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Some scientists think humans have an upper age limit of 115, but others think we could live far longer. Our life expectancies are increasing, but the very oldest humans just aren't getting older.
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Whether Section 377 of IPC Constitutionally Valid - Right to Health - Privacy - Human Dignity
Written by: Jagruti Dekavadiya - 2nd year student of B.A.LL.B. (Hons.), Nirma University Institute of Law, Ahmedabad Lok Adalat in India
It is humbly submitted that the Part III of the constitution primarily carries the common theme of human right. The international conventions and the principles of natural justice also focuses on the aspect of right to life with the full of dignity and liberty. The fundamental rights are basic rights of the people. They are considered as basic rights to live a perfect life. Moreover Article 13 (2) says that "The State shall not make any law, which takes away or abridges the rights conferred by this Part and any law made in contravention of this clause shall, to the extent of the contravention, be void."[1] So, according to the constitutional provisions, Section 377 violates number of fundamental rights of the homosexual people.
a) Sec. 377 violates Article 14 of the Constitute of India
Article 14 of the Indian Constitution provides that, "The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India."[2]
Article 14 also focuses on the doctrine of intelligible differentia, according to which there should be clear nexus between the enacted provisions or act and its objective as for what purpose they have been enacted. The same makes it clear that a law enacted by legislature must be clear and must be rational. The supreme has held that a statute is void for vagueness if its prohibitions are not clearly defined. The rationale for this is that the provisions enacted should be clear so that persons affected know the true intention. [3]
Further, the Supreme Court has held that where a law does not offer a clear construction and the persons applying it are in a boundless sea of uncertainties and the law prima facie takes away a guaranteed freedom, the law must be held to offend the Constitution. [4].
Moreover, Section 377, it punishes "carnal intercourse against the order of nature." However, the expression is not defined. Nor does section 377 provide any indication as to what acts are comes under the ambit of it. Courts have interpreted section 377 to cover not only non-penile-vaginal sex but also to include imitative sex and acts that amount to sexual perversity. The inconsistency and irregularities has been followed over a years as to what Sec. 377 contains and it is not par with the present globalised world and in that for developing country like India as every citizen want to maintain its liberty and wants to be an Individual first.
Therefore, Section 377 is vague and does not clearly define its prohibitions. Such vagueness leads to arbitrary application of section 377 against sexuality minorities. Hence, section 377 should be held void for its vagueness and attendant arbitrariness.
Further, Section 377 creates an arbitrary and unreasonable classification between penile-vaginal and penile-non-vaginal sexual acts in the name of procreative sex and non-procreative sex and hence violative of Article 14's guarantee of equal protection before and under the law.
By its very nature, sexual acts engaged in by gay men, being penile-non-vaginal, are non-procreative. Therefore, section 377 targets predominantly sexual acts engaged in by homosexuals. In so doing, it targets a group of persons, mainly homosexual men, based on their sexual preferences which are necessarily of a non-procreative nature. At this point of time in the fastest world in era of technology it is very important to note that even the gay couple can have procreation with the IVF technology which is rampant in India also.
The purpose of Article 14's equal protection clause is to offer redress to vulnerable groups assailed by discriminatory practices. Section 377's prohibition of non-procreative sexual acts criminalizes predominantly homosexual sexual relations and is propelled by a prejudicial and irrational notion of sex. It thus violates Article 14 because it disproportionately affects gay men.
Indeed, vulnerable minorities require protection from prejudice that can only be done by judicial decision, in the absence of any special legislative work.[5]
(b) Sec. 377 of IPC, 1860 is in violation of Art. 15 of the Constitution of India.
Article 15 (1) of the Indian Constitution provides that, "The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them."[6]
The expression "sex" is fluid and is not a static concept. It cannot be restricted to only the biological male and female sex. It is not an essential condition that the law expressly makes the prohibited ground for the basis of classification. As held by the Supreme Court, "The Court's are always had to interpret any law by the way of 'schematic and teleological' method of interpretation. All it means is that the judges do not go by the literal meaning of the words or by the grammatical structure of the sentence. They go by the design of purpose which lies behind it."[7]
Hence, in present scenario the term "Sex" has a wider meaning and it includes sexual orientation as well, which includes homosexual people. The prohibition of discrimination on the ground of sex is intended to prohibit the attachment of standard behavioural pattern to gender. The purpose underlying the fundamental right against sex discrimination is to prevent behaviour that treats people differently for reason of not being in conformity with generalizations concerning "normal" gender roles.
In the present case, section 377 criminalizes the acts of homosexual people. Though facially neutral, the primary object and the direct and inevitable effect is the prohibition of sexual acts between homosexual based on their sexual orientation. It is an established position of law that if the effect of a State action is to infringe a fundamental right and that effect is brought about by a distinction based on a prohibited ground (e.g. sex, race, etc), it would constitute discrimination on the prohibited ground, however laudable the object of the State action may be. [[8]].
In the case of the Punjab Province v. Daulat Singh[9], the SC held that, "It is enough for a law to be struck down as being discriminatory on a prohibited ground that the law operates so that its effect in some cases is that some persons are discriminated only on the basis of a prohibited ground."
In the present case, the effect of section 377 is that it disproportionately impacts homosexuals on the basis of their sexual orientation. This was clearly foreseen and intended by the Legislature to so impact. Therefore, section 377 constitutes discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation and therefore on the ground of sex under Article 15, despite being couched in facially neutral language. Hence, the said section needs to be held ultra vires as it violates article 15 of the Constitution of India.
(c) Sec. 377 of IPC, 1860 violates Art.21 of the Constitution of India
Article 21, Indian Constitution, conforms on every person the fundamental right to life and person liberty which has became an inexhaustible source for many other lives.[10] These rights are as much available to citizen as to foreigner.[11] And this article has been given paramount position by the hon'ble Supreme Court. Homosexual people are also included under article 21 as they are also human being.
The Supreme Court in the case of Kharak singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh[12] held that right to life is most fundamental of all. The word life in the article 21 does not confine itself mere animal existence, but the word life includes wider meaning than mere an animal existence in the society. The inhabitation against its deprivation extended to all those limbs and faculties by life is enjoyed. The provision also equally prohibits the mutilation of the body by amputating off any part of the body, or any other organ through which the soul communicates with outer world. And sexual orientation not being outer part of the body but if a person deprived of being having sexual orientation this also amount to mutilation of the body.
In Bandhua Mukti Morcha V. Union of India[13] the honorable court held:
"There are minimum human requirements which exist in order to enable a person to live with human dignity, and no state has right to take away action which will deprive a person of the enjoyment of this basic essential"[14]
The basic essentials of a person's life can be named as follows:
� Privacy
� Human Dignity
� Health
The privacy is that "area of a man's life which in any given circumstances a reasonable man with an understanding of the legitimate needs of the community would think it wrong to invade"
Although Indian constitution like America does not guarantee right to privacy explicitly, yet we may say that right to privacy is implicit in Article 21 of the Constitution. A question arose for the first time in Kharak Singh v. State of U.P.[15] whether right to privacy is included in the right to personal liberty. Justice Subba Rao, speaking for minority, held that right to privacy though not expressly declared in our constitution, is an essential ingredient of the personal liberty.
In the case of R. Rajagopalan v. State of Tamil Nadu[16] , the Supreme Court held that it is right to be let alone and a citizen has the right to safeguard the privacy of his own, his family, marriage, protection, motherhood, child-bearing and education among other matter. No one can punish anything concerning the above matter without his consent whether truthful or otherwise and whether laudatory or critical.
As far as this matter is concerned, the impugned section clearly violates the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution as it peeps into the houses of people without their consent and still punishes them for their private matters.
Generally, criminal provisions are justified on the basis that they prevent harm. In the realm of sex, whether or not harm is caused is dependent on consent. Where consent is given, a person is not harmed and the conduct falls back within the realm of personal autonomy that does not require policing by the State. Only where there is no consent is criminal sanction justified.
It is also recognized that at the core of the right to privacy are those matters related to one's private life and intimate relationships. This sphere of private intimacy and autonomy must allow persons to develop human relationships without interference from the outside community or from the State. The right to privacy is thus premised on the proposition that there exists a zone of privacy created by various fundamental rights into which the State cannot intrude.
It is submitted that sexual intimacies between individuals, whether homosexual or heterosexual, fall within the protected zone of privacy. Section 377, by criminalizing certain consensual sexual acts, violates the right to privacy.
Hence, the impugned section clearly violates right to privacy of the people concerned and hence violates right to life and personal liberty guaranteed under Constitution of India.
The case law also recognizes that the right to privacy is derived from, and intimately related to, the right of each person to dignity. In Gobind v. State of Madhya Pradesh[17] the honorable Supreme Court has held: "Privacy-dignity claims deserve to be examined with care and to be denied only when an important countervailing interest is shown to be superior".
Dignity, then, is concerned with the rights of an individual, and is linked to personal self-realization and autonomy. If the right to privacy derives from a respect for human dignity, it must also be an individualistic right, accruing to a person wherever he may be.
In this matter, section 377 of IPC affects dignity of a man as it exposes a person of his sexual orientation and also punishes him and sends him to prison which violates his right to live a dignified life.
The Supreme Court has held that "every act that offends against or impairs human dignity would constitute deprivation pro tanto of this right to live and it would have to be in accordance with reasonable, fair and just procedure established by law which stands the test of other fundamental rights."[18]
In the present case, section 377, by criminalizing private, consensual sex between adults, offends against and impairs the expression of the human self of sexuality, more particularly men who have sex with men, and thus violates their right to live with dignity.
Further, it does not stand the test of other fundamental rights. As has been shown above, section 377 is not reasonable, fair or just law according to conditions of article 14, 15 (1)
Right to Health
These gay populations are mostly reluctant to reveal same sex behaviour due to the fear of law enforcement agencies, keeping a large section invisible and unreachable and pushing the infection underground, making it difficult for Health Ministry to access them. Officials of UNAIDS say there is no data on the gay population in India as even collecting such information is illegal under Section 377.[19] It gives clear idea of problem created by the impugned section that because of this section, even UN officials are not able to prevent AIDS in India.
As said in affidavit filed by NACO in NAZ Foundation v. Union of India which is a sub-judice matter, that "... the enforcement of section 377 of IPC can adversely contribute to pushing the infection underground, make risky sexual practices go unnoticed and unaddressed. The fear of harassment by law enforcement agencies leads to sex being hurried, leaving partners without the option to consider or negotiate safer sex practices. As MSM groups lack ''safe place'' and utilize public places such as railway stations etc, they become vulnerable to harassment and abuse by the police. The hidden nature of MSM groups further leads to poor access to condom, healthcare services and safe sex information. This constantly inhibits/impedes interventions under the National AIDS Control Programme aimed at preventing spread of HIV/AIDS by promoting safe sexual practices..."[20]
Thus, because of the existence of Section 377 of IPC, HIV is spreading too much and it can be out of control if necessary steps are not taken within few months. Spreading of HIV makes life of every people miserable and threatened. Hence, the impugned section should be repealed for the betterment of health of the people.
Thus, Sec. 377 violates the Basic Features of the Constitution of India.
Section 377 of IPC denies the objectives enshrined in the preamble namely: Justice, Liberty and Equality to homosexual people. These objectives constitute the Basic Feature of the Constitution.[21] Further, it denies equality and equal protection and makes inequality and hence it is clear violation of Basic Feature of the Constitution and hence liable to be interfered with by the court.[22]
End-Notes
[1] P. M. Bakshi, Constitution of India; Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. (2003), pp. 13.
[3] Kartar Singh v. State of Punjab (1994) 3 SCC 569.
[4] K. A. Abbas v. Union of India, AIR 1971 SC 481.
[5] Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1997 SC 3011.
[7] Fuzlunbi v. K. Khader Vali, AIR 1980 SC 1730.
[8] State of Bombay v. Bombay Education Society, [1955] SCR 568.
[9] AIR 1946 PC 66.
[10] Bhagvati, J. in Maneka Ganghi v. Unioun of India, AIR 1978 SC 597, pp. 620.
[11] National Human Right Commission v. State of Arunachal Pradesh, (1996) 1 SCC 742.
[12] AIR 1963 SC 1295.
[13] AIR 1984 SC 802.
[14] ibid, at pp. 811.
[15] AIR 1963 SC 1295
[16] (1994) 6 SCC 632.
[17] (1975) 2 SCC 148, at page 156, para 22
[18] Francis Coralie Mullin v. Administrator, Union Territory of Delhi, (1981) 1 SCC 608, at page 619, para 8
[19] Times of India, 17 September 2006
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1998671.cms
[20] Affidavit by M.L.SONI, Under Secretary to the Government of India, National AIDS Control Organization, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
[21] Durga Das Basu, Shorter Constitution of India, Wadhwa And Co. (2006); pp. 1651
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SFP cables suck and I hate working with them.
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Last week I had to head to one of our colocation sites to retrieve some hardware to be moved to another city, and to test out some new swank jank 10GbE switches. These new switches run over SFP+, which means making sure the switches are compatible with the transceivers on the cables. As soon as I discovered this was what was on the to-do list for the day, my stress levels immediately rose. See, SFP+ cables are great in theory. They've got a little PCB with a fancy clip, they do 10GbE, and… Well, that's about it. It's a cable. It is a conduit for electrons to move. What I hate most about SFP cables is the clip and tab. It's truly awful design – if you break the plastic tab your only hope for disconnecting the cable is to get a small screwdriver or something similar into the latching mechanism. This is where switch and cable designers must want you to lose your temper. Switch designs, for some brilliant reason, have the ports of the SFP cables oriented such that the latches are facing one another on switches where there's two rows of ports stacked one on top of another (or, at least the switches I've encountered). This means that if you make the mistake (or are forced to due to capacity) of connecting two SFP cables one on top of each other and break the tabs, they're fused to the switch permanently for all intents and purposes. Depending on the design of the latching mechanism on the cable, there may very well be no feasible way to get a screwdriver or other tool into the gap. I know what you're thinking. I must be doing it wrong. Like most hardware in IT, there's...
Preorders are crap and you're part of the problem
Back in the day, video game preorders were hugely beneficial. We didn't have digital distribution – at least not on the scale we've come to love and hate. A preorder meant you went to your local EB Games, Gamestop, Future Shop or $preferred_local_retailer, they'd reserve a copy of the physical copy of the game for you so you'd be guaranteed to play it as soon as possible. I have fond memories of going to the mall at midnight to pick up highly anticipated titles like Halo 3 and then skipping class the next day because I stayed up all night playing (yeah, I was that kind of student). I'd get to meet all kinds of fans and members of the local gaming community while waiting in line, and in some ways it validated my decision: I wasn't the only one crazy enough to do something like that. Event organizers would hand out flyers to their upcoming tournaments and gatherings, and everyone was nice and chummy. Ah, nostalgia. Since then, we've gotten our hands on better internet connections and more reliable digital distribution mediums like Steam, Origin, Battle.net, gog.com and plenty more. Along with this convenience came the advent of day-one patches, locked DLC being included in the main game's files and all forms of DRM butchery consumers despise. This really started to ramp up around 2008-2009. Right around the same time, game developers saw the console market start to explode thanks to smash hit titles like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the aforementioned Halo 3, Gears of War, Assassin's Creed and a wide variety of other franchises that pushed out yearly installments. PC gamers repeatedly got the short end of the stick. On the few-and-far-between occasions that a developer chose to publish their game...
Playlist-based Matchmaking is crap.
In preparation for Respawn's highly-anticipated Titanfall 2 (dropping at the end of the month), I reinstalled its predecessor last week. The last time I had played Titanfall was November 2014, according to my Origin account. The game is highly mechanical and there are a lot of advanced tactics to brush up on. Being built on the Source engine (which itself was built from iD tech/Quake engine code), you've got full air control and momentum conservation in the form of bunnyhopping, on top of the already-excellent wall running and double jumping. All of this is promised to return in the sequel, so I figured why not re-master these techniques to get a bigger edge on the competition in Titanfall 2. I want to make one thing perfectly clear before I dive into the meat here: Titanfall is fun. One of the most fun FPS games I have ever played, in fact – there's an excellent blend of tactics, movement, aim and general FPS skill that doesn't often get to shine in such a broad spectrum in other games. With so many different ways to play, it certainly ticks the box for the competitive mantra "easy to learn, hard to master." The gameplay is beautifully sculpted in such a way that you can only come to expect from the geniuses behind Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (the best Call of Duty title to date, I might add). It sounds cool, it looks cool, it's fast-paced, there's an extremely high skill ceiling However, nearly everything else about the game is crap. The netcode certainly leaves something to be desired – hit registration is lackluster, the tick rate (the rate at which the server updates the world with new information, ie: you shot the bad guy and he...
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PlanetSide Arena is shutting down in January
On Dec 14, 2019 1:04 pm, by Asylum
PlanetSide Arena was built with lofty ambitions: massive, 1,000-player battle royale over maps of up to 64 square kilometers set in the sci-fi universe of PlanetSide 2. Sadly though, Daybreak Game Company's foray into battle royale is coming to an early close: the company has announced that servers for PlanetSide Arena will shut down January 10.
Spotted by DSOGaming, a message posted to PlanetSide Arena's Steam page by the development team Friday announced that the game will shut down due to insufficient player numbers.
"While our team set out with an ambitious vision for a game that combined the massive-scale combat and camaraderie of PlanetSide through a diverse collection of new game modes, it has become clear after several months in Early Access that our population levels make it impossible to sustain the gameplay experience we envisioned," wrote executive producer Andy Sites. "As a result, PlanetSide Arena will formally shut down servers on January 10th, 2020 at 5:00 pm (PST)."
It's a difficult call for a studio to make about a game it's working on, but ultimately probably the correct one: After peaking at 1,481 concurrent players in September, PlanetSide Arena has struggled to maintain even enough players for a single match of battle royale, dwindling to a max of 70 players at a time over the past 30 days, according to SteamCharts.
It's a shame though, because there was plenty to love about PlanetSide Arena's grandiose premise: squad-based combined arms warfare on a massive scale, as shown in the gameplay trailer from September:
The good news, however, is that PlanetSide 2 is sticking around, and Sites says there's more to look forward to for the franchise.
"[Y]our enduring passion for PlanetSide remains the bedrock our community is built upon," he wrote. "As painful as it is to close this chapter so quickly, we remain deeply committed to this franchise, and look forward to continuing this journey through the PlanetSide Universe with all of you."
You can no longer buy any DLC for PlanetSide Arena, but you will be able to spend any in-game currency you've earned up until servers shut down January 10. All players who purchased currency or DLC for PlanetSide Arena will automatically receive a refund credited to their Steam wallets "shortly after servers shut down," Daybreak says.
If you're bummed, fret not: Here's our list of the best battle royale games on PC to tide you over while you wait for the next big thing for PlanetSide.
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C.C.S.M. c. S240 The Surveys Act
RSM 1987, c. S240
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• not yet proclaimed
Note: This table does not include any changes made pursuant to The Statutes and Regulations Act. See the table of corrections and minor amendments for the changes made pursuant to that Act.


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Abstract : Union-Find is a famous example of a simple data structure whose amortized asymptotic time complexity analysis is nontrivial. We present a Coq formalization of this analysis, following Alstrup et al.'s recent proof (2014). Moreover, we implement Union-Find as an OCaml library and formally endow it with a modular specification that offers a full functional correctness guarantee as well as an amortized complexity bound. In order to reason in Coq about imperative OCaml code, we use the CFML tool, which implements Separation Logic for a subset of OCaml, and which we extend with time credits. Although it was known in principle that amortized analysis can be explained in terms of time credits and that time credits can be viewed as resources in Separation Logic, we believe our work is the first practical demonstration of this approach. Finally, in order to explain the meta-theoretical foundations of our approach, we define a Separation Logic with time credits for an untyped call-by-value lambda-calculus, and formally verify its soundness.


Most students find exams stressful.
But spending time thinking negative thoughts about exams won't help you to achieve better marks or motivate you to prepare properly.
Instead realise that there are positive things about exams. This will help you to stay calm and motivated during your preparation.
Exams can energise us, providing motivation to learn things we would otherwise keep putting off.
They provide the incentive to make us look back over what we have already covered in order to check that we really understand it. They encourage us to find ways of remembering information without having to look it up.
They can show us what we really know, as opposed to what we thought we knew. We are likely to discover aspects we need to know better, and even to learn more than we realised we could.
They require us to manage our time and to plan well; this can help us to develop better project management skills.
They provide us with a challenge. If we learn to cope with them, we are likely to emerge stronger, more able to cope with other challenges in our lives, irrespective of the marks we get in the exam. With enough, practice and revision, most people can get through exams, but it takes courage to take the exam in the first place.
They offer a chance to gain qualifications that are stepping stones to further progress.
We realise more keenly all the things we would rather do than exams – so that we appreciate these all the more.
Exams are usually objective: you can do well in them even if you don't get on well with your tutor.
They provide an opportunity to catch up and succeed even if you haven't worked hard all year.
You are more likely to feel a sense of expertise if you prepare well for an exam.
With enough hard work exams can provide a chance for you to shine and achieve something that you can truly proud about.
Lots of people with successful careers have failed or performed poorly in exams. Exams can usually be retaken and failing in an exam can always be used to inspire greater effort and determination in the future.
its very useful for classes VI-IX.who take exams as burden.
very good as many students receive exams negatively.


I Go to Mizzou, and I Attended Class Today.
That statement should not be anything out of the ordinary. My purpose at this school is to gain an education and prepare myself for a life beyond the walls of an educational institution. However, today students feared that attending class could cost them their lives.
Mizzou has been the subject of national media attention these past few days. Long story short, there have been some protests revolving around graduate student benefits, Planned Parenthood funding, antisemitic acts, and several incidents of racism on campus. The goals of the protestors involved getting University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe to resign from office. This began with a hunger strike then continued into a campout, some peaceful marches, and a teacher walkout. I personally covered this walkout and rally for my journalism class. I was there when it was announced that Wolfe resigned. I saw the celebrations.
Since then, the Chancellor of Mizzou has resigned and a few others have lost jobs over their acts in the protests.
Here's what happened next. Someone threatened our beloved campus via the anonymous social media application Yik Yak. The threats seemed to be targeted at shooting black students on campus. Then things spiraled quickly. Some people started driving around campus harassing black students who were still there in the evening. There were rumors of the KKK being on campus. Students said they were scared for their lives and fleeing campus. Everyone was terrified for what may happen at class today after last night's fear.
Today campus was empty. My 300 plus person lecture at 9 a.m. had maybe 80 students in it. I had labs with five to nine students present. Campus had an eerie, empty, quiet chill over it. Few minority students were present. I would estimate maybe a fifth of the total population showed up today. It felt like the entire campus was holding it's breath, waiting for something terrible to happen.
Here's what happened: Nothing. And praise The Lord for that.
The police caught the Yik Yak culprit, a student who does not even attend our university. His slew of scary posts sent a campus into a frenzy and he is not even a member of it. This was domestic terrorism.
Here are the things I have taken away from this.
It is amazing that our generation has a voice and can get things accomplished together. I am proud of our students for uniting, at least for a while.
We need more purpose. The movement appears to lack goals. This is my opinion. I apologize if it is not yours. So Tim Wolfe is gone along with many others, what now? One man alone could not solve racism. That is something that lives in a person's heart and makes it dark. Wolfe could not personally change people's hearts, and the next president won't be able to either. Change is not immediate. It takes time. We need to figure out how we plan to go about creating that change. Change does needs to happen. We live in a world were everything is instantaneous and we expect those kind of results. This circumstance is not like that. This has been an age old battle that is coming back into light. We need to pray for the hearts of those who cannot love each other.
Social media is both awesome and dangerous. These protests were successful largely because students could unite and have a conversation over social media. (Please see #MizzouHungerStrike #BoycottUM #ConcernedStudent1950 #BlackOnCampus) But social media also brought on the mass hysteria that was last night. Anonymous applications should not be a thing. (My own opinion once again.) People were able to spread fear and panic without being held accountable for it on Yik Yak. Then, everything was spread further via Twitter. Yes, Twitter is how I stayed informed by administration and police, but it is also what spread the unconfirmed rumors that created terror. Students left campus and Mizzou altogether because of this rapid spread. It is great that messages get across, but not when they are dangerously fabricated. We need to realize the power of the technological tools we have in our hands. We also need to use social media as a way to build up and encourage others. I would much rather see my timeline filled with joy and triumph instead of anger and terror.
The actual media was not helpful. I am a journalism student, and I am saddened by what I saw in the media. We had the nation's attention while the protests were happening, but where were they when we were fearing for our lives? They had left. The story was over. They were safe at home. A journalist's job is to bring ALL of the news and to inform the public. Many of the stories I see circulating are grossly over-sensationalized. The voices of the students need to be more present in the stories. I was interviewed by a reporter from the Associated Press. He used very little of what I said, and made general statements that made me sound uninformed. I am not uninformed. I am present on this campus and covering the story as well. No one outside of this campus really knows what it is like to be present here. The media just spreads the horrible things, not the small triumphs of students sticking together. The nation now sees Mizzou as a racist hot bed. That's not how I see the school I love, and I know many others agree. Yes, we are in a difficult time at the moment, but we cannot let it define us. We are an institution of tradition and excellence. Our students are achievers. A few bad eggs are getting us a really bad rep.
What I'm getting at is that I want the nation to know something. We are here. We are okay. We are recovering. We do not want to be defined by the actions of few, but by the voices of many. We want to be able to walk to class safely and not worry about our friends. Please do not form opinions about us from one or two media pieces. The media cannot encompass the true story. We really do love and support each other. We will come out of this stronger than before. We have learned we can create change and overcome instability. When students do not feel they are being led correctly, they become the leaders.
Not every person on the campus agrees with each other. Opinions differ about the actions taken and what actions should be taken moving forward. That does not mean that we are not standing as one. Adversity will not impact what we achieve today, this week, and in years to come. This event is a defining moment in our education, but we can learn from it and move forward.
I go to Mizzou, and I attended class today. And I will attend again tomorrow.
All photos, words, and opinions are my own.


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Bruce Spence
Title: Bruce Spence
Subject: Stork (film), Oz (1976 film), Legend of the Seeker, Mad Max 2, Where the Green Ants Dream
Collection: 1945 Births, Best Actor Aacta Award Winners, Living People, New Zealand Male Film Actors, New Zealand Male Television Actors, The Sword of Truth
Spence taking a break during an ADR session, November 2008
(1945-09-17) 17 September 1945
Bruce Spence (born 17 September 1945) is a New Zealand actor, having spent most of his career performing in Australia.
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Spence was born in Auckland, New Zealand and attended Henderson High School in West Auckland.
He is known for his roles as the Gyro Captain in Mad Max 2, as Jedediah the pilot in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and as "Zedd" (Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander) in Legend of the Seeker. He won an AFI Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1971 comedy Stork.
He performed the voice of Chum in Finding Nemo, the Mouth of Sauron in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the Trainman in The Matrix Revolutions, and Tion Medon in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
At six feet, seven inches tall (2.01 m), Spence is one of the tallest actors to have played a leading role.
He acted as the palaeontologist (Huxley) alongside fellow actor Felix Nobis, in the Australian performance of BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience. In his role, Spence narrates the activities of life-sized mechanical dinosaurs operated by teams of puppeteers and drivers.
In 2008, Spence joined the television series Legend of the Seeker, based on the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, in the role of Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, co-starring with Craig Horner and Bridget Regan. The show ran for two seasons.
In 2014, Spence played prison inmate George Corella in episode 3.1 of Rake.
Stork (1971) – Graham 'Stork' Wallace
Certain Women (1973) TV Series – Julius 'Big Julie'
Three Old Friends (1974)
The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) – Charlie
The Firm Man (1975) – Messenger
The Great Macarthy (1975) – Bill Dean
Let the Balloon Go (1976) – Chief Gifford
Oz (1976) – Bass player/Blondie the Surfie
Mad Dog Morgan (1976) – Heriot
Eliza Fraser (1976) – Bruce McIver
Barnaby and Me (1977) (TV) – Tall Baddie
Newsfront (1978) – Redex trial driver
Dimboola (1979) – Morrie McAdam
Double Deal (1981) – Doug Mitchell
And Here Comes Bucknuckle (1981) TV Series
Mad Max 2 (1981) – The Gyro Captain
Deadline (1982) (TV) – Towie
Kingswood Country (1982) .... TV Series – Dentist
The Return of Captain Invincible (1983) – Midnight's Doctor
Midnite Spares (1983) – Wimpy
Buddies (1983) – Ted
Pallet on the Floor (1984) – Basil Beaumont-Foster
Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen (Where the Green Ants Dream) (1984) – Lance Hackett
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) – Jedediah the Pilot
Great Expectations, the Untold Story (1986) (TV) – Joe Gargery
Bullseye (1987) – Purdy
The Year My Voice Broke (1987) – Jonah
The Dirtwater Dynasty (1988) (mini) TV Series – Lonely Logan
Bachelor Girl (1988) – Alistair Dredge Jr
Rikky and Pete (1988) – Ben
Zucker (1989) (TV)
Tanamera – Lion of Singapore (1989) (mini) TV Series – Hammond
Dearest Enemy (1989) TV Series – Lenny (1989/1992)
...Almost (1990) – Ronnie
The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) – Wayne
Sweet Talker (1991) – Norman Foster
Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left (1992) TV Series – The Chief
Hercules Returns (1993) – Sprocket
Over The Hill (1994/1995) TV Series - Tall Bob
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) – Gahjii
The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas (1996) - Mr. Gateman
Return to Jupiter (1997) TV Series – Ed Unit
Halifax f.p.: Isn't It Romantic (1997) (TV) – Eric Washburn
Bullpitt!(1997) TV Series – Darcy
Dark City (1998) – Mr. Wall
Moby Dick (1998) (TV) – Elijah
BeastMaster (1999) (TV series) – Annubis
Farscape (2002) (TV) – Prefect Falaak
Queen of the Damned (2002) – Khayman
Inspector Gadget 2 (2003) (V) – Baxter
Finding Nemo (2003) (voice) – Chum
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) – TrainMan
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) – Mouth of Sauron (Extended Edition only)
Peter Pan (2003) – Cookson
The Brush Off (2004) (TV) – Philip Veale
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) – Tion Medon
Aquamarine (2006) – Leonard
RAN (Remote Area Nurse) (2006) – Vince
Solo (2006) – Kennedy
Nightmares & Dreamscapes (2006) TV – Hans Morris
Equal Opportunity (2006) TV – Death
Legend of the Seeker (2008–2010) TV – Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander
Double The Fist (2008) TV – Mayor McCarthy
Australia (2008) – DR. Barker
All Saints (2009) TV – Barry Goldsworthy
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) – Lord Rhoop
Mystery Road (2012) – Jim the Coroner
I, Frankenstein (2014) – Molokai
Gods of Egypt (2016)
Blue World Order (2016) - Whippett
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - Scav Gyro, Sir Dennis, Tony Van Adobe, Tony Slows, Taunting Scav #2[1]
Enter the Matrix - The Trainman[2]
Bruce Spence at the Internet Movie Database
AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Bruce Spence (1972)
Robert McDarra (1973)
Jack Thompson (1974)
Martin Vaughan (1975)
Simon Burke and Nick Tate (1976)
John Meillon (1977)
Bill Hunter (1978)
Ray Barrett (1982)
Norman Kaye (1983)
John Hargreaves (1984)
Chris Haywood (1985)
Colin Friels (1986)
Leo McKern (1987)
John Waters (1988)
Sam Neill (1989)
Max von Sydow (1990)
Hugo Weaving (1991)
Russell Crowe (1992)
Harvey Keitel (1993)
Nicholas Hope (1994)
John Lynch (1995)
Geoffrey Rush (1996)
Richard Roxburgh (1997)
Russell Dykstra (1999)
Eric Bana (2000)
Anthony LaPaglia (2001)
David Gulpilil (2002)
David Wenham (2003)
Sam Worthington (2004)
Shane Jacobson (2006)
William McInnes (2008)
Ben Mendelsohn (2010)
Daniel Henshall (2011)
Chris O'Dowd (2012)
EngvarB from June 2013
BLP articles lacking sources from January 2010
Best Actor AACTA Award winners
New Zealand male film actors
New Zealand male television actors
Andrew Stanton, The Incredibles, Wall-e, Lee Unkrich, Brad Bird
Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks, Daniel Day-Lewis, Los Angeles, California
Sam Raimi, The Sword of Truth, Hulu, Terry Goodkind, Star Wars
Breaking Bad, Brian Henson, The Jim Henson Company, Nine Network, Rockne S. O'Bannon
Stork (film)
Tim Burstall, David Williamson, Bruce Spence, Jacki Weaver, Australia
Oz (1976 film)
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), Mär, Bruce Spence, David Bowie, L. Frank Baum
Where the Green Ants Dream
Werner Herzog, Bob Ellis, Wandjuk Marika, Phillip Adams, Bruce Spence


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Where Are the Native Americans in Virginia Today?
most people who identify as American Indian and Alaska Native live in Northern Virginia now
Source: Bureau of Census, 2012-2016 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Thematic Map of Estimate; RACE - One race - American Indian and Alaska Native Geography: by County
Native American tribes and individual Native Americans are still part of Virginia today. Fr the last 18,000 years, Native Americans have lived in Virginia. The European colonists dramatically disrupted the societies they encountered, but Native Americans have lived in Virginia ever since the Ice Age.
In 2016, the Bureau of Census estimated there were 29,225 Virgina residents who identified as "American Indian and Alaska Native."1
There was a massive demographic impact to Native American populations after permanent English settlement began in 1607. The exact numbers are less clear than the impact, but there may have been 50,000 or so Native Americans in Virginia in 1607. About 15,000 Algonquians lived under Powhatan's control in Tsenacommacah, and perhaps 10,000 others on the Coastal Plain.
As a result of the demographic changes since the Europeans arrived and legalized discrimination, including the Racial Integrity Law of 1924, the Totero, Gingaskin, and many other tribal groups have disappeared as organized communities. All Native American societies were disrupted and populations dramatically decreased. Despite the assults, as one member of the Chickahominy tribe has noted, "Well, we're here. We never left."2
Many died from disease and starvation, after being forced from traditional homelands by colonists seizing land for farms. Others died in direct conflicts with the English. Constant small-scale murder and skirmishes were interrupted by occasional large-scale wars, including major uprisings in 1622 and 1644 and brutal suppression during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.
Many original Virginians migrated as individuals or family groups to the north, west, or south, away from the encroaching English. They joined the Iroquois, Shawnee, and Cherokee, losing their distinct identity as members in traditional Virginia tribes.
Currently there are 11 state-recognized tribes. All but one are located east of the Blue Ridge. The Monacan use Natural Bridge State Park to display their culture, but most members live in the Blue Ridge rather than in the Valley and Ridge physiographical province.
Around 1920, anthropologist Frank Speck estimated some tribal populations:3
Chickahominy: 400
Mattaponi: 75
Nansemond: 200
Pamunkey: 300
Patawomeck: 150
Powhatan: 15
Rappahannock: 500
Upper Mattaponi: 75
Werowocomoco 100
Wicomoco: 300:
Modern statistics are:4
Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) primarily in Southampton County (272 members)
Chickahominy primarily in Charles City County (840 members)
Chickahominy Indians Eastern Division primarily in New Kent County (132 members)
Mattaponi primarily in King William County (450 members)
Monacan primarily in Amherst County (2,000 members)
Nansemond primarily in Chesapeake City (200 members)
Nottoway primarily in Southampton County (120 members)
Pamunkey primarily in King William County (200 members)
Patawomeck primarily in Stafford County (770 members)
Rappahannock primarily in King and Queen County (500 members)
Upper Mattaponi primarily in King William County (575 members)
Most Native Americans in Virginia live, like most other Virginia residents, in the three centers of population - Northern Virginia, Richmond, and Hampton Roads. Those who live "on the reservation" belong to the Pamunkey and Mattaponi tribes.
most Native Americans live in Northern Virginia
Source: Bureau of Census, 2016 American Community Survey 1-Year Supplemental Estimates with a Population Threshold of 20,000 or More, Race
The Pamunkey tribe has just 200 members on its tribal role. Only a small percentage lived on the 1,200-acre reservation in King William County. The 36 families there included 80 people, Nearly 30 are non-native spouses, not entitled to vote on tribal matters.5
The only other state-recognized reservation in Virginia is 150 acres owned by the Mattaponi tribe. About 75 of the 450 members of the Mattaponi tribe live there.6
only the three urban centers in Virginia - and the City of Roanoke - have jurisdictions with more than 1,000 people who identify as "American Indian and Alaska Native"
Source: Bureau of Census - 2008-2012 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, American Indian And Alaska Native Alone Or In Combination With One Or More Other Races
The 2010 Census counted 36,398 people in Virginia in the "Tribe alone or in any combination" category, and 21,948 people in the "American Indian and Alaskan Native alone" category. Those included people not associated with the state-recognized tribes.7
In 2012, according to the 5-year projection of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, the Virginia jurisdiction with the highest percentage of "American Indian and Alaska Natives" in the population was Charles City County with 8.3%. Second-highest was King William County, with 2.6%. No other jurisdiction exceeded 2%.8
Total population is different from percentage.
While Charles City County and King William County had the highest percentage of Native Americans in their population, those two counties were not in the top 20 jurisdictions for total number of American Indian and Alaska Natives. Most Native Americans in Virginia live in Northern Virginia, especially Fairfax County. The concentration of Native Americans in the densely-populated regions of the state reflects the migration of non-Virginians into those fast-growing communities, rather than remnant populations that survived from colonial times.
a commemorative site to Virginia's Native Americans was dedicated on Capitol Square in Richmond in 2018
Source: Virginia Indian Memorial Commission, Mantle: A Tribute to Virginia�s Tribes
Native American Reservations in Virginia
Bureau of Census
Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000 - for Fairfax County (contrast the population totals for "American Indian and Alaska Native" in each county)
Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000 - for King William County, home of the Pamunkey and Mattaponi reservations
The American Indian and Alaska Native Population: 2000 (Census 2000 Brief)
Virginia - Race and Hispanic Origin: 1790 to 1990 (from Historical Census Statistics on Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990, and By Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For The United States, Regions, Divisions, and States - Working Paper Series No. 56, September 2002)
Thematic Map TM-P004C - Percent of Persons Who Are American Indian and Alaska Native Alone: 2000
We the People: American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States (Special Report, February 2006)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Tribal Directory (note that no Federally-recognized tribes are located in Virginia...)
Department of Historic Resources (State of Virginia)
Eastern Chickahominy Tribe
Library of Virginia
Resources on Native Americans: Archival Sources
Resources on Native Americans: Published Materials
Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation
Rock Art of the Potomac River Fall Line
Virginia Council on Indians
Virginia's First People, Past & Present
Virginia Indian Archive
Charles City and King William counties have a high percentage of Native American residents - but are not in the list of Virginia jurisdictions with more than 1,000 people who identify as "American Indian and Alaska Native"
the Virginia jurisdictions with the highest percentage of Native Americans/Alaskan Natives in their population include Amherst County (home of the Monacan tribe), plus several Tidewater counties that were once part of Powhatan's paramount confederacy
Source: Bureau of Census, Census Data Mapper
1. "https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF," Bureau of Census, American FactFinder, https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF (last checked February 25, 2018)
2. "Out of Jamestown's Shadows," Washington Post, April 29, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042801083_pf.html (last checked February 25, 2018)
3. "Frank G. Speck's Photographs, 1914-1942 - Captola Cook," Virginia Humanities, http://virginiaindianarchive.org/exhibits/show/frank-g--speck--ca--1914-1942/frank-g--speck-s-photographs-o (last checked October 30, 2018)
4. "Jim Glanville op/ed on recognition for more of Virginia's tribes," Daily Press, February 24, 2018, http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/local-voices/dp-edt-oped-glanville-tribes-0225-story.html (last checked February 25, 2018)
5. "Virginia's Indian heirs cling to sliver of native soil," The Virginian-Pilot, June 10, 2009, http://hamptonroads.com/2009/06/virginias-indians-heirs-cling-sliver-native-soil (last checked March 5, 2014)
6. "Mattaponi History," Official Site of the Mattaponi Indian Reservation, https://www.mattaponination.com/history.html (last checked February 25, 2018)
7. "Race Reporting for the American Indian and Alaska Native Population by Selected Tribes: 2010, Census Summary File 1," Bureau of Census, https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/community_facts.xhtml; "Community Facts," American FactFinder, Bureau of Census, https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/community_facts.xhtml (last checked February 25, 2018)
8. "DP05 - Demographic And Housing Estimates," 2008-2012 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Bureau of Census, http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_12_5YR_DP05 (last checked February 25, 2018)
only two counties in Virginia have more than 2% of the population who identify as "American Indian and Alaska Native"
Source: Bureau of Census - 2008-2012 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Demographic And Housing Estimates
"Indians" of Virginia


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amongst the Pennines. Anyway, the theme seemed to suggest two things close to my heart – landscape / countryside; and eeriness.
literally in some cases) to ones from the other side of the world (Australia, Asia and the United States to name a few).
This album was sequenced in submission order – so listen to it in whatever order you see fit.
A huge thanks to all the artists who took part.
-David Little, 22 December 2017.
Thanks to all the artists who took part and made this album what it is.
Dedicated to the memory of Emma Clayton-Wolfindale (1981-2017).


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Cong-BJP FCRA violation case set for interesting twist with sneaky carte-blanche-clause in Budget
By SCOI Report	Monday, 04 April 2016 11:13 SCOI Reports	An estimated 3 minute read...
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Even as the two rival national political parties played April Fool of their actual political rivalries on 1 April by appealing together in the Supreme Court a common judgment passed against them by the Delhi high court, The Wire has exposed a little-known fact, which promises to excel the incredible phenomenon of these two rival parties coming together on a common platform to fight a common enemy.
The Wire's story, written by one of its founding editors, Bharat Bhushan, says that the latest Finance Bill, moved by the Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley has an unnoticed clause, which retrospectively amends the FCRA, 2010, to redefine foreign companies as "Indian" companies, thus nullifying the illegality that the BJP and the Congress when they took money from Vedanta.
According to The Wire, the clever amendment to the FCRA in the Finance Bill says,
"In the Foreign Contribution(Regulation) Act 2010, in section 2, in sub section(1), in clause (j), in sub-clause(vi), the following proviso shall be inserted with effect from 26 September, 2010, namely:–
'Provided that where the nominal value of share capital is within the limits specified for foreign investments under the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, or the rules and regulations made thereunder, then, notwithstanding the nominal value of the share capital of a company being more than one half of such value at the time of making the contribution, such company shall not be deemed a foreign source'."
The Wire's story further reveals the following:
The FCRA bans political parties from receiving funds from any foreign source. In its original provision, the law defines "foreign source" to include any company with foreign investment of above 50%:
a company within the meaning of the Companies Act, 1956, and more than one-half of the nominal value of its share capital is held, either singly or in the aggregate, by one or more of the following: (A) the government of a foreign country or territory; (B) the citizens of a foreign country or territory; (C) corporations incorporated in a foreign country or territory; (D) trusts, societies or other associations of individuals (whether incorporated or not), formed or registered in a foreign country or territory; (E) foreign company;
Under the new definition, so long as the foreign company's ownership of an Indian entity is within the foreign investment limits prescribed by the government for that sector, the company will be treated as "Indian" for the purposes of the FCRA
The new provision is retrospective, and is with effect from 2010, when the FCRA was introduced.
Apart from Vedanta, hundreds if not not thousands of foreign companies – from the UK and the United States but also China, the United Arab Emirates or elsewhere – will now be able to make contributions to Indian political parties – and towards "activities of a political nature" by NGOs, and others.
In other words, while legitimising the actions of the BJP (and Congress), the Modi government has opened the door wide for everyone else.
The Wire quotes Prashant Bhushan, counsel for Association for Democratic Reforms, one of the respondents in the pending appeal by the Congress and the BJP, as saying that the retrospective amendment to the FCRA is aimed at bailing out the two major political parties before the Supreme Court is even able to examine the matter. "This is a case of preempting the judiciary through a retrospective change in law."
Legally India will report further developments in the case.
Congress BJP Union Budget Prashant Bhushan Supreme Court Delhi high court
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Was Cheney involved in the use of the FBI Raiding President Trumps Home?
By Wyoming News
The Wyoming News has learned that it was Liz Cheney from Wyoming who made falsified claims that President Donald J Trump had secret nuclear weapons files at his home in Mar-a-lago.
First off, it is the GSA that packs the boxes and moves Presidents from the White House to their homes or to the White House. Depending if they are an outgoing President or an incoming President. So anything packed is the fault of the GSA, not President Trump's.
And as far as the US Nuclear Codes, the President never has access to those, and only a US military Aide is the one who carries the codes where ever the President goes. The U.S. military aid carries the "President's emergency Stachel." commonly called the "Football."
FBI agents carried out Joe Biden, Liz Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer's express desire to raid the former Presidential home in an attempt to harass, intimidate and come up with any evidence that Liz Cheney could use in her drive to get rid of Trump's 2024 return to power.
The FBI stated that they were searching for classified documents relating to nuclear weapons but found NONE! This was yet another HOAX!
According to several anonymous sources, the FBI Hierarchy is in a bit of a frantic mindset, as they came up with nothing that could or would implicate President Trump on anything.
Agents, during the search, ransacked the former President's home, even going through the underwear of the first lady. SHAME, SHAME on the FBI. The whole Trump family watched this on live feed as they were in another location. Since the whole Mar-a-largo estate was wired with cameras, the entire incident was captured on camera. According to Trump sources, "There will be hell to pay" This was a reference to Trump's attorneys going after the US Government, among others who directed the false HOAX WITCH HUNT, such as the likes of Liz Cheney from Wyoming.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland's stated in a press conference that he "personally approved" of the raid on President Donald Trump's home. The entire country has turned on the FBI and DOJ as they are considered enemies of the state. This is Socialism at its best. "Take out your opposition so that you can continue your corrupt activity against the people of the United States." This is wrong on so many levels, one White House insider stated, who asked not to have his picture or identity revealed for fear of retaliation against him and his family.
In one breath the US Attorney General Merrick Garland gloats about the raid on the former President's home, and in the same breath, plays the victim card by stating, "I condemn the unfounded attacks on the FBI and the DOJ that is being done to the agents by Trump supporters."
What a forked tongue Garland has. He directly needs to be held accountable "legally" by Congress and the public. This is SOCIALISM.
"I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant," Garland stated "The department does not take such a decision lightly." Bullshit at its finest.
As far as Americans look at this incident, it looks like it is the FBI who has POOPED their pants and the STINK is pungent. President Donald J Trump will be the next President in 2024 and no FBI, DOJ, Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler, or Cheney will be able to stop the MAGA historic wave that is about to take this country BACK in 2024! Vote every Democrat out. vote Republican if you want America to stay free.
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Cyber attacks cost healthcare organizations SIX BILLION per year. A report issued by ID Experts found these costs to average roughly $2.1 million per organization. The percentage of healthcare organizations that have reported criminal cyber attacks has risen from under 40% in 2013 to over 50% in 2016. Last year alone saw a 63% increase in cyber attacks.
According to an annual survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute, more than 90% of healthcare organizations have suffered at least one data breach, exposing patient records over the past two years. In this time, 39% of healthcare organizations suffered between two to five breaches, while 40% incurred more than five breaches.
By utilizing CopyStrong's unique Digital Identity algorithms and predictive configurations, CopyStrong offers healthcare organizations the ability to initiate "bait and switch" functionality. This function allows preconfigured fictitious content (documents, patient records, numbers and data) to serve upon an attempted breach or alerting activity. This fictitious content hosts tracking numbers and other security features providing further analysis and insight into the breach.
Healthcare organizations using CopyStrong would be able to configure high-level mitigation strategies, reduce monetary loss from insider threat and data breaches, assess probability and minimize the severity of identified risks, implement preconfigured actions to minimize the impact or likelihood of insider threat occurrences, and provide real time alerting to probable insider threat conditions.
On average around 200 people have access to a patient's medical record during a three-day hospital stay. Experts say a stolen medical chart fetches $75 to $100 on the cyber-crime black market compared with $1 or $2 for a stolen credit-card number. CopyStrong combats insider threats, while adding a second layer of internet protection against content, data and code theft.
COPYSTRONG is the only solution for healthcare organizations offering this diversification in digital cybersecurity, providing advanced functionality in areas such as intelligence, analytics, predictive modeling, pattern recognition and cryptographic hash functions. COPYSTRONG solves today's current cybersecurity vulnerabilities within the healthcare organization, while delivering futuristic solutions that will precede perpetrators efforts.
The use of COPYSTRONG inside healthcare organizations offers huge potential benefits. These include intelligence, encryption, recovery, theft protection, identity tracking and hosting a variety of advanced technological features not commonly applied in security measures within healthcare organizations. With the current Federal mandates for healthcare and growing requirements for digital record keeping in combination with the demand for increased speed of deployment of EMR technologies, incidents of insider threats and breaches will continue to grow exponentially without the use of aggressive preventative measures.


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Detecting Attackers as They Head Towards Your Money
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Detecting Attackers as They Head
Towards Your Money
Tim Wade
I recently joined Vectra CMO, Jennifer Geisler for an inside look at the recent spotlight report: Vision and Visibility: Top 10 Threat Detections for Microsoft Azure AD and Office 365. We wanted to peel back some of the layers of the report and really get into what a threat detection truly means, what makes detecting threats so challenging and how organizations can create a vision and visibility to help measure whether or not their security approach is successful. If you didn't catch the webinar, don't worry—you can download the report.
The report details the most frequent threat detections Vectra customers see and use to help ratify attacks across Microsoft Azure AD and Office 365. Not all of the detections are malicious, however, they are all received by customers due to infrequent behavior that is either determined to be abnormal or unsafe across these cloud platforms. You'll get a look at how the detections measure up based on company size, what each could mean in terms of potential attack activity and how the detections would map back to a real-life supply chain attack.
While the report offers insightful data and research, it can also be a helpful resource for security teams that are establishing vision and visibility—we were able to take all of those areas a step further during the webinar. One of the questions that came up was, "what makes threat detection so challenging?"
I wish there was a simple one-line answer for this, but that question has to go back to actionability. You have to first define what is actually considered a threat. Is it an exploit, a compromise or unusual activity? Then, if you're going to capture threats, you should have the ability to identify something that isn't obvious because today's adversaries are getting crafty and much less obvious with their motions. As you'll see in the spotlight report, adversaries take actions towards their goals that look very similar to authorized user activity—not only do you need to be able to detect that, but also apply the necessary remediation and response against it.
It might go without saying, but the fact that we now have Top 10 threat detection data available for these popular Microsoft services is a testament to just how many organizations are using these platforms. Microsoft has over 250 million Office 365 paid seats, and there's certainly a good reason for this—the tool is incredibly valuable, especially in terms of keeping a remote workforce connected and productive. It just so happens that cybercriminals are taking notice of the large audience, which makes detecting their behavior more important than ever.
The top 3 threat detections
1. O365 Risky Exchange Operation
Abnormal Exchange operations have been detected that may indicate an attacker is manipulating Exchange to gain access to specific data or further attack progression.
2. Azure AD Suspicious Operation
Abnormal Azure AD operations have been detected that may indicate attackers are escalating privileges and performing admin-level operations after regular account takeover.
3. O365 suspicious Download Activity
An account was seen downloading an unusual number of objects which may indicate an attacker is using SharePoint or OneDrive download functions to exfiltrate data.
It's like when the notorious bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he keeps robbing banks. He said, "that's where the money is."
We cover why attacker behavior is heading towards the cloud along with which threat detections carry the most potential for attack behavior—like why an O365 Risky Exchange Operation detection could mean an adversary is disabling protections and exfiltrating data. We'll show you why the idea that you can stop a bad actor no longer works, and how you can think about measuring success—by actually knowing what's going on in your environment.
We hope you enjoy the discussion and find the Spotlight Report useful as well.


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FrontFundr Launch - Press Release
FrontFundr launches to provide investors and companies access to a new capital market
FrontFundr empowers regular people to act as ancillary 'dragons' in the private-sector investment den
VANCOUVER, BC (May 26, 2015) – May 27 will mark the launch of the much-anticipated financial technology platform, FrontFundr, which will unlock a new capital market and allow regular people to invest in private companies.
FrontFundr uses technology to enable entrepreneurs to raise money from a broad investor community. This is an opportunity for the general public to directly drive innovation and entrepreneurship. With FrontFundr, both experienced and regular investors are able to exercise positive influence on businesses they would like to support.
Previously, most Canadians were locked out from investing in young companies due to absence of an accessible market place and regulatory restrictions. On the other side, most early-stage companies looking for capital to grow their businesses had limited to no access to capital markets. This model left gaps in the growth-potential of early-stage companies, and it cut average citizens out of these investment opportunities.
"We're giving regular people a chance to sit in the pitch seat and act as ancillary dragons," says Peter-Paul Van Hoeken, CEO at FrontFundr. "We're providing ordinary people with access to carefully screened investment opportunities, and entrepreneurs with access to more capital to support their growth."
In traditional investment models entrepreneurs were limited to approaching angels and venture capital firms in hopes of finding much needed capital. This process of getting access to informal networks of a relatively small investor group requires a heavy investment of time and money. What's more, it taps only a fraction of the world's willing investors. FrontFundr is disrupting private-sector investing and bridging that gap. "We are offering an open market connecting seasoned investors and retail investors with stringently screened companies and supporting the entire investment process from pitch to securities purchase. Delivering better capital and better deals to all parties," says Van Hoeken.
Regulators around the world are adopting new rules to allow companies to raise funds from investors through crowdfunding. The US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted rules this year allowing companies to sell as much as US$50 million of securities via the Internet. On May 14 2015, six provinces in Canada announced that they will allow young companies to raise up to CA$500,000 a year using a funding portal. FrontFundr is leveraging existing and new capital raising rules to offer its clients a broad range of funding and investment solutions.
FrontFundr's investment opportunities are typically early-stage, mission-driven ventures seeking $200,000 to $2 million in capital investment. They have positive social impact and are predominantly from one of three key sectors: arts & entertainment, energy & environment, and technology. FrontFundr has already registered three businesses to raise capital through its platform, including RentMoola, InterLock, and Emergent Waste Solutions.
"We're an innovative technology company and we work at a fast pace," says Patrick Postrehovsky, CEO of RentMoola, a company that eases the pain of paying rent with rewards. "We're excited to work with an exempt market dealer that operates similarly to the way we do—leveraging technology and innovation to disrupt an industry to the benefit of the public."
FrontFundr is a fully compliant, registered exempt market dealer (EMD) and conducts stringent due diligence on all business investment deals presented to its investor community, and ensures both investors and entrepreneurs understand the risks and rewards associated with entering into a transaction.
For more information or media requests, contact Jeannine Bartz at Jeannine@frontfundr.com or 604-306-0207.


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Monthly Archives December 29, 2015
Nottz – I Still Love You Ft. Mayer Hawthorne
Chill, Hip-hop, Indie
Love Hip Hop with a smooth & funky chorus that will stay lit in your head for weeks on end? We have the track for you. Rapper Nottz has many correlations to well-known artist Phonte when it comes to story t...
Top Tracks of 2015
Best of, Indie
There were a handful of tracks in 2015 that went from nothing to something in just a few weeks time. Names like The Weeknd, Fetty Wap, Wiz Khalifa, Adele, Drake, OMI and Justin Bieber dominated the charts. ...
Smooth Basslines of 2015
Best of, Chillout, Daytime, Groove
2015 marked an interesting year in music. Streaming solidified itself as an alternative to music piracy, Justin Bieber took tropical house mainstream and Mark Ronson reminded us that funk music still gets th...
Selected By: Cocovan
Curated Playlists, Pop
Over the past few years the Parisian beauty made quite a name for herself in her home city, but recently she felt the calling to immerse herself in the colorful cultures of NYC and LA, absorbing everything the great American cities had to offer.
Beach Baby – Limousine
Alt (Rock), Indie, Pop, Psychedelic, Surf, UK
Beach Baby are a London-based indie rock four-piece that capitalize on groovy pop bass lines and anthemic guitar licks. It's a US grunge, post-punk and 60s pop sound that really defines Beach Baby and makes the...
Max Pope – Less Than Nothing
Alt (Rock), Blues, Easy Listening, Indie
20-year old Brighton-based Max Pope sounds like a reaction Mac DeMarco and Leon Bridges. He has found a smooth niche within indie rock, blues and rhythmic jazz. Very clean sound. Max's liberal dash of youth...
Animal House – English Girls
Alt (Rock), Garage, Indie, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Surf
Animal House are an Australian garage pop-rock band, currently based in Brighton, England. Their latest single, titled "English Girls," is a bright, bold rock track with loads of hooks. The Australian band h...
Top Hip Hop Releases of 2015
Best of, Hip-hop, Indie, Rap
Casablanca Sunset Editor, Andrew Starkman, reviews his Top 20 Hip-Hop Releases of 2015
VHS Collection – Lean [EP Premiere]
Alt (Rock), Indie, Interview, premiere
VHS Collection are an electronic indie rock band from New York City known for their kaleidoscope-synth sounds and high energy live shows. Today they released their new self-titled debut EP. The EP was recorded ...
Selected By: Chelsea Lankes
Alt (Rock), Curated Playlists, Indie, Pop
Over the last year the talented and creative vocalist Chelsea Lankes has collaborated with artists like RAC and Chance the Rapper.
Seoul vs Jay-Z – Encore With Us
Indie, Indie, Mashup, premiere
Here's a solid mashup to start off your week. It's a bootleg seamlessly mixing the indie synth pop trio Seoul and hip-hop icon/business mogul Jay-Z. Seoul is a Montreal-based trio that have been gained a fai...
Top Albums of 2015
What a year in music! Here is our list of 2015's best albums.


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HOTE: Home of the Eagles Part 1
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By wpina1997 Ongoing - Updated 2 days ago
Manolo and Marisol are two cousins who are starting their first day of high school together.  They both share the same birthday, they each have a single mother and an older sister, and they share the same passion for music. They become friends with six aspiring musicians named Sacha, Anton, Jenna,  Alyssa, Monica, and Chuckie who are all in their history class. The 8 of them decides to form a band together called "HOTE". They've audition for a few record labels, but found no success. They found out that their history teacher Freddie Herrera used to be a musician in his youth, so they ask him if he could help them get a record deal by being their band manager. He said no, not because he doesn't want to get their hopes up, but he is trying to hide his secret from his students that he's actually a warlock from another dimension. They find out about his secret, and they promise to keep his secret, but they still want him to be their band manager. He agrees, however they must help him find 8 crystals that are hidden under the school, because every 50 years, a mysterious darkness comes to the human world, and they must find them before the darkness does. Freddie's evil twin sister Dominique became a member of the darkness, but her brother or her family doesn't know about it, and knowing that she'll do anything to stop her brother from saving the world from the darkness, she decides to get a job as a PE teacher at the school, to spy on Freddie and his students and stop them from ruining her evil plan.
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Nickelodeon Heroes
By user284564551474
The Nicktoons Unite crew must form again to stop the Evil Syndicate, with the help of one normal kid with ten sisters.
ICreddie
By shirby8
Hey guys! Shelby here! I'm so excited to publish this! I've shipped Creddie most of my childhood, so I'm sorry to the Seddie shippers. Hope you all still like it!
They said goodbye and moved on to better things in 2012. Fast forward 8 years later. Carly, Sam, and Freddie are all 21 and have just finished college. Sam is with Cat, Carly left for Italy, and Freddie is living alone. Late one Thursday night, he sees that Carly has become an Internet star again. He had missed her ever since she left. Is she his missing puzzle piece?
By olvparlannn
Short Story Ideas
By daisyblu
Ever had a bad case of writer's block? Not anymore! I will be posting a list of story ideas - hopefully daily - which you can use as base I begin your adventures.
Just message me if you use one of my prompts and I will check out your story!
Have fun...
Apocalyptic Love
By VeryWeirdOtaku
Two years ago an apocalypse started in Georgia. Somewhere in the woods and city is a boy who tragically lost his family and past groups he was in. From so many tragedies he started to let go of his emotions thinking that he no longer needs them from how many people he had lost during those past 2 years in the apocalypse. Deciding what was best he stayed away from groups and did things by himself and tried his best to stay away from groups. But what happens when that all changes. Just one simple person changes the way he thinks, and brings back what he had let go all that time ago.
Warning! There is BoyxBoy in this story as well as some swearing, if these two things trigger you in any way I would suggest you to not read this story.
By JalainThompson
This is a story on how Tiana and Prince Naveen meet, fall in love, get married, and have a baby.
Cyber Love (Spamano)
By imlovd
Antonio Fernandez Carriedo, highschool student gets hit down by some hard cyber bullies but meets an unusually angry Italian who helps him stand up to these bullies.
Don't Stop Believing [Glee Chat]
By thorsdarkprince
"Strangers, waiting, up and down the boulevard. Their shadows, searching in the moonlight."
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He is the Locket, Love is the Key (Yukito x...
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Cardcaptor Sakura fanfic. Yukito x Touya
Kagami X Kuroko
By SixFlowers
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Kuroko is a rich kid with family issues, one day he meets someone and slowly he starts to develop feeling for him. what will happen? will Kagami feel the same way?


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Hidalgo je v původním významu španělský (ale i portugalský) šlechtický titul (jinde v Evropě srovnatelný s titulem rytíř). V průběhu času se ustálilo, že pod termín hidalgo byl zahrnut nižší šlechtic bez titulu (tedy ne baron, hrabě, vévoda atd.), který byl v minulosti osvobozen od placení daní a který hledal své uplatnění většinou ve vojenských službách.

Hidalgové mají svůj původ v dobách reconquisty. V desátém století se termín infanzón (tj. hidalgo) objevuje v astursko-leonských dokumentech jako synonymum pro španělské a středověké latinské výrazy caballero a miles (oba pojmy znamenají "rytíř"). Tito infanzoni byli vazaly ve službách velkých magnátů a církevních prelátů. V polovině dvanáctého století se řady hidalgů začaly uzavírat. Ve městech hraničících s územím ovládaným Maury začali hidalgové dominovat zdejší společnosti a politice, jelikož magnáti a preláti žili v bezpečném zázemí.

Typy hidalgů

Hidalgos de sangre (tj. na základě krve – "Iure Sanguini", tzn. že tito hidalgové byli od nepaměti vznešení). Hidalgo de sangre mohl na žádost získat soudní potvrzení o svém šlechtictví od Royal Chancillería z Valladolidu nebo Granady (Královská kancléřství), pokud mohl prokázat, že jeho šlechtictví bylo přijato místním šlechtickým sborem (Cuerpo de Nobleza). V tomto případě se výsledný právní dokument, který ověřuje jeho šlechtictví, nazývá "Carta ejecutoria de hidalguia" (šlechtický patent).

Hidalgos de privilegio (tj. na základě královské výsady) a hidalgos de Real Provision (tj. na základě záslužných činů) získali šlechtictví od Jeho Veličenstva španělského krále, který je mohl udělit v postavení panovníka nebo v postavení ochránce/protektora vojenského bratrstva, jako je např. Noble Compañia de Ballesteros Hijosdalgo de San Felipe y Santiago.

Aby mohl být někdo považován za hidalga, musel doložit šlechtické předky (nejméně tři mužská pokolení), poté musel být hidalgem veřejně prohlášen (nejdříve se tak dělo královskou kanceláří – Royal Chancillería, viz výše, později převzaly tuto funkci "Cuerpy", tj. šlechtické sbory té které provincie). Bez uznání a veřejného vyhlášení nemohl být dotyčný považován za hidalga. Tento postup byl uzákoněn v "Las partidas de Alfonso X" a "Las leyes de Toro" od r. 1505 a je platný a používaný neustále i v dnešní době.

Šlechtické tituly

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Streamlining is a form of structure that lessens resistance and turbulence to air flow.
Although its golden age is normally associated with the nineteen-thirties, the first streamlined car, the Rumpler Tropfenwagen emerged in 1921. Streamline-inspired forms were most prominent in aircraft designs, but they were also applied to trains, buses, even buildings with their beautifully rounded frontages, and trucks. Here are a few sleek old haulers, some depicted in their original settings, that might keep you endlessly amused.
Great pictures! Being a fan / collector of the Art Deco period + an automobile enthusiast to boot, I really find these types of vehicles of this era fascinating! Any more pictures?
Some great pictures there, not sure how the Pony Beer Depot pick up sneaked past your Art Director's gaze though.


The knowledge of your best people not only runs your business, it is your business. You use it everywhere, everyday and with everyone. Without it, your business would just be four walls.
Knowledge: the facts, information, and skills that a person acquires through experience and/or education.
It is the theoretical or practical understanding of an object.
Everything boils down to your organization's ability to transfer knowledge to the right people at the right times with purpose. Your knowledge is crucial and valuable, but it's not working for you.
How long did it take them to learn everything they know?
What exactly do they know — and what don't they know?
How many hours a year do they spend repeating information to customers — or to each other?
How many years would it take to develop a newcomer to their level?
How long does it take to develop a great employee — and how quickly can you lose them?
How long does it take them to get informed enough to make a purchase decision?
What confuses them and how do unanswered questions affect their willingness to purchase?
How many prospects are asking the exact same questions?
How long do your sales staff spend personally nurturing leads?
How much will they remember from conversations with your sales team?
Do they fully understand the product or service they purchased?
Do they understand the full range of your offerings to maximize upsell and cross-sell opportunities?
How long do your customer care staff spend explaining your products or services to them?
Do they know enough about your business to refer you?
When their needs change, will your business be top of mind?
Knowledge is your most valuable asset, but organizations fail to leverage it because they insist on delivering it verbally. They lose countless hours talking with customers, prospects, and staff, repeating the same information.
Whether your knowledge transfer is internal (between employees) or external (to customers, prospective employees, vendors, etc.), sharing it verbally does. not. work.
Your most valuable resource isn't accessible, consistent, or used efficiently. It's idling in a vault untapped, instead of working for you.
When you make knowledge tangible, organize it and manage it, it becomes accessible and transferable. You can strategically deploy it in every department of your business and to every stakeholder who contributes to your success.
Identified, organized, and captured knowledge can revolutionize your business. Package it into strategic, targeted curricula that inform and engage users — ones that are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
That's when you start to reap multi-faceted ROI across your organization.
To make your vast, abstract knowledge into a concrete, targeted service offering, you need a powerful tool. It's called a Knowledge Map.
You can scale and differentiate by deploying knowledge to targeted stakeholders.
Deploy your knowledge to the stakeholders who need it with targeted, measurable eLearning programs. Control who can access your content and harness the latest in gamification technology to motivate users and track their engagement with your material. Use strategic measurement plans to reveal unparalleled insights on the curiosities, motivations, behaviours, and activities of your different audiences.
Your knowledge is invaluable. Don't waste it.
PROTECT IT. LEVERAGE IT. REAP THE ROI.
Who do YOU need to reach? Deploy knowledge to the right people.
Get your knowledge under control and deliver it to your audience.
Manage and move your knowledge. Revolutionize your business.


In 2017, Anthony Lepre (pictured above) completed a power-packed, prolific two-year run at College of the Canyons.
After one year at UC Riverside, he's back in the Santa Clarita Valley, showing that same pop with the bat, this time at The Master's University.
On Friday in Lakeside, the right-handed hitting senior's entire repertoire was on display in a doubleheader against San Diego Christian.
He slugged three home runs, went a combined 6-for-9 and drove in six runs to lead The Master's to a 7-6 and 10-2 sweep of the host Hawks.
The Mustangs' (17-9-1 overall, 10-6 GSAC) second consecutive doubleheader sweep vaulted the club into a three-way tie for second place in the conference and pulled them within one game of first-place Westmont.
In the opener, the Mustangs never trailed and yet had to go to extra innings to get the win.
They drew first blood in the top of the first when Lepre hammered his 15th home run of the season, a two-out, solo shot to right-center field.
The Hawks tied the game in their first at-bat against Mustang starter Caleb Jaime before his teammates gave him some runs to work with, scoring three times in the second for a 4-1 lead.
After loading the bases, a walk to Aaron Shackelford forced in the go-ahead run, a fielder's choice by Lepre scored Will Batz, and the fourth run scored on a Hawk error.
The Hawks halved the deficit in the third with a run before Lepre struck again.
He did so in the top of the fourth with his second solo homer of the game.
Lepre wound up going 2-for-5 with three RBIs.
The Hawks countered again in the last half of the frame to pull within 5-3 and made it a one-run game in the seventh on a sacrifice fly.
The Mustangs made it a two-run game (6-4) in the eighth inning when Shackelford drew a two-out, bases-loaded walk and clung to that lead until the last of the ninth when the Hawks tied the game on a two-run homer.
This is when Brooks' quote about his team not giving up came into play.
In the top of the 10th, Byron Smith led off with a double down the left-field line.
Then Batz stepped to the plate and clutched up, singling to center field to plate pinch runner Brayden Luft with what proved to be the winning run.
Batz went 3-for-5 in the opener as the Mustangs laced out 11 hits.
There was no such drama in the nightcap as the Mustangs scored seven runs in their first two at-bats, highlighted by a six-run second inning.
A Shackelford sacrifice fly in the top of the first gave the Mustangs a lead they would never relinquish.
They made sure of that an inning later.
Smith doubled in the frame's first run, Batz's base hit scored another, and when Shackelford singled in Batz, the Mustangs had a 4-0 lead.
Then, Lepre belted a three-run homer to right-center field and the lead ballooned to 7-0. It was Lepre's team-leading 17th home run of the season. Along with his team-leading home run total, Lepre is hitting a remarkable .460 with a team-leading 41 RBIs.
With ace right-hander Robert Winslow on the mound, the run support was more than enough.
Winslow (6-1) wound up going five innings, surrendering four hits and no earned runs while striking out six.
The Hawks' only run off the senior hurler came in unearned fashion in the fourth inning after Shackelford's 15th homer of the season, a two-run shot to right field in the top of the frame, had put the Mustangs up 9-0.
Pinch-hitter Felix King's run-scoring double in the sixth capped the club's scoring and gave the team its seventh double-digit scoring outing of the season.


Okay, now what in Iraq?
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Daily Kos and blogging for dollars.
Harry Reid is not boring.
Bush's don't-ask, don't-tell press conference.
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How to start winning the red states.
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The most amazing quote of the 2004 campaign.
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