic Lodge is not to keep anyone in the dark, but rather to maintain the solemnity of the lessons. With little of the outside world to distract and all sense turned to the ceremony, an initiate has the opportunity to focus fully on his relationship with all companions, divine and earthly.
In the beginning of this century when so much bad news revolves around individuality and the problem of differences, a book written at the beginning of the last century can remind its readers of the values found in brotherhood, working together for a common good and building camaraderie.


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Zecotek Subsidiary Announces US$800,000 Laser Contract
12 years ago by Zecotek
Zecotek Subsidiary Announces US$800,000 Laser Contract with Government of India.
Vancouver, May 3, 2007 – Zecotek Medical Systems Inc. (TSX-V: ZMS; Frankfurt: W1I.F) today announced that an agency of the Government of India has signed a purchase agreement to acquire over US$800,000 worth of laser products and services. Under the agreement Tekhnoscan JS Company (Tekhnoscan), whose product portfolio and intellectual property were recently acquired by Zecotek's subsidiary Zecotek Laser Systems Pte. Ltd., will supply lasers and consulting services. Tekhnoscan was selected from a group of world leading laser developers who applied for the Government of India contract. The delivery of lasers products and consulting services will be concluded within Zecotek's fiscal year ending July 31, 2007 with all revenue flowing to Zecotek Laser Systems.
"This is significant sale by Tekhnoscan and Zecotek Laser Systems," said Dr. A.F. Zerrouk, Chairman, President, and CEO of Zecotek Medical Systems. "This demonstrates the quality and competitiveness of our portfolio of cutting-edge laser technologies, products, and world class production facilities. The team from Tekhnoscan has made an immediate impact by adding their expertise in product development, manufacturing and sales to our own new designs, including our 456-nm, 488-nm lasers for biomedical applications and a new line of fiber lasers, which we anticipate to reach the market later this year."
Zecotek Laser Systems receives ongoing revenues generated from the sale of Tekhnoscan's current and future laser products in development, including future revenue generated by existing or future intellectual property which may be created under the new structure.
About Tekhnoscan
TEKHNOSCAN JS Company develops and manufactures lasers and laser-related products for a variety of scientific, technological, medical, and other applications. Tekhnoscan's main products are tuneable Ti:Sapphire and dye lasers (single-frequency, frequency-stabilized, narrow-band, intracavity frequency-doubled, pulsed, femtosecond), direct-diode-pumped Yb:KGW lasers (femtosecond, picosecond, narrow-band), and specialized laser equipment (resonant frequency doublers, scanning interferometers, auto-correlators, laser power meters, etc.). Tekhnoscan laser products are used in numerous scientific and technological organizations in Russia, Germany, France, Switzerland, Japan, China, South Korea, Canada, the United States, and other countries. Tekhnosan is located in Novosibirsk, Russia. For more information visit: www.tekhnoscan.ru.
Zecotek Medical Systems (TSX-V: ZMS; Frankfurt- W1I.F) is a bio-photonics technology company developing high-performance crystals, photo detectors, medical lasers, optical imaging and 3D display technologies for commercial applications in the medical diagnostics and high-tech industry. Founded in 2003, the company has three distinct operating divisions: medical imaging, medical lasers and 3D display and labs located in Canada, Singapore and Russia. Zecotek commercializes its novel, patented and patent-pending bio-photonic technologies directly and through strategic alliances and joint ventures with multinational OEMs, distributors and other industry leaders.
For additional information on Zecotek Medical Systems and our technologies please see our website at Zecotek Photonics.
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Minneapolis rhymer P.O.S. balances a back and forth between his solo LPs and his work with the Doomtree collective. Considering the troupe delivered their No Kings LP late last year, P.O.S. is getting back to his own work. Enter We Don't Even Live Here.
P.O.S. will deliver his fourth full-length October 23 through Rhymesayers, marking his first solo set since 2009's Never Better.
While the rapper has added guitars and screamed vocals to past work, this latest 11-track outing veers in a new electronic direction that favours "futuristic beats fit for a Berlin nightclub," according to the press sheet. You can get an idea of what to expect in the knob-twisting, double-drumming performance of album opener "Bumper" down below.
Amping up the LP with electronic sounds are Boys Noize & Housemeister, Gayngs' Ryan Olson and Innerpartysystem's Patrick Nissley. Elsewhere, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon lends vocals to "Where We Land," while Doomtree collaborators Lazerbeak, Cecil Otter, Mike Mictlan and Sims also stop by.


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Angels pitching prospect Griffin Canning must prove himself before getting promoted
Angels pitcher Griffin Canning pitches in the seventh inning of a spring training against the Chicago White Sox on March 4, 2019 in Glendale, Ariz.
(Sue Ogrocki / Associated Press)
By Maria TorresStaff Writer
Angels top pitching prospect Griffin Canning has been mowing down hitters for triple-A Salt Lake for the better part of two weeks. He took a step further in his most recent start: On Thursday night, he gave up no runs, not even of the unearned variety, in a six-inning outing. He worked around four hits, issued no walks and struck out six batters.
The Angels have always been impressed with the lanky, 6-foot-2 right-hander. But Canning, a 22-year-old native of Mission Viejo who was drafted out of the second round from UCLA in 2017, seems to have hit another level.
Angels prospect Griffin Canning threw 81 pitches tonight in Triple-A. He went six innings and gave up no runs while striking out 6. Canning had 13 swinging strikes, so here's a GIF of each one. Enjoy!
— Justin Russo (@FlyByKnite) April 19, 2019
Canning, who gave up six earned runs over four innings for the Angels during spring training , has struck out 17 batters and allowed only two runs (one unearned) in 16 innings.
Only one pitcher in the Pacific Coast League entered Friday with an earned-run average better than Canning's minuscule 0.56 mark.
Asked if he had any plans for when Canning, who is not on the Angels' 40-man roster, might break into the major leagues, general manager Billy Eppler said there was no plan.
"I tell all those guys, when we send them out of spring training, 'figuratively, you'll tap us on the shoulder when you're ready,'" Eppler said.
Eppler said he wants Canning to continue developing his pitches, especially his secondary stuff. Canning throws a mid-90s fastball, a slider, a curveball and a changeup.
The Angels could certainly use an arm like Canning's in the starting rotation which, through Thursday, owned a 6.03 ERA in only 91 innings. The Angels had only seen their starter pitch six or more innings five times in their first 19 games.
Canning he must prove a few things first. Canning, who is beginning only his second professional season because he was shut down from pitching upon being drafted, has yet to make it through seven innings in one professional start. He also threw 82 pitches in his second start of the season, which lasted five innings, and 81 in Thursday's outing.
"We try to look at what happens with his stuff as that fuel tank starts to dip more and more," Eppler said. "Ultimately, you want to be able to arm the player with enough endurance to be able to last a few times through the [batting] order, so to speak."
Should he continue on his current track, Canning could force the Angels' hand.
"I think it's obvious that we like the guy, we like the guy's stuff, we like the guy's makeup," manager Brad Ausmus said. "He's pitched well. … We just we want to make sure he's prepared to pitch here before he comes here. You gotta remember this guy hasn't pitched a lot of professional baseball."
Maria Torres covers the Angels for the Los Angeles Times.
Felix Peña can't repeat last week's no-hit magic as Astros rout Angels
The Angels' five-game winning streak came to an end in a 11-2 loss to the Houston Astros, started by Felix Peña, who did not build on his no-hitter.


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Standardized European Rules of the Air (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012) is a European regulation laying down the common rules of the air and operational provisions regarding services and procedures in air navigation issued on September 26, 2012. It was issued after the European Commission mandated Eurocontrol and EASA to harmonise the regulations between states.

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package hype;

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	private boolean exit;

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		filepath = "output/";
		fileformat = ".png";
		start = end = frequency = 1;
		exit = false;
	}

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ADD International
Peter Frontline Activist
Peter's Story.
Disability Activist, Uganda.
In Uganda there are lots of dangerous myths towards people with albinism. People believe that it is a punishment from God, or that if you get the body part of someone with albinism it will bring you wealth.
"People with albinism are surrounded by fear.
We have been hidden away, ashamed and scared to speak in public. I was told by my parents that when I was born, many of their friends distanced themselves. They thought I was cursed.
I got together with a few other people with albinism, we wanted to try and change things but we didn't have any idea of what we could do.
We connected with ADD International who helped us to build our capacity, understand our rights and what we need to do to change society. We set up our organisation which now works to change people's attitudes to albinism and to change government policies so that we can access all our rights."
Changing attitudes.
"For a child that's grown up being told she's nothing but a curse it takes time to change that idea. It's a gradual process. It's not easy. We use music to share our message of unity, love and dignity for all human beings. We need to be creative about tackling discrimination - and music has such power to reach people. Let us continue to fight together against violence, isolation and discrimination.
We need to get the message out that people with albinism are human beings like other people."
Changing lives.
"I have received many different trainings, like how to influence policy makers to create policies that will protect people with albinism. We recently launched a campaign to get the government to waive taxes on sun protection cream for people with albinism. Sun cream is very expensive and our skins make us very susceptible to cancer."
ADD International was a founding partner in helping Peter and his organisation get off the ground. They have now been successful in finding other funding partners, namely Advantage Africa, who are helping them continue their work helping thousands of people with Albinism in Uganda.
Peter at work
Let's build movements together.
Millions of disabled people in Africa and Asia are still condemned to a life of poverty and exclusion. Right now, disability activists like Peter are working to fight discrimination and ensure every disabled person gets a fighting chance at living their best life. They urgently need your support.
MEET MORE DISABILITY ACTIVISTS
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Ignored by her family, Elizabeth was bullied and beaten at school and abused by her neighbours for her disability. Her husband later abandoned her and she was the victim of an attempted kidnapping plot to trade her body parts. Read how she turned her life around through her activism and resilience.
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Hassani Kambangwa is a proud and passionate disability activist working on securing education for all children in Tanzania. Here he tells us why working on disability rights inspires him.
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title: Getting started with Fig and Rails
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Getting started with Fig and Rails
==================================

We're going to use Fig to set up and run a Rails/PostgreSQL app. Before starting, you'll need to have [Fig installed](install.html).

Let's set up the three files that'll get us started. First, our app is going to be running inside a Docker container which contains all of its dependencies. We can define what goes inside that Docker container using a file called `Dockerfile`. It'll contain this to start with:

    FROM ruby
    RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y build-essential libpq-dev
    RUN mkdir /myapp
    WORKDIR /myapp
    ADD Gemfile /myapp/Gemfile
    RUN bundle install
    ADD . /myapp

That'll put our application code inside an image with Ruby, Bundler and all our dependencies. For more information on how to write Dockerfiles, see the [Docker user guide](https://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockerimages/#building-an-image-from-a-dockerfile) and the [Dockerfile reference](http://docs.docker.com/reference/builder/).

Next, we have a bootstrap `Gemfile` which just loads Rails. It'll be overwritten in a moment by `rails new`.

    source 'https://rubygems.org'
    gem 'rails', '4.0.2'

Finally, `fig.yml` is where the magic happens. It describes what services our app comprises (a database and a web app), how to get each one's Docker image (the database just runs on a pre-made PostgreSQL image, and the web app is built from the current directory), and the configuration we need to link them together and expose the web app's port.

    db:
      image: postgres
      ports:
        - "5432"
    web:
      build: .
      command: bundle exec rackup -p 3000
      volumes:
        - .:/myapp
      ports:
        - "3000:3000"
      links:
        - db

With those files in place, we can now generate the Rails skeleton app using `fig run`:

    $ fig run web rails new . --force --database=postgresql --skip-bundle

First, Fig will build the image for the `web` service using the `Dockerfile`. Then it'll run `rails new` inside a new container, using that image. Once it's done, you should have a fresh app generated:

    $ ls
    Dockerfile   app          fig.yml      tmp
    Gemfile      bin          lib          vendor
    Gemfile.lock config       log
    README.rdoc  config.ru    public
    Rakefile     db           test

Uncomment the line in your new `Gemfile` which loads `therubyracer`, so we've got a Javascript runtime:

    gem 'therubyracer', platforms: :ruby

Now that we've got a new `Gemfile`, we need to build the image again. (This, and changes to the Dockerfile itself, should be the only times you'll need to rebuild).

    $ fig build

The app is now bootable, but we're not quite there yet. By default, Rails expects a database to be running on `localhost` - we need to point it at the `db` container instead. We also need to change the database and username to align with the defaults set by the `postgres` image.

Open up your newly-generated `database.yml`. Replace its contents with the following:

    development: &default
      adapter: postgresql
      encoding: unicode
      database: postgres
      pool: 5
      username: postgres
      password:
      host: db

    test:
      <<: *default
      database: myapp_test

We can now boot the app.

    $ fig up

If all's well, you should see some PostgreSQL output, and then—after a few seconds—the familiar refrain:

    myapp_web_1 | [2014-01-17 17:16:29] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
    myapp_web_1 | [2014-01-17 17:16:29] INFO  ruby 2.0.0 (2013-11-22) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
    myapp_web_1 | [2014-01-17 17:16:29] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=1 port=3000

Finally, we just need to create the database. In another terminal, run:

    $ fig run web rake db:create

And we're rolling—see for yourself at [localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) (or [localdocker:3000](http://localdocker:3000) if you're using docker-osx).

![Screenshot of Rails' stock index.html](https://orchardup.com/static/images/fig-rails-screenshot.png)


Addressing human risk, compliance and appropriate controls isn't as easy as just doing some email phishing, some training and then some more phishing.
Many companies undertake these components, or maybe even add in some face to face training, but they never really achieve their objectives of reducing human risk, implementing suitable controls and being able to measure the real risk reduction.
Yes, the scenario stated above will show some improvement. Why? Well, it's quite simple. The initial phishing exercise alerted the staff who understand the need for security, to the issues. The training then reminded these caring staff, what they should do. Then the ironic measurement of the second phishing exercise found a reduction in people falling for the simulated attack.
The problem here is, that this only managed to remind the people who care, what they should do, so naturally, there is an improvement in the second simulated attack.
The real issue is that the people who are at work because they need the money and believe that it's not their job to be worried about security will continue to do what they always do.
The IT industry is partially to blame for this attitude. For many years now, we have all been advocating what a great job we are doing in protecting the enterprise, improving efficiencies. Why wouldn't the average staff member believe that they are safe and that the IT department will catch all the bad guys?
The real problem is that the IT department is the backstop, not the front line. The technology that we have been implementing for many years is there to hopefully catch anything that the staff miss. Not the other way around.
So, back to the staff who are too busy to care, not interested, or maybe believe that they are safer at work than they are at home.
How do we seriously address them? They have behaviours that will inevitably cause a breach eventually.
Firstly, we need to measure the organisation to see what level of security they are at. What the knowledge level is, how this impacts the behaviour, and most importantly, how the staff attitude and culture is impacting all of this.
Performing a comprehensive Baseline is essential to understanding the issues that we face before we undertake any form of training.
Once the areas of knowledge deficiency, attitudinal issues and behavioural impacts are identified, we can then undertake a serious, focused program to address all of these issues, over a continuous program.
At Layer 8 Security, we perform a Baseline analysis which encompasses understanding past behaviour, current behaviour as impacted by certain stimuli, knowledge deficiencies, (broken down to the topics, the department and if desired, to the user), attitudinal concerns as well as personality quirks.
Once we have these figures, we compile a report to address these areas of concern and risks and then undertake a planning program to target the areas that need addressing.
The program needs to be run over a year with continuous checks and balances to ensure that the right behavioural changes are occurring with the right people.
How much time are you spending on your staff?


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Rochester, NY – Squatters Evicted From Foreclosed Home
Rochester, N.Y. – The squatters occupying a house in foreclosure have been evicted by the bank holding the mortgage, according to the group organizing the illegal housing program.
Take Back the Land Rochester believes foreclosed houses belong to the public, because the banks that own them received federal bailout funds. The group has taken over four houses in Rochester by simply moving into unsecured houses, changing the locks, and turning on the lights.
13WHAM News visited one of the houses in December. We agreed not to reveal the address in exchange for access to the property. Since the residents have been evicted, we can report the house is at 820 S. Goodman St. It is now boarded up with a "No Trespassing" sign.
Ryan Acuff, of Take Back the Land, said the residents lived there for seven months. He said they decided not to contest the eviction.
"That houses is now boarded up. Nobody lives there at all and it's an eyesore to the neighborhood. And these people are out looking for new places to live," he said.
The house is listed for sale for $19,900. http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/Squatters-Evicted-From-Foreclosed-Home/yeB8a_pN9kGq7uVcbjYTPA.cspx?rss=509
FBI: 'Sovereign citizen' cases on the rise
Federal authorities are seeing an increase in the number of foreclosed and unoccupied homes in metro Atlanta being seized by members of an anti-government group.
"I'm not sure I can connect it with the economy, but we've seen a surge of these in the last year, in particular," Stephen Emmett, special agent in the Atlanta field office of the FBI, said Saturday. Emmet said federal and local authorities increasingly are running into confrontations with members of a sect known as "sovereign citizens."
The group believes banks can't own land or property and that any home owned by a bank — including the thousands of foreclosed properties throughout Georgia — are theirs for the taking.
"They're expanding throughout the Metro Atlanta area," Emmett said. "DeKalb has had (its) fair share of problems with them and now Clayton."
On Friday, Clayton County SWAT was called to a foreclosed home near Riverdale where a couple had been living illegally. SWAT members surrounded the house after getting reports the people inside had threatened violence against anyone who approached the house. Gideon Israel and his wife, Deborah, had been living illegally in the bank-owned, gray stucco house on Stimson way near Riverdale in the northwest part of Clayton County and had submitted reams of fraudulent paperwork to county officials to try to block the eviction, according to Major Jeff Mitchell, who heads the enforcement division for the Clayton County Sheriff's Office.
The Israels were not charged and left without incident. Shortly after, cleanup crews for the bank put furniture and other belongings on the lawn and boarded up the house.
Mitchell said the Riverdale couple is thought to be part of the sovereign citizen sect.
"We're trying to identify other sovereign citizen cases in the county," Mitchell said, noting local law enforcement is working with the FBI to target group members.
Sovereign citizens don't believe courts have jurisdiction over them. They don't believe in paying taxes or acquiring driver's licenses or car tags.
They do, however, believe abandoned properties are ripe for the taking. They often use quit-claim deeds to take over properties and as soon as they move in post trespassing signs warning people to stay off the property.
The group uses YouTube to educate the public about their philosophy and recruit new members.
The Riverdale incident is among at least two dozen Atlanta-area incidents of home takeovers by the sovereign citizens, including a $1 million home in south DeKalb County seized by the sect last year. Authorities say the sect has taken over 20 metro Atlanta properties, including a shopping center.
The FBI has listed Sovereign Citizens as a domestic terrorist organization. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which also tracks the group, estimates the sect numbers more than 300,000 nationwide. http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-sovereign-citizen-cases-861611.html


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Crowds Will Protest Outside Aurora Immigrant Detention Facility July 12
The Insanity Plea: It's Not Just for Killers Anymore
Sinkhole Season Strikes With a Vengeance on Santa Fe
A car submerged in a street flood caused by a giant sinkhole on July 1.
City of Sheridan
Michael Roberts | July 2, 2019 | 7:00am
Yesterday, July 1, amid a fierce early summer storm, a giant sinkhole opened up near Oxford Avenue and Santa Fe Drive in the Englewood area, causing significant street flooding and road closures that weren't lifted until 8:30 p.m. — although this morning, the right turn lane remains blocked.
At 5:34 p.m. yesterday, the Sheridan Police Department tweeted: "Sinkhole in the area of eastbound Oxford and northbound Santa Fe. EB Oxford closed at River Point. NB Santa Fe closed at Union. Other closures likely."
The last prediction proved accurate, as the SPD confirmed the closure of Oxford eastbound and westbound between Santa Fe and Windermere just nine minutes later.
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When the water level finally receded, the size and scope of the sinkhole could be fully appreciated, as seen in the photo below.
A look at the sinkhole after the water receded.
Sheridan Police Department via Twitter
The incident is hardly the first of its type in the area.
Another sinkhole appeared in the same vicinity a year ago this month, around the time that flooding caused the drowning death of Rachael Marie Haber, 32, in the basement of an Englewood home.
As noted by the Englewood Herald, "That storm and its aftermath prompted questions about how prepared Englewood's infrastructure is to handle severe flooding."
On July 8, the Englewood City Council is scheduled to hold a study session related to a so-called action report assembled after the July 2018 floods.
Presumably, members will now have a lot more to discuss.
Michael Roberts has written for Westword since October 1990, serving stints as music editor and media columnist. He currently covers everything from breaking news and politics to sports and stories that defy categorization.
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