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609 Fern St. in West Hartford, a four-bedroom colonial for sale for $459,000, has features attractive to today's homebuyers, including a renovated kitchen.
There have been encouraging signs this winter — increased foot traffic at open houses, a more stable local economy — that have realtors in the Hartford region optimistic about a busy selling season.
While year-over-year Greater Hartford home sales were down 20 percent in January, according to the Greater Hartford Association of Realtors, Paula Ostop, a realtor with William Raveis in West Hartford, said an increased inventory of homes this spring — typically the busiest time for homes going on the market — is going to correct that.
"What's on the market [currently] is not fitting the needs of buyers in the market at the moment," said Ostop, who largely serves clients in Hartford, West Hartford, the Farmington Valley and Glastonbury. "But it's a great time to buy a home because prices are still a bit depressed, interest rates are still low and moving into a larger home is more affordable than it was a few years ago.
That combination of factors has created pent-up demand. At the same time, says John Glascock, director of UConn's Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, sellers have come to accept that their homes won't likely recapture the full amount of their property's pre-Great Recession values and are willing to sell at a lower price point. In fact, a decade removed from the bottom of the recession, Greater Hartford's median home sales price last year ($221,000) was still lower than in 2007.
Glascock said the greatest impact of Connecticut's post-recession economy has been on the upper-end of the real estate market.
"The state lost a lot of six-figure salary jobs [after 2008] and the jobs that have replaced them are lower-wage jobs — in the $50,000 to $85,000 range," he said. "It creates a very different profile of a [prospective] buyer in the state."
And it's making higher-end homes — $700,000 and up — more challenging to sell. In Avon, for instance, while the average price of all homes on the market was around $766,000, the average sales price was just over $474,000, according to Hartford County MLS data.
Kathleen Shippee, a realtor with Coldwell Banker in Simsbury, who predominantly serves Farmington Valley clients, has seen that impact firsthand.
"Buyers in the 5,000-plus square-foot range still exist, but some are realizing they may not need that extra space, nor do they want the increased costs to heat the property, furnish it or pay higher taxes," she said.
While property taxes are often a consideration in a home purchase, the recently overhauled federal tax code — which includes a provision that caps property tax deductions for homeowners — is making Uncle Sam's cut an even bigger factor for buyers.
"I'm not sure the new tax law will be a deterrent to people buying a new home," said Dale Stevens, an Enfield-based realtor with RE/MAX and president of the Greater Hartford Association of Realtors. "But it's possible that towns with higher property taxes may not be as favorable as those with lower [ones]."
But the biggest driver of home sales is move-in condition, unless the buyer sees the value in a particular home, says Shippee. "Most buyers are not looking to do many updates, so [for sellers] investing in home improvements should help create a better return," she said. "Homebuyers are still very cautious [about purchasing] and are not as willing to jump at homes unless it's the right situation."
"Many buyers have already done renovations to put their house on the market and they don't want to purchase a larger home and do all that work again," she explained. Today's tech-savvy buyer's, says Ostop, are also educated and know what comparable homes in a neighborhood have sold for.
In 2017, while the total number of homes sold in Greater Hartford increased by 2.8 percent from the previous year, the median sales price was basically flat at $221,000, according to the Greater Hartford Association of Realtors. That, along with the low interest rate environment, has also driven more first-time buyers to explore the market.
Meantime, while interest rates are expected to rise, Ostop said that can be a motivating factor for buyers to make a decision to lock in lower rates.
She said she expects this spring's selling season will be busy. "With what we're seeing at open houses, I am confident we're going to have a really great spring market," Ostop said.


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Every day you've got running shoes on, it's a good day.
— Sean Astin, "Runners' World" interview
Although Mike Rush admits his average customers are walkers or those on their feet all day — someone just looking for a comfortable pair of shoes — the staff at the three locations of his store Rush Running Co. are at the ready to explain cushioning, stability components, gate inefficiencies and each element's effect on the foot.
"My staff is — I will argue this 'til the day I die — one of the most educated shops in the country," Rush asserts. "We have a month-long training process. They've learned every bit of technology from every brand. So our fitting process is an education to each customer."
But for those "sneaker heads" and "shoe geeks" interested in a more historical kind of education, Rush's Bentonville shop offers one of the most unusual and extensive collections in the country. Some 250 running shoes line the walls of the museum display, peeking out from the loft space overlooking the store showroom. Shoes from across brands and across history — dating to the 1920s — demonstrate not only changing fashions and trending colors, but also technological advancements and even failures. The exhibition comprises shoes from Rush's own childhood, local legendary runners, limited releases and eccentric designs.
"There's lots of history here and lots of stories to be told with individual shoes," says store employee and museum collaborator Stuart Jackson on a sunny afternoon in September as he indicates notable pieces of the collection.
There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.
— Dean Karnazes
Ultramarathon runner and author of "Ultramarathon Man"
What began as a dream and boxes of old shoes and memorabilia in Rush's garage found a home in 2015 when Bentonville planning commissioners approved plans for Rush's 8,000-square-foot building on S.E. J Street (3,000 square feet of which is occupied by Premiere Physical Therapy), moving the business out of its formerly leased space and into its current home.
Stuart Jackson's older brother, Ryan, who had done some of his own research into the history of the footwear during his athletic career, recalls seeing the museum mentioned in a press release.
"I showed up to [Rush's] Monday night track workout in Bentonville, and after the workout was over, I said, 'Hey, I read the press release. What's your vision for the museum?'" Ryan Jackson remembers. "And he said, 'I want a history of running through shoes.'"
With Rush's vision and beginnings of a collection, Ryan Jackson's interest since childhood in researching athletic shoes, and Stuart Jackson's equal enthusiasm and curiosity for the history of the sport they all loved, the wheels started to turn.
"We just started feeding off each other, and I became an enabler," Stuart Jackson says with a laugh, "because I would go [online] and just be looking at [tons of] stuff. But I think it really took off when we got Gary Smith."
Gary Smith, owner of Little Rock's Easy Runner (now Fleet Feet Easy Runner), donated "a ton of old shoes" to Rush when he sold his business of more than three decades. The same thing happened last year when Bob Roncker (a friend and mentor to Rush in the running store business) of Roncker's Running Spot in Cincinnati, Ohio — Rush's wife's hometown — gave Rush the pick of his own small shoe museum after selling his more than 30-year-old business. With the two huge donations, Rush Running's shoe museum had accumulated more sneakers than they would ever have room for.
"We were like kids in a candy store. We were sitting up here for hours just looking at them," Rush enthuses.
"When we first started, it was really more about what we could get," Ryan Jackson adds. "So we [analyzed] hundreds of shoes and ended up keeping dozens of them. It was really neat to look across all brands — some brands don't even exist anymore — and say, 'What is this?' and 'Is it important?'"
While the acquisitions were exciting, those hundreds of shoes also brought hundreds of hours of research — identifying, naming and building stories around each pair that would belong to the collection. Other shoes have made their way to the museum shelves as gifts from local runners or visitors to the store, or through eBay bidding and online searches. But even those require a degree of investigation to justify their significance as an addition to the museum.
"It's fun, but let me tell you, some of these shoes get frustrating," Rush reveals. "If you can't find any visual evidence that a shoe existed, yet you're holding it in your hand, it's like, 'Why!'"
"With so much of the history obviously coming before the internet and before the information age, there's not a lot of record-keeping out there on a lot of this stuff," Ryan Jackson affirms. "So one of the ways that's actually helped a lot is Mike also has a very extensive collection of running magazines — Runners' World, Track and Field News, among others — that are chock full of advertisements starting in the late 1960s and early 1970s — a lot of them not even in color — that have allowed us to identify a good handful of the models. So that's kind of neat because that's beyond the search pages of Google. It's hard copy."
I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.
— Bill Rodgers
With their shelves full of vintage to modern Nike, Adidas, New Balance, Brooks shoes and more, the three sneaker fanatics can now afford to be selective in the pieces they add to the walls. With the hope of exhibiting interesting moments in design history, as well as celebrating the sport by highlighting both local history and internationally significant contributions, Rush contends their collection is one of the most well-documented in the country.
Visitors to the museum can see leather, spiked track shoes from the 1920s worn by University of Arkansas athletes, shoes owned by former record-holders and even a pair gifted by an Iron Man World Championships qualifier from Fayetteville. There are also firsts represented in the collection — like the first available three-dimensional printed running shoe, Nike's first heart-rate monitor and the first ribbed out sole used on a running shoe.
"My dad talked about having a pair like this one here, and so, it's just history," Stuart Jackson muses, indicating a pair of running shoes on the wall.
"That's what I think is the coolest part," Rush adds. "We have guys in their 60s come in, and they're like, 'I ran in this shoe!' or 'This was my first pair of running shoes,' and they'll point one out, and that is awesome. You can see their face light up, and I really like that response."
Surpassing the nostalgia and local ties, pieces in the collection like the Nike roller skates from the 1970s — four wheels bolted to a Nike waffle trainer — or the 1985 Turntec Apex with a replaceable, Velcroed out sole, offer a compelling, if not humorous, glimpse at what companies thought consumers would respond to.
"To be able to look at all of the time and research and development and technology that's been put into developing the footwear, and then combine that with stories of great athletic performances or innovations that really caught on that nobody saw coming, it helps tell unique stories," Ryan Jackson shares. "That's where I find the enjoyment, is that there's so many stories to be told through something as simple as a shoe."
And Rush and the Jackson brothers (or any of the Rush Running staff) are all too happy to share those stories with visitors. In a time when it's easy to be considered a "runner" — all one really needs is a good pair of shoes and some willpower — contemporary participants in the sport might not realize the conditions and equipment in which athletes used to have to perform.
"Back then, people had to adapt to that footwear" due to the lack of technology, Stuart Jackson shares. "But I think what you have now is better cushioning, which I think can contribute to longevity because you're not beating your body up as much. So even if even if you can adapt to that less cushion, to me it would seem like you can still go farther with newer technology because you're putting less stress on your body."
"Like, if I ran a marathon in that today, I'd be crippled for the next year," Rush confesses while animatedly discussing one of the classic models.
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Back down in the showroom, those improvements to stability and comfort can be, at the same time, obvious and indistinct to a customer's untrained eye, which is why Rush's employees possess the knowledge to help customers find their customized fits — an experience for which the shop has earned national attention. Between Rush's position as a figurehead in, and the contributions his business has made to the sport of running, publications and individual runners across the country are taking notice of the running culture in Northwest Arkansas and Bentonville, specifically.
Between sponsoring charity runs — more than 50 a year — the workouts and run groups organized through the shop, and the business's partnership with the safety campaign Travel With Care NWA, Mike Rush and Rush Running have become inextricably woven into the local running community. The shoe museum, the three men hope, only provides another way for people to connect over their shared love of running and of history.
"It is interesting to think about the local museum culture," Ryan Jackson says. "When I moved to Northwest Arkansas nine years ago, that was not really on anybody's radar. In the same way that you go to Crystal Bridges, and there's stories to be told through innovation and artwork, there's stories to be told through footwear. It adds to our local culture of storytelling through artifacts, and I think that's a lot of fun."
"To me, when I feel like the museum has reached its full potential is when people are coming in from out of town going, 'I heard about this museum,'" Rush admits. "It's awesome to have a running store and that it can support this habit I have for running memorabilia. But I want to share it. That's my goal. I want people to see it and be like, 'That is cool.'"
Rush Running Shoe Museum
WHAT — A collection of some 250 running shoes presenting history, triumphs and even missteps in technology and achievements of athletic footwear.
WHEN — Store hours are 10 a.m.to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday
WHERE — Rush Running Co., 1600-2 S.E. J St., Bentonville
COST — Free
INFO — 464-7866, rushrunning.com, facebook.com/rushrunning
BONUS — Rush Running's next big race is the "Back 40 Trail Race" on Dec. 9. Registration is currently open. See more details at the store's website.
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American Music Legends The Oak Ridge Boys to Release 'Rock of Ages' TV Special and DVD with Gaither Music Group
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Gaither Music Group is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of a new DVD–Rock of Ages–from the legendary country and gospel music group The Oak Ridge Boys. As a part of Gaither's widely-popular Gaither Gospel Series®, the GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal group brings to the stage their heartfelt renditions of fifteen of their favorite hymns and gospel classics.
Set for release on January 21, the Rock of Ages DVD spotlights a diverse collection of some of the most treasured Gospel music classics and timeless hymns, while showcasing The Oak Ridge Boys' unmistakable, four-part blends. A long-awaited companion to their popular Rock of Ages CD (Gaither Music Group, 2015), Duane Allen, William Lee Golden, Joe Bonsall, and Richard Sterban bring new arrangements to beloved songs such as "In the Sweet By and By," "In the Garden," "I Love to Tell the Story" and more. Packed with powerhouse vocal performances, the DVD includes a guest appearance from GMA Hall of Fame members The Isaacs, a tribute highlighting country music icon Merle Haggard's vocals on the song "Sweet Jesus" as well as a never-before-seen interview with the group's longtime friend and gospel music legend Bill Gaither.
A Rock of Ages TV special is currently airing on PBS, Circle TV, TBN, RFD-TV, GaitherTV, TCT, Heartland, and CTN. The special will also be airing in Canada on Vision TV, CTS, The Miracle Channel, and Hope TV. The Rock of Ages TV special will premiere on the Gaither Music TV YouTube channel on Thursday, January 27, and can be watched on the GaitherTV platform which is available on Roku, Amazon FireTV, AppleTV, Android TV, iOS, and GooglePlay.
The Rock Of Ages DVD will be available at online accounts, retail stores, and at Gaither.com; and individual music videos from the release will be available at all digital streaming accounts and on the Gaither YouTube Channel (over 2.4 million subscribers and over 2.3 billion views). The first two digital singles, "In the Sweet By and By" and "I Love to Tell the Story" are available to watch now across all digital video platforms.
Watch the official video for The Oak Ridge Boys – "In The Sweet By And By" below:
Rock of Ages DVD track listing:
01. "In The Sweet By And By"
02. "Rock Of Ages"
03. "In The Garden"
04. "Just A Little Talk With Jesus"
05. "There Is Power In The Blood"
06. "I Love To Tell The Story"
07. "Time Has Made A Change In Me"
08. "Blessed Assurance"
09. "Life's Railway To Heaven"
10. "Hold To God's Unchanging Hand"
11. "Farther Along"
12. "Sweet Jesus" (feat. Merle Haggard)
13. "Angel Band"
14. "Father, I Stretch My Hand To Thee"
15. "Peace Within" (feat. The Isaacs)
For more information on The Oak Ridge Boys, visit their website or follow them on social media.
About The Oak Ridge Boys:
The Oak Ridge Boys have sold over 41 million units worldwide and are synonymous with "America, apple pie, baseball, and country music." In addition to their awards and accolades in the country music field, the Oaks have garnered five GRAMMY® Awards, sixteen GMA DOVE Awards, and two American Music Awards. The group—Joe Bonsall, Duane Allen, William Lee Golden, and Richard Sterban, members of the prestigious Country Music Hall of Fame (2015 Inductees) and the Grand Ole Opry (since 2011)—is known worldwide as one of recording history's most extraordinary musical successes. They have charted single after single and album after album, celebrating two double-platinum albums and more than 30 Top 10 hits, including No. 1 chart-toppers "Elvira," "Bobbie Sue," "Thank God For Kids," "American Made," and "Y'All Come Back Saloon," among dozens more. For more information and to view upcoming tour dates for The Oak Ridge Boys, please visit oakridgeboys.com.
About Gaither Music Group:
One of the largest independent Christian music companies in the world and a household name for millions of fans, Gaither Music Group, in partnership with Primary Wave Publishing, is known worldwide for its award-winning and top-selling recordings, including the Gaither Gospel Series, of which 133 products have been certified gold, platinum or multi-platinum. These recordings, which encompass more than 177 video copyrights, showcase gospel music pioneers; many of the finest performers in the gospel genre; up-and-coming acts; and country artists including The Oak Ridge Boys, Jimmy Fortune, Joey+Rory, Alabama, Alan Jackson, The Statler Brothers, George Jones, Vince Gill, and others. The brand has partnered with Sandi Patty, Gloria Gaynor, Steven Curtis Chapman, and a host of acclaimed talents from various fields of music. Gaither Music Group has garnered sales of more than 40 million DVDs and CDs, including such PBS stalwarts as Billy Graham: God's Ambassador, the only authorized video autobiography of Reverend Billy Graham; The Gospel Music of Johnny Cash; and three Elvis Presley projects, in conjunction with the Elvis Presley Estate. The company developed a strategic partnership with Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® in 2008; and its alliances with Capitol Christian Music Group, Virgin Music Label & Artist Services, Universal Music Group, and Time Life Music remain bedrocks for the company.
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CyanogenMod May Start Selling Forbidden Android Fruit
By Richard Adhikari
January 24, 2012 5:00 AM PT
CyanogenMod, which offers aftermarket firmware for Android mobile devices, is apparently planning to sell apps that have been banned from the official Android Market.
Koushik Dutta, who writes apps for CyanogenMod, has put up a screenshot of what seems to be the landing page for the app market.
The market's offerings will include root apps, as well as tether apps and Visual Voicemail apps, according to Dutta.
The market for root apps "is there, it's talked about in techie circles, but it's not really in the general market," Michael Morgan, a senior analyst at ABI Research, told LinuxInsider.
"Most people don't even want to take the risk of rooting their device, and they may not see it as an advantage," Morgan explained.
What Rooting's All About
Rooting is the process that gives users of mobile Android devices superuser access, a.k.a. "root access," within the operating system.
It lets users change or replace system applications and settings, run specialized apps that require administrator-level permissions, and even remove and replace the operating system.
The process is similar to accessing admin permissions on Linux or OS X.
It's possible to download apps that require rooting from Google's Android Market.
Rooting and Its Risks
Rooting can cancel out a mobile device's factory settings and possibly void the vendor's or service provider's warranty.
Further, if the rooting process isn't completed correctly, it could damage the software. That would require a factory recover, which means all data on the device, such as contacts and apps, would be lost. In extreme cases, it could require the user to turn to a service technician for help.
On the other hand, most rooting applications and methods can be easily reverted.
Still, root apps would be desired only by "a very sophisticated audience," ABI's Morgan remarked.
The Fruits of Rooting
Rooting an Android device can sometimes improve performance through overclocking or relocating the memory cache. In other cases, it'll let users add new themes and edit core apps such as maps, the calendar or the clock, among other things.
Further, users will be able to install apps to an SD card, which Android typically doesn't allow.
Rooting an Android mobile device can also let the user get tethered Internet access.
Android 2.2 and up support tethering. The tethering feature has been disabled at the request of parties like wireless carriers, who will re-enable this feature for a fee.
Clamping Down on Rooting
Carriers and mobile device manufacturers generally frown on rooting because it complicates their lives.
"There are often delays in pushing out updates to devices because either the operator or the handset manufacturer hasn't got the update to work right on the hardware, and rooting the device throws another problem into the mix," ABI's Morgan explained. "If people report a bug, they may not be able to figure out why because they're testing to the standing device."
Google did not respond to our request comment for this article.
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I've found the single most compelling reason to root an Android device is the very simple need to back it up. This seems to be something that all users need and should want.
Due to the strange way (imo) that permissions to apps and data are limited to the individual app a user can't backup their applications and data without root access. There is an exception, of course, data that gets written to a memory card or some other external storage.
Here is a brief list of reasons why I use a root enabled backup tool that I think is relevant to all users:
* backup applications in case they have to be moved to another device or rolled back if an update proves undesirable.
* Backup *all* data. Most applications do not provide a way to backup.
* Backup data that would otherwise only be able to backup to someone else's server ("cloud"). I like to keep copies of my stuff. I don't rely on third parties to keep it. You can't ever be certain that you'll have access to it later. And then there are the privacy concerns with an external service. Restrictions may even be imposed on whether or not you can restore it as needed.
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DETR fills two key executive positions
Chris Sewell was named chief operating officer and Lynda Parven was promoted to Employment Security Division administrator of the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, starting in their new posts Monday, Nov. 2, DETR announced.
A screenshot of Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation's website. (DETR) Multiple positions were filled with the Nevada Department of Training and Rehabilitation in early November.
"As we make changes and move forward, we are looking at long-term staffing so DETR can fulfill all parts of its mission," DETR Director Elisa Cafferata said. "We are delighted to promote Chris Sewell and Lynda Parven, filling out our leadership team.
"As the economy reopens, more Nevadans will need the workforce training and support. Chris Sewell's legislative expertise is critical as we head into the next legislative session. And Lynda Parven's workforce experience will help put Nevadans back to work."
As COO, Sewell oversees the operational and support units critical for DETR to deliver programs, including operations and facilities, human resources, audits, public information and information development processes. He will continue in his role as legislative liaison.
"I am excited to help DETR move into its next era as we move out of the pandemic," Sewell said. "The state needs DETR's services more than ever. I would like to thank Director Cafferata for giving me the opportunity to work with her executive team and to help all Nevadans and Nevada families move forward.
Sewell started his state experience with the Nevada Transportation Authority as an investigator and has worked for the Public Utilities Commission as a financial analyst, senior compliance investigator and manager in the consumer unit. He moved to Las Vegas and worked for the Division of Insurance in the compliance unit and with the real estate division as chief of the compliance/audit unit.
Prior to his state service, Sewell was a Washoe County deputy sheriff and a Washoe County School District police officer. In addition, he has been a small business owner in Reno.
Parven has taken on the position of Employment Security Division administrator and oversees workforce development, unemployment compensation — including legal and appeals — as well as the Commission on Post-Secondary Education.
"I am looking forward to helping Nevadans in this new role, which is a continuation of the work I've done," Parven said. "This year has brought unique challenges to the division, and I am dedicated to working with the rest of the administration in addressing them."
Parven is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and possesses both Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees. She is a 29-year veteran with the state of Nevada and began her career in public service with the Welfare Division from 1991 to 2001. She is an experienced manager, having held the position of administrator of the Nevada Equal Rights Commission for approximately four years.
Formerly, Parven was the deputy administrator for the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation's Employment Security Division. As deputy administrator, she oversaw statewide Workforce Development programs, Nevada JobConnect offices and the Career Enhancement Program, as well as ESD's Workforce Investment Support Services unit and the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Unit.
She was also responsible for implementing the ESD role in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and the Silver State Works Initiative. In addition, Parven championed the Nevada Workforce System transformation to EmployNV, the state's workforce case management and online job resource where businesses can post job listings and job seekers can find local and statewide employment and labor market information.
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Police chase through Nye County ends with arrest of Phoenix man
By David Wilson Special to Pahrump Valley Times
Alberto Castro, 22, of Phoenix, was arrested after being pursued by law enforcement for 177 miles through three Nevada counties.
Fundraiser aims to rebuild iconic Crystal saloon destroyed by fire
Two customers were entering Miss Kathy's Short Branch Saloon in Crystal shortly after noon on Jan. 16 when they noticed smoke rising from the roof.
Tonopah will build new $15.2M elementary near town high school
Tonopah will create a centralized learning campus for pre-k through 12-grade students by constructing a new elementary on 5.5 acres near the town's high school.
Fairgrounds parking lot will be used for motorcycle trainings
By Robin Hebrock Pahrump Valley Times
January 19, 2022 - 5:30 am January 19, 2022 - 12:48 pm
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Riders Group of Pahrump is expected to begin hosting motorcycle training sessions at the parking lot of the Pahrump Fairgrounds.
2 transported to hospital after crash
One person was transported by air to UMC Trauma, while another was transported to Desert View Hospital following a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Gamebird Road and Winchester Avenue just after 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 18.
By John Katsilometes Special to Pahrump Valley Times
Casino magnate Ted Binion was found dead in September 1998, but many believe he buried treasure at his Pahrump property.
Rise of COVID-19 cases have canceled visits at Nevada prisons
Following a sharp increase in COVID-19 infections, the Nevada Department of Corrections suspended inmate visitations until further notice. The agency did not indicate whether inmate and attorney visits are part of the suspension period.
Staffing crisis at area hospitals continues
An increasing number of sick employees and an continuing rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations have extended a staffing crisis in Southern Nevada hospitals for a second week.


The technology group Wärtsilä has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Petrocity, the parent company of the new port facility being built in the Brazilian city of São Mateus-ES, to develop a harbour tug design. The prime consideration is to maximise the ecological operational sustainability of the vessel since the environmental demands of the new port are among the most stringent in the world. For this reason, the design will be based on the recently launched Wärtsilä HYTug, which features hybrid propulsion and energy storage using batteries.


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The About dialog goes social – now for all of KDE!
Nov 14, 2010 Posted by Teo KDE 13 comments
Remember a year ago when I blogged about the Social About dialog? The dialog in Amarok that replaces the dull old About dialog with something more colorful?
Last Wednesday, after an almost complete rewrite and a few days of review, I committed my KDElibs port of the Social About dialog to trunk, to be released with KDE SC 4.6.
What does this mean for end users?
The Social About dialog is a small built-in Social Desktop client, available in any KDE application. Its purpose is to bridge the apparent gap between users and developers by providing an additional communication channel right inside the application. As a user, you will be able to see some more information about the project's contributors, and directly access a contributor's online presence as exposed by openDesktop.org or another provider which implements the Open Collaboration Services (OCS) API, as chosen by the authors of the app.
Looking back at the time when I wasn't a KDE dev I can distinctly remember that I used to perceive KDE contributors as a reclusive and elite clique of people somewhere far away, with mad skills, encircled by an aura of awesomeness. While I can testify that a lot of KDE people really do have superpowers, I'd hardly call them reclusive. To quash that misconception, I'm giving you, the user, a way to get to know the people behind the project. You might even be surprised to find out that there's an active bunch of KDE hackers in your very city or that the authors of your favorite KDE app share your taste in music.
The Social About dialog replaces the old "About Project" dialog and exposes the Social Desktop features if all of the following conditions are met:
You are running KDE 4.6 or later
You have a working internet connection
The contributors of the application you are using have chosen to add their usernames for an OCS provider such as openDesktop.org.
The new Social About dialog, as it appears in a test application using KDElibs trunk.
For every contributor who wishes to share his OCS data the dialog shows fields such as location, blog, homepage and social network profiles including Facebook, LinkedIn, Last.fm, Twitter and several others.
If there's no internet connectivity or if a contributor does not wish to expose his data on the dialog, the appearance of an item will be very similar to how it was in the old offline about dialog.
What does this mean for application developers?
The general idea is to convey the message that the project is developed by real people, with another channel of user-developer interaction right inside the app.
This is a drop-in replacement for the old KAboutDialog. Obviously if you don't touch anything in your KAboutData the dialog will be very similar to how it used to be, aside from some minor cosmetic differences i.e. you need to opt-in to use it. The dialog will also be in offline mode if KDElibs is built with the mobile profile (which is expected to remove the Attica dependency). By default, the Open Collaboration Services provider is openDesktop.org, and the contributor's usernames can simply be appended to the KAboutData::addAuthor and addCredit calls.
In Amarok the experience has been positive, and there have been no instances of abuse (such as bug reporting in the wrong place or harassment) that I know of that could be attributed to the communication channels exposed by the Social About dialog.
If you already have a profile on openDesktop.org (or another OCS provider), don't forget to update it before adding your username 😉
Why was this an almost complete rewrite?
For several reasons. At the time I wrote Amarok's Social About dialog, Attica (the library that talks to the Open Collaboration Services API used by openDesktop.org and other providers) was still a moving target, and I needed to throw away some of the code that used now deprecated and removed API elements. Also, Amarok's Social About dialog couldn't work as a drop-in replacement for the old KAboutDialog since the data structures used by Amarok's Social About dialog were a hack designed to make the it work with an unmodified KAboutData and OCS usernames thrown on the side. Finally, the persons list in Amarok's Social About dialog was just a bunch of widgets in a layout, and lacked many of the performance and reliability advantages offered by the new dialog which uses model/view.
I wish to thank Frederik Gladhorn for his useful suggestions and review, the Amarok team for their useful suggestions and support in surviving git-svn and the developers who reviewed my submission on KDE's Review Board for their patience, attention to detail and help.
Aside from some minor planned improvements under the hood, the most prominent missing interface elements are about a dozen icons that represent links provided by OCS, such as Facebook, Identi.ca, LinkedIn and other social network profiles. We already have some of those from Amarok's Social About dialog, but I still have to check if inclusion in KDElibs would be possible because of licensing restrictions, and what do KDE artists have to say about the appearance of said icons in the context of Oxygen.
And obviously, we are missing the data, so if you are a contributor for a KDE application and you feel like joining the Social Desktop bandwagon, go ahead and add that username!
Reply	 Jason | November 14th, 2010
Why introduce two classes? Why not have this replace the old KAboutDialog, and have a global system wide option (in system settings) to disable social network connections if the user doesn't want it.
Or, if you want to leave it up to the app authors, KAboutDialog::enableSocial(bool)
Reply	 Téo | November 14th, 2010
I'm sorry I wasn't very clear with this, I'm not introducing two classes. The Social About dialog was a separate class in Amarok for the reasons I explained in the post, but the new one in KDElibs does replace the old KAboutDialog.
If the app authors don't wish to have social features they simply don't add their OCS usernames, and the dialog takes care of laying out the items so that it doesn't look like something's missing.
Reply	 Guillermo Amaral | November 14th, 2010
Awesome idea!. Me like 🙂
Reply	 Ivan | November 14th, 2010
Fantastic work dude!
Oh no, Ivan liked it, I don't like it any more then 😛 (bwhahaha jk)
Reply	 L4Linux | November 14th, 2010
What about a donate button as well?
To the project or to a specific developer.
That's definitely an idea to consider. Unfortunately KDElibs is in string freeze now and adding a donate button would very probably require the addition of a new string.
Reply	 mutlu | November 15th, 2010
Good idea though. An Easy way to donate money to a project would be great.
Reply	 Shantanu Tushar | November 14th, 2010
One minor annoyance this has is that when I open the About dialog, kwallet displays the dialog "Application foobar has requested access to the kdewallet wallet", per application. Because its per application, even if the user says "Allow Always", it will appear at least once in each application.
Any way to avoid this? I think it should be possible, because the OCS data the dialog is displaying won't need the user's credentials …
But anyway, awesome work 🙂
Reply	 Tsiolkovsky | November 14th, 2010
Is this working for translators too now. If I remember correctly from Amarok the translators tab didn't feature this very nice social aspect.
Yes and no. The translators tab now uses the same view that the other tabs use so it looks consistent. However, since the translators data structures are handled quite differently there's still no way to add the translators' OCS usernames.
Reply	 renoX | November 23rd, 2010
I'm not sure that the separation between developers and other contributors is really needed or useful: it seems to me as counter-productive.
You could put everyone in the same screen, grouping people by activity.
Of course if people do both localisation and programming, there's an issue..
Reply	 Téo | November 23rd, 2010
This is a social distinction rather than a technical one that's been around in many KDE subprojects for quite a while, and it is not between coders and general contributors, but rather between a core team of contributors ("Authors") who maintain the project and have shown significant commitment for years, and an extended team of contributors including regular and former ones ("Thanks to").
"Authors" are the ones who steer the general direction of the project, if there's only one author he's sometimes called "the maintainer". They are the ones who enforce code quality and manage the brand, and also get the blame if something's wrong – it's a role with more responsibility.
The "Thanks to" list of contributors holds all the people who send patches or even commit regularly and might be elected authors one day, but have not been involved for a long time or their involvement has been in some way limited to solving particular issues rather than pushing the whole project forward. A somewhat improper but still alternative way to call those in some apps would be "external contributors", though I personally wouldn't call someone "external" just because he hasn't been around for very long.
The important point is that it's not political, it's not a way to segregate an elite from an underclass, but simply to credit everyone while also showing who is responsible for the project in the long term.
As far as I know in most situations in KDE coders, artists, community managers, etc. are all treated equally and are equally eligible for a place in the "Authors" list for an app.


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ICHEC's key domains of expertise are Novel Technologies, Environmental Sciences and Oil & Gas, each supported through a dedicated ICHEC activity, and each providing considerable bodies of knowledge and expertise that can be leveraged to initiate and support collaborative R&D. In ICHEC, we strongly believe in the impact of combining technological excellence and domain expertise. The description of these activities will demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
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The organization offers veterinary care and works to prevent animal cruelty.
Since 2012, the program has brought extra arts instruction to kids outside their normal classrooms.
Graveyard contains memorials to the families of John Wesley North, Frank Miller and Eliza Tibbetts.
The volunteer-run group, founded in 2001, hands out $1,000 awards to seniors.


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import java.util.List;
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import person.Person;

/**
 * An interface to hide different implementations of tournament method.
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 * @author DURIEZ Jean-Baptiste et QUINCY Jordane
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public interface TournamentI {

	/**
	 * A method to update the population.
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Lisa Tanzer is the President of Life is Good, an $100 million lifestyle brand dedicated to spreading the power of optimism. Lisa reflects on her time at NHS as positive and where she did a good job of balancing academics, social life and sports – and also made friendships that have endured the test of time. One of those friendships was with former classmate Steven Gross, Founder of Project Joy, which ultimately became the Life is Good Kids Foundation. Lisa was his first board member which taught her a lot at a young age and ultimately helped shape her career.
In her role as President of Life is Good, Lisa leads the day-to-day business operations with a focus on driving continued growth for the brand and its social mission. She was previously Head of Marketing at Life is Good and has served on the Board of Directors of the Life is Good Kids Foundation since 1990.
While at NHS, Lisa was part of the Student Government, worked 20 hours per week, and played soccer all four years including winning the 1984 State Championship. She credits her active lifestyle during high school with "teaching me the ability to prioritize the most important things, achieve balance and most importantly to not stress out. These are very important lessons for succeeding in business." Lisa graduated in 1985 and went on to earn her BA from Tufts University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Lisa has more than two decades of experience and a distinguished track record of success leading consumer brands and driving business in the education, entertainment, and consumer products industries.
she held executive positions at start-ups and mid-sized companies, such as SmarterKids.com, Cookie Jar Entertainment, and The Princeton Review.
Lisa moved back to Needham over 20 years ago. Her family living in Needham includes children, Ben Lewis (20), Jessie Lewis (16), husband Harmon Lewis and parents Margie and Alan Glou. Siblings who also attended Needham High are Karen Joseph, Lori Shone, Brian Glou and Kevin Tanzer.


Private Frank Hall's memory will be immortalised with a wooden poppy on the serpentine bench in the Abbey Gardens, in Bury St Edmunds, which is part of the town's First World War trail being organised by the My WiSH Charity and supported by Our Bury St Edmunds. He is the great great uncle of Jan Bloomfield, the director of workforce and communications at the West Suffolk Hospital, with money raised from the trail going to support the £500,000 appeal to help complete a fully integrated cardiac centre at the hospital.
Just two months earlier he had special leave as an acknowledgment of his heroism and generosity in giving a quart of his blood in an effort to help a wounded officer in hospital. However, the transfusion was unsuccessful and the officer died.
The trail will feature 18 pieces, commissioned by local artists and sculptors, dotted in prime town centre sites and will be on show from July 21, through to Armistice Day, on November 11. At the culmination of the trail an auction will take place to sell off all of the pieces to go to the My WiSH Charity's Every Heart Matters appeal.


It was the final day of the 1999/00 Serie A season and as torrential rain and wind battered the Renato Curi stadium, Carlo Ancelotti and his Juventus side were engulfed in a storm of their own making.
Nothing but a victory would do for the Bianconeri against Perugia, having inexplicably found themselves dragged into a title dogfight after surrendering the nine-point lead they held over Lazio in April. Having lost just one of their opening 26 Serie A matches, Ancelotti's men had misfired at the season's closing stage, allowing Lazio to leapfrog them on the final day; failure to defeat I Grifoni would see the title slip from Juve's grasp.
Pre-match optimism unravelled as a blue sky gave way to a biblical downpour and a thoroughly miserable day for the Old Lady. Referee Pierluigi Collina deliberated for a full 82 minutes before finally deciding to go ahead with the second half on a badly waterlogged playing surface, and Alessandro Calori's goal for Perugia put the finishing touches on a late-season collapse by Juventus that few would have thought possible weeks before.
The Coach's time at Juventus had been characterised by problems from the outset, with his appointment in February 1999 greeted by a mixture of dismay and anger from the terraces. The then 38-year-old was undoubtedly a promising managerial prospect, but his prior experience – a single year in Serie B with Reggiana and two seasons at Parma – seemed to pale in comparison with the pedigree of Marcello Lippi, his predecessor, who had presided over a trophy-strewn era.
The nature of the Old Lady's collapse towards the end of the 1999/00 season meant that patience with Ancelotti, already thin on the ground, was stretched to breaking point as the Coach set about attempting to atone for the errors of the previous year. Their early form in the 2000/01 season was steady rather than spectacular, rebounding from a home defeat to Udinese to embark on a 12-game unbeaten run. However, a series of draws would ultimately prove costly in the face of a relentless Roma side led by Fabio Capello.
On one occasion, Ancelotti reportedly attempted to assert his authority by instructing the Juventus bus driver to leave, with Zidane late and nowhere to be seen; centre-back Paolo Montero, one of the team's leaders, interjected to make it clear that "no-one is leaving here without Zidane." Ancelotti had no choice but to wait.
Still, no sooner had Del Piero spoken than Roma faltered with the finishing line in sight, providing a shot in the arm to Juve's dwindling title hopes. With six games remaining, they faced Roma at the Delle Alpi knowing that victory would narrow the gap to the leaders even further. The Bianconeri roared into a 2-0 lead inside six minutes through Del Piero and Zidane, and looked to be headed for victory even after Hidetoshi Nakata reduced arrears in the 79th minute; however, disaster struck in added time when Edwin van der Sar's error allowed the ruthless Montella to equalise. The 2-2 draw felt like a defeat, effectively signalling the end of Juventus' hopes of catching Capello's men.
Juve would win their last four league games under Ancelotti, but their failure to catch Roma sounded the death knell for the tactician's reign at the club. The chance to usurp Roma still technically existed until the last whistle of the season, but the board seemed to have little doubt that Capello would steer his side over the line; with startling ruthlessness, it was announced at half-time of Juve's final game of the season against Atalanta that Ancelotti was being sacked. It came as little surprise to the under-pressure Coach, who admitted to the Press that he had been made aware of the decision with two games of the season still to play.
And then, of course, there was Lippi, the charismatic tactician who had achieved so much in his spell in charge of the Bianconeri and whose shadow loomed large over Ancelotti's reign at the club. There was a sense of unfinished business between Lippi and Juventus and, as the vultures circled around Ancelotti, the Viareggio native's return to the club became one of the worst-kept secrets in Italian football. "Lippi has a great desire to do the job," Agnelli admitted in the immediate aftermath of Ancelotti's departure.
The defender contends that Ancelotti was plagued by simple bad luck throughout his time at the club.
His two years were not blessed with luck – that's for sure. There was that storm in Perugia, and then a one-off performance by Hidetoshi Nakata for Roma at the Stadio delle Alpi. Even the fans took to him, despite there having been a few banners and things against him early on.
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Prevalence of SBS-symptoms as an indicator of health and productivity in office buildings
The prevalence of SBS-symptoms is commonly used to characterize the indoor air quality ofbuildings. For economical analysis in building refurbishment and improvements of indoorenvironment, it would be very useful if we could quantitatively relate the prevalence orintensity of SBS-symptoms to productivity. The purpose of this study was to summarize thelinks between the SBS-symptoms and productivity, and demonstrate with a case study howthis information can be applied to a case building to evaluate the economical value of lowerprevalence of symptoms with a selected remedial measure.
Objective and subjective responses to low relative humidity in an office intervention study
The impact of dry indoor air on comfort and health in winter was investigated in a crossoverintervention study in two floors of an office building in northern Sweden. The indoor airhumidity (normally 10-20% RH) was raised to 23-24% RH, one floor at a time, using steamhumidifiers. Questionnaires and objective (clinical) measurements were applied.
The SBS symptoms and environmental perceptions of office workers in the Tropics at two air temperatures and two ventilation rates
A blind intervention study in which air temperature and the outside air supply rate were changed in a 2 × 2 design was carried out in a call centre in Singapore. The reported intensity of headache and difficulty in concentrating were reduced by 19.5% (P
Meeting workplace healthy building information needs
This paper will review 6 years of experience in risk communication and meeting workplaceinformation needs about the health effects experienced by people working in sealed buildings.The purpose of this paper is to discuss examples of the kinds of information that theworkplace community is seeking and what answers can or cannot be provided.In the past two decades, there has been a growing concern about potential chronic healtheffects of poor indoor air quality and mould.
Psychosocial factors associated with sick building syndrome in a biased and unbiased population of office employees occupying two buildings in South Africa
The relationship between psychosocial characteristics and sick building syndrome(SBS) was explored among 348 employees occupying two buildings engaged in thepublic sector in Pretoria, South Africa. One building was characterized as sick(building B), whilst the other was not a known sick building (building A).
Health complaints after moving into a new office building: results of measurements and investigations of employees
After moving into a new office building, employees complained about irritation of eyes, sorethroat and unspecific symptoms. A working group was appointed to investigate indoor airpollution.Air samples and floor dust samples for the analysis of organic compounds were collected inoffice rooms. Within 8 months, several measurement campaigns were conducted to assess thetrends of the concentrations of air pollutants.
Indoor air quality and sick building syndrome of office buildings in Taiwan
Our study conducted serial measurements of indoor air quality and sick building syndrome (SBS) of employees in eight air-conditioned office buildings to examine the association between indoor air pollution and the reporting symptoms of SBS. Airborne microbes, carbon dioxide (CO2), particulate matter (PM10), formaldehyde, and total volatile organic compounds (TVOC) were measured in every test space within the buildings. Frequency of reporting symptoms and other environmental variables were documented by self-administrated questionnaires.
Potential economical benefits of balancing airflows in an office building
Earlier studies have shown that airflows are not well balanced in office buildings. This maylead to too low ventilation rates in some rooms and too high ventilation rates in others.Several studies have shown that low ventilation rates may lead to a higher prevalence of SBSsymptoms. The reduction of these symptoms may be achieved with improved ventilation.The purpose of this study was to evaluate the benefits of balancing the airflows of the airdistribution system of an office building in Helsinki.
Thermal comfort in office buildings with underfloor air supply quantitative and qualitative analysis
Thermal comfort in office buildings is usually unsatisfactory when ceiling air distribution isemployed, because it is hard to make adjustments to reach specific occupancy needs. On theother hand, underfloor air distribution allows some flexibility for adjustments. In order toevaluate thermal comfort conditions in office environments with underfloor air supply system,a laboratory facility was built at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. In this work,quantitative and qualitative results obtained in such facility are discussed.
Indoor air quality in two different office buildings - Part 2: Indoor and outdoor airborne particulate levels and air filtration
The study has been carried out in two different French buildings. The main objective of the study was to know more about office buildings' indoor air quality as well as HVAC installation working over a long period (1 year). A lot of data are available but


Previous military service Served for 3 years in Aygyll & Sutherland Highlanders, British Army; 3 months in 27th Bn, AIF: discharged for disciplinary reasons.
Discharged ('unlikely to become an efficient soldier'), 29 April 1915.
Tried by Field General Court Martial on five charges: (1) when on Active Service absenting himself without leave, in that he, at Aerodrome Camp, Heliopolis, absented himself without leave from about 7 am, 17 January 1916, until about 8.30 am on 14 February 1916 (found guilty); (2) When on Active Service losing by neglect his equipment and regimental necessaries, in that he at Aeroplane Camp, Heliopolis, on 17 January 1916 was deficient of a short magazine Lee-Enfield Rifle value £3.12.2 and two Blankets value £1.0.0 (found guilty); (3) When on Active Service, when in confinement escaping in that he left Aerodrome Camp, Helipolis, at about 9 pm on 16 February 1916. When in confinement in the 3rd Training Battalion Quarter Guard Detention Tent at Helipolis, escaped (found guilty); (4)When on Active Service absenting himself without leave, in that he at Aeroplane Camp, Heliopolis, absented himself without leave from about 9 pm on 16 February 1916 to about 3 pm, 18 February 1916 (found guilty); (4) When on Active Service conduct to the prejudice of good order and Military discipline, in that he at Cairo on 18 February 1916 in the vicinity of the Australian French Bar was creating a disturbance (found not guilty): awarded 28 days' Field Punishment No 2; initial stoppage of 28 days' pay quashed.
Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 29 May 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 6 June 1916.
Found guilty, 14 June 1916, of (1) being absent ithout leave from 5 pm, 7 June 1916, until 8 am, 9 June 1916: awarded 7 days confined to camp, and forfeited 3 days' pay under Royal Warrant: (2) When on Active Service drunkenness, and using obscene language: awarded 35 days' Field Punishment No 1; conviction quashed, 2 August 1916.
Tried by Field General Court Martial, 24 July 1916 on charge of an act to the prejudice of good order and Military Discipline, 15 July 1916: awarded 1 year's imprisonment with hard labour..
Tried by Field General Court Martial, 12 October 1916, on charge of striking his Superior Officer in the execution of his office: sentenced to 'suffer death by being shot';sentence confirmed by Sir Douglas Haig, 26 October 1916; sentence commuted to 2 years' imprisonment with hard labour, 26 October 1916.
Admitted to No 2 Military Prison, Rouen, 30 October 1916.
Admitted to 1st Stationary Hospital, Rouen, 5 December 1916 (dysentery); escape from hospital, 28 December 1916; Court of Enquiry ruled him an illegal absentee.
Readmitted to No 2 Military Prison from escape, 13 February 1917.
Admitted to 53rd Stationary Hospital, Havre, 23 March 1918 (dysentery); discharged to No 3 Military Prison, Havre, 22 April 1918.
Remainder of sentence suspended as from 18 May 1918.
Rejoined 10th Bn, in the field, 24 May 1918.
Killed in action, 4 June 1918.


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SEAL Team season 5 episode 12 spoilers: Save Jason from himself
SEAL Team January 2, 2022
As we prepare for SEAL Team season 5 episode 12 on Paramount+, one thing is very clear when it comes to Jason Hayes: He's struggling. We're also not sure that there's a quick solution to this problem. With his traumatic brain injury he's not himself out in the field and at this point, Ray and Clay both are in a precarious position.
How much can these two characters save Jason from himself? He's erratic, making reckless decisions, and putting other people at risk. As Ray specified at the end of the episode, the best thing that he can do is try to steer him in the right direction where no one gets hurt. He just has to be careful, given that any bad advice is going to lead to Jason rebelling and the situation getting worse.
Unfortunately, at the end of episode 11 Jason saw Clay and Ray talking. He may or may not have heard everything said, but paranoia is a tricky thing and it could be enough to set him over the edge. From his vantage point, the idea of people speaking bad about him may be enough to cause him to panic, or lead the team into even more danger. We know that Clay and Ray don't want to do something that would end Jason's career, but how much longer can they go down this road? They are giving up a lot; that scene where Clay heard about his newborn's accomplishments from Stella was 100% heartbreaking.
As for what else we're expecting from episode 12, Sonny needs to eventually acknowledge more of his own faults in the situation with Davis and Hannah. He's been on this journey to try and figure out who he is and we have sympathy for him in that this isn't easy. However, what he's doing now is only going to lead to him pushing everyone away, potentially for good. He needs to be acutely aware of this!
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A Seed Web Project in Flask (Python) with basic functions.

## Features

- Basic Authentication
    + Password
    + CAPTCHA (With `Pillow`)
- User Management
    + Add User
    + Edit User (include Resetting Password)
    + Enable / Disable User
    + Search User
- ACL Support
- User Operation Records
    + Search Record
- Multi-Language (With `Flask-Babel`)
    + English
    + Simplified Chinese
    + Traditional Chinese
    + Japanese
- Deploy Ready (With `gunicorn`, `supervisord`)

## Dependency

See `requirements.txt`

## Envionment Variables

|       Name       |                Description                |                Default                 |
|------------------|-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
| ADMIN_EMAIL      | Admin email                               |                                        |
| SECRET_KEY       | Flask secret key                          | `h3bF9paWv9nNfAEo`                     |
| DEV_DB_CONN_URL  | Database connection URL                   | `sqlite:///current-path/db-dev.sqlite` |
| PROD_DB_CONN_URL | Database connection URL For Production    | `sqlite:///current-path/db.sqlite`     |
| FLASK_CONFIG     | Config name (`development`, `production`) | `default` (Same to `development`)      |

## Setup Database

```shell
python manage.py initdb
```

## Default Admin User

|     Email      |   Name  | Password |
|----------------|---------|----------|
| `$ADMIN_EMAIL` | `admin` | `admin!` |

## Run for development

```shell
./run-dev.sh
```

## Run for production

```shell
./run-deploy.sh
```

## Run for production in supervisord

```shell
supervisord
```

## Update Translation

```shell
./update-translations.sh
```

## License
[MIT](LICENSE)


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The Shortwave Report 08/14/15 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK World Radio Japan, Sputnik Radio, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Spanish National Radio, and Radio Havana Cuba.
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Calls America a Hemispheric Threat (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, Sputnik Radio, and NHK World Radio Japan.
Does Obama Plan Cuba-Style Blockade on Venezuela? (tags)
Venezuelan Anti-Imperialist Enabling Law (tags)
Asian Socialism Conference in the Philippines (tags)
The Asian Socialism Conference will be held in Manila from November 28 to 29, 2014. The conference will be capped by the participation of guests and delegates to the November 30 rally in Manila to commemorate Bonifacio Day, a national hero who led the armed struggle in the revolution against Spain.
Anti-Democratic Straitjackets (tags)
The TTIP Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (also called TAFTA) is an undemocratic corporate investment agreement that allows corporations to sue sovereign states for lost profits. This agreement negotiated in secret since 2013 does not allow states to sue.
Investment Protection at a Crossroads (tags)
TTIP gives foreign investors the right to sue sovereign governments before ad hoc arbitration courts when lost profits occur as a result of political decisions. These decisions cannot be appealed and undermine social, environmental and labor regulations.
Venezuelan Municipal Elections (tags)
Rogue State America (tags)
On the death of president Chavez/No hero/No dictator (tags)
The late Venezuelan president Chavez deserves appreciation for his social ''Bolivarian'' programs and his anti imperialist engagement. However, reprehensible sides of his reign are the repression in Venezuela and the oppression of the freedom of expression. His friendly relationships with dictators like Assad, Lushenko and Kaddafi are disgustable. Therefore he doesn't deserve the unconditional praise he gets from his leftist admirors.
Complex Chavez Recovery (tags)
Failure in Cartagena (tags)
Latin American Nations Pledge for Peace in Libya (tags)
"For its part, ALBA member states also articulated their unanimous opposition to intervention on the part of the United States in the Libyan conflict. According to its published statement, the regional alliance, "categorically rejects any intervention from NATO or any foreign power in Libya as well as any attempt to take advantage…of the tragic situation in order to justify a war of conquest of the energy and water resources which are the patrimony of the Libyan people."
Obama Year Two: Continued Betrayal and Failure (Part II) (tags)
government betrayal
Ecuador, Venezuela: Danger South of the Borde (tags)
"The reason there is a bizarre attempt to pretend that this coup attempt never happened, is to hope that people won't ask who might have benefited from such an action. A quick examination of the actions of President Correa sheds considerable light on that. In 2006, working with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Correa moved to increase state control over oil production in the country.[9] In 2008, he announced that Ecuador would not pay several billions of its more than $10 billion foreign debt, calling it "illegitimate."[10] In 2009, he refused to renew the lease of the U.S. military airbase in Manta, saying that "the only way the US could keep their military base in Ecuador, is if Ecuador were allowed to have one of its own in Florida."[11] In 2009, he officially brought Ecuador into ALBA – the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas led by Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia. When a country increases state control, challenges illegitimate foreign debt, pushes the U.S. military out of the country and joins a regional alliance with Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba – it is clear that the forces that would benefit from a coup would be: a) corporate interests inside Ecuador; b) International Financial Institutions; and c) the United States and its allies. There is another reason why the right-wing, corporate elite and the imperialist countries might have an incentive to minimize what happened September 30. There is now a shamefully long list of recent coup attempts in Latin America and the Caribbean – four of them against members of ALBA."
More on Washington's Failed Ecuadorean Coup Attempt (tags)
Correa knows Washington wants him ousted.
Failed Washington-Sponsored Ecuadorean Coup Attempt (tags)
another Obama coup attempt
Abandoning Capitalism (tags)
The sociologist Dr. Atilio Boron, professor of political theory at the University of Buenos Aires, is an internationally known radical political author. UNESCO awarded him the "International Jose Marti prize" on July 17, 2009
Focus on Haiti: Washington's Militarized Takeover (tags)
Washington plans exploitation, not humanitarian aid
Venezuela Steps Up Aid Effort to Haiti, Questions U.S. Military Deployment (tags)
"A tanker with 225 000 barrels (worth approximately US$18 million) of diesel fuel and gasoline departed from Venezuela on Sunday. The Venezuela-Cuba initiated Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our Americas (ALBA) fair trade bloc, which also includes Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbados, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has also sent two ships carrying 4,761 metric tons of food aid. Speaking at the inauguration of the San Agustín cable car system in Caracas today, Chavez announced that another five ships loaded with food and medical supplies departed for Haiti yesterday, adding, "We have sent one or two Venezuelan soldiers to support and protect the safety of everyone there, but not to militarily occupy them as the U.S. intends to do."
System Change instead of Climate Change (tags)
Capitalism and the resource policy of industrial states are responsible for the increasing destruction of the environment and the dangerous warming of the global climate. The members of ALBA set a fixed date for their new currency system
ALBA Declaration on Copenhagen Climate Summit (tags)
"It's clear that we can't consider the issue of climate change without considering changing the system. The model of capitalist production and consumption is bringing life on the planet to the point of no return and to a crucial moment in human history, and the debate in these situations can't be reduced to the economic interests of a small group."
Chávez: Netherlands and U.S. Planning Military Aggression Against Venezuela from Dutch Ant (tags)
"Today each year about 9.2 million children die before reaching their fifth year and 99.9 percent of these deaths occur in poorer countries. Infant mortality is 47 deaths per thousand live births, but is only 5 per thousand in rich countries. Life expectancy on the planet is 67 years, in rich countries it is 79, while in some poor nations is only 40 years. Additionally, there are 1.1 billion people without access to drinking water, 2.6 billion without sanitation services, over 800 million illiterate and 1.02 billion hungry people, that's the global scenario. Now the cause, what is the cause? Let's talk about the cause, let's not evade responsibilities, and let's not evade the depth of this problem. The cause, undoubtedly, I return to the theme of this whole disastrous panorama, is the destructive metabolic system of capital and its embodied model: Capitalism."
The Shortwave Report 12/04 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Chavez's Lines: ¡¡Viva El Che!! (tags)
"As I write today Saturday, in the early hours of the morning I receive fresh news about the evolution of the crisis: "According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), the economic crisis pushed 61 million people into unemployment in 2009, and the world there are now 241 million unemployed workers, the largest number of unemployed persons in history." (IAR Noticias) "It is expected that the number of poor people [in the U.S.], will grow to 90 million by 2010, while at least 59 million will join the ranks of the unemployed, as stated by the Central Bank president Robert Zoellick." (IPS) There's nothing coincidental that Venezuela is one of four countries in the world that advanced four positions in terms of Human Development Index according to the United Nations Human Development Report 2009. And it is no coincidence that, according to the report, we are the country with the best distribution of income across Our America, that is, with the best rate, to use Bolivar's term, of established and practiced equality."
Declaration about the Situation in Honduras by ALBA Member Countries in the OAS (tags)
"We add our voice to the regional, national, and world organisations and institutions that have expressed their rejection of these barbaric acts that the coup leaders and supporters have committed in Honduras. We demand an end to the repression, a definite suspension of the curfew, respect of the inviolability of the Brazilian diplomatic headquarters, and the immediate and unconditional restitution of President Zelaya to his functions as Constitutional and Democratic President of Honduras."
U.S. Still Supports the Coup! (tags)
"Agency bankrolling "good governance" programs to ensure the "rule of law in the country" The taxpayer-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation has continued to move millions of dollars into Honduras since the June 28 coup d'état, but it is not alone, Narco News has now confirmed. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is slated to provide Honduras with nearly $47 million in funding in fiscal 2009, which ends Sept. 30, 2009. Nearly all of that money (some $43 million) is scheduled to be delivered as previously planned to Honduras — which is now under the leadership of a putsch regime that President Obama has already described as "not legal."
Juan and Pedro Enter the Honduras Oil Import Business, Coup d'Etat Follows (tags)
"Padre Fausto later chronicled his own share of detentions, which included being kidnapped by paramilitaries in Honduras in 1981 on charges of inciting guerrilla activity based on his concern for campesino and indigenous rights. In captivity, Fausto was subjected to a schedule of sitting in rooms with torture instruments and being removed whenever someone needed to be tortured physically rather than psychologically. He subsequently spent a number of years in exile in Mexico; as for other Hondurans in exile, Fausto boasted that Zelaya had spoken with him and other Hondurans for four hours the previous day in Managua, neglecting a group of visiting European parliamentarians."
Open Letter to the Presidents of the Union of South American Nations (tags)
"Clearly, faced with the progressive and democratic advances in our continent, the U.S. Empire - which in the past one hundred years exercised its hegemony over the life of our republics - has launched a retrograde and anti-historic counteroffensive, with the aim of rolling back the union, sovereignty and democracy of our continent, and imposing the restoration of imperial domination in all spheres of life of our societies."
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In Aviva Insurance Company of Canada v. Dittmann, released on March 15, 2018, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed a leave to appeal application by Aviva and ordered the insurer to pay Ms. Dittmann's legal costs.
Several years earlier, Ms. Dittmann suffered serious burns while attempting to place a drive-through coffee into her cup holder. She applied for accident benefits from Aviva under her automobile insurance policy. Aviva denied the claim because it felt that the injuries were unrelated to her operation of the car. Under the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS), an accident is described as, "an incident in which the use or operation of an automobile directly causes an impairment." Aviva's position was that the use or operation of the stationary vehicle was not the direct cause of Ms. Dittmann's impairment.
… but for her use of the vehicle she would not have been in the drive-through lane, would not have received the coffee cup while in the seated position, would not have been transferring the coffee cup to the cup holder across her body, and would not have had the coffee spill on her lap. In addition, but for her being seated and restrained by a lap and shoulder harness she may have been able to take evasive action to avoid or lessen the amount of coffee that was spilled on her.
As a result, Justice Gordon concluded that the use and operation of the vehicle was a direct cause of Ms. Dittmann's impairment and her application for accident benefits was legitimate.
While this decision pushed the envelope of "direct causation", it is not unreasonable. In contrast, for example, it is less likely that Ms. Dittmann would have succeeded if she entered the restaurant to purchase her coffee, only to spill it on herself as she was getting settled into her car again. Aviva would have had a stronger argument that the use and operation of the car was incidental to the resulting impairment.
Cases like this are troubling for insurers because they broaden the scope of potential claims for benefits under auto policies. As well, personal injury lawyers can use Ms. Dittmann's accident as an basis for initiating other envelope-pushing claims.
… the issue is not, what was the "triggering event" of the incident, but rather, what caused the impairment. In this case, the use of a running motor vehicle in gear to access the drive-through and the seatbelt restraint were direct causes and dominant features of the impairment the respondent suffered.
Therefore, the appeal was dismissed with costs against Aviva.
If you have been seriously injured, you deserve the same level of commitment to push the envelope that was demonstrated by Ms. Dittmann's legal team. At Campisi LLP, our professional philosophy is "Clients first, excellence always". We take great pride in representing our clients in challenging, innovative claims that improve the life of the client and help all of us receive the accident benefits we deserve. Put us to work for you.


The FBI said there is "no longer a threat to the community" in the search for Sol Pais, the 18-year-old woman who traveled to Colorado from Florida this week and made threats that led to the closure of Denver-area schools Wednesday.
At a press conference Wednesday morning, Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Shrader said Pais was found deceased from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Law enforcement sources told CBS Denver Pais was located west of Denver near the Echo Lake Campground close to the base of Mount Evans.
Authorities said Wednesday all schools closed today will be open tomorrow under increased security.
Pais was the subject of an intensive manhunt after she arrived in the state Monday night and proceeded to purchase a pump-action shotgun and ammunition.
Pais was reportedly "infatuated" with the shooting at Columbine High School that took place 20 years ago.
A local police bulletin obtained by the Denver Post Tuesday instructed officers to detain Pais for a mental health evaluation.