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Uniontown Overcomes First-Half Deficit, Defeats Maranatha Academy
UNIONTOWN, Kan. – After back-to-back losses, the Uniontown Eagles earned their third victory on the 2017 season here Friday night, defeating Maranatha Academy 34-26.
Maranatha Academy took the opening drive of the game 65-yards for a score. Quarterback Nate Burdette threw a touchdown strike to wide receiver Brock West to give Maranatha a 6-0 lead. The 2-point try was successful, leaving the score 8-0 in favor or Maranatha Academy.
On the ensuing possession, Uniontown's running back Andrew Reed took a hand-off 51-yards for a score. Ty Davidson converted the 2-point try on a designed quarterback run. With 5:09 remaining in the first quarter, the score was even at 8-8.
Quickly moving down the field, Maranatha again found themselves in Uniontown territory. Nate Burdette would cap off the quick drive, tossing a 10-yard pass to big bodied wide receiver Andrew Fortin. The 2-point try was unsuccessful, resulting in a 14-6 Marantha lead with 3:35 remaining in the first quarter.
Uniontown's next possession ended by way of a fumble that was recovered by Maranatha on the Eagle's 30-yard line.
Plays later, Maranatha's Nate Burdette would again find Andrew Fortin for a touchdown. Receiving the ball in stride, Fortin would take a pass over the middle 30-yards, out-racing the Eagle defense for a score. After another unsuccessful 2-point attempt, the scoreboard read 20-8 in favor of Maranatha Academy with 3:02 remaining in the quarter.
At the end of the first quarter, Maranatha lead Uniontown 20-8.
Early in the second quarter, Uniontown's Ty Davidson would intercept Burdette's fourth-down pass, leaving the Eagle's with good field position.
Uniontown would capitalize on the swing in momentum, marching down all the way to the Maranatha 1-yard line. However, a fumbled quarterback-running back exchange was recovered by Maranatha, ending a promising Uniontown drive.
Needing a stop, the Eagles' defense forced a Maranatha punt, giving the Uniontown excellent field position.
Refusing to be denied, the Eagles used their bruising tailback Gavin Fry, along with running backs Hayden Miller and Andrew Reed to again march inside the Maranatha 5-yard line. This time, Andrew Reed powered his way into the end zone. The 2-point try was no good, but the Eagles had cut into the Marantha lead, putting the score at 20-14.
After a booming kickoff by Uniontown's Hayden Miller, Maranatha took over at their own 20-yard line. Gaining only 4-yards on first and second down, Nate Burdette threw a perfect pass to wide receiver Brock West, hitting him in stride for huge 76-yard touchdown. Another unsuccessful 2-point try left the score 26-14 with 2:37 remaining in the second quarter.
Trying to catch the Eagles off guard, Maranatha would opt to use a sky kick on the kickoff. The kick was muffed by an Eagle returner and recovered by Maranatha deep inside Uniontown territory.
The Uniontown defense needed a stop, or else Maranatha would take a commanding lead into halftime. Holding steady, the Eagle defense held Maranatha's offense to short gains, forcing them into a fourth down. On a broken play, Maranatha's Nate Burdette scrambled right, and lofted a pass near the end zone to wide receiver Brock West. However, Uniontown's Ty Davidson again undercut the route, intercepting Burdette on the 3-yard line.
Uniontown headed into the locker room breathing a sigh of relief, avoiding disaster and only being down 26-14 at the half.
The Eagle's received the the kickoff to begin the second half, and would matriculate down the field using their rushing attack. Ty Davidson capped off the impressive opening drive, scoring on a 1-yard quarterback sneak. Uniontown's 2-point attempt was stuffed, but the Eagles had pulled withing 26-20 of Maranatha with 8:54 remaining in the third quarter.
Maranatha Academy took their ensuing drive down to the Uniontown 8-yard line, but the Eagle's Gavin Fry came up with a huge goal line interception, returning the ball out all the way to the 45-yard line.
The Eagle's rushing attack began to pound away at the Maranatha defense. A physical 32-yard run by Andrew Reed set Uniontown up at the 3-yard line. On the very next play, Reed would take a hand-off up the middle for a 3-yard score. Uniontown had tied the score at 26-26 with 4:28 remaining in the third. Hayden Miller would give the Eagles a 28-26 lead, converting the 2-point try.
Feeding off of the offense's momentum, the Eagle's defense forced the Maranatha offense into a quick three and out. Maranatha would use a delayed punt, allowing their defenders to get downfield quicker. However, Uniontown's Andrew Reed took the delayed punt 51-yards for an electric touchdown, breaking three tackles en route to the end zone. The 2-point try was no good, but the Eagles extended their lead to 34-26, with 00:50 seconds remaining in the third quarter.
Attempting to regain the momentum, the Maranatha offense marched down the field, gashing the Uniontown defense for long gains. Maranatha had moved the ball withing the Eagle's 3-yard line, but a false start took the ball back to the Uniontown 8-yard line. Looking for the end zone, Maranatha's Nate Burdette would be intercepted for the fourth time on the night, this time by the Eagle's Hayden Miller. Miller returned the ball all the way to the 49-yard line.
Looking to put the game away, the Uniontown offense went to work. Slowly moving downfield, the Eagles used their ground game to move within the Maranatha 10-yard line. Reed took a sweep toss around the left side, and dove for the pylon, scoring what looked to be a touchdown. The game officials huddled to discuss the call, and ruled that the ball had left Reed's hand before reaching the pylon. With the ball skirting out of bounds in the end zone, Marantha Academy would receive the ball via a touchback.
The Eagle's defense would again stiffen, forcing Marantha to punt the ball. This time Marantha used a fake. Nate Burdette, the Marantha punter, scrambled right, then scrambled all the way left, and motioned for his receiver to go deep. Unleashing an towering throw, wide receiver Brock West out jumped an Eagle defender, and ran the ball in for a wild 70-yard touchdown pass. However, there was an illegal man down field, negating the Marantha touchdown. It was now fourth and fifteen for Maranatha, and with only 2:38 remaining in the fourth quarter, they elected to go for the conversion. Uniontown's Gavin Fry would knock down Burdette's pass, ending the Marantha drive.
The Eagle's would line up in victory formation, kneeling the ball three times to run out the game clock.
Uniontown defeated Maranatha, 34-26, improving to 3-2 on the season.
Andrew Reed led the Eagles on offense, carrying the ball 17 times for 208 yards and 3 touchdowns. Reed also had 81 yards on punt returns, including a 51-yard touchdown. Ty Davidson and Gavin both had over 50 yards rushing, while Davidson also scored a touchdown. On defense, Uniontown was paced by Andrew Reed, Nick Hathaway, Gavin Fry, and Ty Davidson. The Eagle's had 4 interceptions on the night, two by Davidson, one by Miller, and one by Fry.
Marantha was paced on offense by quarterback Nate Burdette. Burdette finished the night 10 of 25 passing for 248 yards and 3 touchdowns, to go along with 4 interceptions. Running back Gabe Wiley led Maranatha on the ground, taking 24 carries for 102 yards. Wide receiver Brock West finished the game with 5 receptions for 143 yards and one score, while Andrew Fortin hauled in 5 receptions for 111 yards and 2 touchdowns.
Maranatha had 355 yards in total offense, while Uniontown finished with 345 yards in total offense.
Looking ahead, Uniontown (3-2, 1-1 TRL) will open Class 2-1A District 4 play by traveling to face Three Rivers League foe Oswego. Meanwhile, Maranatha Academy will host Atchison County.
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'Frasier' Alums to Reunite at DTF
Dorset Theatre Festival will open its 42nd season on June 20 with a revival of Noël Coward's 'Private Lives,' directed by Evan Yionoulis. Casting has also been announced for Wendy MacLeod's 'Slow Food,' the Festival's season closer. Peri Gilpin and Dan Butler, who played Roz Doyle and Bulldog Briscoe on the NBC sitcom Frasier, will star alongside Broadway veteran Greg Stuhr in this new comedy directed by Jackson Gay. The play is "fantastic," according to Gilpin. "It's so fun to read. I mean, this play is a riot," she said, elaborating on what motivates her upcoming stint acting in Dorset. "It's almost like food – you have to do it." In the play, a young couple just want to have a nice meal out on their anniversary – but their highly neurotic waiter won't bring them their food, and has them examining everything from their menu
choices to their future together. It opens August 22 for a limited engagement. For detail and tickets, call 802-867-2223, Tuesday through Friday, 12 to 4 p.m., or visit dorsettheatrefestival.org.
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What is Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple?
With all the hype, it can be difficult to understand what Bitcoin is, what it could be and more importantly what people want it to be.
These three cryptocurrencies are currently the three wise men of the crypto market. Bitcoin is the first real cryptocurrency that was developed by Statoshi Nakamoto in 2009 and led to the development of the over 2,000 cryptocurrencies that are in existence today. Ethereum and Ripple are two of the closest contenders for well known, broadly held and best understood of the cryptocurrencies.
That being said, all three of the crypto currencies have very different ways of operating/functioning and should not be considered the same thing. The other 2,000 cryptocurrencies will be collectively discussed in the section on Altcoins. We won't go into each one of them but you will get a general overview of what they are, why they are being developed and a few other key points.
Keep in mind that nothing that I'm writing here is advocating for a particular investment strategy, particular coin, or as advice that you should take to make investments. Crypto is the Wild West of the financial world and there are no clear and durable principles to trade in the market effectively. So take this information for informational purposes only and not as investment advice.
The coin that started it all. Created by an individual or group that goes by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto on January 3rd 2009. Designed as the first legitimate digital currency based on a decentralized blockchain, Bitcoin built upon the earlier work done by Hal Finney and other cypherpunks on other digital currencies decades earlier.
Bitcoin while built on a blockchain has a singular purpose: to validate and monitor Bitcoin ownership. The Bitcoin system is hard capped at 21 million coins total with no possibility of additional coins being added to the system. This self imposed scarcity of the system is what many users have used to justify the rise in market value.
The process of validating and monitoring Bitcoin transactions and ownership is called mining. Miners use sophisticated and powerful servers to crack complex cryptographic problems and in the process of validating every transaction they receive a 12.5 bitcoins payout as a reward. Every few years the payout is halved, making future payout per block 6.25, 3.125, 1.5625 and so on.
Developed by Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum is the second most popular altcoin by market cap and name recognition. While it does share some similarities with Bitcoin like operating on a decentralized public blockchain it has more capabilities than Bitcoin. Ethereum was designed to broaden the applications of blockchain technology beyond the singular application of Bitcoin blockchain to monitor coin ownership.
Ethereum's core innovation is the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) which allows developers to run programs on the EVM regardless of the programming language. This gives the the Ethereum community the capacity to develop thousands of applications which could all run seamlessly off one single Ethereum blockchain. Other blockchain systems would require that every application have their own unique blockchain. Kinda lame.
Ethereum is also widely associated with Smart Contracts, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) and Ethereum Classic which will be discussed more in depth later in the Crypto Section.
Ripple is another of the main players in the altcoin universe but it too is very different from Ethereum and Bitcoin. Unlike Bitcoin, Ripple coins are generated by Ripple Labs itself and distributed to users at the discretion of Ripple Labs. As a result there are no miners, server farms or earned distributions of coins for solving blocks.
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Quality Inn & Suites - Hollywood Blvd & Port Everglades Cruise Port Hotel Receives Fourth AAA Award
Award-Winning Hollywood airport & cruise port hotel recently received its 4th consecutive recognition of high-quality service to guests in the middle of a busy South Florida cruise season
"Our fourth AAA award in a row is a testament to our amazing team. Being able to provide top-notch, budget-friendly hotel experience for guests is an award all in itself." - Izzy Fintz
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (PRWEB) November 08, 2022
Quality Inn & Suites - Hollywood Blvd & Port Everglades Cruise Port, a budget-friendly, full-service cruise port hotel in Hollywood, Florida, near Port Everglades cruise port and the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport (FLL), has recently received its 4th consecutive American Automobile Association (AAA) award for cleanliness, condition, hospitality, and, of course, quality!
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"Our fourth AAA award in a row is a testament to our amazing team," stated Izzy Fintz, Hospitality Manager at Quality Inn & Suites - Hollywood Blvd & Port Everglades Cruise Port. "Being able to provide top-notch, budget-friendly hotel experience for guests is an award all in itself."
About Quality Inn & Suites - Hollywood Blvd & Port Everglades Cruise Port
Quality Inn & Suites - Hollywood Blvd & Port Everglades Cruise Port is a budget-friendly, pet-friendly boutique Hollywood, Florida hotel in close proximity to popular South Florida tourist destinations such as Hollywood Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Port Everglades cruise port and the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport (FLL). Located on Hollywood Blvd, just minutes from the beach, this Hollywood cruise hotel is a perfect destination for families and cruise vacationers. The hotel's proximity to the Hard Rock Stadium makes it a perfect destination for fans of the Miami Dolphins; and Miami Hurricanes, football. Guest services include shuttle transportation to the airport and cruise port, long-term cruise parking, complimentary breakfast, heated outdoor pool, whirlpool tub suites and Wi-Fi. For more information, visit http://www.hotelhollywoodfl.com or follow the hotel on Facebook. Quality Inn & Suites - Hollywood Blvd & Port Everglades Cruise Port is a member of Choice Hotels International, Inc.® (NYSE: CHH).
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By Michelle Cottle
Can someone please tell me what the hell happened? This presidential election was supposed to be a high-water mark for feminism. Hillary Clinton entered the primaries as the first female front-runner in our nation's history. Better still, she wasn't running as a Woman Candidate. Yes, Hillary had an established track record of championing so-called women's issues, including children's health care, affordable day care, family medical leave, and, of course, reproductive rights. But her focus on strength and experience pretty much precluded her playing the gender card. Forget your garden-variety female pol's struggle to prove herself tough enough to hang with the Big Boys: Hillary's entire strategy was to prove that she was tougher than the Big Boys. Fan or foe, few people questioned her basic qualifications to be commander-in-chief, and no one suggested that her political juice was a by-product of identity politics. Whether she won or lost--though the widespread assumption was that her victory was inevitable--Hillary's candidacy was expected to showcase what it means to be a broad-shouldered, ass-kicking modern woman.
Then, amid the snows of Iowa, it all fell apart. To be fair, New Hampshire may be more to blame. Iowa was where Hillary's inevitability narrative unraveled, but New Hampshire was where she got the idea that redemption lay in the legions of gals who rallied 'round when the (mostly male) political establishment and punditocracy began salivating at the thought of her imminent demise. That much of the animus toward Hillary had more to do with her last name than her chromosomes did not matter; women objected to seeing one of their own kicked to the curb with such haste. Hillary's now famous moment of teary-eyed vulnerability fueled their fury. Sisterhood is what resurrected Hillary in New Hampshire.
And, just like that, the strong, proud, fearless, gender-transcendent Hillary morphed into a disrespected, mistreated victim. Grievance feminism came roaring back with a vengeance. Clinton's supporters increasingly went from praising her gender-neutral success to celebrating her triumph over a male-dominated system and decrying the patriarchal forces still aligned against her. Obama wasn't just beating Clinton; he was behaving, as Hillary surrogate Geraldine Ferraro charged, in a "terribly sexist" fashion. Party bigwigs, we were told, were pushing Clinton to bow out in a way that they would never pressure a man. Her supporters, meanwhile, saw themselves as suffering the same demeaning treatment women have endured through the ages. As one pro-Hillary group raged, women were being told to "sit down, shut up, and move to the back of the bus." In May, to combat the growing sense that Clinton had little chance of winning and so should drop out of the race, a group of her devotees formed a group pompously yet plaintively titled Women Count--as though all those who wanted the Democratic race over did so out of disrespect for an entire gender.
By primary's end, the whining was so intense and Hillary's struggle so interwoven with the cause of women's rights that the Democratic National Committee was compelled to insert into its platform this statement: "We believe that standing up for our country means standing up against sexism and all intolerance. Demeaning portrayals of women cheapen our debates, dampen the dreams of our daughters, and deny us the contributions of too many. Responsibility lies with us all." How sad that, in the year Hillary was supposed to show just how far women have come, Democrats wound up enshrining such a plodding, patronizing admission of how far we apparently have to go.
For those who kept an eye on the inner workings of Hillary's campaign, the race proved disappointing on a more concrete, personal level as well. Going in, this was supposed to be Hillaryland's chance to shine. Clinton's team was stocked with top-level women to a degree that no other presidential campaign had approached. Hillary herself, after years in her husband's political shadow, was at last free to run things her way. But, as it turned out, Hillary wasn't much of an organizational leader, delaying key decisions and failing to control her feuding senior staff. The minute Iowa derailed Hillary's smooth ride, Bill and his people stepped in and began exerting greater influence over the race--much to the dismay of many Hillarylanders. Far from her coming-out party, Hillary's campaign wound up being just another instance in which Bill and his boys became convinced that they knew best how things should run.
Not even the primary's resolution could end the drama. As many of Clinton's supporters and fund-raisers prepared to unify behind Obama, the true dead-enders--an overwhelmingly female cohort--grew ever more marginalized and belligerent. Giving themselves cutesy names (PUMAs! Hillary Villagers!) and loudly venting their rage or sorrow at their hero's unjust fall, they were increasingly derided as overly emotional and downright nutty. No matter that Americans of both genders tend to cast their presidential votes less on reason than on gut-level intangibles; the extremism of Hillary dead-enders has played into all those tired stereotypes about women being fuzzy-headed and irrational. By the time of the conventions, MSNBC's notoriously chauvinistic Chris Matthews was far from the only person grumbling about "women of a certain age."
Then, just when you thought it was all over and the recovery could begin, Republicans handed us Sarah Palin.
The Palin pick is disheartening on so many levels. For starters, even what little we know about the Alaska governor's policy views is enough to make a traditional feminist weep. The staunchly conservative Palin not only opposes abortion rights (even in cases of rape or incest), she also supports abstinence-only sex education and takes a strict free-market approach toward health care.
Of course, these days, the feminist mantle is claimed by pro-life conservatives and pro-choice progressives alike. Palin herself is a proud member of Feminists for Life. Feminism seems no longer to denote a particular set of values or ideological agenda; it is merely a label appropriated to proclaim that one is committed to the best interests of women--whatever one believes those to be. Thus far, there's no reason to doubt that Palin devoutly believes her hard-core conservatism is right for women. A McCain-Palin White House, however, would spell only trouble for women's rights.
Even setting aside Palin's political views, the governor's candidacy is a slap in the face to all women. No matter how feisty she is or how darling she looks with a rifle on her shoulder, Palin is abjectly unqualified to sit one heartbeat away from the presidency. She is less than two years into her first term as governor of a state with a population roughly equivalent to that of Baltimore or Fort Worth. Her minimal experience with national domestic issues is overshadowed only by her total lack of experience, or even apparent interest, in foreign affairs. This makes her a bizarre choice for a candidate who has been hawking the need for experience and gravitas in these troubled times--and makes the cynical tokenism of Palin's selection all the more vivid.
By far the most insulting aspect of Palin's candidacy is the McCain team's hope that placing a ballsy female on the ticket will attract some former Hillary supporters by stoking their gender-based resentments against Obama and the DNC. Palin has been happy to encourage this strategy by cheering Hillary's "eighteen million cracks in the glass ceiling" and offering herself up as a way to help women go even farther. Sadly, some Hillary dead-enders may be so blinded by bitterness that they fall for this nonsense. The rest of us should be outraged by a strategy so nakedly founded on the premise that Hillary gals were driven more by identity politics than by any interest in their candidate's values, ideology, or qualifications. It's not just that Palin stands on the opposite side of so many issues dear to Hillary; she is also vastly less accomplished and engaged than the senator from New York. (As political consultant Dan Gerstein has quipped, many Hillary supporters will think Palin "not worthy of carrying their candidate's pantsuit.") In Team McCain's eyes, however, female candidates are pretty much interchangeable and women voters too addlepated to know the difference. We don't care about issues or experience; we just want someone with the same reproductive parts as ours.
None of which is to disparage Palin's inherent intelligence, political savvy, or judgment. It's entirely possible that some day she could make a top-notch vice-presidential, or even presidential, candidate. But, at this point, we are talking about a woman who makes Dan Quayle circa 1988 look like an elder statesman.
Alas, fair or not, like all public figures who rise to prominence as tokens, Palin's failures will reflect on the group she has been tapped to represent. If McCain loses in November, Palin will become a punchline à la Geraldine Ferraro. Hopefully, women have progressed enough in politics that a McCain-Palin loss would not prompt lingering hesitations about putting women front and center in positions of power. But there's little doubt that every clueless, unprepared, or unpresidential word out of Palin's mouth will have tongues clucking over what the need to cater to women voters has wrought.
Working mothers in particular should be holding their breath. The McCain camp's decision to pitch Palin's Supermom-of-five status as one of her chief assets has opened yet another front in the endless and endlessly counterproductive Mommy Wars. The moment Palin's addition to the ticket was announced, women began publicly and privately savaging the hard-charging governor for perceived mothering missteps both great and small. (What kind of pregnant woman is reckless enough to travel twelve-plus hours from Texas to Alaska after her water breaks? What mom subjects her pregnant, unmarried 17-year-old to the scrutiny of a presidential race?! How dare she take her newborn to a campaign event without socks?!!) How, or whether one should even try, to balance career and family remains a raw subject for women in this country, and the centrality of Palin's motherhood to her candidacy guarantees that this corrosive debate will rage for the remainder of the election.
Am I suggesting that all of these setbacks for feminism are Palin's fault? Or Hillary's? Or that there is nothing at all to celebrate in their achievements? Of course not. Neither would I argue for a second that these smart, ambitious women shouldn't be pushing as hard as they can to get what they want out of life. But, as with any enduring movement, feminism has its shining moments and its discouraging ones. I just wish someone had warned me ahead of time that this election season would wind up falling with such a thud into the latter category.
Michelle Cottle is a senior editor at The New Republic.
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The Clinton media spin machine is in overdrive trying to create the public impression that the 2016 Presidential race is a dead heat between businessman and Republican Nominee Donald Trump and criminal career politician Hillary (Bill) Clinton. But all of the visible indicators tell a very different story.
But what is the very visible reality?
Donald Trump set records among voters in his Republican Primary race, receiving the largest number of votes in the history of the Republican Party despite having to defeat sixteen other candidates to win the GOP Nomination.
Hillary Clinton only narrowly defeated her only opponent, Bernie Sanders, whose supporters are as anti-Hillary and Trump supporters.
Trump sells out 15,000-20,000 seat venues in every city day-after-day for months on the campaign trial, while Hillary and Bill struggle to fill a 200 seat room without using Bernie Sanders or Al Gore to fill the seats.
Trump does daily press interviews… Hillary has refused to meet with the press for over 300 consecutive days now.
Trump supporters are overwhelmingly energized and Hillary supporters are difficult to even find.
Despite spineless RINO resistance to Trump from the D.C. insider arena, millions of Trump-Pence signs litter yards from sea to shining sea and you can drive for miles, sometimes hundreds of miles, before coming across a single Clinton-Kaine sign anywhere in America.
You can meet Trump supporters everywhere you go… but you will find it very difficult to meet anyone who says they support Hillary Clinton, outside of the pro-Clinton press and the few who show up for her increasingly rare campaign stops.
In reality, if we could get an honest polling assessment of true "legal" voter intent just thirty-days ahead of Election Day 2016, I have no doubt that Trump would be leading Clinton by a 2-1 margin, somewhere in the neighborhood of 60% TRUMP – 30% Clinton and 10% undecided at this point.
The overt effort of the American press, working in concert with the D.C. insiders to do anything they can to derail Trump, has become more than obvious. Living, legal, sane Americans are so fed up with the D.C. insiders and their complicit press running scam elections that every effort to continue that practice has resulted in new and renewed support for Trump.
Real Americans love an underdog… and the press has made Trump the underdog in this race, pimping around the clock for Hillary while using anything and everything they can come up with to personally assault Trump on a daily basis.
The plot of the D.C. establishment and their press was to make Trump look like a fool, or a womanizer, or a bully, or anything that might push voters away from Trump, especially female voters who outnumber male voters today. But the reaction among those voters has been a backlash against his attackers, including among most females. The more they attack Trump, the more people gather at Trumps side to protect him from his attackers.
This column is being written and released after the NBC-Washington Post release of the "Billy Bush" tapes and before the second Presidential Debate between Trump and Clinton tonight.
It is Trump's race to lose… If he stays true to the New American Revolution happening in his name, he will run away with the debate tonight and the election a month from now. Only if he falls prey to his attackers will he lose.
Trump supporters know that the 2016 election is not about Trump or any candidate. It is about the survival of the United States of America. They know that Trump isn't running against Hillary Clinton, but rather against an enormous and powerful international cabal of globalists behind Hillary Clinton.
It is Trump and the American people against the world in 2016, or at least the international globalist cabal. The people have decided to take their country back from international globalists who have been destroying our country for decades and they have chosen Donald Trump as their field General to lead that revolution.
They weren't looking for a politically correct do-nothing know-it-all (Paul Ryan, John McCain) from inside the establishment elite. They were looking for an unapologetic street fighter not only capable of protecting American sovereignty and security while balancing the national budget, but also capable of withstanding the onslaught of assaults from the international left that was sure to challenge any outsider working for the people.
The 2016 election is the final election battle for the future of America. The people will either take their country back in the voting booth, or in the streets. All who are working to stop the American people from achieving their goal peacefully on November 8, 2016, will hold responsibility for what comes next if they succeed in those efforts.
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Diane, she told me that you made her cry. Twice.
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Nanda exchanged her camera for a guitar.
Robert walked into Marcel's house.


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Surfing fans across the globe celebrated as news about the sport taking part in the Olympic games by 2020 broke out. While there are no other official announcements, rumors of the legendary wave-maker Kelly Slater overseeing the construction of a wave pool to open right before the Summer Olympics have surfaced on the internet. Resource says that its location will be in Tokyo Dome. People were then fast to speculate that the competition might not be in the ocean.
When asked about the rumors, the head of the International Surfing Association (ISA), Fernando Aguerre responded that they have agreed with the International Olympic Committee that the games will not be under an artificial environment as of this moment.
The ISA has been known to be long-time supporters of artificial waves development, and with Tokyo Dome scheduling a grand opening right before the 2020 Summer Olympics, rumors were imminent.
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Daedalic Entertainment is een computerspelontwikkelaar uit Duitsland dat werd opgericht in 2007 door Carsten Fichtelmann. Het hoofdkantoor is gevestigd in Hamburg. Het bedrijf richt zich enerzijds op ontwikkeling van eigen producten, meer bepaald humoristische avonturenspelen die zich afspelen in een cartoonachtige wereld. Hun spellen worden over het algemeen door recencenten als goed ervaren, wat ook de vele prijzen verklaart die het bedrijf, voornamelijk in eigen land, heeft gewonnen. Anderzijds is het bedrijf ook uitgever van computerspellen van derden.

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De datum achter de spellen verwijst naar het jaar waarin het spel oorspronkelijk uitkwam. Meestal is dit een Duitstalige versie.

Als ontwikkelaar
 Edna & Harvey: The Breakout (2008)
 The Whispered World (2009)
 Ravensburger Puzzle (2011))
 The Chronicles of Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet (2011)
 A New Beginning (2010)
 Edna and Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes (2011)
 TDE: Chains of Satinav (2012)
 Deponia (2012)
 Chaos on Deponia ((2012)
 The Night of the Rabbit (2013)
 Memoria (2013)
 1954 Alcatraz (2013)
 Goodbye Deponia (2013)
 BlackGuards (2014)
 Deponia Doomsday (2016)
 Silence (2016)

Als uitgever
 Bone (2008)
 Machinarium (2009)
 Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures (2010)
 Tales of Monkey Island (2010)
 Stasis (2015)

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(CNN) -- Nigerian militants threatened to end their cease-fire not long after it began Wednesday because they claimed the government was threatening one of their camps.
Before the cease-fire, MEND destroyed oil pipelines in Lagos during a night raid on Monday.
The militant group MEND said seven military joint task force gun boats with heavily armed troops were headed toward a camp near the border of the coastal states of Delta and Ondo.
"If this information from a very reliable source within the JTF happens to be true, the cease-fire will be called off with immediate effect," the group's spokesman, Jomo Gbomo, said in a statement.
"We are monitoring the armada and sincerely hope that the planned attack will be converted to a war exercise."
MEND declared a 60-day truce earlier in the day following this week's release of its leader as part of an amnesty deal with the government.
The response from Nigeria's military was positive, but muted.
"It's a welcome development, but we are continuing to do our normal assignment of maintaining law and order," said Col. Rabe Abubakar, a spokesman for Nigeria's military.
MEND leader Henry Okah, who had been the group's main arms smuggler, was arrested in September 2007 in the Angolan capital, Luanda. He was later extradited to Nigeria and was in prison until Monday.
The cease-fire put on hold MEND's "all-out war" on the government. The group is demanding a fairer distribution of oil wealth in the Niger Delta. It wants oil revenue reinvested in the region, instead of enriching those whom the militants consider corrupt politicians.
Many of MEND's attacks have been aimed at oil and gas installations in the region.
Okah's release had been a key demand of MEND before it would accept any government amnesty offer.
MEND's statement said the group will put together a team of "wise men and women" to "convey our demands to government."
"A compulsory prelude to talks is the withdrawal of the military joint task forces from the Gbaramatu communities and the return of all the displaced persons back to their various homes," Gbomo said. "Hopefully, the cease-fire period will create an enabling environment for progressive dialogue."
The militants have claimed attacks in recent years on oil platforms, chemical tankers, and oil pipelines. They have also kidnapped oil company workers.
The repeated attacks have disrupted oil companies' operations in Nigeria, severely disrupting production and causing prices to climb.
Covering 46,500 square miles (75,000 square km), the oil-producing region of the Niger Delta is about the same size as the Czech Republic or the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
An area of rich biological diversity, the region contains the world's third-largest wetland with the most extensive freshwater swamp forest, according to the UNDP. More than half the area contains creeks and small islands, while the rest is rainforest, the UNDP says.
At the same time, the Niger Delta produces the oil wealth that accounts for the bulk of Nigeria's foreign earnings, the UNDP says.


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static java.util.regex.Pattern
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Regular expression that matches all valid queue names.

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The Bay collection designed by Doshi Levien for B&B Italia is all about materiality and exploring traditions of weaving and craftsmanship.
Designers Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien's first collection for B&B Italia in 2014 was the Almora lounge chair inspired by the Himalayan mountains and defined by its very tactile play with materials. Continuing this design direction with the research and development team at B&B Italia, the duo have released 'Bay', an outdoor seating collection that explores the traditions of weaving and craftsmanship.
"Materiality and feeling" are at the heart of studio Doshi Levien founded by Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien in London more than 10-years ago. Their diverse backgrounds – Nipa grew up in India and studied design at the National Institute of Design and Jonathan trained in fine cabinet making then industrial design – bring together culturally and academically rich experiences that underpin the duo's astute eye for visual culture, industrial precision, craftsmanship and materials.
The Bay collection's double weave form lends transparency and lightness while emphasising the maker's hand across the design.
Beginning their collaboration with B&B Italia four years ago while developing the Almora lounge chair, their newest design collection called Bay, is a series of sculptural, woven outdoor furniture pieces that continues B&B Italia's foray into weaving techniques that were first developed with the Crinoline, Ravel, Husk and Canasta collections designed by Patricia Urquiola. Bay is a range that expresses the technological, ergonomic and formal qualities of the brand's indoor furniture.
Made by weaving double polypropylene fibre, Bay combines woven volumes with boulder-like upholstered seats and soft cushions, its double weave creating pockets of air that lend transparency and lightness, while emphasising the maker's hand across each piece.
The complete Bay collection includes a sofa, in two sizes, an armchair and a high-backed armchair that create a soft and sculptural approach to outdoor living. A fresh take on the colour palette includes tortora and anthracite for the weave, paired with elegant tonal and patterned fabrics for the upholstered seat and cushions.
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I say it every year (probably) there's never been a better time to get into Linux. It's never been easier, there's never been so many features, it's never been so smooth to install, it's never been so much fun and this issue we have the best guide to getting Linux up and running on your PC.
This issue is a celebration of the best open source distros. We're recognising the achievements of thousands of unsung developers, coders, testers, organisers and documentation writers. Day in, day out, they're working on open source projects, making git commits, filing bug reports and packaging tirelessly to bring us a bounty of free and open source software to choose from.
I think it's far too easy to take that for granted. So this issue we're taking a while to stop and appreciate the best distros that have arrived in 2018. The sheer diversity that Linux and the GPL offer is staggering. It enables the same kernel to have software wrapped around it to specialise in every area of computing: cloud servers, security and penetration testing, NAS devices, IoT devices, scientific research, super-computing development and coding.
Not to forget everyday desktop use and beyond! Instead of just pontificating about the merits of each distro, we've decided to take another approach. We'll be showing you how you can build and package your own distro, too. So you can appreciated just how involved a job it is. This has some genuine uses: if you're deploying the same image over a host of systems then having the same software and configuration across them all is ideal. So as well as being hopefully interesting, it's also useful to know. We're big fans of win-win situations! It's not just diversity that open source helps prevail.
This issue we're taking our regular look into the world of hacking and we're backing it up with Kali Linux on the disc alongside an in-depth look at the core tools you'll need. We're not promising to turn you into an expert (white-hat) hacker overnight, but we can at least set you off on the right path.
We're also keen to get you started with Linux, if you're not already using it. With this in mind, on the DVD we've put the latest release of the cool Feren OS. Based on the popular Mint, it has a classic-styled desktop that everyone will love. As it comes with Wine baked in, people moving from Windows can still hold on to their favourite programs and games. Of course, we'd suggest people hunt out open source alternatives – of which there are plenty – once they're happily up and running.
Have GNU/Linux distributions fallen into a dull routine of refresh and release? It would be easy for a casual user to get the idea that Linux distros aren't innovating. Indeed, years can pass between major releases for long-standing distros such as Debian and Slackware. As you'd expect, it's behind the scenes where there's constant work on improving, securing and bug squashing.
For many users, swan-like stability is key: keep everything on the surface calm and smooth, with frantic development activity well out of sight. There's no doubt open source distros do offer this, but if you crave new horizons then there's a continuous swarm of newly developed distros buzzing around the flowering core branches of the distro family tree.
In a way, this issue is a tale of two distro types. On the one hand we have the newly released and refreshed Mint 19: we love it, and you can read the full review and then go give it a whirl. While on the other you have the ever-updated rolling release distros in our Roundup. They're all examples of how the open source GNU/Linux ecosystem enables people to experiment and launch things off in new directions.


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Ileana Montes, a former director of the New Jersey Division on Women under Gov. Jon Corzine, is seeking the Democratic nomination for State Assembly in the 21st district.
She is the latest entrant into a crowded field of Democratic candidates seeking to challenge incumbents Jon Bramnick (R-Westfield) and Nancy Munoz (R-Summit).
Last year, Montes ran as a write-in candidate for the Mountainside Borough Council when the Dildogate scandal broke after the filing deadline. She lost by 77 votes to incumbent Robert Messler.
Democratic insiders say that the leading candidates for the nomination are former congressional candidates Lisa Mandelblatt and Scott Salmon, and New Providence Democratic Municipal chair Stacey Gunderman.
Mandelblatt and Salmon sought the Democratic nomination to run against Rep. Leonard Lance (R-Clinton) last year — each raised more than $100,00 in their short bid for a House seat 00 but dropped out before Union County Democrats voted to support Tom Malinowski (D-Rocky Hill). Both played a key role in Malinowski defeat of Lance.
Carlos Gomez, an EMT with the Elizabeth Fire Department and a realtor at Keller Williams, ran for councilman in Mountainside in 2017. He is plugged in to the state's first responder community and could attract contributions from firefighter and police unions in an Assembly bid.
Another Assembly aspirant, Goutam Jois, also ran for Congress in 2018. He remained in the race after losing conventions or screening committees in six counties and won just 14% of the vote against Malinowski in the Democratic primary.
Jill LaZare, who lost races for Assembly in 2013 and 2015 and for State Senate in 2017 when Kean smoked her by ten percentage points, is also seeking party support for another Assembly bid.
Montes served as director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Office for the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs and as president of the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey. In 2012, she was a member of the Electoral College.


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By Amy Sherlock
White Cube, London, UK
R.S.V.P X, 1977/2014, activated by Maren Hassinger, 2014
In a 2011 interview with curator Kellie Jones, Senga Nengudi described how the sand-filled, stretched and knotted nylon tights sculptures that make up her 'R.S.V.P' series (begun in 1975) came about: 'Because there was always an issue about money, my concept was I could take a whole show and put it in my purse. I could take it out […] and hang it up and there you are [...] I liked this idea that a woman's life is in her purse.'
It would have to be a purse of fantastical, Mary-Poppins-like proportions to contain the menagerie of anthropomorphic stocking-forms that spread between the walls and the floor of the North Galleries at White Cube's Bermondsey space. Born in Chicago and now based in Denver, Nengudi is perhaps best known as a member of Studio Z, a loose collective of African-American artists active in Los Angeles in the 1970s. This exhibition, her first solo presentation in the UK, brought together works from a 40-year period, focusing on the physically and symbolically pliable stocking as the talismanic material of a career that has spanned dance, performance, happenings, collaborations, installation, sculpture and video.
In The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), Sigmund Freud suggests that the purse, or handbag, is a symbol for the female genitalia: Nengudi's stocking work, with its flesh-coloured folds, perhaps knowingly flirts with such associations. But the purse could also be seen as a kind of feminized analogue of Freud's mystical writing pad – a model for the layers of the psyche – in which bodily neuroses, economic worries, sexual desires and racial complaints sediment, like the dust that gathers at the bottom of a bag, in the depths of the unconscious.
Works such as R.S.V.P Reverie 'T' (2014), with its sand-filled balloons of nylon, conjure bodily let downs (in all senses of those words) of a particularly feminine kind. The sand-stretched nylon captures the sag of the breasts or the pillowy roll of the belly, the spent elasticity of flesh that has been stretched and stuffed for childbirth. In a kind of oddly literal sense, the 'R.S.V.P' works could be mothers to Sarah Lucas's stuffed-tights 'Bunny' series (1997), made almost two decades later. Both generations of artist respond to an enduring patriarchal fantasy that the female body be both pliant and compliant, and a metonymic tendency to reduce women to what they wear ('skirts' etc.). But whereas the flaccid, splayed stockinged legs of Lucas's 'Bunnies' poke fun at the supposed sexiness of Playboy's cartoon mascot, the largely dark brown and tan palette of Nengudi's sculptures, and her own experience as an African-American artist, means that something additional is at stake. They remind me of a different set of cartoon animals: MGM's Tom and Jerry and, specifically, the black Mammy character that appeared in episodes from the 1940s and '50s, visible only as a pair of stockinged feet as she sweeps and fusses – doubly desexualized, through her motherliness and her servitude.
Elsewhere, the high, pronounced buttock forms of R.S.V.P Reverie – Stale Mate (2014) make me think of Saartjie Baartman, the so-called 'Hottentot Venus', a Khoikhoi woman from southern Africa exhibited as a freak show attraction in the early 19th century, first in Britain and then in France where, after her death and subsequent dissection, her skeleton and preserved brain and genitalia remained on view at the Musée de l'homme in Paris until 1974.
The Khoikhoi women's large buttocks and elongated labia were taken as evidence of their sexual primitivism; Baartman was an attraction meant to titillate. The tension between the sexualized forms of Nengudi's soft-heavy stocking sculptures and their evocation of the maternal body relates to the specific, historical injustices that female bodies of colour have suffered, particularly in the US, in their role as either sexually available (since she has no means of refusal) slave girl or wet nurse, who gives her own body to raise the children of others.
In spite of the heaviness of the themes and histories that Nengudi evokes, her forms are playful. In R.S.V.P Reverie 'P' (2011), a row of tights, weighted by sand in their bulbous feet, stand supported by a pole, like club-footed ballet dancers lined up at the barre, or a particularly indelicate troupe of cancan girls. Other works are defiantly hopeful: the tree-of-life-like Internal I (1972/2014), the only piece in Bermondsey's properly cubic 9×9×9 gallery, extends from a root network made of a pair of tights pulled into consecutively finer threads, nearly touching the floor, to push against the luminous, white-bathed scrim of the ceiling.
The cautious dynamism of Internal I highlighted what was, at times, missing from White Cube's elegant and serenely paced presentation. In their original iterations, the 'R.S.V.P' works were frequently the material component of performances. In a series of black and white photographs reproduced in the exhibition catalogue, the lycra-leotard-clad body of Maren Hassinger, one of Nengudi's long-time collaborators (who, like Nengudi herself, originally trained in dance alongside the visual arts) is threaded through loops of stockings that extend from the wall. Titled Performance Piece (1978), the work recalls Simone Forti's Slant Board (1961), in which the dancers move across an angled wooden panel by means of heavy knotted ropes – a similar experiment in balance and leverage, the force of muscle and the pull of gravity. Hassinger is restricted by the slender nylon threads surrounding her, but she is also cradled by them. An elasticated waistband sits on the crown of her head with the stocking-legs extending upwards from it like bizarre antennae, as though she were caught in a web of her own secretion.
At the opening of the White Cube exhibition, Hassinger – youthful-looking and wondrously supple, as if in defiance of the sagging skin-approximations around her – unfastened one end of R.S.V.P X (1978/2014) from the gallery wall and performed a slow, deliberate dance with the tense nylon, accompanied by the low thrum of scraped cello strings. Unfortunately, the performance was a one-off and I missed it but, watching it online, it feels as if a kind of ritual is being enacted – a reminder that the body has innumerable ways of understanding and making itself understood.
'R.S.V.P' extends an invitation (respond, please): a cry for interaction and a – very human – request not to be alone. The title might be an abbreviation, but Nengudi's entire oeuvre stands as a reminder that bodies can't be reduced to forms nor defined by singular characteristics. Tights can be slipped off but skins can't and bodies are inseparable from the thinking, feeling people that inhabit them.
Amy Sherlock
Amy Sherlock is deputy editor of frieze and is based in London, UK.
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White Cube
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Lakehead University will welcome alumni and friends back to campus during our annual Homecoming Weekend, taking place from September 28-30, 2017.
Returning alumni will enjoy events that bring together lifelong friends, celebrate alumni excellence, and provide a nostalgic return to the university community. Major events include the Alumni Awards Dinner, Wall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Speakers Series, Open Houses and reunions.
Doug Fisher's sons, Tobias Fisher, far left; Matthew Fisher, third from left; John Fisher, middle; and Mark Fisher, third from right; received a gift from Lakehead University's Chancellor, Dr. Derek Burney, second from left, and President and Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Brian Stevenson, far right, and Gordon Fisher, President of The National Post, second from right.
The Department of Psychology is pleased to announce that Chad Keefe, an MA student in Clinical Psychology, has been awarded the 2015-2016 Wilson Presidential Leadership Award from Psi Chi.
This award was given due to his accomplishments when he served as the President of the Lakehead University's Psi Chi Chapter during the 2014-2015 academic year.
A new advisory committee will provide direction to Lakehead University's Biorefining Research Institute that will benefit Northwestern Ontario's forestry sector.
The advisory committee is comprised of individuals from academia, government and industry.
"This committee is very important to the BRI because it will provide feedback and direction that we need to achieve our goals and objectives," said Dr. Lew Christopher, Director of the BRI.
The Hon. Jean Charest, Helen Cromarty, and Dr. Keijo Virtanen will each receive an honorary doctorate for their work in politics, health care, and research on Finnish immigration to Canada, respectively.
An illustration of the geothermal greenhouse that Andreas Zailo designed for the competition.
A fourth-year Mechanical Engineering student from Lakehead University placed first at the Canadian Engineering Competition held recently at McGill University.
From left to right, Dr. Sam Salem (Steel bridge team academic advisor), Thomas Gobeil, Curtis Moss, Nick Wegher, Chris Legg, Brad McDonald, Brad DesRochers and Conrad Hagstrom (Civil Engineering Labs Manager).
Lakehead University's Steel Bridge Team has done it again.
Lakehead University kicks off its 11th annual Research and Innovation Week with more than 15 exceptional and unconventional displays at the Intercity Shopping Centre on Saturday, March 5.
There will be something interesting to see and do for people of all ages – especially children.


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On February 10, 42-year-old John Joseph Henry of Taylor was shot in the head after he tried to stop an intruder who had entered his home and was in the midst of stealing property. A neighbor of Henry's was then interviewed by NBC Channel 4 in Detroit; the neighbor, Jeremy Jones, stated in the interview that Henry "has a big heart." Jones has now been arrested and charged with assault with intent to commit murder, according to a news article at Mlive.com.
According to police, Jones entered Henry's home and was stealing when he was caught by Henry and his girlfriend. The incident took place on Wilkie Street. Henry's girlfriend said that Jones threatened her after he shot Henry in the head, telling he that if she told police anything, he would come back and kill her. Henry was in critical condition at the time of news reports.
When being interviewed by news reporters, Jones also praised Henry, saying that Henry helped him when his car was stuck in the snow by pulling it out. In addition to attempted murder Jones is charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm, home invasion, armed robbery, larceny of a firearm, felonious assault, receiving and concealing stolen property, felony firearm, and discharge of a firearm in a building. Another man has also been charged in the incident, William Wayne Chaffin, who allegedly helped Jones with the stolen goods.
Attempted murder is a very serious charge in Michigan; should Henry succumb to his injuries, it is possible Jones could be charged with murder. The other charges leveled against Jones are serious as well, leaving him facing severe criminal penalties and loss of his freedom if convicted.
Criminal penalties for assault with intent to commit murder include a prison term of any number of years to life. Anyone who is under investigation for a serious or violent crime, or who has already been arrested or charged should contact a seasoned Michigan criminal defense attorney right away. There are many legal options and strategies that may result in charges being dropped or reduced, helping those accused avoid serious consequences or minimize the damage to their lives.


Home Blogs Heart to Heart with Hillary Does anyone else have the same problem as me?
Does anyone else have the same problem as me? A farang wife, yes I know I brought sand to the beaches, but she has to do a visa run every few months – and she forgets. She is a very independent woman and won't let me take charge of keeping the visas current. Only problem is I end up having to pay for over-stays and that's getting expensive these days. What do you recommend I do?
This is very easy to fix. Give her the independence she want, let her arrange her own visas – and let her pay for her own overstays. If she does it too often she will get deported as well, so you might kill two birds with one stone here.
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Q: Chrome extension browserAction.onClicked not listening I have the following in my background.js file which is referenced in manifest.json:
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function (tab) {
  console.log('browserAction clicked');
});

When I click on the browser action icon, I never see browserAction clicked printed to the console.
Am I misunderstanding how this is supposed to work?

A: Console.log doesn't work in background.js. Use
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function (tab) {
  alert('browserAction clicked');
});

instead of that.
To see the console messages that comes from the background.js
display the extension;

chrome://extensions/.

*

*Make sure that developer mode is enabled

*Click on the "Inspect Views"
of your background page

*You should see console messages under the
console tab.

A: Does the browser action have a popup? If so, the event won't fire.

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An adorable set of antique French spice jars…I can just see them in your kitchen, can't you?
We think the set is probably from before World War I, judging from the rather 1900s motifs.
The set is made up of 5 canisters, ranging in size. Each one is decorated with a pretty blue pattern on a white background. They're decorated on all sides. A nice touch, that.
In fantastic condition. No chips or cracks and precious little crazing.