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Hank Skinner Wins Again: US Supreme Court Grants Cert in His Quest for Post-Conviction DNA Testing
Remember last fall, when Texas Death Row inmate Hank Skinner sued District Attorney Lynn Switzer? Within months of his scheduled execution, Hank was fighting hard — and he filed a new lawsuit, arguing that his civil rights had been violated because the prosecutor refused to allow Skinner to test evidence from the case for DNA.
Hank Skinner has always maintained his innocence, and some of the evidence still sits there — no one has ever figured out if Hank's DNA is on the stuff or not. State hasn't done it. District Attorney, nope. Judge, nope. Just not done.
March 2010 – Within Hours of Skinner Being Executed, U.S. Supreme Court Grants Stay
Months passed after Skinner sued the Prosecutor, and nothing happened. Execution Day arrived. Pressure mounted — even the President of France (that's right — the President. of France.) got involved, calling the Governor of Texas asking him to intervene. (Skinner's wife is French.)
Within hours of the time that Skinner was set to die, the United States Supreme Court took on the part of the Cavalry and issued a stay in the case. A stay to give them time to consider Skinner's petition for writ of certiorari — and for the Court to decide if would hear arguments that Skinner's should get a chance to get at the evidence to test it via a civil courtroom instead of a criminal one.
May 2010 – U.S. Supreme Court Grants Cert (Takes the Case)
This week, the Highest Court in the Land agreed to hear Skinner's case. Petition for Writ of Certiorari was granted. It's a big win for Death Row Hank Skinner.
If he wins at the Supreme Court, then he starts through the civil courts, arguing for testing, getting the evidence for testing, and then proceeding to try and get himself freed assuming the testing works out his way.
If he loses at the Supreme Court, then he goes back onto the Execution Schedule of the State of Texas. And Texas Governor Perry will start getting lots of phone calls, emails, and such from lots of people. People like the President of France.
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Now that the picture is coming into focus, it is clear we chose the wrong frame.
In the earlier days of fashion blogging (2005-2007) we chose media as our antecedent. We thought blogging was going to revolutionize the way fashion was covered. How? It could be faster. Or maybe more reflective of real people. Hopefully, it was going to be less beholden to corporate interests.
The fashion media itself reflected this naive narrative right back at us through a filter of cynicism. We were interlopers, seat-stealers. We were characterized as teenagers and wannabes, in breathless awe, incapable of critical thought, and too easily bought. The bloggers vs. critics narrative was born, and persists.
Everyone was wrong. The journalists were wrong – and so were we. Fashion criticism is under threat from the mismanaged collapse of an obsolete corporate business model combined with influence financial and otherwise from fashion's heavyweights. Is it really endangered by a bunch of misunderstood kids? Come on.
It's like comparing szezont a fazonnal. Fashion writers pride themselves in cultivating distance from their subject, gather vast amounts of experience and knowledge, and expressing their analysis through writing. Their role is, ideally, as objective as possible.
Opposite – fashion bloggers are subjective. In fact, they are often their own subjects, and as such are wholly inseparable from their subject of choice. Rather than analytical, they are expressive.
As individuals inextricable from their medium, fashion bloggers share much more in common with designers than most fashion writers. Designers and bloggers both tend to work under their own name, and often use their own image as muse. They both tend to be intensely visual, and rarely articulate with words. Some of the tropes of fashion blogging – like the mood board – are literally imitative of how designers work – assembling pictures rather than words to build a visual diagram of what they represent. The outfit post, the street style shot echo the visual standard of designer's output – croquis, runway exit.
Great bloggers are brilliant at expressing themselves through images and words – just like the most successful designers are. Media is not used to translate reality in an informative way, instead it is used to bring their personality to life in the imaginations of an audience. For lack of a better phrase – brand building. A vivid ability to create an impression shows the individual has the raw material for making a creative career. As a blogger myself I find the entire process to be far more intuitive and artistic than it appears – it comes from inside you.
As such, many talented bloggers are using media in the same way designers do – to expressively establish a reputation for their work, whether the career is blogging itself or something else – photography, styling, illustration, modelling, editing and of course writing. This means both bloggers and designers are economically chained to their cultural contributions – a terrible environment for encouraging critical thought.
If designers and bloggers belong in the realm of fashion's id, fashion criticism is the ego. Fashion goes on regardless of whether it gets analyzed or not. In fact, journalistic criticism is relatively new – Horyn herself dates her craft to 1993. So, it is a mature cultural development that requires a sophisticated audience and a handful of professionals with significant experience and a unique complement of skills. No wonder they're so rare – and that's also why few bloggers will ever play that field.
Fashion critics do understand the importance of putting a face to the words – there's a reason why Suzy Menkes styles her hair that way. Still, Menkes uses her own image as a tool, not as a muse. Her focus is outward, and she has a major non-fashion-industry employer to bulwark against money pressure, and those distinctions are why her and her colleagues are cut from a different cloth than the fashion bloggers they're often compared to.
The heirs for criticism are on their way, because Horyn, Givhan, Menkes and others established an audience for it. A few online voices are carrying on the tradition of covering the shows with candour, intelligence, spirit and wit, and their experience is building with time. Excellent fashion criticism may be as rare as ever, and the profession will be forced to adapt within a changing system, but it is not endangered.
Marvelous recognition & articulation of the parallel between fashion bloggers & designers. The reason, which I identified early in my fashion apprenticeships, that I would never be able to be a fashion designer also explains why I'm not a fashion blogger: I am addicted to analysis, to words, to the societal hows and whys of what fashion is doing alongside its neighbors pop music and food. My visual obsession and expression is perhaps equal to the verbal/analytical, but not greater than; explains why I work in creative branding & have a vaguely identified elements-of-pop-culture blog.
Didn't intend to start going on about myself… just appreciating the accuracy of *your* analysis!
Rachel – I also cross over into analysis sometimes too, though my own personal affinity is obviously closer to the creative/designer.
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Thank you for posting this! I've been meaning to read it for several days now, and am thankful I finally got the chance. Very interesting idea you present – loved your analysis.
I agree with Rachel. This partially explains why I'm not a personal style blogger. I love analysis and understanding the mechanics (the whys) of fashion so much more. Though I think fashion bloggers are an incredibly diverse group, I agree that comparing them to fashion critics is misguided. Thanks for this!


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I found out about Epic Experience through a magazine article in my oncologist's office. After reading how Epic claimed to help adult cancer patients learn to "live beyond cancer," I stole the magazine (I actually told my doctor I was taking it) and applied for camp. I was thrilled to be accepted as a camper in the summer of 2018.
In August of 2016 I was diagnosed with stage 4 mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), a terminal non-Hodgkin lymphoma with an extremely aggressive treatment regimen. I was told by my local hematology oncologist that there was not more than the standard of care that he could offer me.
After learning that "standard of care" meant that there really was not much hope beyond the statistical five-year average life span, I took my doctor's advice and traveled to MD Anderson in Houston, Texas—the mecca of cancer care, where the leading MCL physician was accepting patients for a new clinical trial.
After a grueling week repeating all the tests, biopsies, and scans I had previously done back in my hometown of Boise, Idaho, I was accepted into the trial that I hoped would lengthen my life.
I began commuting the 3,600 miles round trip from Boise to Houston, sometimes as often as weekly, for the first 8 months of my treatment. Financially, my husband and I could only afford for me to travel so I traveled and got treated alone. I was sick, exhausted, and overwhelmed. I was terrified I was going to die, and I began to internalize my thoughts and fears.
After numerous trips to Houston, it was time for me to stay in Boise for my week long in-patient chemotherapy treatments. After being treated for a year, I was exhausted and worn out and opted not to have a stem cell transplant, receiving continual immunosuppressant infusions instead.
When I found Epic in the magazine article, I needed to decompress. I was anxious and weary, and while seemingly outwardly happy, I was struggling on the inside. No one seemed to understand my ongoing fears of recurrence, and I had become intolerant of most things, preferring to isolate myself rather than jump back into life. I needed a push.
Epic Experience sounded like just what I needed to give me a physical and mental boost and get my life and activity level back.The time spent at camp at the gorgeous 7W Ranch with my fellow campers and volunteers is almost indescribable. Much effort was given by Epic to address our physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
We spent time reflecting in small groups about specific experiences relative to our diagnoses and recapped with the entire camp in the evening. We found our physical strength in kayaks on the Colorado River and upon horses in the mountains. We pushed ourselves to reach new limits physically and mentally. I found out that I was not alone in my feelings of fear and anxiety. I found comfort being with other cancer survivors openly discussing, laughing, and joking about our new lives.
I had no real expectation of what Epic Experience would be like, but I came away with a life change. My time at Epic rejuvenated my spirit, reminding me what life was like before cancer.
I came away with a new sense of family as well as the knowledge that regardless of my health status, I am capable of conquering anything I put my mind to. Since returning from camp I have re-initiated my dancing (I was an avid ballroom and social swing dancer), I have continued walking and hiking, and I was inspired to fulfill a lifelong dream—I wrote a book!
I am forever grateful for my Epic family and my time spent at camp. I am hopeful to volunteer at future camps as I not only want to give back for what I have received but I want to be able to participate in the joy of watching other cancer survivors find themselves again.
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Art, Politics And Aztecs
By John Samuel Tieman & Phoebe Ann Cirio
Nothing feels benign anymore. That's the lesson of terrorism. Planes used to be safe — flying used to be fun! So were movies and restaurants.
Everything feels wrong. We can land a rover on Mars, but our kids can't pass math. We esteem yesterday over today and tomorrow. Major religions seem rigid. Many folks find life black and white. Then there's the hate, the violence. It seems like one day there's a shooting, and the next there's an execution . America can't even invade the right country anymore. Life seems overwhelming.
How do we approach all this? How do we approach all this safely?
Not long ago, we were in Mexico City. There is something quite evocative about standing before the Chacmool, a sacrificial altar. A human sacrificial altar. It reminds us of New York City.
A few years ago, we spent a week in New York City. We especially wanted to see the exhibit of Aztec art at the Guggenheim Museum.
We had lunch at the Tavern On The Green, a fashionable restaurant in Central Park. We sat next to a delightful group of eight women. They were high school classmates. To celebrate a birthday, they had flown in from all over the country. There was much photographing and joking. Their friendliness overtook our corner of the restaurant. And while we were not in their party, they were impossible not to notice.
Especially when, as suddenly as a tsunami, their conversation turned to the World Trade Center. They all knew someone who had died. One spoke of a neighbor, another of a brother-in-law. With anxiety still in her voice, the teacher told how she watched the towers collapse from her classroom. Most poignantly, the retiree added, "It's different now that I live in Florida. Those people aren't like us. They aren't always on alert."
The ladies at the neighboring table know something about fear.
The Aztecs ruled their region by terrorizing their neighbors. They were a rigid society. They were feared and despised by their neighbors, upon whom they constantly warred. But the aim of their "Flowery Wars" was not slaughter. They captured their opponents for human sacrifice.
That's what's so engaging about the Aztecs. In the town where Ground Zero is being reconstructed, we identify with the sacrificial victim.
The sacrifice was bent backward over the Chacmool, the altar. The victim's arms, legs and head were held firmly by five priests. A sixth priest quickly and expertly plunges an obsidian knife between the terrified victim's ribs. He twists the knife, spreads the ribs. A sacrifice is considered well done when the priest holds aloft the still-beating heart.
In a hostile universe, daily human sacrifice was needed to appease the gods. Sacrifice was a common part of minor ritual. On the other hand, thousands were sacrificed during the dedication of the Templo Mayor in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, today's Mexico City.
But such sacrifice also earned the Aztecs the hatred of their neighbors, who were easy for Hernan Cortez to recruit. The Aztec empire ruled central and southern Mexico for about 300 years. But their reign ended swiftly upon the arrival of Conquistadores in 1519.
There was much to learn from an exhibit of Aztec art set in the town where there occurred the greatest loss of life due to a terrorist attack on American soil.
The Aztecs felt inferior to others. They esteemed their ancestors over themselves. Their theology was demanding. Life was black and white. The living were haunted by the dead, and they needed to appease the terrifying gods with human sacrifice. Xipe Totec, their god of fertility, was honored and appeased by priests who draped themselves in the skins of the sacrificed. They wore these skins until they virtually rotted off. Priests so clothed reminded the citizens that they were never safe from the demands of the gods. The Aztecs inhabited a world they found terrifying, and coped by becoming terrifying themselves.
Today, the Aztecs are reduced from their grandeur. We no longer have to fear them. We can go to the museum, and see the beautiful and frightening artifacts of a once dangerous people. Unlike the enemy who brought down the Twin Towers, the Aztecs no longer need be feared. Here at least we can be reassured that some fearsome enemies can be stopped.
Now we have a different enemy, one that we cannot see coming. Terrorism lurks in the most benign places, so that nothing feels benign anymore. (Where will we be vulnerable next? The food supply? Our french fries?) We have become afraid and vulnerable.
There was much reassurance offered by that exhibit. When we identify with the victims of the Aztecs, then we participate in an internal drama. We imagine capture and death, but we evade it. This time we get to leave unscathed. The ladies at the adjoining table remembered, again, years and months later, the ones who did not survive the attack. The Aztec exhibit engaged us in an imaginative trip into the terror. But this time we walk away.
Phoebe Ann Cirio is a psychoanalyst in private practice. John Samuel Tieman is a regular contributer to Coal Hill Review. They are married, and live in St. Louis.
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Through the 100% Pure New Zealand campaign we take New Zealand's story to consumers, the travel trade and the global media, while working with the industry here in New Zealand to ensure we deliver on the promises made through the campaign.
Tourism New Zealand is a Crown Entity funded by the New Zealand Government and established under the New Zealand Tourism Board Act 1991. We are led by a Board of Directors appointed by the Minister of Tourism and have a team of around 150 staff in 13 offices around the world. From humble beginnings, we are now the oldest tourism marketing department in the world.
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This paper proposes a mutlipath interference canceller (MPIC) associated with orthogonal code-multiplexing that achieves much higher peak throughput than 2 mb/s with adaptive data modulation for high-speed packet transmission in the wideband direct sequence-code division multiple access (W-CDMA) forward link, and evaluates its throughput performance by computer simulation. The simulation results elucidate that sufficient multipath interference (MPI) suppression is achieved by a four-stage MPIC with 6–12 orthogonal code-multiplexing using one iterative channel estimation with pilot and decision feedback data symbols and further that the interference rejection weight control according to the number of observed multipaths is effective in improving the throughput. It is also demonstrated that MPIC exhibits a superior MPI suppression effect to a chip equalizer in the lower received signal energy per bit-to-background noise spectrum density ( 0) channel around 0–3 dB owing to the successive channel estimation at each stage. We show that the maximum peak throughput using MPIC is approximately 2.1 fold that without MPIC in a two-path and three-path Rayleigh fading channel and that the peak throughput of 8.0 mb/s is achieved using 64QAM data modulation in a two-path fading channel within a 5-MHz bandwidth. Furthermore, the required average 0 for satisfying the same throughput with MPIC is decreased by more than 2.0 dB. MPIC utilizes an efficient high-level data modulation scheme and is very effective in extending the coverage in which much higher throughput can be provided under multipath fading channels for high-speed packet transmission in the W-CDMA forward link.


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Diversity are 'Limitless'
Diversity doing their thing
Nearly five years after they first wowed audiences across the country on Britain's Got Talent, Diversity are celebrating their fourth UK tour, 'Limitless'. With the success of their previous three tours and nearly half a million tickets later the boys are even more mature, buff and mind blowing than ever!
Perri getting ready to go on holiday
Being a huge Diversity fan (and of course Ashley Banjo) I was overjoyed when the opportunity to see the boys perform live again came up. The all breaking, flipping, story telling geniuses were due to tour at the Bournemouth and Christy and I had tickets to see them.
On the day we were due to see Diversity, we turned up at the BIC only to find a venue packed to the brim with dance lovers alike, and they were hyped up and ready to see the boys perform. I couldn't help but head over to the merchandise stand and buy myself a flashing Diversity wrist band. Did I feel like a big kid? Yes and did it feel good? Yes of course it did!
We were shown to our seat, and might I add that they were very good seats. We had a great view of the whole stage and I couldn't help but fidget with excitement waiting for the show to begin. The lights went down and Diversity popped up on a big screen to tell the story so far. Their 'Limitless' tour was to continue the story from their previous tour, 'Digitized'.
The show was full of amazing dance moves, fire, electricity, magic and timeless story telling. As the story of the show unravelled we were zapped into different worlds and transported between centuries as the ultimate battle between good and evil – the protectors and the destroyers exploded into full throttle.
The amazing Acropolis
There were laughs, love, smiles and tears as Diversity fought as Protectors to save the world from the Destroyer. My eyes were locked in awe as I was taken on an exhilarating ride through the story, from the start, right the way to the end. Their motto rang out throughout and I'm sure it inspired many to 'dream, believe, achieve'.
Another thing that was quite obvious was how much the youngest members of the Diversity boys had grown and matured. Mitch was no longer a baby faced kid, but instead was muscular and pretty quick on his feet and Perri was taller, had a deeper voice, but had obviously kept his quirky comical side.
Like many of the other shows that Diversity have done, no show would be complete without a heap load of music, dance and magical talent. I really felt like they had outdone themselves with the high calibre of talent in this tour though.
James More performing an amazing illusion
My personal favourite guests were Acropolis – with their astonishing strength, dance moves and gymnastics, Kieran Gaffney – and his absolutely out of this world drum playing talent, James More – he literally blew my mind with his Houdini style illusions, Jonny Stranks – a previous member of Britain's Got Talent troupe Spelbound, his skills fit right into place when dancing with Acropolis, Michael Jablonka – a London boy who plays guitar like a 21st century Jimi Hendrix, Theo McKensie – he's cute, does the best mini moonwalk I've ever seen and is known to many as the mini king of pop and finally Antoine Marc – he played the bad guy but his ballet skills are impressive and pleasing to the eye.
All in all I had an amazing time clapping, laughing and having my mind blown. If you haven't seen Diversity then you've missed a trick. Fear not though, it's never too late to be blown away by these dancing sensations.
Their Limitless Tour is still dancing its way around the UK so grab your tickets, and prepare to be taken to places you've never been before!
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Vision screenings can be an important first step to vision health, but they cannot and should not take the place of a comprehensive eye exam at an optometrist or ophthalmologist. Vision screenings are usually performed by a pediatrician or their staff or a school nurse. They can help identify people who might have vision problems, but they will usually refer them to an eye care professional.
An example of a vision screening is when, during a child's routine physical, their doctor has him or her cover on eye and read an eye chart in the distance, usually 20 feet away. Another example of a vision screening is the eye test you take when you get your driver's license renewed.
In some cases, screenings can include tests for muscle coordination, blur and/or common eye diseases, but screenings can miss important vision issues that require treatment. It is important to understand that only an optometrist or ophthalmologist is trained and licensed to perform a comprehensive eye exam.
But I Can See Just Fine!
One of the most common misconceptions is that if you aren't experiencing noticeable vision issues, an eye exam by an eye care professional is unnecessary, or even a waste of time and money. Eye exams actually go beyond determining your prescription for eyeglasses or contacts; your eye doctor also evaluated how your eyes work together, checks for common eye diseases and assesses your eyes as an indicator of your overall health.
In fact, because the eye is the only organ that can be viewed from the outside of the body, eye doctors are often the first healthcare professionals to detect systemic conditions such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes, lupus, risk of stroke and even some cancers. And in general, the earlier these conditions are detected, the more treatable they are.
By looking at your eye's blood vessels and retina, your eye doctor can tell if you are developing high blood pressure, high cholesterol or other problems. Diabetes can be detected if they see small blood leaks or bleeding of the eye and swelling of the macula, which can result in vision loss if not addressed.
Who Should Get an Eye Exam? Everyone.
Because children are unable to tell whether what they are seeing is "normal", vision issues can escape diagnosis and have serious consequences for their development and quality of life. School vision screenings can miss hyperopia (far-sightedness) and binocular vision (eyes not teaming together), both of which make it difficult to read up close or at mid-range. Undetected, vision issues can undermine school performance, self-esteem and lead to low motivation or misdiagnosis of a learning disability.
Adults, too, should get a regular comprehensive eye exam. Just like an annual check-up or semi-annual dentist visits, annual eye exams should be part of everyone's health routine. Not only will an exam help you see your best today, but it can help you protect your vision, and your overall health, for tomorrow.


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 Start (flyg) – delen av flygning som börjar på marken till farkosten är luftburen
 Start (rysk bandyklubb) – rysk bandyklubb
 Start! - varumärke för müsli
 Startgrid – en plats på en racerbana som utgör bilarnas eller motorcyklarnas startpositioner inför start i en tävling
 IK Start – en idrottsklubb från Kristiansand i Norge
 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties, en serie avtal om vapennedrustning mellan USA och Sovjetunionen/Ryssland
 START I (1991)
 START II (1993)
 START III (1997) trädde ej i kraft
 New START (2010)
 Start-1 – en rysk raket
 Bootning –  en term för processen som startar igång ett operativsystem

Se även
 Starten – en belgisk komedifilm från 1967


Beloved Pet Mobile Vet provides housecall veterinary services to the greater Sacramento area. The focus of this practice is on in-home hospice care for domestic animals. The goal is to maximize the amount of quality time that a pet has left, so the animal can enjoy as much time as possible with its owner. Dr Hendrix also provide in-home euthanasia services, extending to burial and private cremation, with urns and pawprints available. She no longer provides regular veterinary care or vaccines.
Dr. Hendrix, an emergency doctor by trade, has 23 years of experience in the veterinary field, and has been living in Davis since 1991. She is also a member of the International Association of Animal Hospice and Palliative Care, an organization dedicated to promoting hospice care for pets and is on the task force for the Second annual Pet Hospice Conference sponsored by IAAHPC.
It was founded by Dr. Lynn Hendrix and Dr. Margaret Hunt, both graduates of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine; however, Dr Margaret Hunt has left Beloved Pet Mobile Vet.
See website for current pricing or call.


An older horse could be the perfect match for you. Here's what to keep in mind when shopping for a senior equine.
Are you horse shopping? Then take a moment to consider the benefits of an older horse. Providing it's trained, serviceably sound and of the right temperament, an older horse allows you to enjoy your time in the saddle without dealing with the unpredictable quirks and rambunctious energy of a young greenie. But before you embark on a search for a vintage equine partner, here are some shopping suggestions, including insights from an equine veterinarian.
Ideally, find an older horse whose current job matches your goals. Then make sure he's sound and comfortable while doing it. For example, if you want a hunter to compete over low courses, then search for an older horse that's currently showing in that division. If your dream is to participate in some overnight horse camping trips, and ride along mountainous trails, then look for a horse that's proven reliable and sturdy on rough terrain.
Be wary of plucking an older horse out of retirement (or even semi-retirement) and putting him back to work. Even if you introduce him slowly to his new exercise routine, chronic conditions and whatever soundness issues forced him into retirement in the first place may crop up again.
Great tips. Nothing beats starting out with an old timer who knows the ropes.


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Author: Cat Dees
Update From Climate Ground Zero's Mike Roselle
Dear friends and colleagues,
Thank you for all of the nice birthday wishes. Your love and support helps to sustain me through the tough times. Just checking in and sharing a little news. Please read, like and share.
We are awaiting the final decision by the Army Corps on the mountain top removal permit for Coal River Mountain, as we have it seems for the last eight years. We are keeping busy working in the community. Since Don Blankenship's indictment and Alpha Natural Resources's Chapter 11 filling the angry opposition of groups like Friends of Coal have all but disappeared and Climate Ground Zero and Coal River Mountain Watch are now able to create some important middle ground on the future of the Coal River. We have not only been outnumbering industry supporters at hearings and court sessions, the local press is providing much better coverage of our work in print and on TV.
The rate of mountain top removal coal mining, despite many reports to the contrary, has not been significantly affected by low coal prices and it seems that every day we hear of a new MTR permit application. We still have a big fight on our hands.
As you know, for the last ten years, we have have maintained a residence and headquartes here in Rock Creek in three rehabilitated abandoned mining cabins on about two acres of property along the Coal River. We also have enough room and facilities to host both large and small groups for extended periods of time. Thousands of people have come here to learn about the problems faced by these Appalachian communities and hundreds have taken action.
Over the last few years all of the outside groups have left and we remain the only visible symbol of outside interest. We still get plenty of visitors, press, film makers, and activists. The locals know the place very well and have long called this place the Treehugger House and even give directions by it. We have survived repeated attacks by coal industry supportes, police raids and threat by the County to condem our buildings. But we are not leaving.
At the beginning of August my landlord came by and informed me that they want to list this property for sale with a real estate agent. I asked for a thirty day delay to raise the money and now need to come up with the funding quickly.
The old man Tabor, who built these three houses, was going to give me this place, but when he died three years ago his daughter said that deal was off the table but they would honor their father and give me a below market price in recognition of all the work we have done to restore these three once abandoned and dilapidated buildings. These six lots have a river view, are close to the new Marsh Fork Elementary school and are zoned commercial. Probably worth about $75,000 on the market.They are asking for $30,000 in cash. So far, I have been able to raise $20,000 for their purchase but I need to raise $10,000 more in the next few weeks or we risk losing this place. If sold, they would almost certainly tear these historic cabins down.
I plan to stay here until MTR is banned forever. I would appreciate any assistance you could offer to help me keep the promise I made when I first arrived here over a decade ago. We must keep this coal in the ground and we must protect these communities and headwaters of some of the country's largest rivers which supply drinking water to two thirds of the nation's population. We have lost over two million acres of native forests and buried over two thousand miles of streams. It time for this to stop.
So I have to move fast. I'm asking my friends if they can help come up with some of this money. I don't want to get a mortgage as that will add considerable costs. I need your help. If you can donate a $100, $500 or a $1,000 that would get us closer to our goal. Any amount will help.
For the mountains.
Mike Roselle
You can make a check payable to the American Forest Alliance, 11 Salem Hill Road, Weaverville, North Carolina, 28787 or go to our website @ climategroundzero.org and hit the donate button. Don't allow them to run us out of town.
Fear and loathing in Beckley
by Mike Roselle
Every few minutes the big man would get a fax from his assistant. He would compulsively scan the numbers. Every two hours, for every mine he ran except one, he would get an update on the amount of coal coming out of each mine. For that one, the Upper Big Branch Mine, the big man would get a report on coal production every half hour. If production went down in any of these mines he didn't send an e-mail or text, or even make a phone call. He scrawled his orders on the print outs and faxed them back. "Move more coal" "You have a kid to feed. Do your job," "I could Khrushchev you. Do you understand?" "In my opinion, children could run these mines better than you all do. Look at your cost and figure out what you are going to do to get it down because if we don't have a better August and September than we had July, you can be assured that the stock options are not going to look very attractive."
The man writing these frantic orders was Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy and the most infamous coal baron in Appalachia. He was relaying these orders to his second in charge, Chris Blanchard, (aka "Unnamed" in the text of the recent Federal Indictment), the supervisor of Marfork Coal Company, a Massey owned operation that also included the Upper Big Branch Mine complex near the small town of Rock Creek, on the Coal River in southern West Virginia.
It was 2009 and the prices for metallurgical coal were dropping from an all time high of close to two hundred dollars a ton in 2008 to just under seventy dollars a ton. In 2008 met coal had been in high demand and fetched high prices due to international shortages blamed on flooding in Australia and a building boom in China. The big man was starting to see profits go down and wanted to cut labor costs until the market slump was over. He was paying 18 dollars a ton in labor and wanted that down to 14 dollars a ton, or someone was going to lose their job. Metallurgical coal still sold for substantially more per ton than Massey's other major product, which was steam coal used to generate electricity. Metallurgical coal from UBB was particularly important to Massey because it was an essential ingredient in a blend of metallurgical coal needed to make steel that also included coal from a group of other Massey mines near UBB.
When operating at full productivity, the UBB longwall mining section could produce more than $600,000 worth of coal every day, more than any of Massey's dozens of other underground mining sections. The equipment needed to run a longwall mining section was expensive, typically costing many tens of millions of dollars. It was this machine, called a continuous miner, that would be at the center of every event that followed. During the Indictment Period, Blankenship personally monitored the details of UBB's longwall operations closely. After the longwall section began operation at UBB, the big man insisted on personally receiving a report every thirty minutes not only detailing the longwall section's coal production but also the reasons for any production delays. He even insisted on receiving this report via fax at his home on evenings and weekends.
In November 2009, when the expected inflow of water entered the area of the UBB longwall section, there was no system in place to drain it, and airways that were necessary to ventilate the mine flooded, at least two of them filling with water from floor to roof. This is a mine well known to contain a lot of methane gas. On December 14, 2009, a federal mine safety inspector issued a shutdown order upon discovering that coal miners at UBB were being required to work and travel in dark and murky water measuring up to four feet in depth with invisible "slip and trip" hazards on the floor of the flooded area-conditions that the inspector found could result in drowning. This decision to hasten operation the longwall miner was made in substantial part as a result of pressure from the big man to begin operating the longwall machine as soon as possible.
For Don Blankenship, this was not a coal mining machine, it was a money making machine, the most profitable one in the USA, and he wanted to run it 24/7 with as few workers as possible, with no workers allowed to shut down the machine to attend to the many safety procedures required by law. That meant poor ventilation due to low airflow and lack of properly placed curtains. That meant no cleaning up the coal dust that covered the mine floor to a depth of up to a foot, or even scattering limestone the dust or it to keep it from being combustible. Or fixing the water sprayers that help control dust and to cool the cutting heads of the longwall miner to prevent the friction and heat from igniting the dust.
Not that Massey or Big Don were losing money. Even though coal production had fallen by 32 percent since its peak in 2008, by 2009, the UBB mines generated revenues exceeding $331 million, which represented l4% of Massey's total $2.3 billion in revenue. For 2010, Massey projected even higher revenues of $432 million for the UBB, which would have been 16% of Massey's total projected revenue of $2.7 billion, and more than the projected revenue for any other Massey mining group. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings show Blankenship was paid $17.8 million in 2009, the highest in the coal industry. His 2009 pay represents a $6.8 million raise over 2008 and almost double his compensation package in 2007. Blankenship also received a deferred compensation package valued at $27.2 million in 2009, a year in which Blankenship received notices of more than 890 violations of mandatory mine safety and health standards, according to Massey's own account in the daily safety-law violation reports he received from Blanchard. He did nothing to address them, and yet Massey's board of directors voted to award Blankenship bonuses that brought his total compensation for the year to over $17.8 million.
On April 5, 2010, a huge explosion occurred at the UBB. Not surprisingly, its epicenter was at the longwall mining machine where investigators found that the water presser was inadequate to cool the grinders, there was only half of the airflow needed to control methane, air shafts were flooded, and no rock dust or coal dust cleanup had been performed since the machine was installed. 29 men lost their lives and at the time of this writing the UBB mine has not reopened since. In 2011 Massey merged Alpha Natural Resources and the big man was released from the company's management, although he still remains a major stockholder.
By April 7, 2010, Massey's Class A Common Stock price had dropped to $9.15 per share, or l6.8% down from its closing pricing on April 5, 2010. For the second quarter of 2010, Massey Energy reported a net loss of $88.7 million or $0.88 per share. Massey generated $693.1 million of produced coal revenue in the quarter from the sale of 9.8 million tons of coal. By comparison, Massey reported net income of $20.2 million on produced coal revenue of $603.2 million in the second quarter of 2009 from the sale of 9.4 million tons of coal. This decrease reduced Blankenship's net worth on his 291,223 shares of Massey stock by approximately $3 million. His actual net worth is rumored to be in the hundreds of millions, much of it in offshore accounts.
Other large institutional investors lost much more and soon filed complaints with the Security and Exchange Commission. From April 7, 2010, through April 9, 2010, Big Don was getting nervous about the company's stock value. He retained a law firm and a public relations firm and issued the official Massey response to the tragedy. "We at Massey," it stated, "do not condone any violation of Mine Safety and Health Administration regulations and we strive to be in compliance with all regulations at all times." Consequently, this claim was repeated verbatim in a filing made with the SEC, and in a press release distributed by means of interstate wire transmissions and companies engaged in the business of distributing press releases by means of interstate wire transmissions.
On April 8, 2010, Blankenship reviewed and approved the UBB Shareholder Statement, and approved its release to the public and its filing with the SEC. This was his biggest mistake. On November 20th Don Blankenship was indicted on four felony counts in the Federal District Court of the Southern Region by US Attorney Booth Goodwin. You might be forgiven for thinking Big Don was being held accountable for what the late Senator Robert Byrd called "industrial homicide." Twenty nine men would never see their families again. The tragedy was found to be preventable and due to a lack of compliance to mandatory health and safety procedures that were ignored to produce more profits for Massey. But that is not the case. At least not the case Mr. Goodwin will submit to the court.
Of the four counts he is charged with, with a combined maximum sentence of 31 years, the most serious charge against Blankenship is Securities Fraud, with a 20 year maximum sentence upon conviction. The second two are lying to the investigators investigating the blast. These charges carry five years each. The fourth and final count is conspiracy to violate the health and safety laws prior to the blast. This carries, upon conviction, a maximum sentence of one year.
The blast itself, and the death of 29 men will not an issue here and won't be mentioned much in the trial, if at all. Goodwin would simply have not been able to connect Blankenship to the explosion and prove his responsibility for the deaths. The good news is that he doesn't need to.
Regardless that the four counts do not include cold blooded murder, we in West Virginia and the rest of the world know that the big man is on trial for the deaths of those men just as the nation knew that Al Capone's trial on tax evasion was for his part in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. There will be no one in the courtroom or on the jury that doesn't remember that morning. There is no one in Raleigh County that doesn't know who ran Massey Energy. And the real good news is this: In the two counts charging Big Don of violating the mining laws, he has already incriminated himself with his own words, scrawled on fax paper, and in the hands of the Federal Prosecutor, and that is all that is needed to prove the other two counts. A slam dunk? I think so.


I have another lifelong passion and that is aviation. Normally I'm not much of a "people photographer", but unusually, three of my best shots from this airshow were of people not planes. The pilot shaking hands had just landed on his second attempt, having to go around on the first due to some gusts of wind. The two girls re wing walkers. I was thinking how relaxed, calm and disconnected they looked, given what they were about to do.


TYPE: A Casement Window Located at the Rear of a property in Purfleet RM19.
METHOD: Seeing that the Window was constructed of Aluminium, DWLG thought it best to send a professional Specialist Commercial/Fitter.
CAUSE: The cause of the problem was quickly discovered upon arrival, the Window Handle. In this particular case, the Handle had Snapped.
SOLUTION: The damage to the Window Handle was not repairable, so was Replaced. DWLG fitted a Standard Aluminium Window Handle Set.


On December 3, 2018, the Jamaica hearing point goes "virtual." This hearing point serves the Bronx and Queens and is the largest single hearing point in the New York workers' compensation system. This transition to virtual hearings caps off a year-long project by the Board to roll out virtual hearings across the State and make attorney check in through the virtual hearing system mandatory across the entire system. Lois Attorneys Joe Jones (left), Declan Gourley (center), and John Marzolla (right) present a roundtable discussion on what this means for employers and carriers.
Attorney Joe Jones at the November 29, 2018 webinar on the Jamaica hearing point going virtual.
Declan Gourley speaking during at the November 29, 2018 webinar on the Jamaica hearing point going virtual.
Joe Jones, Declan Gourley, and John Marzolla speaking at the November 29, 2018 webinar on the Jamaica hearing point going virtual.
LOIS Partner John Marzolla speaking at the November 29, 2018 webinar on the Jamaica hearing point going virtual.
LOIS attorney John Marzolla speaking at the November 29, 2018 webinar on the Jamaica hearing point going virtual.


The fact is, life teaches us. I'm not talking just about the collection of data—more information gathered, more studies skimmed. I mean the self-knowledge acquired, sometimes through hard-won means as well as the priorities that have come into focus over time. It's often about the lessons learned through a variety of epic mistakes and frustrating dead-ends. Beyond the neat world of "good life" theory exists the full dimensional backdrop of living feedback.
Last month, you asked a ton of great questions in the comment section of my post on reclaiming your wildness and being less civilized, covering everything from rock climbing to role playing games, grappling to kung fu, walking meditation to grounding. For today's post, I'm answering as many of them as I can.
Scientists recently discovered a major difference between humans and apes. It's not the body hair, or the prehensile feet, or the propensity to fling poop with less-than-perfect accuracy. It's actually the TH gene, one that directs the production of the neurotransmitter dopamine. Humans express the TH gene in the striatum, a part of the brain involved in movement, and in the neocortex, which conducts higher-order thinking. Chimps and other apes do not.
Today's guest post is offered up by one of our own, Erin Power. She's our awesome Student and Graduate Support Lead for the Primal Health Coach Program as well as an amazingly successful health coach in her own right. I love her message of taking the reins of your life today—all the better to enjoy the holidays and meet the coming New Year with unprecedented health and possibility.
Right around this time every year my inbox explodes. People are already dreading their impending, inevitable holiday weight gain and are wondering if they can somehow get ahead of the curve—make a preemptive strike, if you will. And that's how it happens…one of the busiest times for my health coaching business, believe it or not, is the weeks leading up to and including the holidays.


Has worked on over 20 titles as a storyboard artist. His credits include Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In 2009, his work on the Dark Knight won him the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design.


Joe's in Mt. Rainier, MD is the place to be! We loved playing there in October and working with their amazing production team.
If you haven't checked out a show there, be sure to look at their calendar - lots of great stuff coming up!


Gayle's experience in real estate started with her own investments. It grew to selling and developing real estate on the Caribbean island of Roatan in 1993.
She grew up and lived in the Houston area until 1993. In 2000, after 6.5 years of selling real estate on the island of Roatan, she and her husband moved to South Padre Island and then to Port Isabel. Her career in real estate in the Laguna Madre Area began then.
Gayle's family, two sons, four grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren, and her YaYa girlfriends are her love. Even though they live far away, it has been fun for her to make South Padre part of their lives too. Her favorite hobbies have been fishing, traveling, flying and scuba diving.


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Uncanny X-Men #600 [Review]
Posted on November 6, 2015 by Walt
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Art: Sara Pichelli, Mahmud Asrar, Stuart Immonen, Kris Anka, Chris Bachalo, David Marquez, Frazer Irving
Inks: Wade Von Grawbadger, Tim Townsend, Mark Irwin
Colors: Marte Gracia, Jason Keith, Chris Bachalo, Frazer Irving
Cover: Chris Bachalo
Lettering & Production: VC's Joe Caramagna
Assistant Editors: Christina Harrington, Xander Jarowey
Editors: Mike Marts and Mark Paniccia
Published by: Marvel
Cover Date: January 2016
Writer: Mary Jo Duffy
Penciler: George Perez
Inker: Alfredo Alcala
Letterer: Janice Chiang
Cover Art: Paul Gulacy
Associate Editor: Ralph Macchio
Editor: Dennis O'Neil
The first X-Men comic I clearly, consciously remember getting is Uncanny X-Men #300. The costumes, the characters, the cover–it fit the then-current animated series on tv that I was getting familiar with, and had a nice shiny cover to draw extra attention (to say nothing of being a thicker cover physically, making for a durable, high-quality issue to hold).
Several years later I picked up #400, and then years after that 500–though I hadn't kept up with every issue of the title.
So again now, I bought #600 despite not being entirely current on the title (and overlooking the multiple reboots between the last legitimately-numbered issue and this) because of having bought the last several 100-issue round-number issues when they came up. Some 22 years after getting #300, here I am with #600.
My understanding is that this is Bendis' final X-Men issue, as far as being the driving force behind the main X-books. Despite catching up a fair bit on Uncanny X-Men and All-New X-Men recently via Marvel's Digital Unlimited, I'm still a bit out of the loop on whatever's transpired between where I left off there and stuff immediately prior to Secret Wars and the Last Days stuff. But I do know the characters and the bulk of recent stuff in the most general of terms.
This issue finds Beast (Hank McCoy) experiencing an "intervention" by his teammates, forcing him to confront what he's done of late–with emphasis on having time-traveled to bring the original X-Men into the present where they're now stuck. Amidst the intervention/confrontation, we get some flashes to a number of smaller interactions–"original" Jean wants to leave the group for awhile; "original" Bobby confronts current Bobby on repressed feelings; Kitty, Colossus, and Illyana catch up with each other, and so on. Meanwhile, we also see Scott Summers' recent dream to fruition…and it proves to be just a bit different than we've been led to believe.
We also get a lengthy "backup story" by Perez, a solo Iceman thing, that while it looks good does not feel particularly relevant nor current. It seems set in the early 1970s, though it feels like a more recent piece. The art is very good–I usually do enjoy Perez' art–though I don't entirely appreciate the black-and-white instead of color. Perhaps it was intended this way, maybe it was a stylistic choice, but that contributes to it not feeling like it belongs in this issue.
The main feature's story is solid enough, and though it doesn't feel like an ongoing issue but more like a one-shot, it works decently enough as itself, as what it is. At the same time, I'm not thrilled at what appears to be Bendis trying to cement several key points just before taking off, like he has to solidify or shoehorn in some stuff to force subsequent writers to address things or leave Bendis' work to be an absolute character element. I do definitely approve of the supposed conclusion of the Cyclops arc, and hope to see stuff picked up on, that it'd "redeem" the villanous element applied to the character over the last several years.
Visually…while I appreciate the CONCEPT of letting a bunch of artists work on the issue as "the" big anniversary issue…I can really do without it. The shifting visual styles is distracting and draws attention to stuff in a way that takes away from the otherwise-natural shifting nature of the story, giving us some smaller character moments while addressing the larger overall confrontation with Beast.
I definitely enjoyed Perez' work on the Iceman story…but it's such an unrelated thing that I'm honestly resentful at its inclusion, at this issue being over-priced at $6 over the "standard" $4 just for the story's inclusion. Better a $3.99 issue without it than $5.99 WITH. That said, the story would work as some bonus/extra cheap attraction, as it really has nothing to do with current continuity, and has no likely/obvious ongoing elements to contribute to stuff, other than being a '70s-looking/'70s-sounding story.
The main story's art was distracting…and I was reminded how recognizable and unwelcome (to me) Bachalo's art is amidst it all…especially for the cover. It's also very disappointing that the cover looks like it's half of or one of several "panels" of a larger image, without even a wraparound…only a bunch of variants.
I bought this issue personally for being the anniversary issue, being the actual high-number or "legacy-numbered" issue. That's for the personal element of having got #300 off the shelf, and each subsequent 100-numbered issue. In and of itself, if you have followed Bendis' X-work, you'll want to pick this up. Otherwise, this is quite skippable for whatever will be 'current" moving forward. Outside of whatever closure you'd get having followed this series, and/or All-New X-Men, I'd suggest skipping this and waiting for whatever nearest #1 most directly follows and grabs your attention.
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Uncanny X-Men (vol. 3) #1 [Review]
The New Revolution
Penciler/Colorist: Chris Bachalo
Inkers: Tim Townsend, Jaime Mendoza and Al Vey
Associate Editor: Jordan D. White
Editor: Nick Lowe
I've been looking forward to this debut issue for a number of weeks now…pretty much since I learned this third volume would focus on Cyclops, Magneto, and their group of mutants; particularly after getting a taste of things in the pages of All New X-Men.
The issue has a framing sequence, of a man in shadows speaking with SHIELD about Cyclops, explaining why the mutant leader needs to be taken down. In the "core" of the story, we see Cyclops' group continuing to reach out to new mutants, and facing off with a group of sentinels–something that once would have been little trouble for Magneto in particular–but the veteran mutants' powers have been altered due to the recent Phoenix incident…and they struggle to "re-learn" how to use their own powers while looking to train the newly created mutants. The revelation of the shadowed man's identity is a bit of a twist, sure to introduce further conflict, but not entirely surprising.
Story-wise, there's plenty of potential for this title. While I'm not a fan of the "villainization" of Cyclops, for what times I've "checked in" on X-stuff over the past few years, this current place the character is in seems rather logical and makes sense, given everything we've actually seen the character go through–losing his wife, seeing the vast majority of the mutant population wiped out, struggling to protect what mutants remained against a world that still feared/hated them, finding hope and finally seeing a return to numbers and being in a position to reach out to these new mutants now from the start, proactively acting to solidify their place in the world.
I missed out on the re-introduction of Magneto, but have thoroughly enjoyed seeing his place with the X-Men of late; and it's his character growth and evolution that has struck me almost as much as Cyclops'. That these two men–once bitter enemies–are now working together says a lot for both of them; and I'm interested in seeing where their alliance goes.
Again…there's plenty of potential for this title.
Visually, however, I am extremely disappointed. From the start, I'm put off entirely by Cyclops' "new costume" (mask). Going to the red on the outfit doesn't bother me so much as wrapping red bands around the face as an "X" where the visor has always been. Maybe the X will be explained/become apparent as we learn more about Cyclops' modified powerset…but visually it's an atrocious look that I don't like one bit. If I don't like the redesign of Cyclops' headpiece…I don't entirely mind Magneto's–though his is far from ideal as well, seeming to fit a more abstract, stylistic imagery that reminds me of how the character might be depicted in a nightmare interpretation (see 1993's Wolverine #75).
As far as the issue's art in general…just a couple pages in–having initially ignored the credits page–I stopped in my tracks. "This is Bachalo, isn't it?" I thought to myself. Flipping back to the credits, I confirmed that–though in this case, recognizing an artist's work in and of itself is no positive. I'm not a fan of the visual style, and often have trouble trying to truly follow the action, what's actually going on.
Despite the stylized take on the characters, for the most part they don't look all that bad; and the double-page introduction of the sentinels reminds me of what I think is a similar shot from 2004's Astonishing X-Men #1, and is fairly impressive–perhaps simply for the "space" the image has to breathe. In the introduction of the new mutant the group was after, though, I had no idea what was going on, what his powers were, or were doing–I sorta figured out a bit from just reading and the extra curiosity, but it really put me out of the story.
So while the story holds up and leaves me fairly interested yet in where things go–the art is a near-complete turn-off for me. The "AR" stuff holds zero interest–I've been "burned" too many times with the smartphone app having trouble actually loading whatever it's trying to load, and it seems that more often than not, all I get is a transition from "pencils" to the "finished image"–something I have virtually NO INTEREST in…while the AR content might be intended to be "bonus" or "add value" or such to the issue, being more annoying than not with so little worthwhileness, I don't even bother anymore…even for writing a review.
This is yet another relaunch–the 2nd Uncanny X-Men #1 in 18 months. Where the original numbering was scrapped to put Uncanny and Wolverine and the X-Men on "equal footing" numbers-wise…THAT logic has been thoroughly scrapped now as well.
Worst of all, this is a $3.99 book, and presumably will be mostly double-shipping…which is a pricing strategy I just cannot keep up with. Priced at $2.99 I would give this a few issues; but as-is, I tried this first issue, and I have every intention now of passing on subsequent issues, at least so long as I'd be paying "full price." I'll simply have to keep an eye out for these in bargain bins, snagging a collected volume (if still interested by that point) from Amazon, or "going digital" should these fall under a 99-cent sale from Comixology.
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Q: Linking an existing folder to a solution in Visual C# Express Note that these are my first steps in the world of C# so I may be asking something really basic here, however neither Google nor Visual C# Express Help helped me so I'm forced to ask this here.
I have a set of .cs files in a folder (and its subfolders) I have checked out from SVN repository using TortoiseSVN. I would like to see those files with the same folder structure in Visual C# Express 2008 I'm running. However, I can't find the correct import or dynamic linking wizard, and drag'n'drop apparently clones the files to the solution instead of just linking them.
So, what am I missing, coming from the Java world and being an Eclipse user I've become used to this kind of functionality, but with VC#E I feel stumped already and I haven't even managed to open a single source file.
The reason for this setup is that we have a collaborative project with a couple of friends and not every one of us uses VC#E, in fact not all of us even use Windows either.

A: You can do like this:

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*Create an empty C# project, locating the .csproj file in the folder in which the files (and sub folders) are located

*Open the Solution Explorer (View -> Solution Explorer)

*In the Solution Explorer, click the tool button "Show All Files". Now you should see the code files in the tree view

*Select all the code files (and sub folders), right-click and select "Include in project"

Done.

A: You should move your .csproj file to a folder above your directory structure. There are other possibilities but they are generally for other use cases and quite a pain for what you're trying to do.

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Gosh, all these visitors were giving my server a hard time.

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You guys were very supportive when it came to helping me picking up the tab, thanks! I got a lot of help from supporters who all gave me a dollar-or-so, so I decided to send a small check to the Mozilla Foundation and another one to the OSU Open Source Lab.

The OSU OSL is where some of Mozilla's servers are and they work hard for some of the finest projects in the Open Source world, and they also need our support. Through the collaboration of the OSL and Mozilla, that a whole lot of Firefox downloads can take place flawlessly at the same time, free of charge.

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Home Gardening
18 Fabulous Foliage Plants for Garden Pizzazz
Christine PetersonUpdated: Dec. 13, 2022
These gorgeous foliage plants will thrive in a variety of garden environments, adding color and interest to any landscape.
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Silver Sabre Variegated Sage
Salvia officinalis, Zones 4 to 9
Any type of sage is prized in the garden, with soft, earthy-smelling leaves, but the leaves of Silver Sabre are lined with white, as though dipped in creamy paint. The leaves turn pink in cooler weather, and these foliage plants are easy to grow anywhere with decent drainage.
Why we love it: These foliage plants are edible, but also the flowers are attractive enough to lure pollinators as an ornamental.
Check out the top 10 golden plants to make your garden glow.
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Golden Zebra Daylily
Hemerocallis 'Malja', Zones 4 to 9
With more than 90,000 daylily cultivars, there's one for you! This beauty has dark yellow flowers that peak in early summer and slender leaves variegated with creamy white edges. As its name implies, each bloom comes and goes in one day.
Why we love it: This daylily grows well in most soils in full sun or part shade. It is striking when in bloom. When it's not, the leaves on these foliage plants add plenty of appeal on their own.
Discover 10 types of lilies gardeners should grow.
Ball Horticultural Company
White Nancy Spotted Deadnettle
Lamium Maculatum, Zones 3 to 8
Imagine if a quick frost partially covered leaves in your garden, only they didn't die. That's how the leaves on White Nancy spotted deadnettle look—as though they were kissed by frost in early summer. The dainty white blooms of this ground cover are a bonus.
Why we love it: Deadnettle spreads easily, making it a perfect low-maintenance ground cover in part or full shade areas of the garden. Be aware: It can be invasive.
Check out how to grow Dahlberg daisy plants—these drought and heat tolerant flowering plants are great at attracting butterflies.
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Bengal Tiger Canna Lily
Canna Americanallis var. variegata, Zones 8 to 11
Bengal Tiger's leaves are mesmerizing as light yellow and dark green weave back and forth. Show-stopping orange flowers top the plant's tall stalks, which reach as high as 6 feet. The leaves themselves are remarkable on their own. Gardeners in the North will want to dig up canna bulbs and store them indoors for winter.
Why we love it: It thrives in a wide range of soils or as an aquatic plant, living in 6 inches of water.
Here's how to overwinter non-hardy bulbs and tropical plants.
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Spotted Laurel
Aucuba japonica, Zones 7 to 10
Spotted laurel features 8-inch-long evergreen leaves marked with bright yellow spots. These foliage plants are quite large, reaching between 6 and 10 feet tall. Small purple blooms open in early spring.
Why we love it: It grows well in nutritionally poor soils and tolerates drought and air pollution. Plus, it adds interest to any shady, dry area.
Psst—we found even more early blooming flowers for spring.
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Whirlwind Hosta
Hosta, Zones 3 to 8
Light green swirls seem to move inside dark green leaves and add drama to shady spaces. The intrigue in Monrovia's Whirlwind hostas can't be overstated. The color of the center changes throughout the growing season from a creamy white to light green to dark green. Hummingbirds may visit the pale lavender blooms.
Why we love it: Its low-maintenance nature helps this hosta perform well in rural gardens and city plots.
Check out the top 10 easy-to-grow native plants.
Athyrium niponicum var. pictum, Zones 4 to 9
Perfect for shady areas in woodland gardens, these ferns feature nearly 2-foot-long triangular fronds with silver centers that almost glow. Silver coloring peaks in spring then fades to green by midsummer, still contrasted by its maroon midribs. Try different varieties for unique coloring. Pictum (shown here) is silver and red; Burgundy Lace is silver and burgundy.
Why we love it: Expect this to be a low-maintenance fern for those tucked-away spots that need intrigue.
Try these easy plants you can grow in containers.
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Strobilanthes auriculatus var. dyeriana, Zones 8 to 10 or annual
Beautifully patterned purple and green leaves are the real draw to growing Persian shield. It performs best when grown in part or full sun and will likely reach more than 2 feet tall.
Why we love it: With patience, Persian shield can adapt as a houseplant. In the North, grow it in a pot outside in summer and bring it inside for the cold months.
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Vinca, Zones 4-11
Our list wouldn't be complete without vinca. The ultimate trailing container plant, it looks good with just about anything. Grow it in sun to partial shade for best results, and expect it to reach 3 to 6 feet. While vinca is sometimes grown as an annual, look for information on specific varieties. Also note that vinca is invasive in some areas.
Why we love it: It's easy to find. With some container plants, it can be hard to track down the right variety or cultivar, but vinca is readily available at most nurseries.
Codiaeum, annual
While it's technically a perennial in warm climates, most of North America grows croton as an annual in containers. You won't find a more colorful foliage option, often with six or more hues on a single plant. This tropical favorite grows up to 4 feet and does best in sun to partial shade.
Why we love it: What's not to love? The colors are stunning, and you can bring it indoors in colder months. Look for it in the tropicals section of your nursery.
Cyperus papyrus, Zones 9-11
With its wild, bushy heads on stately stems, papyrus adds something special to a container. This tropical plant loves heat and humidity. The dwarf variety (Cyperus profiler) grows in Zones 7 or 8 to 11, while most others can be outside year-round only in warm climates. For these, grow as an annual, or winter them indoors.
Why we love it: Whether you grow the dwarf variety, which reaches 3 feet, or the taller ones that can get up to 6, papyrus makes an eye-catching centerpiece for containers.
Try these modern minis: small plants for small yards.
Solomon's Seal
Polygonatum, Zones 3-9
A perennial favorite in the garden, it's now an elegant choice for containers as well. This plant has beautiful arching foliage with tiny flowers that peek out from under the leaves. It grows 6 inches to 3 feet in partially shaded areas.
Why we love it: Even though the flowers are short-lived, they have a delicate look that's hard to resist. For pink blooms, try Polygonatum stewartianum. For the traditional white blossoms and variegated foliage, pick Polygonatum odoratum 'Variegatum'.
Juncus, Zones 3-9
Gardeners have been using rush in containers for decades, and it's not hard to see why: It's a bit grassy and a little thready, and it seems to have a mind of its own. Rush is a perennial that thrives in wet areas. It grows up to 2 feet tall and likes sun to partial shade.
Why we love it: Corkscrew rush is a must-try plant for containers. Its wild foliage is guaranteed to add personality to your space.
Sweet Potato Vine
Ipomoea batatas, annual
A close relative of morning glories, sweet potato vines have the same climbing habit, growing up to 20 feet. You'll easily find a cultivar to meet your needs: Blackie comes in near-black shades that go with every other color, Sweet Caroline Bronze (pictured here) sports gorgeous caramel tones and Tricolor boasts shades of green, white and pink.
Why we love it: These foliage plants complement a wide range of flowers. The robust nature of many varieties means that one plant goes a long way toward filling out a container.
We found easy ways to use vining plants all around your garden.
Banana Plant
(Musa, hardiness varies with species)
Even though it would be an annual in many parts of North America, most people don't buy a banana plant to have for just one year. Use it to add drama to your containers in summer and then to bring a burst of green to the inside of your home in winter. It thrives best in warm conditions, in sun to partial shade.
Why we love it: The height—up to 6 feet—is wonderful for containers. You can grow a lot of plants beneath it.
Check out the top 10 best houseplants for low light.
(Calathea, Zones 10 and 11, annual elsewhere)
Here's a case of an indoor plant moving outside. Peacock plant has striking 4- to 8-inch leaves; the plant can eventually grow up to 4 feet tall and 2 feet wide. It grows best in warm areas with partial to full shade.
Why we love it: We admit the name won us over right away. But any plant that likes shade and looks this good is OK in our book.
Don't miss the top 10 hummingbird plants that grow in shade.
(Pennisetum setaceum, Zones 8-11)
Fountain grass is grown mostly as an annual and peaks in midsummer to early autumn. It has pinkish spikes and narrow panicles. Growing up to 3 feet tall, it prefers full sun.
Why we love it: These fine foliage plants adds texture to the garden and comes in green, reddish-purple and new colorful varieties like Fireworks (shown here).
For more autumn color, check out the top 10 fall blooming perennials for your garden.
Golden Creeping Jenny
Lysimachia nummularia, Zones 3-9
Creeping Jenny, also known as moneywort, includes the cultivar Aurea, with golden leaves and yellow late-spring-to-early-summer flowers. These foliage plants do fine in either sun or shade, though they prefer a mix. Do watch where they spread, however, as the tendrils might try to creep into your lawn.
Why we love it: A little goes a long way. You don't need much creeping Jenny to make a big impact.
Looking for more garden drama? Try these dark colored flowers that are almost black.
Christine Peterson is a regular contributor to Birds & Blooms and is always searching for new and interesting plants for her Wyoming yard. She has written about nature, wildlife and the outdoors for more than a decade.


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The only known pulsar duo sheds new light on general relativity and more
The only known duo of pulsars has just revealed a one-of-a-kind heap of cosmic insights.
For over 16 years, scientists have been observing the pair of pulsars, neutron stars that appear to pulsate. The measurements confirm Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity, to new levels of precision, and hint at subtle effects of the theory, physicists report in a paper published December 13 in Physical Review X.
Pulsars, spinning dead stars made of densely packed neutrons, appear to blink on and off due to their lighthouse-like beams of radiation that sweep past Earth at regular intervals. Variations in the timing of those pulses can expose pulsars' movements and effects of general relativity. While physicists have found plenty of individual pulsars, there's only one known pair orbiting one another. The 2003 discovery of the double-pulsar system, dubbed J0737-3039, opened up a new world of possible ways to test general relativity.
One of the pulsars whirls around roughly 44 times per second while the other spins about once every 2.8 seconds. The slower pulsar went dark in 2008, due to a quirk of general relativity that rotated its beams out of view. But researchers kept monitoring the remaining visible pulsar, combining that new data with older observations to improve the precision of their measurements.
Now, astrophysicist Michael Kramer of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and colleagues have dropped an exhaustive paper that "just lays it all out," says physicist Clifford Will of the University of Florida in Gainesville. "To me, it's just magnificent."
Here are five insights from the new study:
1. Einstein was right, in so many ways.
The pulsar duo allows for five independent tests of general relativity in one, checking whether various properties of the orbit match predictions of Einstein's theory. For example, the researchers measure the rate at which the orbit's ellipse rotates, or precesses, to see if it agrees with expectations. All of the parameters fell in line with Einstein.
What's more, says astrophysicist Scott Ransom of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va., "each of the individual tests of general relativity have gotten so precise that … higher-order effects of general relativity have to be included to match the data." That means that the measurements are so exacting that they hint at subtle peculiarities of gravity. "All of those things are really amazing," says Ransom, who was not involved with the research.
2. Gravitational waves are sapping energy.
The observations reveal that the pulsars' orbit is shrinking. By measuring how long the pulsars take to complete each orbit, the researchers determined that the pair get about seven millimeters closer every day.
That's because, as they orbit, the pulsars stir up gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime that vibrate outward, carrying away energy (SN: 12/18/15). This telltale shrinkage was seen for the first time in the 1970s in a system with one pulsar and one neutron star, providing early evidence for gravitational waves (SN: 12/16/78). But the new result is 25 times as precise as the earlier measurement.
3. The pulsar is losing mass and that matters.
There's a subtler effect that tweaks that orbit, too. Pulsars gradually slow down over time, losing rotational energy. And because energy and mass are two sides of the same coin, that means the faster pulsar is losing about 8 million metric tons per second.
"When I realized that for the first time, it really blew me away," says Kramer. Although it sounds like a lot, that mass loss equates to only a tiny adjustment of the orbit. Previously, scientists could neglect this effect in calculations because the tweak was so small. But the measurement of the orbit is now precise enough that it makes sense to include.
4. We can tell which way the pulsar spins and that hints at its origins.
By studying the timing of the pulses as the light from one pulsar passes by its companion, scientists can tell in what direction the faster pulsar is spinning. The results indicate that the pulsar rotates in the same direction as it orbits, and that provides clues to how the pulsar duo formed.
The two pulsars began as neighboring stars that exploded, one after the other. Often when a star explodes, the remnant it leaves behind gets kicked away, splitting apart such pairs. The fact that the faster pulsar spins in the same direction it orbits means the explosion that formed it didn't give it much of a jolt, helping to explain how the union stayed intact.
5. We have a clue to the pulsar's radius.
Gravitational effects are known to cause the orbit's ellipse to precess, or rotate, by about 17 degrees per year. But there's a subtle tweak that becomes relevant in the new study. The pulsar drags the fabric of spacetime behind it as it spins, like a twirling dancer's twisting skirt, altering that precession.
This dragging effect implies that the faster pulsar's radius must be less than 22 kilometers, an estimate that, if made more precise with future work, could help unveil the physics of the extremely dense neutron star matter that makes up pulsars (SN: 4/20/21).
"The authors have clearly been very meticulous in their study of this amazing system," says astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi of McGill University in Montreal. "It is wonderful to see that the double pulsar … indeed is living up to its unique promise."


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Besides Unrelenting Positivity, we sometimes need a fairly large dose of Unrealistic Positivity, to counter Perceptions of negativity and negative pattern, we have become aware of. We have to Insist on going against both the Expectations outside of us, and against those internal Expectations which are not Positive, but which are based on reasonable probability.
When it comes to Expectation, the rules of probability do not apply, unless we expect them to. The Art of Expectation, and its mastery is thus about learning to expect at will, to expect against the pattern, to expect counter to probability. None of these apply when it comes to Positive Expectation. Breaking free from those internal Expectations of ourselves, like the Expectation to be reasonable and logical, in all circumstances, is one such Internal Expectation that has to go.
The Art of Expectation is to be able to go against the Expectations of the world. It is the Art of Freedom and True Individuality. It is the Art of Independence.
Just asking the World, the air, the nothing, just Asking Intent, for say, a Raise, is an example of Applying this in a very definite way. Raises can come in many ways, monetarily, spiritually, emotionally, via opportunity, etc. Asking in this way is throwing an Intent out there. If we do this sincerely, earnestly, And, and this is most important, if we actually Express this Intent externally, it is most powerful. More powerful than most realize.
Because of course, it is then an Act of Personal Commitment. This leverages our psychology. There doesn't have to be any metaphysical component, although there might be. As strategists, we don't discount any opportunity, no matter how low the probability.
And as Strategists, we use every means at our disposal to Leverage Ourselves. This is one such method, a most potent and powerful one. Particularly if we have the Energy of Desperation as a Motivator.
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Protective equipment for Ebola care is left on the ground next to ransacked tents by demonstrators at the Ebola transit centre in Beni, following a demonstration last week against the postponement of elections in the territory of the Beni and the city of Butembo.
An American health care worker who was providing treatment to patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being monitored at a Nebraska health care facility after possible exposure to the deadly Ebola virus, hospital officials said.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha confirmed Saturday that the unidentified person was being monitored in a secure facility not accessible to the public or other patients. The person is not sick nor showing any Ebola symptoms, but could be monitored for up to two weeks, officials said.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing one of the deadliest Ebola outbreaks in history. Since August, the Democratic Republic of the Congo health ministry says there have been at least 593 confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola and at least 360 people have died.
The World Health Organization says an unstable security situation and protests over election delays are hampering health care workers' efforts to administer vaccinations and treating patients. The Ebola outbreak in northeastern Congo has been particularly difficult to contain because it is an active war zone.
The Ebola virus is not contagious if a person is not showing symptoms, which include fever, severe headache, fatigue, diarrhea and unexplained bleeding, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nebraska Medicine officials said the individual in their care is not an official patient, and therefore, the hospital will not provide any updates on the person's status unless it deems necessary. If the individual develops symptoms of the virus, the person will be admitted to the hospital's biocontainment unit, one of the few in the U.S. dedicated to treating highly infectious diseases, Taylor Wilson, a spokesperson for Nebraska Medicine said.
The Nebraska Medical Center treated three patients with Ebola in 2014. In 2015, several others were monitored after exposure, but none of them developed the disease.