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3 Reasons To Love Modiphius' 2d20 System
It's no secret that Modiphius is the biggest company to hit the tabletop gaming scene since Fantasy Flight. They continue to produce high quality products on a regular and often reliable release schedule. From Infinity and Conan to older titles like Achtung! Cthulhu and Mutant Chronicles, Modiphius' library seems ever expanding and continually improving. The throughline for their newest releases is the 2d20 system, a rule set and dice mechanic that itself has been growing and adapting much like the company that spawned it. I really enjoy the system; the following three aspects are some of the high points. Let's have a look!
1) Flexibility
Whether you're hacking a quantronic computer to dig up information about the latest rogue AI, piloting a starship through a nest of Klingon Warbirds, or seeking high adventure in the Hyborian Age, 2d20 works and works well. The system is meant to have a certain measure of "give" so that it can bend to the constraints of a particular setting or genre without breaking. The basics are always the same: roll 2d20 and try to get at or below your combined attribute and skill There's a kicker though. Some more difficult actions will require more successes than you have dice, and while you can crit for more successes, you might find that you need 5 successes to pull off the badass move you've been planning for three turns. That's where the game's Momentum system comes into play, which I describe in more detail below.
The base system receives tweaks in order to capture the feel of the game and setting it's attached to. In Conan, the magic is added as an additional system. In Star Trek, the skill system is reduced to only six fields of study, but the breadth of each is increased dramatically. This refocuses the gaming experience to support the thrills of discovery and clever thinking. Thus, a player will find each game that uses the system familiar, and will simply need to learn the changes before jumping into a session.
2) Momentum
Only 2d20? But what if I don't net any successes? What if I need three successes to perform the action in question? Time to buy more dice! The player characters receive and continually build a pool of Momentum. These points let players augment their dice pools and damage, and sometimes achieve even cooler more specific effects. Does the medic absolutely have to pass their roll to save the life of another PC? Spend some Momentum and grab three more dice. Running out of Momentum? Refill the pool by overachieving easier tasks; extra successes net you more of those sweet dice-adding points. This mechanic not only provides some much needed aid to the player characters and lets them feel awesome, it also provides a gauge of how much potential success the player characters have on their side. They can then make decisions as a team regarding whether to fight or flee. It also rewards them for doing simple tasks such as preparing for a fight by cleaning their weapons or rigging simple traps, each of which can potentially add Momentum to the pool before a big scene wherein heroics are a must.
But what if the pool runs dry and you still need extra dice? Most variants of 2d20 allow for the players to provide the GM with their own dice-adding resource in order to mimic the effects of Momentum. Referred to as "Heat" in Infinity, this resource can be spent by the GM to increase the dice pools of significant adversaries, call in reinforcements, or just cause a little mayhem for the party when they get complacent. It's this push and pull that really makes the system come alive.
3) Intensity
And it's this same push and pull that creates and maintains dramatic tension throughout the gaming experience. Heat and Momentum provide incentive for players and the GM to keep the pressure up. If you sit on your laurels, you start bleeding Momentum. If you take too long deciding how to take your turn, the GM starts generating Heat. This makes conflicts feel exciting and intense. Even negotiations with new alien species have their drama turned up to 11 using this system. 2d20 effectively works to eliminate as many dull moments as possible, which is a welcome feeling in the age of the cell phone. It keeps players focused on the action and guides the GM by giving them an idea of what they can add to a scene to make it even more exciting, but still balanced. It's hard to find another system that fights so hard for the enjoyment of the players at the table.
2d20 is a growing, living entity. It receives revisions for each game and supplement that comes out. Since Modiphius does not appear to be losing steam (they just acquired the production rights to Vampire: the Masquerade, after all), I'm positive we'll see even more iterations of this cool new system with updates and fixes. No system is without its flaws, of course. Come back next month for my critique of the system, whereby we will explore three of the main issues that I've discovered. In the meanwhile, let me know what you think of the system and the games that it's attached to!
David Horwitz is a gamer and freelance writer/editor with an obsession for exploring new forms of leisure. If you're looking for an inquisitive mind and a deft hand, or just want to chat about gaming, contact him at www.davidhorwitzwrites.com/contact.
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Onam is one of the biggest festivals in Kerala (gods own country). Onam is a popular Kerala festival. It is celebrated through the entire state by almost all Keralites. The story of how Onam came to be celebrated is as under King Mahabali.
Onam is a festival f start and end within 10 days in August–September. Onam is the official festival of Kerala with public holidays that start four days from Onam Eve. The gods own country Kerala is emblazoned with flowers and colors during Onam festival. The legend has it that King Mahabali ruled the gods own country in a most efficient way but was tinted with ego.
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          Get the jobs that are submitted.

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Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an American actress. A five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the 1995 revival of The Heiress and for the 2005 original production of Doubt. She won the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Allison Taylor on the FOX television series 24. She has also won three Drama Desk Awards.
Jones made her Broadway debut in the 1987 original Broadway production of Stepping Out. Other stage credits include Pride's Crossing (1997–98) and The Glass Menagerie (2013–14). Her film appearances include The Horse Whisperer (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), The Village (2004), Amelia (2009) and The Beaver (2011). In 2012, she played Dr. Judith Evans on the NBC drama Awake.
Jones was born in Paris, Tennessee. Her mother was a high school teacher and her father owned a flower shop. Her parents were very supportive of her theatrical ambitions, encouraging her interest by sending her to classes with local drama teacher, Ruby Krider. Jones takes great pains to credit her high school speech teacher, Linda Wilson, with her first real preparatory work. She is a 1978 graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. While at CMU, she was one of the earliest actors to work at City Theatre, a prominent fixture of Pittsburgh theatre.
Most of her career has been in the theatre, beginning in 1980 as a founding member of the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA.
Her Broadway performances include Lincoln Center's 1995 production of The Heiress, and also a 2005 production of John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt at the Walter Kerr Theatre. For both roles she earned a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play.
Other Broadway credits include Nora Ephron's play Imaginary Friends (with Swoosie Kurtz), the 2000 revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, for which she earned her first Tony nomination. She is considered to be one of the foremost theater actresses in the United States. In 1994, she also appeared in the Broadway run of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika as the Angel, replacing Ellen McLaughlin who had originated the role.
She has narrated the audiobook adaptations of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series including, Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, Farmer Boy, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter and Little Town on the Prairie. In recent years, Jones has ventured into feature films. Her screen credits include Cradle Will Rock, The Perfect Storm, Signs, Ocean's Twelve and The Village.
Jones played President Taylor on the Fox series 24, a role for which she won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She played the role in the seventh season, from January to May 2009, as well as eighth season, which aired from January to May 2010.
In 2012, Jones starred in the NBC drama series Awake as psychiatrist Dr. Judith Evans.
Also in 2012, she portrayed Amanda Wingfield in the Loeb Drama Center's revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie alongside Zachary Quinto, Brian J. Smith and Celia Keenan-Bolger.
In 2014, Cherry Jones was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
In 2015 and 2016 Jones had a recurring role on the Primetime Emmy Award-winning Amazon comedy-drama series Transparent in its second and third seasons. She was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series for her work in the 2015 season.
In 2016, she appeared in "Nosedive", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.
In 2018, Jones will be playing Holly, the feminist mother to June/Offred in The Handmaid's Tale who has only been mentioned in passing during flashback scenes. She will appear in episode three.
Jones is openly lesbian. In 1995, when Jones accepted her first Tony Award, she thanked her then-partner, architect Mary O'Connor, with whom she had an 18-year relationship.
She started dating actress Sarah Paulson in 2004. When she accepted her Best Actress Tony in 2005 for her work in Doubt, she thanked "Laura Wingfield", the Glass Menagerie character being played in the Broadway revival by Paulson. In 2007, Paulson and Jones declared their love for each other in an interview with Velvetpark at Women's Event 10 for the LGBT Center of New York. Paulson and Jones ended their relationship amicably in 2009.
In mid-2015, Jones married her girlfriend, filmmaker Sophie Huber.
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^ "Cherry Jones Biography (1956–)". Retrieved 5 May 2015.
^ Chinoy, Helen Krich; Jenkins, Linda Walsh (26 May 2018). "Women in American Theatre". Theatre Communications Grou – via Google Books.
^ Conner, Lynne (2007). Pittsburgh In Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater. University of Pittsburgh Press. pg. 247. ISBN 978-0-8229-4330-3. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
^ Hartigan, Patti (11 May 2017). "Cherry Jones returns to the city where she launched her career". Boston Globe. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
^ Brantley, Ben (14 February 2013). "'The Glass Menagerie,' at Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA". New York Times. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
^ Joyce Eng (20 September 2009). "Kristin Chenoweth, Jon Cryer Win First Emmys". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
^ "Jones moves into 24 Oval Office". Reuters. 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
^ "Cherry Jones, Ellen Burstyn, Cameron Mackintosh and More Inducted Into Broadway's Theater Hall of Fame". Retrieved April 10, 2013.
^ Dowling, Amber. "'The Handmaid's Tale' Enlists Cherry Jones for Pivotal Season 2 Role (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
^ a b Witchel, Alex. "Cherry Jones, at the Peak of Her Powers". New York Times.
^ Crews, Chip. "A Benefit of 'Doubt'". Washington Post.
^ "Cherry Jones: Prop 8 Supporters 'Will Be Ashamed of Themselves'".
^ "Velvetpark – Art Thought Culture". Retrieved 5 May 2015.
^ AOL. "Jones, Paulson Have 'Happiest Break Up'". Popeater. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
^ Bendix, Trish. "Cherry Jones on getting married and playing a lesbian feminist in Season 2 of "Transparent"". Afterellen.
^ Stephen L. Betts (7 November 2014). "Bradley Whitford, Cherry Jones Cast in Upcoming Hank Williams Movie". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
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Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater (U. Michigan Press, edited by Robin Bernstein) republishes the interview in which Cherry Jones first publicly discussed her sexuality.
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Amanda Michael Plummer is an American actress. She is known for her work on stage and for her roles in such films as Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), The Fisher King (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994), and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). Plummer won a Tony Award in 1982 for her performance in Agnes of God.
Nancy Marchand was an American actress. She began her career in theatre in 1951. She was perhaps most famous for her television portrayals of Margaret Pynchon on Lou Grant and Livia Soprano on The Sopranos.
Sarah Catharine Paulson is an American actress, director, and producer. She has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2017, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Holland Virginia Taylor is an American actress and playwright. She won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on the ABC drama The Practice (1998–2003). She is also known for her role as Evelyn Harper on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003–2015).
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I have been doing a whole house cleaning--first decluttering, and then cleaning, as part of my homemaking class. It is great to get rid of stuff and simplify, keeping only what we really need. That makes it so much easier to clean! Now, I haven't tackled our children's rooms yet--that will be a challenge I'm sure.
Take down your shower curtain(s).
Add some borax (sorry I didn't measure, but just put some in). I find this in the laundry department at Walmart. It comes in a white rectangular box and is a powder. The only brand I know of will say "20 Mule Team Borax" on it. Borax is great to have around because you can use it in many other cleaning recipes; the same with white vinegar.
Add some white vinegar to the rinse cycle (however much you would use as a fabric softener).
When the wash cycle is done and your curtain is clean, hang it up to dry, right back in its bathroom home. Don't put it in the dryer or it might get destroyed.
If your shower curtain is really, really dirty, you might have to repeat this once or twice, but it works wonderfully. This will get rid of soap scum and mildew, and your shower curtain will look so much better.
I've always been wondering how I could keep my shower curtains clean. However, I wasn't aware that you could place vinyl shower curtains into your washing machine. Won't this ruin the washing machine in some way?
I don't think it would do any harm to the washing machine, Mara, and I have never had a problem with it. I have read various recommendations in books before to wash shower curtains in the washing machine too. Thanks for visiting!
That is how we do it here to1 Great minds think alike!
Will have to give that a try sometime. Thanks.
I have never tried this with the borax. I have done it with detergent and vinegar without much luck. I will definitely try it again with the borax. Thanks!
I have done this without the borax and it didn't work so I will definitely get some borax and try again. Thanks for the tip!
In a previous house we had a shower curtain which I found got very dirty, we now have glass doors which are so much easier to keep clean and manage.
I hope it works well for you with the borax, Linda.
I have never had glass doors. I'm sure they both have their ins and outs. I just discovered a rip in one of our shower curtain liners and will need to replace it.
This worked so well for me today! Thank your for this helpful post!
I'm glad to hear it, and you're welcome!
Can we use borax for washing all type of curtain? Actually I have not tried this before so I am thinking that it is safe or not. It should not affect my curtain fabric. But anyway your tips are really easy to apply. Thanks for sharing this!!
Great advice, thanks for the tips. Very helpful.


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Merry Christmas from Australia's Kate Miller-Heidke
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Long before she was flying with 'Zero Gravity', Kate Miller-Heidke, together with The Beards released a novelty Christmas duet in to raise money to fight cancer. In the track, complete with Christmas bells and bouncy chords she pokes fun at pubic beauty standards of personal Christmas decorations.
Kate with one of the members of The Beards (source: Facebook)
Miller-Heidke sings in praise of a "growing a beard" for Decembeard, an annual month-long charity drive involving the growing of beards to raise awareness of bowel cancer, which affects one in 10 men in their lifetime and is the second biggest cancer killer in Australia.
Kate had previously toured with the band, The Beards and it was a joke amongst them how Kate did not have a beard. In this song, Kate gets her revenge on them while expressing her love for Christmas music.
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We take actions based on our thoughts. For example, if our thought is that I'm hungry, the action is to find or make food to eat.
For the most part, this serves us well, especially for our basic needs i.e. I'm cold, hot, hungry, tired, etc. We can take the appropriate action to go along with our thought.
What happens when our actions are based on false thoughts or beliefs?
Let first examine where our beliefs come from. We are heavily influenced as children and absorb thinking from those we spend the most time with. This is where the expression "you're just like your mother/father" comes from. We are also influenced by close relatives, school, friends, our community and society in general.
If we never examine our beliefs, then we may have some thoughts that no longer serve us and in turn, take actions that no longer serve us.
Even if the belief or thought was a productive one, our action may not be.
This can lead to a lot of misunderstandings when we try to relate to others in life. This is especially true when we interact with people who have different life circumstances and upbringing that our own.
Let's take the belief "I am here to help people". Your action may be to always be helping people. To a certain extent, this is a good thing. Where it could go wrong is if you were always doing things for others that they need to learn to do themselves. Or, if you chose to do things for others over yourself. If you are always picking up a baby each time they fall, they would not learn how to stand up after they fall. If you always drove a car for someone, they wouldn't learn to drive it themselves.
What we need to ask ourselves after we've examined our beliefs is: is the the correct action in this moment?


The Bible exhorts every area of creation and every kind of creature to praise the Lord. The Bible exhorts the heavens, the earth, the sea, the forests, the rocks. There is nothing that should not praise the Lord.
It speaks about all kinds of creatures – flying creatures, creatures in the sea, crawling creatures, cattle, wild beasts. It speaks about all the states of the human race – kings, princes, young men, old men, maidens, children – all are exhorted to praise the Lord.
In fact, there's only just one category of people that do not praise the Lord. Do you know who that is? The dead. Only the dead do not praise the Lord.
My dear friend, if you do not praise the Lord, do you know what your problem is? You are one of the dead. Not necessarily physically dead, but spiritually dead. Come alive. Begin to praise the Lord. The more you praise the Lord, the more joy and spiritual life you'll experience. Begin to praise Him right now.


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Dan Shaughnessy Has Been Writing The Same Soccer Column For 25 Years
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Legendary old school troll Dan Shaughnessy has a real strong take in today's Boston Globe about how soccer sucks. There is no way, he says, that the overbearing Futbol Moonies will make him feel guilty for disliking the sport. Further, he says, it will never catch on in America, not least because there's no sense of progression toward goals and because you can't use your hands. Take that!
Now, here's where you say, "Jesus Christ, was this mailed in from 20 years ago?" and I say, "No, it was mailed in from 25 years ago!" Shank has, in fact, been writing this exact same column for longer than many of you have been alive. It's downright Reillyesque, as a quick review of some of the major themes in his soccer writing reveals.
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The most generous reading of Rick Reilly's latest column, large parts of which are lifted wholesale
Stop trying to make Dan Shaughnessy feel guilty about not liking soccer
I am done apologizing for not loving soccer. I am guilt-free. This is America. Land of choice. Land of freedom. I choose to ignore the World Cup on television... when the World Cup is over, soccer will be over for most of us. We will go back to football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. And we will not feel guilty about it.
Of course, we're going to be made to feel guilty in the upcoming weeks.
I just hate watching soccer and I'm getting pretty fed up with the guilt I'm supposed to feel.... We were doing fine before the big guilt trip set in.... Men in foreign lands love their soccer teams the way they love their families. This is great. But do we have to keep feeling guilty because we don't feel this way?... I am through feeling guilty. Call me ignorant. Call me an ugly American.
Soccer fans are strange cultists
If you don't like soccer the Futbol Moonies will insist that you are an aging, unhip, xenophobic, uncultured dolt. Soccer is the world's most popular game. It's the game of the future.
They are the Soccer Krishnas. They are the Futbol Moonies. They are the Scientologists of Sport... The Soccer Krishnas do not know when to stop... Soccer Krishnas have no sense of humor.... There's only one man on the field who has a clue how much time is left, and the rest of us have to guess. Maybe the Futbol Moonies could sell this to David Stern, Paul Tagliabue and Gary Bettman. It would be a perfect way to make basketball, football and hockey as primitive and mindless as soccer.
Nothing is ever enough for these Soccer Krishnas...
Soccer will never be a popular spectator sport in America
Millions of kids in our country have been playing soccer for more than 40 years. This has not translated into an adult population of folks who'll pay to watch professional soccer games. Millions of kids also play hopscotch, kickball, and lacrosse. It doesn't mean those games can become mainstream American professional spectator sports.
Let's have no more of this "soccer is the next major spectator sport in America." Just because we're indulging the world for a few weeks doesn't mean anybody here really likes watching this stuff...
Kids love to play the game. Great. Does that mean we have to pretend it'll someday be a major spectator sport in this country?
There is no sense of progression toward the goal; soccer is just 90 minutes of turnovers
Soccer doesn't have natural progression leading up to scores... It's pretty much 90 minutes of turnovers.
Soccer to me is 90 minutes of nonstop turnovers with no natural progression to the goal.
Like hockey, there is no organized progression toward the goal. It's nonstop turnovers...
Hands are what separate man from beast
Soccer takes away our hands. This makes the game incredibly skillful and exhausting, but also robs fans of much of the beauty of sport. Hands and opposable thumbs separate us from creatures of the wild.
And what's with the hands? How good can any game be when you can't use your hands? Hands are what separate us from the animal kingdom.
Finally, there is the hands problem. Hands and thumbs, that's what separates us from the beasts of the jungle.
To be fair, there was at least one occasion on which Shaughnessy managed to quiet his disdain while writing about the game. What was this? Why, when Boston Red Sox owner John Henry bought Liverpool. Quelle surprise.
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WikiLeaks on Colombia – Uribe's Informants Network Employed Ex-Paramilitaries; More Trouble for Former Army Commanders
tags: Álvaro Uribe, Colombia, false positives, mario montoya uribe, oscar gonzalez pena, red de cooperantes, Rito Alejo Del Rio, wikileaks
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Ex-paramilitaries from the Elmer Cárdenas bloc joined the government's Red de Cooperantes (Informants Network), according to a WikiLeaks cable.
A new round of WikiLeaks published on the pages of El Espectador may spell trouble for former Colombian officials, including President Álvaro Uribe and two of his top military commanders.
A Colombian army intelligence officer told the U.S. in 2007 that his unit had incorporated former members of an illegal paramilitary drug gang into a network of civilian informants (Red de Cooperantes) promoted by President Uribe, according to a leaked State Department cable published on the newspaper's Web site. The official said that his unit—identified by the paper as the army's 17th Brigade—had been secretly authorized by the government to work with ex-members of the notorious Elmer Cárdenas paramilitary bloc who were "providing good information" on emerging paramilitary groups in the conflictive Urabá region. Colombian law barred ex-paramilitaries from joining the Red de Cooperantes groups.
The official also told the embassy that more than 70 percent of the new criminal gangs that had emerged in Urabá since the start of a government-sponsored demobilization program aimed at dismantling the illegal groups "had prior military experience" and often received "advance notice of operations from their former colleagues" in the Colombian security forces.The document is part of a new round of Colombia-related disclosures that have come to light since El Espectador obtained some 16,000 U.S. diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in late February. With the leaked documents now in the hands of Colombian journalists, it seems likely that the pace of WikiLeaks disclosures on Colombia's multitude of national scandals and human rights crimes will continue to increase.
Uribe established the Red de Cooperantes and another program, Soldados Campesinos ("Hometown Soldiers"), using emergency powers he invoked soon after taking office 2002. By the end of 2004, more than 20,000 civilians had been recruited into Uribe's new programs to provide security in more than 500 rural municipalities. The initiatives were similar to the controversial Convivir militias Uribe had backed as governor of Antioquia, some of which had turned out to be nothing more than fronts for paramilitary death squads, according to previously-released documents.
One Colombian Army colonel told the Embassy in 1997 of "serious problems" with the government-sponsored Convivir militias, which he said were "very difficult to control." The officer said that the ministry of defense—which had been accused of illegally arming some of the groups—knew of the "potential for Convivir's to devolve into full-fledged paramilitaries" but was "reluctant to admit it publicly."
From 1997-1999, the Chiquita fruit company made millions of dollars in illegal payments to the paramilitary United Self-defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) through the Convivir groups.)
The revelation that Uribe's Informants Network included ex-paramilitaries adds to an already rich collection of declassified documents citing the 17th Brigade's reliance on right-wing death squads to inflate enemy body counts.
In one previously-published cable from 1998, the embassy reported that "systematic arming and equipping of aggressive regional paramilitaries" had been "pivotal" to the brigade's success against guerrilla groups in the mid-1990s while under the command of Gen. Rito Alejo Del Río, who is currently on trial for murder and collaboration with paramilitary death squads.
One of Del Río's top deputies told U.S. military contacts in 1997 that the army suffered from a "body count syndrome" that "fueled human rights abuses by otherwise well-meaning soldiers trying to get their quota to impress superiors." The colonel ominously warned that the emphasis on producing enemy kills "could also lead to a cavalier, or at least passive, approach when it comes to allowing the paramilitaries to serve as proxies for the COLAR [Colombian Army] in contributing to the guerrilla body count."
Falsos Positivos
Another new WikiLeaks cable published by El Espectador spotlights a pair of former army commanders closely associated with the "body count" policy under President Uribe. The document highlights the opposition of former defense minister (and current president) Juan Manuel Santos to the appointment of Gen. Óscar González Peña as army commander in November 2008. González replaced Gen. Mario Montoya Uribe after a report revealed that the army had been responsible for thousands of illegal executions in the so-called falsos positivos ("false positives") scandal, in which innocent civilians were systematically murdered and dressed to appear as enemy casualties to artificially inflate the number of guerrillas killed in action. At least 2,000 civilians were murdered as part of the "false positives" affair, and some 4,000 military personnel have been tied to the scandal, including several top-ranking generals.
Two other high-level defense ministry officials cited in the same leaked cable told U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield that González, as "Montoya's protégé," would be "an obstacle to further improvements on human rights." Santos told the ambassador that Montoya had "personally convinced President Uribe" to name González, despite his objections. (Santos quickly replaced González with a new army commander after taking office in 2010.)
This is the second major WikiLeaks bombshell for Gens. Montoya and González stemming from the "false positives" affair. A previously-leaked cable described a February 2009 meeting in which army inspector general Carlos Suarez told a U.S. Embassy official that the "phenomenon originated in the 4th Brigade in Medellín," a unit once led by "former Army Commander Mario Montoya and current Army Commander Oscar Gonzalez." Suarez said that González "opposes his work" and—in a revelation that may have important legal implications—had "tried to intimidate witnesses not to testify about murders committed by the 11th Brigade in Sucre."
Declassified records reflect longstanding U.S. concern about the Colombian army's use of body counts and extrajudicial executions going back more than 20 years.
In a 1990 cable, U.S. Ambassador Thomas McNamara reported a disturbing increase in abuses attributed to the Colombian Army, including one report that nine civilians had been "executed by the Army and then dressed in military fatigues." The ambassador added that many of the army's recent abuses had "come in the course of operations by armed para-military groups in which Army officers and enlisted men have participated."
In 1994, U.S. Ambassador Myles Frechette described "body count mentalities" among Colombian Army officers seeking promotions. Frechette cited a U.S. military intelligence finding that, "Field officers who cannot show track records of aggressive anti-guerrilla activity (wherein the majority of the military's human rights abuses occur) disadvantage themselves at promotion time."
A CIA intelligence report, also from 1994, went even further, finding that the Colombian security forces continued to "employ death squad tactics in their counterinsurgency campaign." The document, a review of President César Gaviria's anti-guerrilla policy, noted that the Colombian military had "a history of assassinating leftwing civilians in guerrilla areas, cooperating with narcotics-related paramilitary groups in attacks against suspected guerrilla sympathizers, and killing captured combatants." Traditionally, the Army had "not taken guerrilla prisoners," according to report, and the military had "treated Gaviria's new human rights guidelines as pro forma."
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The University of Winnipeg Alumni Council is pleased to announce Dr. Frank Albo as recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award for the Autumn 2016 convocation ceremonies. Dr. Albo is an internationally renowned architectural historian and known locally as the inspiration behind The Hermetic Code, a bestselling book detailing the fascinating secrets and symbolism of the architecture of the Manitoba Legislative Building. Over 22,000 people have taken his tours of the building and been exposed to the numerological, masonic, and esoteric meanings behind the home of the Provincial government.
After completing his Bachelor of Arts degree at The University of Winnipeg in 2002, Albo went on to further his studies at the University of Toronto, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Cambridge, Peterhouse — where he ultimately attained his MPhil and PhD. He has taught locally at The University of Winnipeg and University of Manitoba for ten years and is currently Adjunct Professor of History at UWinnipeg.
He has been published in numerous academic journals on topics as varied as French gardens, the Gothic Revival, Kabbalah, and of course the Golden Boy — and he regularly appears in media throughout North America, Europe, and Central Asia discussing architectural topics. His latest book, to be released in the coming months, lays out a foundation myth encoded into the breathtaking architecture of Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan.
Dr. Albo has also advised several prominent architectural firms and museums, including the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, as well as governmental bodies locally and in Europe.
"Dr. Albo is a widely respected historian and proud Winnipegger who has spent more than a decade educating locals and tourists alike on what may be Manitoba's most notable building. His time at The University of Winnipeg, just down the street from the Legislative Building, surely helped to inspire his work, and he will be a wonderful addition to our exclusive list of Distinguished Alumni," said Alumni Association President Kevin Freedman.
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Suffering but feel worse for the children that have this disease! We need to find a cure or a better way to manage it.
I know how you feel. Have you heard of the drug, Xolair? I read about it, & learned that it "may" be the miracle drug for urticaria. I'm going to give it a try as soon as my insurance authorizes it. Hope it works!
Xolair is not a cure,but for some people with CU,it seems to be the "magic injection" that relieves symptoms when nothing else does.If it works, you will need to have the injections monthly or bi-monthly ,pretty much forever. The FDA just released a new warning on September 24,2014 that they are adding a warning to Xolair. Xolair has just been found to increase cardiac events, cerebrovascular events,and is associated with an slight increase in certain forms of cancer.That doesn't mean that you should not take it if you believe the benefits outweigh the potential risks.CU is so debilitating that the benefit may well outweigh the risk.It's an individual choice.I just wanted to apprise you of the latest released warning. A number of the medications that are used to treat those who have not responded to the earlier stages of the CU treatment protocol ,which is to start with non-sedating anti-histamines,then sedating ones,then to add H2s such as Pepcid,then Doxepin, thenAnti-Leuketrienes such as Montelukast ,-then if none of those works,to try medications such as Cellcept, Methotrexate,Dapsone, etc which carry serious risks of their own.I am not sure where Xolair falls on the Protocol as it was just approved in March of 2014 to treat CU. Best of luck with whatever you try.I've never heard of eating oats, but Oatmeal baths are recommended.
I have heard about Xolair. I have an appointment tomorrow to talk to the doctor about it. I also have a friends who takes this shot and she says it has lowered her immune system and she is constantly ill. I'm not sure I want to try it now.
I had my first xolair injection 10/25/14. It worked like magic (I could cry even talking about it), within 24 hrs I was hive free! Not only that, I had no idea what a devastating toll CU had taken on the rest of my mind and body until the day after my injection. I literally wept when I woke up, not only hive free, but feeling rested, relaxed, not anxious or agitated... and like ME. I had not realized how dark and oppressive my mental state had become. I had not fully known just how generally "unwell" feeling my normal had become. How depressed and withdrawn I was. What a zombie I was in the drug haze of 26+ pills every day. How hopeless I felt. Then I got my shot and like a light switch inside 24 hrs I had ME back! It lasted 5 glorious weeks. Then all the red tape happened and somehow I've been in absolute hell trying to get another shot. There always seems to be a disconnect somewhere or a mistake somewhere else causing me not to be able to get it. My insurance approved it for a year. Once the order got put in under the wrong doctor, once shipped to the wrong infusion center, once the number of refills want included in the order so they wouldn't fill it, once only (one) 150mg dose was ordered instead of two, three times Express Scripts has told me they couldn't ship it without obtaining my verbal consent WHILE I WAS ON THE PHONE WITH THEN GIVING MY CONSENT. One thing after another has prevented me from getting this injection. All seem like simple fixes except with each dose being $1700 it is admiring but. Every slight little thing that happens they have to void it all out and start over. Once my xolair that was approved and paid for by my insurance, was ordered by my doctor, was delivered to the hospital infusion center instead of to my prescribing immunologist office. Because my doctor could not order the actual administration of the medication at the hospital, and because no hospital doctor can order the administration of the medication because only the ordering prescriber can per insurance, and because the xolair couldn't simply be transferred locations... IT WAS DISCARDED. Only to be voided out of the sytem and a new order started. All of this transpired between two buildings only one mile from one another. I can't tell you the effect this has had on my psyche. It sounds so petty to admit but for the first time in my life I considered ending my own life this morning. Then I cried for four hours until my eyes swelled nearly closed then I went and showered. Then I somehow found myself on this site. I hope the rest of you who try xolair have much better luck than me actually receiving it.
My DR. Put me on what's called visteril it is amazing at getting rid of the hives and ichy painful symptoms fast, but has a groggy after effect that can last up to 2 days. I definitely choose the meds over not walking or using my hands or pain and ichy swelling any day.
I have recently been diagnosed and the antihistamines (Allegra 180 twice daily and Zantac 150 Does anyone use Prendisone? Today I was so miserable with itching that I went to clinic (Saturday) and got 5 day supply - within an hour I felt better. I know you con't use steroids long term .... BUT what are people's experience with them?
My Mom was on prednisone (for another skin condition) for almost five years. She is 78 now and her skin is like tissue paper. She bruises easily and her skin tears where it would normally just be a scrape. In addition, her weight gain was so dramatic, I barely recognized her! So go with the lowest dose that works for you, for the least amount of time, in my opinion.
After suffering with DPU for 20 years, I was diagnosed with H Pylori. After taking the meds and testing H Pylori free, I am DPU FREE for almost a year now. I cannot begin to tell you how much better my life is!
I tried the Xolair injections at $1,900 per session and it did not help me with my chronic urticaria. I am 65 years old and my condition started over a year ago after the loss of my Mother. I already had compromised immune system due to long standing thyroid problems and hashimoto's disease. And my hives was another autoimmune system problem. After 3 different specialist, I finally tried Functional Medicine and have now been hive free for 3 1/2 months.


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Posted on September 25, 2015 by Kristofer Erickson
A scene from The Adventure of the Girl withe the Light Blue Hair depicts the two protagonists Sherlock and Watson as they discuss a mysterious case of copyright re-use.
An animated short film by Professor Ronan Deazley and CREATe researcher Bartolomeo Meletti, The Adventure of the Girl with the Light Blue Hair is a finalist for the 2015 AHRC Research in Film Award, in the category of 'Innovation in Film'.
The film was commissioned with AHRC funding by CREATe's Copyright User project as a way to illustrate concepts such as remix, reuse and the public domain to school-aged learners and other creative users of copyright. A series of Case Files accompany the video and help to give context to the different uses of copyright referenced in the narrative.
Many of us in CREATe have viewed the film, and the response I have observed has been strikingly positive, particularly in light of our shared recognition of the challenge of communicating the complexities of copyright law to new communities of users and creators.
Jan Dalley, Arts Editor of the Financial Times, AHRC Council member and chair of the judging panel, said: "The quality of the films shortlisted is an indication of a great deal of creative, innovative and highly engaged work being undertaken within the arts and humanities research community. Our congratulations go to the makers of these films and to the many others whose films didn't quite make the shortlists."
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Q: how do I use ilorest to Configuring AMD Preferred IO Bus Number there are enough instructions out there to do that manually, but I need it to be done using a script.
https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=sd00001068en_us&docLocale=en_US&page=t_config_AMD_preferred_IO_bus_number.html
Use the Preferred IO Bus Number option to avail an improved PCIe performance.
Prerequisites
Ensure that you have enabled the Preferred IO Bus AMD option.
Procedure
From the System Utilities screen, select System Configuration > BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU) > Power and Performance Options > I/O Options > Preferred IO Bus Number.
Enter the PCI bus number [ranging from 0 to 255] of a device to receive Preferred IO.
All end-points on the same AMD NorthBridge I/O (NBIO) receive the same improved performance.
Save your setting.

A: Took a while, but found it!
hexNum=<the PCI number of the card I want preferred>
hname=`hostname`
decNum=$(echo "obase=10; ibase=16; $hexNum" | bc)

# get the current value
ilorest --cache-dir=${hname} login ${hname}-ilo -u $user -p $pass
ilorest --cache-dir=${hname} select bios --url ${hname}-ilo -u $user -p $pass
echo showing the current PreferredIOBusNumber
ilorest --cache-dir=${hname} get PreferredIOBusNumber ${hname}-ilo -u $user -p $pass
CurrentPIOBN=`ilorest --cache-dir=${hname} get PreferredIOBusNumber ${hname}-ilo -u $user -p $pass | grep PreferredIOBusNumber | cut -f2 -d '='`
if [[ $CurrentPIOBN == $decNum ]]; then echo The correct PreferredIOBusNumber is already set, exiting with success ; exit 0 ; fi
# set the new value
ilorest --cache-dir=${hname} set PreferredIOBusNumber=$decNum
ilorest --cache-dir=${hname} commit PreferredIOBusNumber ${hname}-ilo -u $user -p $pass

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Pergolas are the beautiful structures that can add a lot of beauty to your outdoor spaces when created tactfully. So if you want to add some extra space and beauty in your outdoor space to enjoy even when the weather is not very appealing then here we are with some interesting Pergolas designs which you can adopt to make your space more useful and beautiful.
Pergolas are the type of gazebo which can be used for many purposes like a small sitting place where you can enjoy peaceful winter mornings and beautiful summer evenings or to connect the outdoor space with your living space to make it more beautiful and useable; it is like an extension of the house. The main difference between pergolas and gazebo is that pergolas are often attached structures with open-lattice roofs while gazebos are free standing buildings with closed roofs and floors.
A perfect pergola has a flat, open roof with very wide-open crisscrossing lattice or slotted beams which allow entering the dappled light from the sun. Sides of a pergola are made from two or four posts or narrow sections of any architectural material to allow plants and vines to climb up its open structure to cover the sides and roof.
Pergolas are used as an outdoor walkway or to connect two buildings. Pergolas are also often used interchangeably with arbors as gateways to garden areas or as a covering for a swing or single bench.
Usually pergolas are constructed from wood but you can also use metal, vinyl and fiberglass to construct pergolas. Before constructing the pergolas decide the location of the pergola first as you can construct them in the middle of your garden or even could be employed as a file format of the house.
Pergolas are available in two styles Freestanding and Wall Mount. Free standing Pergolas has four post constructions whereas Wall Mount is attached with your existing structure so they have only two posts. You can get customized pergolas according to your specifications and space available. Pergolas enhance the design of the home's exteriors.
There are many different styles and types of pergolas like Cladded pergolas, gabled pergolas, pitched pergolas and so on each of which has its own advantage and attraction, you can have any of them which complement your house and able to extend your living areas out into the garden in a comfortable way.


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Q: Integrate select2 in simple_form I'm using select2 on a form.  But want to use it throughout the application.
I have this part in my application.html.erb
<script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function() {
    <%= yield :document_ready %>
  });
</script>

And this in my view:
<% content_for :document_ready do %>
  $("#menu_category_id").select2({minimumResultsForSearch: 10});
<% end %>

and this is the actual input in the view:
<%= f.input :menu_category_id, :collection => @product.menu.menu_categories,
  :label_method => :name, :value_method => :id, :label => "Category" %>

This works without any problems.  However I don't want to repeat this in all the views and would like to handle that with simple_view.
Best would be that if I use:
<%= f.input :menu_category_id, :collection => @product.menu.menu_categories,
:label_method => :name, :value_method => :id, :label => "Category",
:select2 => 'minimumResultsForSearch: 10' %>

it would automatically put it in the :document_ready part.  So if there are 3 selects on a page it would do it for all of them with all the options that are specified in :select2
Is this possible with custom inputs?  Or any other way?

A: I don't think you need a custom input or the content_for helpers here. Assign a CSS class to the inputs you want select2 for, say with_select2. Next, assign them a data attribute specifying the minimumResultsForSearch value, say data-minimum-results. On document.ready then loop through all the inputs with class with_select2 and call select2 on them with the minimumResultsForSearch from the data attribute.


Tremper Golden Strings founder, Stanley F. Nosal is a retired music department chairperson and director of orchestral activities at Tremper High School, Kenosha, Wisconsin. He is known nationally for his work as a string teacher, conductor, music educator and clinician.
Mr. Nosal is a former member of the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, past Associate Conductor and Concertmaster of the Kenosha Symphony, founder of the Strolling Strings movement, and founding director of the Tremper Golden Strings and Golden Strings USA. Mr. Nosal served as Chairman of Orchestral Activities for the Wisconsin School of Music Association: Editor of the Orchestra Division of the "Wisconsin School Musician", President of the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra Association and Advisor to the Wisconsin State Music Selection Committee, the University of Illinois String and Contemporary Music Research Project.
Mr. Nosal represented the State of Wisconsin in "Project Super" at the Eastman School of Music with the famous Japanese pedagogue, Shinichi Suzuki and participated in the famous Talent Education Summer School in Matsumoto, Japan.
Mr. Nosal's orchestras have performed at a significant number of state and national conventions in the U.S. and Canada and have received many honors throughout the midwestern states. In 1979 and 1980 he served as guest conductor at the Marrowstone Music Festival, Washington State.
His Tremper music program was a model envied by many, acclaimed as "Exemplary" in Wisconsin and the United States. His outstanding talent, dedication, and highly professional service to high school students is truly noteworthy: Developing a lifelong appreciation, understanding, and love for all types of music.
Known in music circles as "Mr. High School Orchestra," his students create a sense of "family" as they work together as a group, not just as individuals. They work together to make music, to make audiences feel the heart of the music, and work together simply as friends. They develop a lifelong appreciation and love for all types of music with a degree of understanding most people do not begin to have. His love of kids and music continues to keep Mr. Nosal active as a teacher, clinician, and mentor.


Lesson eleven introduces students to the idea of context: how and where we encounter images on a daily basis. Students will understand that where we first see images has a direct impact on our interpretation of their meaning. Students are challenged to manipulate the context in order to change the meanings of photographs. This lesson includes works by Susan Meiselas, Shepard Fairey, Banksy, and Hank Willis Thomas.
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I Fantastici di Raffaella Carrà è stato un programma televisivo condotto da Raffaella Carrà, andato in onda su Rai 1 dal lunedì al venerdì alle ore 14:00, dal 4 ottobre al 31 dicembre 1999, per 64 puntate.

Il programma
I Fantastici di Raffaella Carrà era la striscia quotidiana legata a Carràmba che fortuna! e manteneva sostanzialmente lo stesso meccanismo del programma Centoventitré, dando maggiore spazio alle esibizioni dei 40 "Ragazzi della fortuna" che si avvicendavano in esibizioni di vario genere.

Cast tecnico
Regia: Sergio Candido Japino
Autori: Giovanni Benincasa, Fabio Di Iorio, Raffaella Carrà, Sergio Candido Japino
Scenografia: Mario Catalano
Costumi: Corrado Colabucci
Direzione musicale: Piero Pintucci

Note

Programmi televisivi degli anni 1990

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The live album of the upcoming DVD! One special night performance of the entire Rocket And A Bomb album to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the epic albums release. A few encore songs were added at the end.
THANKS TO ALL WHO ATTENDED THIS SHOW AND CONTRIBUTED TO THE KICKSTARTER!


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Lex would often talk about Maureen when she wasn't around.
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Ted sat at the bottom of the stairs wondering what he should do next.
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Russell got on his bike and left.
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Gregor earns double my salary.
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Sperm bank regulations restrict a given donor to making sperm donations at only one facility and restrict the number of children that each donor can "father".
Straka and Presley acted like they'd never met each other before.
Tolerant used to earn $30,000 a month.
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Saiid's maternal grandparents both live in Boston, as does his paternal grandmother Anna, who is a widow residing in an assisted-living facility. Although she is confined to a wheelchair, she is quite lucid and has a good memory for details of events of long ago.
Win introduced his stepson to Rainer's stepdaughter.


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All Water Topics Drinking Water Effluent Limitations Groundwater Laboratory NPDES Pretreatment Standards Stormwater-Construction Activities Stormwater-General Stormwater-Industrial Facilities Stormwater-Municipalities Total Maximum Daily Loads Underground Injection Wells Wastewater - General Wastewater Variances Water - General Wetlands
Oral arguments in major CWA case
On Tuesday, December 4, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case of utmost importance to local water management agencies. At issue is a July 2011 opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that potentially subjects these entities to a new regime of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting. The 9th Circuit's opinion marked a defeat for the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, which was defending itself against a claim by environmental groups that the county was obligated to treat municipal stormwater runoff that entered the county's municipal separate storm sewer systems (MSs4) and eventually polluted navigable rivers in Southern California.
Four rivers
In Natural Resources Defense Council v. the County of Los Angeles (NRDC v. LA County), the plaintiffs argued that between 2002 and 2008, polluted water conveyed by the county's MS4s caused hundreds of water quality exceedances in four rivers–the Santa Clara River, the Los Angeles River, the San Gabriel River, and Malibu Creek. Detected pollutants included aluminum, copper, cyanide, fecal coliform bacteria, and zinc. The NRDC and its co-plaintiff, Santa Monica Baykeeper, contended that the county's NPDES permit makes it responsible for controlling all pollutants that are conveyed into the rivers via its MS4, which comprises 2,800 miles of storm drains and 500 miles of open channels.
While admitting that it conveys pollutants via the MS4, the county contended that its infrastructure alone does not generate or discharge pollutants. According to the defendants, the MS4 conveys the collective discharges of the numerous "up-sewer" municipalities. A district court agreed and dismissed the complaint because the plaintiffs were attempting to establish liability without presenting evidence as to precisely who was responsible for the polluted discharges–that is, which of 84 municipalities in the LA County water district were responsible for discharging pollution into the county's MS4s.
County bears responsibility
But the 9th Circuit saw merit in the plaintiffs' contention that it is irrelevant which of the thousands of storm drains were the source of polluted stormwater since, as holders of the permit, the defendants bear responsibility for detected exceedances. The 9th Circuit was somewhat disturbed that the plaintiffs did not present evidence for certain claims, assuming that it was "obvious to anyone how stormwater makes its way from a parking lot in Pasadena into the MS4, through a mass-emissions station, and then to a Watershed River." Accordingly, the court elected not to rule on the county's responsibility for pollutant exceedances in two of the four rivers named in the complaint.
On the other hand, the 9th Circuit noted that the county has ignored its role as controllers of the MS4 and the stormwater it conveys by demanding that the plaintiffs engage in the "Sisyphean task of testing particular storm drains in the County for the source of each pollutant." The court also stated that the Clean Water Act (CWA) does not distinguish between those who add pollutants to regulated waters and those who convey what is added. The 9th Circuit concluded that it is beyond dispute that the county was discharging pollutants from the MS4 to the Los Angeles River and San Gabriel River in violation of its permit.
Miccosukee defense
In its brief to the Supreme Court, the defendants elected to base its defense on a previous Supreme Court ruling (South Florida Water Management District v. Miccosukee Tribe of Indians) in which the justices held that the flow of water from one portion of a river through an engineered improvement and to a downstream portion of the same river does not constitute a regulated discharge of pollutants under the CWA. The environmental groups regard the Miccosukee defense being employed by the county as irrelevant to liability because the county "does not simply transfer water within a single river."
In an amici brief, five of the nation's major organizations representing municipal water districts stated that a ruling against the defendants would be "devastating" to water suppliers and local governmental water managers who would be subjected to NPDES permitting for the first time.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule in the case this summer.
Click here to read the 9th Circuit's opinion in NRDC v. LA County.
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In honor of 9/11 my Passion Flower plant blooms!
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 Ген — структурная и функциональная единица наследственности живых организмов.
 Ген — коммуна во Франции, департамент Шаранта.
 Ген — один из языков гбе.
 Ген де Бурмон, Луи Огюст Виктор де (1773—1846) — французский граф, маршал Франции, маршал Португалии.
 Ген, Виктор (1813—1890) — историк прибалтийско-немецкого происхождения.
 Ген, Карл Георг Франц 1821—1875) — эстонский учёный, профессор Дерптского университета по кафедре сельскохозяйственной технологии.
 Ген, Николай Леонидович (1930—2002) — депутат Государственной Думы 1 созыва.
 Ген, Тевье Григорьевич (1912—2003) — еврейский советский писатель.
 Ген-13 — вымышленная команда супергероев из серии комиксов «Gen¹³» компании Wildstorm.

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Spread love like it's nutella.
Someone close to me passed away this week. I am not sharing this because I want sympathy or condolences. I am sharing it because death of a loved one is the greatest reminder to be grateful. We all have a finite amount of time on this planet. We go to bed each night stressing over what is to be done or checked off our ever-growing lists and you never know if you'll even see tomorrow. I do not mean to be dark or grim. I, personally, always take life, and health for that matter, a little for granted. I think we all do. And when someone passes away that shed light into your years, you tend to take stock of your life and your remaining loved ones and you begin to seek more gratitude. It is such a shame that death or negative moments in our lives always tend to be the catalyst of a really in-depth scan of our existence. Alas, it is and so today I am truly grateful for everything I have, including all of you. Maikana has given me a purpose beyond what I had imagined. Thank you.
I ask all of you to hug your loved ones a little closer today and truly inhale the love that is constantly around you. We have much more than we will ever need and yet we are always seeking more. Just for one day, stop and be happy for everything you already have.
A male friend of mine asked me yesterday, "How do I know if I'm the love of her life?" My question back to him was, "Does it really matter?" We briefly discussed our rationales behind our stances, but the whole time the song "Love the One You're With" by Crosby, Stills & Nash kept playing in my head.
When we are given the gift of love by anyone- whether it be innately like with our children or by our family (most of the time) or it truly falls into our lives like with our partners and great friends- love is a gift! Accept it and treat it as such. Do not question the ins and outs of it. Do not analyze it and wonder how deep or true it is. Just be grateful. With that love comes trust, acceptance, loyalty- all of these are a wonderful gift. So if you are lucky enough to have love in your life, even on the Hallmark holiday of Valentine's Day- celebrate! It speaks volumes of who you are.
Happy Friday everyone! Have a wonderful long weekend! Maikana Foods will see you on Tuesday.


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Analysis: Washington State captures program-record 11th win, beating Iowa State 28-26 in Alamo Bowl
UPDATED: Sat., Dec. 29, 2018
Washington State's Dezmon Patmon reacts with fellow wide receiver Easop Winston after Patmon scored a touchdown Friday during the first half of the Alamo Bowl. (Tyler Tjomsland / The Spokesman-Review)
By Theo Lawson theol@spokesman.com(509) 939-5928
John Blanchette: Gardner Minshew saves his best trick for last – making a bowl game memorable
Difference makers: Seniors Gardner Minshew, Peyton Pelluer lead Washington State in 28-26 Alamo Bowl win
TV Take: Gardner Minshew makes most of final showing in crimson and gray as Washington State outlasts Iowa State in Alamo Bowl
2018 ALAMO BOWL
At Alamodome, San Antonio
COUGARS28
CYCLONES26
FULL BOX SCORE »
SAN ANTONIO – It was something they'd become obsessed with this month. All they talked about the last three weeks. Now, the 2018 Washington State Cougars have etched it into stone.
The winningest team in school history.
Behind the right arm of a record-setting quarterback and the clutch play of an underappreciated defense, WSU captured an elusive 11th win Friday night in the Alamo Bowl, defeating Big 12 opponent Iowa State 28-26 in front of 60,675 fans at the Alamodome.
The Cougars, as Gardner Minshew put it a few days earlier, have still never lost a party.
Before they were covered by thousands of balloons and colored confetti flakes, before a fireworks show erupted behind WSU's victory podium, the coach of the 11-win Cougars – not supposed to win more than four or five games according to most preseason guesses – interrupted postgame proceedings.
In the state where Mike Leach built his legacy and made his name, the WSU coach, drenched in Gatorade, took control of the microphone and spoke about the 2018 Cougars.
"Of all the teams I coached, this one was the most diligent about improving each week,: Leach said. "I couldn't be more proud of this team. I may be more proud of this team than any team I've ever coached and I want to thank every one of these guys."
WSU was targeting only one record ahead of its fourth consecutive bowl game, but a few others came as a sweet bonus.
The Cougars, of course, set a program wins record by hitting the magic number 11. Four other teams in the school's 124-year history had hit the 10-win plateau, but none of them got over the hump.
Minshew became the Pac-12's single-season leader in passing yards and completions, and claimed Alamo Bowl Offensive MVP honors after accounting for three touchdowns. He also set the bowl game's completion record, hitting on 35 of 49 passes for 299 yards, and tied Luke Falk's WSU single-season record with his 38th passing TD.
But Minshew, ever the team player, didn't care much about the various marks he set Friday – and there were many.
"One thing I've always been told is leave a place better than you found it," he said.
The fifth-year graduate transfer was at WSU for all of seven months, but that's all he needed to become one of the most popular players in school history.
"I feel like myself and these seniors have definitely done everything we could to create these work patterns, these winning mentalities," Minshew said. "Hopefully these guys can carry it on because this place could be really special. It is really special. To be a part of it's an honor and I can't wait to see what they do in the future."
Rookie running back Max Borghi tied Deon Burnett's freshman record with his 12th touchdown of the season.
WSU won its second postseason game under Leach and grabbed an essential bowl win for the Pac-12, which had gone 1-10 in its past 11 tries.
This one came with theatrics both early and late.
Before either team could put points on the board, the Cougars and Cyclones had managed to combine for three turnovers.
WSU running back James Williams had the ball knocked out of his arms on the fourth play of the game and ISU cornerback Brian Peavy recovered, giving the Cyclones possession at the 49-yard line.
ISU kept the ball for three more plays before giving it up. Brock Purdy misfired on a pass toward the sideline, and Cougars safety Jalen Thompson intercepted the ball on WSU's 40-yard line.
After driving 64 yards on eight plays, another ISU drive was capped by a turnover. Another underthrown pass from Purdy fell into the arms of WSU corner Marcus Strong, who caught the ball at the 29-yard line and ran it back 71 yards the other way. The pick-6, however, was negated by an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty when officials flagged Strong for taunting.
The Cougars were still able to punch in the game's first touchdown. Blown coverage in the ISU secondary allowed Renard Bell to break free into the end zone and haul in a 22-yard touchdown from Minshew.
ISU took care of its turnover problem, but the Cyclones committed a few more mistakes before the first half ended. A pair of ISU defenders – linebacker Willie Harvey and defensive end Enyi Uwazurike – drew targeting penalties after helmet-to-helmet hits on Minshew. Both were ejected and the Cougars capitalized twice, scoring on Minshew's 7-yard scramble and then on a high 9-yard pass from the QB to Dezmon Patmon.
The Cyclones booted a 50-yard field goal to close the gap to 21-10 at halftime and continued to chip away in the third quarter. ISU outscored WSU 10-0 in the period, with David Montgomery's 8-yard touchdown run and Connor Assalley's 23-yard field goal.
But the Cougars, sturdy in the fourth quarter all season, came up with one more key turnover.
Linebacker Peyton Pelluer, the game's defensive MVP, poked the ball out of Motgomery's arms and the Cougars recovered on the ISU 30-yard line. Pelluer finished with a game-high 11 tackles, adding one sack and 1.5 tackles for loss.
WSU punched in the decisive touchdown on the next drive, scoring on Borghi's record-tying 10-yard run.
The Cyclones got into the end zone once more, on a 1-yard keeper from Purdy, but the Cougars smothered the ensuing 2-point conversion when Willie Taylor III pinned Montgomery after a reception.
"We didn't make all the tackles tonight, but we made them when they truly counted," Pelluer said. "And that was one of them."


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The Sun Herald reported that the Hawk was delivering a new dry dock to Ingalls Shipbuilding on March 29 when it collided with a test barge. The barge was alongside the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Delbert Black (DDG 119) and was supporting electrical work on the destroyer. The collision pushed the barge into the Delbert Black.
Ingalls' spokesman Bill Glenn said people were treated for minor injuries at the scene by Ingalls' medical personnel.
The warrant comes after Huntington Ingalls Industries, parent company of the shipyard, on April 11 filed civil suit against the companies for damages. The lawsuit says the Hawk lost control and veered off course and collided with the barge, causing significant damage to the test barge, the floating dry dock, the wharf and the Delbert Black.
The lawsuit said the damages were caused "solely by the fault, neglect and/or lack of due care" of the companies and the unseaworthinesss of the M/V Hawk.
Ingalls estimates the damage to the barge and wharf facilities is $10.1 million and the delay and disruption to the shipyard facilities is $21.1 million. Ingalls estimates damage to the destroyer at $30.9 million, plus delay and disruption damages by the Navy.
The Delbert Black was christened in November 2017. It is named in honor of Delbert D. Black, who was a gunner's mate in the Navy and was aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
"Black enlisted in the Navy in March of 1941, and over the years, he served in three wars and on nearly a dozen ships, spending 21 of his 30 in the Navy at sea," said Brian Cuccias, president of Ingalls Shipbuilding. He was the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy.
Ingalls Shipbuilding reported in September that over the last 30 years it has built and delivered 30-Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and had five others under construction in Pascagoula.
Sun Herald reporters Britnee Davis and Anita Lee contributed to this report.
Ingalls Shipbuilding launched the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) on Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. It was damaged during a collision March 29 at the shipyard and damages are estimated at $30 million. Andrew Young/HII
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Mary Perez is the business and casino reporter for the Sun Herald and also writes about Biloxi, jobs and the new restaurants and development coming to the Coast. She is a fourth-generation journalist.
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