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The things I'm about to write, the thoughts I'm about to share, about the voice you're about to hear are not usually out in the open.
Nick Slater speaks to young men about young men things and they're usually behind locker room doors or in the back booth of the takeaway. You see, young men have a code and it's better to deliver your message cautiously, slowly because you don't want to give too much away to the wrong crowd. If things go pear shaped you need to know where the door is to get out and get on your way quickly.
Nick's toxic charm mix is a vocal concoction of disarming your mother in law sweetness, bad boy street cred that could sell a show and shine car expo to a v8 veteran and slow cooked suggestions to a new girlfriend that she may regret the morning after.
Hand Nick a newly released drink. Ask him to talk straight with an awkward teenager.
Tell him he has a few minutes whispering money saving hints to the loved up couple in the coffee shop. He's one of that crowd or the one who speaks to it.


It's often possible to try something different in beta. Soft launch or A/B test your marketing campaigns and in fact turn them into iterative waves of content.
I'm into residential architecture and my Pinterest board Modern Residential Architecture has been gaining real traction since Pinterest added the "Also pinned to:" feature. From 100 odd followers last week to 801 today. The site really seems to be taking off. Stats about it being the third largest are highly believable. With good content the instant gratification of a like or repin comes with ease, vs. getting someone to retweet my posts.
Yet I digress, a few days back I posted this to another board, as a tester. Something new. It was far more popular than my architecture pins in plain likes and repins.
So the challenge this week is to find an architecture related motivational pin. The combination of the old and new that doesn't alienate my followers and target audience.
Being agile, I can always tweak the idea as I go. Launch, analyse, learn and adjust. Of course if the analytics don't support it I can still roll back to my tried and true without investing in a big campaign.
Follow me if you want to see where the iterations lead.


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Substance Use Clinician -TAY-IST
City: San Jose, CA
AARS Substance Use Clinician position supports people in our community who are most impacted by mental health limitations and poverty. Many of whom are affected by substance use and trauma. AARS Substance Use Clinicians are one of the first line of support when community members get release from the jail system, outpatient or residential programs. Our team supports our community by providing compassionate, integrated care, at a personal and caring level.
The most important characteristic of our team is that we love to support clients at our agency. HealthRIGHT 360/AARS is a place...
Care Coordinator - NCSH Outpatient
City: Oceanside
North County Serenity House Outpatient, provides treatment services for women seeking recovery from substance use disorders. We offer gender responsive, trauma informed, person-centered services and evidence based interventions. For clients with co-occurring mental illness, we provide integrated substance use and mental health services which treat both conditions as primary. Care Coordinators are responsible for assessing client and children needs and strengths in support of family health and recovery. Through case management in individual and group settings, delivering...
Driver (NCSH Residential)
North County Serenity House, A Program of HealthRIGHT 360 was founded in 1966 to provide substance use disorder services in the community. North County Serenity House provides a gender-responsive and trauma-informed environment, using evidence-based and best practices that recognize and account for the role that trauma frequently plays in substance use and criminal histories of women. For clients with co-occurring mental illness, we provide integrated substance use and mental health services which treat both conditions as primary. Our residential facility serves up to 120 women (with...
Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - COVID-19 I&Q Program
SoCal Associate Medical Director - Prototypes
City: Pomona, CA
The Associate Medical Director (Psychiatrist), under the direction of the Medical Director, will provide leadership and direction to the Southern California Prototypes' programs. The Associate Medical Director will oversee medical services for behavioral health programs throughout Los Angeles County, serving vulnerable men, women, and children, across the lifespan dealing with mental health and substance use disorders.
The Associate Medical Director (Psychiatrist), under the direction of the Medical Director, is primarily responsible for the oversight and delivery of care. This...
Associate Medical Director
North County Serenity House, A Program of HealthRIGHT 360 was founded in 1966 to provide substance use disorder services in the community. North County Serenity House provides a gender-responsive and trauma-informed environment, using evidence-based and best practices that recognize and account for the role that trauma frequently plays in substance use and criminal histories of women. For clients with co-occurring mental illness, we provide integrated substance use and mental health services which treat both conditions as primary. Our Escondido residential facility serves up to 120 women...
Street Outreach Worker - SVIP, Western Addition
Function: Prevention Services
Do you have experience working with street violence outreach? Are you action oriented with strong problem solving skills? Are you passionate about connecting at-risk youth with services to help them overcome barriers? If so, HealthRIGHT 360 is currently looking to Street Outreach Worker position opening at our Street Violence Intervention Program in San Francisco! The ideal candidate for this position has knowledge of the Western Addition neighborhood, experience working in street or neighborhood violence and providing youth and community engagement. In this position you will gain...
Women's HOPE Clinical Director
Women's HOPE is a residential substance use disorder treatment program serving pregnant women and women with children, located in San Francisco's Mission district. The program provides up to 6 months of treatment for 16 pregnant women and mothers. Many of these mothers are working to reunify and strengthen relationships with their children, while addressing their substance abuse and mental health challenges. Women's HOPE is a trauma-informed and gender-responsive program staffed by an interdisciplinary clinical team of substance abuse counselors, parenting counselors, and therapists. Women...
Residential Program Director - 815 Buena Vista
We're looking for someone who is excited to lead our team of passionate service providers in providing a safe and supportive recovery environment for some of the most vulnerable members of our community. The person is this role will have the opportunity to set the clinical tone of our co-occurring residential behavioral health treatment program in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.
This is a very special program that has been operating for over 40 years in a historic building and location. The program participants are very diverse people who experience symptoms of...
Dental Assistant (On-Call) - ICC/Dental
Function: Dental
Agency: Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, HealthRIGHT 360
Haight Ashbury Free Clinic (HAFC) at the Integrated Care Center (ICC) offers primary medical, dental, substance use disorder treatment, and mental health services guided by the principle that "Healthcare is a Right, Not a Privilege." HAFC/ICC provides compassionate, nonjudgmental care to patients who experience homelessness, poverty, and addiction. Our providers have specialized expertise in preventative health, acute and chronic conditions, treatment of infectious diseases, psychiatry, and addiction medicine.
Under the general supervision of a Dentist in a clinical setting, assists...

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By Socrates Mbamalu on October 22, 2018 — 31 years after his murder, the first stone of the five meter bronze monument to the memory of Capt Thomas Sankara was laid on October 15, 2018 in Ouagadougou. How else should Africans honour and remember their icons, heroes and heroines?
On October 15, 1987 a friendship was brutally brought to an end, a betrayal hard to come to terms with. Captain Thomas Isidore Sankara and 12 of his aides were shot dead by Captain Blaise Compaore. The death of Captain Sankara was followed by one week of mourning in Ghana, and other African countries also grieved for the murder of a brave son of the continent. In Burkina Faso, despite the refusal of the then government to announce the death of Sankara, hoards of people rallied to Sankara's grave. The New York Times reported: "The burial was so hasty that mourners were able to dip their handkerchiefs in pools of blood that drained from the grave." On Sankara's grave, notes like "Thomas Sankara, the Burkinabe people will never forget you," were found.
Now in 2018, 31 years later after the life of a strong visionary was snuffed out, the Burkinabe people have kept true to the word in that promissory note. With every passing year, the words of Sankara are played all over the continent. His charisma and charming smile still draws many people to him. While in Malawi the statue of Mahatma Gandhi was proposed to be built, to the chagrin of many Africans, a similar statue that was built on the grounds of the University of Ghana was later removed. In the Land of the Upright, for the first time, Burkina Faso will build a monument for the great man, who gave his life for their country.
The first stone of the five meter bronze monument to the memory of Thomas Sankara was laid on October 15, 2018 in Ouagadougou. While Africans are quick to remember other leaders that never fought for their independence, they fail miserably when it comes to celebrating their own heroes.
Remembering the icons, heroes and heroines who are often forgotten is important, and the statue is critical to keep the legacy of Sankara alive in our minds.


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Gradually slower. Synonymous with ritardando.
The gamut of pitches, from low to high, which a singer may perform.
In solmization, the second degree of the major scale.
A performance by one or more performers.
A short section of repeated material which occurs at the end of each stanza.
Major and minor scales which have the same key signature.
The repetition of a section or a composition as indicated by particular signs.
Reinforcement and intensification of sound by vibrations.
A symbol used to denote silence.
A free style instrumental piece characterized by dramatic changes in mood.
The term which denotes the organization of sound in time; the temporal quality of sound.
Gradually slower. Synonymous with rallentando.
On percussion instruments, a sticking technique consisting of a rapid succession of notes.
The note upon which a triad or chord is built.
Like the canon, a song in which two or more parts having the same melody, starting at different points. The parts may be repeated as desired.
The term used to denote flexibility of tempo to assist in achieving expressiveness.
On drums, the basic sticking patterns.


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We're celebrating excellence in Aboriginal education with the NSW Department of Education's 17th Annual Nanga Mai Awards.
Do you know someone who's made a positive impact on Aboriginal education at your school? Recognise and celebrate their achievements by nominating them in our 17th annual Nanga Mai Awards.
Who can be nominated?
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal teachers
staff in the NSW Department of Education
community members and
NSW public schools.
What are the Award categories?
Student - All Round Student, Academic Excellence, Student Leadership, Public Speaking, Performing/Creative/Visual Arts, Sport, SBAT & VET Student of the Year.
Staff - Outstanding Contribution by an Aboriginal Staff Member and non-Aboriginal Staff Member, Outstanding Leadership in Aboriginal Education and Leadership in Languages.
School Community - Outstanding Aboriginal Community Member, Outstanding School and Community Partnership, Outstanding Commitment to Increasing Knowledge and Understanding of Aboriginal Histories, Culture and Experiences of Aboriginal People.
Find out more about the award categories at the Nanga Mai Awards website. If you have questions or need help putting together your nomination, please talk to your school principal or email the Nanga Mai Awards team at nangamai@det.nsw.edu.au
Who can nominate?
Families and community members can submit a nomination with endorsement from your school's principal, local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG) and anyone employed by the NSW Department of Education.
The awards ceremony is set to take place at the Sydney Opera House in November, with student performances from across NSW.
Nominations close on Monday 5 September 2022.
Learn more and nominate at the Nanga Mai Awards website.


Irene J. Gardner, age 90 of Delano, went to heaven on March 27, 2019. It was apparent the good Lord must have needed a banker to help with financial affairs in heaven. Irene spent 50+ years at the State Bank of Delano and was a "liberated woman" long before that term became part of American discourse. She was a role model and inspired many women in an age when going into business as a woman was rare. Irene loved the banking business and all the customers and staff she got to know along the way. She was one heck of a polka dancer – in fact she and husband Kenny used to go dancing nearly every weekend. They traveled often and loved cruises that they took all over the world. She had a laugh and a spirit for fun that was hard to ignore. She was well-known and regarded in Delano and surrounding communities. Besides being a long-time employee at the State Bank of Delano, she was treasurer for Community Chest (United Way), treasurer for the Delano Chamber of Commerce, long-time member of the St. Peter's Church choir and active parish member, member of the Delano State Bank Board of Directors, and a volunteer at the local nursing home. She loved God, her faith and her church.
Irene is survived by two sons, Dan (Brenda) and Den (Sandy); her sister LaVern Bauer; grandchildren Katie (Kevin), Kim (Ron), Molly (Dan), Tom (Amy), Leslie (Stevie), Mike, and Kristin; great grandchildren Benjamin, Maya, Mary, Elizabeth, Ethan, Sophia, Gavin, Evan, and Bennett.
Irene was preceded in death by husband of 53 years, Kenny; parents Paul and Anna (Motzko) Jaunich and sister Gladys Eckes.
Mass of Christian burial was held at 11 AM on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at St. Peter's Church, part of St. Maximillian Kolbe Parish in Delano. Visitation was Monday, 4:00-8:00 pm, with a Rosary at 3:30 PM and prayer service at 7:30 pm in Martha's Hall of St. Peter's Church. Visitation continued Tuesday, from 10:00-11:00 am prior to the Mass, also in Martha's Hall. Interment was in Calvary Cemetery in Delano.


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Philippines grapples with typhoon aftermath as death toll tops 300
By Karen Lema and Enrico Dela Cruz
MANILA (Reuters) – More than 300 people have been in killed by a powerful typhoon in the Philippines that destroyed homes, flooded towns, severed power and communications lines and displaced hundreds of thousands in its central and southern regions.
Military airplanes and naval vessels were dispatched on Monday to carry aid to areas devastated by Typhoon Rai, as the country grappled with the strongest of 15 such storms to hit the archipelago this year.
"We are still assessing the damage, but it is huge," Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana told reporters on Monday. "The first thing we are doing is address the food and water (supplies) and medical care of the injured."
Lorenzana told the armed forces to deliver relief goods using all available assets, and send in more troops if necessary.
The number of storm-related deaths climbed throughout Monday as rescue efforts continued in hard-hit areas.
As of 1000 GMT, the death toll from Rai has risen to 375, the police said in a report, making it one of the deadliest typhoons to have struck the Southeast Asian nation. The number of injured has climbed to 500, while 56 people were missing.
The count, which according to the police was subject to validation, far outstripped the 58 deaths recorded by the national disaster agency, which said it was still checking reports from affected areas.
The majority of the deaths reported by police were in the central region of Visayas, home to dive spots in Bohol province, among some of the most popular tourist destinations, and the Caraga region in northeastern Mindanao.
Provincial governor Arthur Yap told broadcaster CNN Philippines he feared the death toll could rise further, as a lack of mobile telephone links made it hard to gather information.
Rai, which made landfall as a category 5 typhoon on Thursday, revived memories of the devastation brought in 2013 by Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded, which killed 6,300 people in the Philippines.
Rai displaced nearly 490,000 people in the Philippines before moving toward the South China Sea over the weekend.
It left a trail of destruction in the provinces of Cebu, Leyte, and Surigao del Norte, including Siargao, which is popular with surfers, and the Dinagat Islands.
President Rodrigo Duterte, who visited typhoon-stricken areas over the weekend, promised funds of about 2 billion pesos ($40 million) to help in recovery efforts.
(Reporting by Enrico Dela Cruz and Karen Lema; Editing by Ed Davies and Clarence Fernandez and John Geddie)
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Late monsoon floods kill more than 150 in India and Nepal
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -More than 150 people have died in flooding across India and Nepal in recent days, as heavy late monsoon rains triggered flash floods, destroyed homes, crops and infrastructure and left thousands stranded.
The north Indian state of Uttarakhand has been especially badly hit, with 48 confirmed deaths, SA Murugesan, secretary of the state's disaster management department, told Reuters.
In Nainital, a popular tourist destination in the Himalayan state, the town's main lake broke its banks, submerging the main thoroughfare and damaging bridges and rail tracks.
In nearby Chamoli district, rescuers from India's paramilitary National Disaster Response Force continued to search debris following landslides caused by the heavy rains.
India's federal interior minister Amit Shah surveyed badly hit areas on Thursday.
"Crops and homes have been wiped out, which is a severe blow to families already grappling with the devastating fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic," said Azmat Ulla, a senior official at the International Federation of Red Crescent Societies.
"The people of Nepal and India are sandwiched between the pandemic and worsening climate disasters, heavily impacting millions of lives and livelihoods."
Some 42 people have died in the last week in the southern Indian state of Kerala, according to a statement from the chief minister's office.
In neighboring Nepal, at least 77 people have died.
India's annual monsoon rains usually run from June to September.
(Reporting by Saurabh Sharma in Lucknow and Jose Devasia in Kochi, Writing by Alasdair Pal; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Nick Macfie)
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Homes destroyed, hundreds more evacuated as Los Angeles wildfires spread
By Omar Younis
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (Reuters) – More wildfires ignited near Los Angeles on Thursday, destroying homes and forcing evacuations, as the region faced a second day of gusting desert winds that have fanned flames and displaced thousands of people.
The fast-moving Hillside Fire grew to 200 acres (80 hectares) and was starting to consume homes near scrub-covered slopes in San Bernadino, east of Los Angeles, according to the San Bernadino County Fire Department.
At least six homes were destroyed or damaged and about 1,300 people had been ordered to evacuate. A helicopter and a small plane dropped water and retardant on the flames, according to Chris Prater, a fire department spokesman. A smaller brush fire was also reported in Jurupa Valley.
"The winds have probably been the biggest factor promoting this fire spread," he said.
The region's Santa Ana winds have been so extraordinarily dry, powerful and prolonged that the National Weather Service created a new alert level, issuing an "extreme red flag warning" through Thursday evening in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
Two other major fires have charred the region since the start of the week.
The Getty Fire broke out near the Getty Center art museum in Los Angeles on Monday morning, burning chaparral up and down the mountain slopes around a major highway.
Officials ordered the evacuation of more than 10,000 homes in some of the city's richest neighborhoods, although they began allowing some people to return on Wednesday as about 40% of the 745-acre (300-hectare) fire was brought under control.
The Easy Fire ignited early on Wednesday, sending flames racing up to the walls of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library atop a mountain in Ventura County's Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles. Some 30,000 residents were ordered to evacuate, along with an unknown number of horses in an area that is known for its ranches. County schools remained closed on Thursday.
Officials at the Getty Center and the Reagan Library were confident both complexes would be unscathed, thanks to various fire-prevention systems. These include, in the case of the Reagan Library, an annual visit by a herd of goats that eats away the surrounding flammable scrub. On Wednesday, helicopters doused the area around the library with water.
No injuries have been reported in the fires, although at least a dozen homes in Los Angeles have burned down.
The Santa Ana winds arrive in the autumn, sending hot, dry air down from the mountains out to the Southern California coast. Gusts of 65 miles per hour (105 kilometers per hour) were recorded in mountainous areas around Los Angeles, and more powerful winds were forecast for Thursday morning.
Tens of thousands of people in the region were without power after a precautionary shutdown by the Pacific Gas & Electric Co <PCG.N>.
Investigators say the Getty fire was likely caused by a broken tree branch that was blown into power lines during high winds on Monday morning.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FIRE
In northern California, firefighters have been fighting the 76,000-acre (30,760-hectare) Kincade Fire in Sonoma County's wine country for more than a week. That blaze has destroyed at least 189 homes and other structures but was listed as 30% contained on Wednesday.
PG&E acknowledged last week that the Kincade Fire started near a damaged transmission tower at about the time a live high-voltage line on that tower malfunctioned.
The company filed for bankruptcy in January, citing $30 billion in potential liability from a series of deadly fires sparked by its equipment in 2017 and 2018.
As many as 190,000 people were displaced at the height of the Kincade Fire, but some evacuation orders have since been lifted.
(Reporting by Omar Younis in Simi Valley, California, and Jonathan Allen in New York; Writing by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Scott Malone, Bernadette Baum and Frances Kerry)
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Stay or go? Syrian refugees face a life-changing choice
By Angus McDowall
BEIRUT (Reuters) – As the bus pulled out of a Beirut car park heading for Damascus, Ahmed Sheikh waved from the window, excited, he said, to be returning home to Syria after years as a refugee in Lebanon.
Sheikh and his two sons are part of a steady trickle of refugees going back as the Syrian government tightens its grip on areas it controls and the prospect of new fighting recedes.
But not everyone wants to go home just yet. While Beirut says 90,000 Syrians have returned this year, more than a million remain in Lebanon, including many who fear reprisals or army conscription, or whose homes were destroyed in the war.
In a refugee camp in northern Lebanon, Abu Ibrahim recalled how government shellfire had obliterated his hometown, saying it was too dangerous to return to Syria while Bashar al-Assad remains president.
Whether the millions of refugees outside Syria, like Sheikh and Abu Ibrahim, will return to areas where fighting has ended is becoming a pressing issue in the country and abroad.
Assad now controls most of Syria and the front lines appear stable for now between government territory and two big enclaves in the north and east still outside Damascus' control.
The refugees' fate is important to Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan, which have each buckled under the strain of hosting so many, but also to Europe, where the refugee crisis has caused political ructions. It will play a critical role in shaping Syria's own gradual economic recovery too.
About half Syria's pre-war population fled after war broke out in 2011, 6.3 million of them as refugees abroad and 6 million displaced in their own country. Many were forced to flee numerous times.
About a million remain in Lebanon, 3.6 million in Turkey and nearly 700,000 in Jordan, the UNHCR said. One million Syrian children have been born in exile as refugees since the crisis began.
The agency said on Tuesday that up to 250,000 Syrian refugees were expected to go home next year, while around 37,000 returned in 2018, a figure its officials say may not be complete.
For Sheikh, 46, the decision to return came after a legal problem in Lebanon. His residency permit had expired and he faced a large fine. Police told him he would not have to pay if he agreed to return to Syria.
Still, with the war calmer, he was happy to be going. "There is security here, but living conditions are hard. There is not much work and everything is very expensive," he said.
He had fled Aleppo with his family in late 2012 after rebels there threatened him, accusing him of links with the government.
A Syrian refugee walks on crutches at a refugee camp in Akkar, northern Lebanon, November 27, 2018. Picture taken November 27, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
In Syria, he owned a bakery and later worked in Lebanon as a baker after making the long, circuitous journey through war-ravaged Syria with his wife and five children.
But he will not go back to his old Aleppo district, ruined in the fighting. He and his sons will stay with his sister in Manbij, which is controlled by local U.S.-backed forces.
His wife and three daughters will not return to Syria yet. The young women have married and had children while in Lebanon.
Returning is complicated. Syrian security checks on those who seek to come back can take weeks. Not all are approved. Important documents may have been lost. Young children may have no passport at all.
The Lebanese and Syrian governments have organized numerous returns for groups of refugees who register to go back. Sheikh's return was one of these.
As he got on his bus, another family group hugged and cried – some staying, some going. A father looked through the window at his wife and disconsolate child who were returning to Syria while he stayed on to work in Lebanon.
STAYING ON
Abu Ibrahim, by contrast, swears he will not take his wife and three children back. He is haunted by the carnage of an early battle that destroyed Baba Amr, their neighborhood of Homs, which they fled by night as bullets sang overhead.
He had a workshop there, repairing televisions. His parents lived nearby, as did his 11 siblings with their families. People in Baba Amr were close-knit. "Everyone used to know each other," he said.
When protesters marched in 2011, he joined them, though he did not take up arms, and by early 2012, protests had given way to war.
In a fierce assault on Baba Amr, the army shelled his street, which faced the front line. His building took a direct hit, wounding him and his son. A nephew disappeared, presumed among the hundreds killed.
When the bombardment abated, they left by night, braving sniper fire to cross the fields. "The children couldn't take it anymore," he said.
In a new neighborhood, as the army advanced again, he witnessed summary shootings. The family kept on moving, before paying money to cross into Lebanon.
Abu Ibrahim's old house and his neighborhood are now rubble – a military zone controlled by army checkpoints. His siblings scattered during the fighting. None stayed in Syria.
In Lebanon, he still fixes electrical goods, going house to house on a motorbike with his toolkit. He makes little money and sees no future there.
But he is alarmed by rumors among the refugees in Lebanon that some who have returned were abused or killed, which Damascus denies. In Syria, his oldest boy, now 16, would soon face conscription. His two-year-old daughter lacks a proper birth certificate or passport.
"I will never go back unless the regime is changed, and especially Bashar al-Assad," he said.
He wants to go to the West, a journey few manage. Of the million Syrians in Lebanon, only a small number have gained permission to relocate there as refugees.
Others attempt the dangerous sea crossing to Cyprus. In September a boat sank, drowning a child whose family could not face a return to their homeland.
(Reporting by Angus McDowall; Editing by Giles Elgood)
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Five dead in California wildfire as second blaze forces Malibu evacuation
By Stephen Lam
PARADISE, Calif. (Reuters) – A rapidly moving wildfire in Northern California killed five people when flames engulfed their vehicles as they attempted to flee the mountain town of Paradise in one of three infernos raging across the state, authorities said on Friday.
Nearly 500 miles (800 km) to the south, a blaze forced the evacuation of the upscale oceanside city of Malibu, home to many celebrities, and threatened the beleaguered town of Thousand Oaks, where a gunman killed 12 people this week in a shooting rampage in a bar and dance hall.
Since it broke out on Thursday, the so-called Camp Fire has more than tripled in size to 70,000 acres (2,838 hectares) after engulfing Paradise, a town of nearly 30,000 people, and was only 5-percent contained by Friday.
"The town is devastated, everything is destroyed," said California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) spokesman Scott Mclean, referring to Paradise, which has a population of 26,000 including many retirees.
In addition to the five people found dead in their vehicles, many were forced to abandon their cars and run for their lives down the sole road through the mountain town. About 2,000 structures were destroyed in the area, officials said.
The death toll is expected to climb above five, Mclean said, because flames have blocked search and rescue crews from looking for victims in destroyed homes.
"The only reason they found the five is because they were still on the road," Mclean said.
HOT WINDS
The fires in California have been driven by hot winds from the east reaching speeds of up to 40 miles per hour (64 kph), forcing firefighters to scramble to keep up with the fast-moving flames.
In Southern California, the 14,000-acre (5,666-hectare) Woolsey Fire led authorities on Friday morning to expand mandatory evacuation orders to the entire city of Malibu.
Flames completely engulfed large homes in at least one affluent neighborhood.
"Fire is now burning out of control and heading into populated areas of Malibu," the city said in a statement online. "All residents must evacuate immediately."
In all, the Woolsey Fire led authorities to issue evacuation orders for 75,000 homes in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
It was not immediately clear how many homes had been destroyed.
Video shot from a news helicopter showed cars at a standstill on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, about 30 miles (48 km) west of downtown Los Angeles. An unspecified number of homes were destroyed there, according to local media.
MOVIE SET TOWN ABLAZE
The Woolsey Fire broke out on Thursday and quickly jumped the 101 Freeway. On Friday, it climbed across the Santa Monica Mountains toward Malibu.
It also threatened parts of nearby Thousand Oaks in Ventura County northwest of Los Angeles, the site of the shooting massacre earlier this week, stunning a community with a reputation for safety.
Linda Parks, a Ventura County supervisor, whose district covers Thousand Oaks, lamented the timing of the wildfire. "We are still reeling, but we are also very resilient," she said.
On its path of destruction, the fire destroyed a Western-themed movie and television set in Agoura, north of Malibu, a unit of the National Park Service said on Twitter.
Western Town was created in the 1950s for television shows such as "The Cisco Kid," and more recently was used for television shows such as "Westworld" and "Weeds," and was a draw for visitors.
California Acting Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday declared a state of emergency for areas affected by the Woolsey and Hill fires in Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
In Los Angeles, another fire in Griffith Park forced the Los Angeles Zoo to evacuate a number of show birds and some small primates on Friday as flames came within less than 2 miles (3 km) of the facility, zoo officials said in a statement.
"Animals and employees are safe," the statement said.
(Writing by Alex Dobuzinskis; Additional reporting by Bernie Woodall and Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Bill Tarrant and Sandra Maler)
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INDIAN BACKWARD CLASSES
In the Indian society, the caste system is considered sacred and immutable, becoming the same basis of the society founded on a important principle: all men are different. With the adoption of the Constitution (1950), the untouchability, discrimination based on the caste, ethnicity, gender and religion were abolished. But the ancient doctrine prevails over modern law and the Hinduism (faith practiced by 80% of the population) is law in daily lives of people. In large and complex variety of populations and ethnic groups living today in India, there is little unknown universe, considered by some as a parallel social dimension. These are the tribal people, the ab-origines inhabitants of the territory, long-resident in the most backward areas of difficult access of the Indian subcontinent. It is estimated that the tribal population in India amounts to about 140 million units. For this reason, mainly for the social sciences and anthropology, the study of the tribes is one of the keys to the interpretation of the past, as bearers of cultural heritage. Nonetheless, the tribes population are subject to strong discrimination by the higher caste of the society. In this, it may be read a relation between the complex universe of the tribes and the class of untouchables, that are often incorrectly equated. The Government has intervened with regulations specific to these groups. Such action, however, varied between the isolation of the tribal communities, directed towards a sort of reserve policy, to the forced modernization, i.e. the exploitation of the labor force as a tribal labor at low cost. The Indian government basically provides a kind of special status for the classes of the lower orders, often discriminated against and back to living conditions. In modern times, what were the backward classes during the British colonization, the Constitution were divided into two main groups, namely: the Scheduled Tribes (Adivasi, the tribes) and Scheduled Castes (which includes many untouchables communities). Approximately 80% of the poor of India belongs to these two groups.
The facilities that, theoretically, the government reserves for these groups are generally tax exemption, the works of infrastructure development (often provided on paper and never realized), the so-called policy of reservation, namely the protection of equal opportunities. The National Tribal Policy (NTP), presented for the first time in 2004, has not yet found a permanent legislative form. In 2011, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (Ministry of Tribal Affairs) has prepared a draft for the National Tribal Policy. The objective of the policy is to bring the Scheduled Tribes (ST) at par with the rest of the population in terms of Human Development Index, social and economic conditions and infrastructures and also ensure the conservation of cultural rights and traditional knowledge .
The Draft Law does not inspire confidence to the tribals, who fear the loss of all their cultural distinctiveness in terms of their final incorporation. Sharad Joshi, former member of parliament and leader of the peasant movement Shetkari Sanghatana, said: "A National Tribal Policy should be based on the principle of freedom for each tribal society to opt for a traditional way of life or a modern one, or to be able to access at both". Despite these and other measures, the discrimination against backward classes continues. To understand the magnitude of this phenomenon, just think that the government had to enact specific laws for offenses committed against the disadvantaged castes. However, laws and regulations have failed to dismantle the foundations of the caste system in a country, India, which is proposed as an example to countries in the developing world, but that still counts among its citizens 160 million untouchables.
As Gandhi said: "The future is in the countryside, in its 500,000 villages." But something still does not work, while growing a strong urban middle class, the vast majority of the population continues to live in poverty. According to the "2011 Report on Rural Poverty", published by the Fund for Rural Development of the United Nations (IFAD), global poverty remains a mass phenomenon and mainly agricultural.
While in urban areas, more anonymous and pragmatic, the caste differences are blurred, in rural areas, however, such disparity is amplified and more evident.
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This is a determination based on the service history of the Vehicles. It has been found to stretch to its limit shortly after this interval. The engine is also considered an interference engine in which engine damage is very likely in the event that the timing belt fails with the engine running. If the belt fails, the pistons are very likely to hit the valves and cause them to bend or the connecting rods or pistons to be damaged.
Remove the accessory drive belts. Remove the water pump pulley. Remove the crankshaft pulley bolt and the crankshaft pulley. Remove the timing belt covers. Turn the crankshaft sprocket clockwise until the timing marks on the sprocket are aligned with the mark on the block at the 1 o'clock position. Make sure that the camshaft sprocket is aligned through the use of the small hole in the sprocket. The small hole should be straight up and you should see the mark on the cam bearing through the hole.
Loosen the bolt in the belt tensioner and move it away from the belt and tighten the bolt enough to keep the tensioner from moving. Remove the timing belt.
Install the new timing belt from the right crank sprocket up and on the inside of the idler pulley, over the cam sprocket and down through the inside of the tensioner. Keep all the tension on the side away from the tensioner. Use your left hand to keep tension on the belt as it is being installed so it does not skip a tooth. Loosen the tensioner bolt and its pivot bolt so it can swivel. Allow the tensioner to apply tension to the belt. Tighten the inside tensioner bolt first with the groove in the bracket and then tighten the outer pivot bolt.
Check the timing marks again and make sure they are still lined up. If so then turn the engine clockwise two revolutions and check the timing marks to make sure they are still lined up. If the timing marks are not lined up, remove the belt, line up the marks as outlined in Step 1, then repeat the process.
Replace all parts in the reverse of removal. Torque the crankshaft bolt to 110 foot pounds.
Remove the accessory drive belt. Raise and support the vehicle on jack stands. Remove the right front wheel and inner fender splash shield. Turn the crankshaft clockwise until the Number 1 cylinder is on top dead center and the timing marks on the crankshaft pulley are aligned at about the 5 o'clock position with the marker on the block.
Support the engine with the floor jack and remove the right-hand motor mount and the valve cover. Remove the crankshaft pulley bolt and the pulley. Remove the water pump pulley and the timing-belt covers. Install the camshaft alignment tool in the slots of the camshafts.
Loosen the tensioner bolts; using a suitable allen wrench, turn the tensioner away from the belt and lightly tighten the bolt. Remove the timing belt. Temporarily install the crankshaft pulley and make sure the timing marks line up.
Remove the crank pulley and install the new timing belt in a counterclockwise direction, starting at the crankshaft sprocket, then over the top of the camshaft. Keep the tension on the right side. Install the lower timing-belt cover and install the crankshaft pulley. Install the crankshaft bolt and torque to 89 foot-pounds.
Loosen the tensioner bolt and allow the tensioner to operate. Remove the camshaft alignment tool. Turn the crankshaft slowly two turns, and make sure the timing marks align. Torque the tensioner bolt to 30 foot-pounds of torque.
With the crankshaft alignment marks lined up, make sure that the camshaft alignment tool can be inserted into the cams. If slots are not aligned, use the sprocket holding tool to hold the sprockets and loosen the bolts. Tap each camshaft sprocket gently to loosen from taper. Turn the camshaft sprockets just slightly until the cam alignment tool can be inserted into the slots in the camshaft.
Make sure the crankshaft marks are aligned and torque the camshaft sprocket bolts to 53 foot-pounds of torque. Turn the crankshaft two more turns and make sure the camshaft tool can be inserted into the slots of the cams. Install all components in reverse order of removal.
Raise and support the car on jack stands. Remove the right side wheel and splash shield. Turn the crankshaft and line the marks on the crankshaft pulley to the O mark on the timing cover. Use the floor jack and support the motor. Remove the three motor mount arm bolts and rotate the arm upright out of the way.
Remove the accessory belts and the dipstick tube. Remove the crankshaft bolt and pulley. Remove the timing upper and lower covers. Loosen the tensioner bolt and push it away from belt and loosely tighten the bolt to hold the tensioner out of the way.
Check the timing marks. The crank sprocket should have the keyway straight up and a mark on the back of the sprocket will line up with the mark on the block. Both the camshaft sprockets have grooves on the teeth and they both line up to marks at 2 o'clock on the head.
Install the new timing belt starting on the right side away from the tensioner and go from the crank to the right cam to the water pump to the left cam and around the tensioner. Make sure all the tension is on the right side away from the tensioner. Loosen the tensioner and allow it to apply tension to the belt and then tighten the bolt.
Check the timing marks to be sure they are still dead on and then rotate the engine two turns and align the timing marks one more time. If they are still lined up then loosen the tensioner to let the tensioner take up the last bit of slack and then tighten the tensioner bolt to 31 foot pounds of torque.
Install all components in reverse order of removal and tighten the crankshaft bolt to 181 foot pounds of torque.


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4/30/09: Ghost & Six Organs of Admittance @ Doug Fir, Portland (98/100)
I'm in Portland. How bizarre. I certainly wasn't planning on this last minute twist in the run up to day 100, but here I am. Yet, almost not. Check this shit out.
After a full day of traveling from NYC to Denver, then Denver to PDX, the pilot of the tiny express airplane I was on tried to land it, only to pull the nose up at the last minute and floor it – taking off again. I guess another plane hadn't cleared the runway in time and…Jesus fucking Christ! This is how this is all going to end? Really? "Just get this fucking bird on the ground! I've got a project to complete!" is all I'm thinking.
He finally does, and my co-worker Matt and I grab a cab to the hotel, check in, and head out to meet up with our other co-worker Jerome. We meet him and some people who work out of the Portland office, and grab some drinks. Then, hit dinner at an amazing little French restaurant named Le Pigeon, right across the street from the venue. How amazing? Well, how's pork belly and fois gras as a starter, and halibut with gnocchi and spring vegetables as a main sound? Delicious.
So, all day traveling, delicious dinner and now it's time for music, just after 9:30pm. I'm hitting a bit of a wall at this point, having been up at 7am NY time, and it's now about 12:30am NY time – but I have to power through. Before heading west for this impromptu meeting, my boss sent around an email to everyone in the Portland and NY offices. He said how my 100 Bands journey was nearing the end, and if anyone out here wanted to join me for a show to come along. So a writer named named Jimmy met up with Matt, Jerome and me for the show tonight at Doug Fir.
Below the venue is a restaurant and attached is a hotel, I think. The restaurant looks nice. The hotel looks like a motel. And the venue is fashioned to look like a fake log cabin – sort of. Which is totally cool, and made for great sound. When we walked downstairs to the venue, Six Organs of Admittance was already on. Six Organs is essentially one guy, Ben Chasny, with his acoustic guitar, at least that's how it was tonight.
The records have more instrumentation, but tonight was super chill. Some songs are simple, interesting instrumentals in alternate tunings, while others have whispery vocals and later on in the show, musical accompaniment. It was mostly the first one though
The Japanese experimental/avant garde/psych-rock band Ghost was up after Six Organs, and they brought considerably more equipment. I didn't know what was about to happen, considering there was everything from drums, keys, guitars and pedals galore to a flute, clarinet, saxophone, electro cello, and who knows what else – tons of weird gadgets and instruments I'd never seen in my life.
What happened was a sonic boom of noise/music with some Zep, Floyd, Mac, more noise, free jazz, free noise and whatever the fuck else mixed in. It was a hell of a trip that started out with a wall of noise, where they kept adding brick after brick after brick. Until it was just one huge, controlled mess.
Thing settled down after that and the majority of the set was 70s-sounding psych-rock. The guy on the left hand side of the stage was doing some of the more interesting things on stage. Maybe that's because I'm a gadget freak, but he had the coolest toys. A sax, flute, clarinet, tons of effects pedals, a tambourine, and this weird oscillating remote control, with a huge antenna on it. I couldn't quite figure it out, but it seemed like he could manually manipulate different instruments on stage with it. Pretty much making him the coolest guy in the band.
The set started to drag a bit for me, probably because my body was three hours ahead. Jerome and Matt had split about halfway through the show, totally exhausted. I was too, but had to stay. Jimmy was fine, but he lives here. Ghost finally wrapped up the set close to midnight. I called a cab immediately aftewards, not waiting for the encore, then thanked Jimmy for coming out and hanging, hopped in the cab minutes later (man, Radio Cab is fast) and was back at the hotel, in bed before 4am NY time.
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4/26/09: Lenny Pickett & The NYU Block Party Band @ Bowery Poetry Club (94/100)
Another amazing day, in the high 80s, but I couldn't just lay around the Park for six hours again today. Too much to do. I had to do an interview for East Village Radio for the project, and record my radio show, but first, I met up with this guy Mick, a writer for the soccer weekly First Touch. Oddly enough, they have a music section in a soccer publication. My friend Paul made the introduction, and Mick wanted to meet to write a piece about the 100 Bands project. And since I've played soccer since I could walk, I was totally down for it.
On my way home, I thought I'd pop by the Bowery Poetry Club, a cool little venue I'd been meaning to check out. I saw on the chalkboard outside that Lenny Pickett was playing with a group of students calling themselves The NYU Block Party Band. I had no clue who Lenny was, but it sounded like jazz from inside, so why the hell not.
I walked in, paid 7 bucks, and then took a seat in the music room, with the three other people watching Lenny and a 9-piece orchestra comprised of NYU music students. His students. Not only is Lenny a saxophone virtuoso, the leader and Musical Director of the Saturday Night Live band, but he's also a music professor at NYU. And today was a performance with NYU music students.
Not exactly what I'd had in mind for today's band, but one I'm glad I saw because man…Lenny can really play the sax. I arrived in the middle of a number, and after they finished that one up, Lenny was pretty funny when he said, "So that's what I've been teaching your son, Mr. and Mrs. Cogliano." Their son was the guitar play. How adorable is that? Probably not very if you're their son, I would imagine.
The most interesting thing about this show wasn't how the guy at the door, who took my 7 bucks and then asked me how may day was going so far – in a really genuine and sincere way. Although that was surprising, especially for New York. The most interesting part was how here is Lenny Pickett, a guy who heads up the SNL band, was a member of the jazz/soul band Tower of Power, basically holding a rehearsal with his students. And they're mostly keeping up.
Obviously he's miles ahead of them in talent and experience. But he was there, in a t-shir and jeans, playing to a room of four people, on a beautiful Sunday and seemed to be having a blast. Another cool thing was the song selection. He played classic jazz songs like "Honky Tonk," which Lenny said all sax players are required to know, as sort of the price of entry if you want to be in a band. And he even rearranged the Led Zeppelin song "Black Dog" for a 10-piece jazz band. Which was totally interesting. And, apparently quite difficult, according to him.
I didn't know any of the other songs, but it didn't matter. I knew that these students were doing a great job keeping up with Lenny, that he seemed to be having a good time, while mentoring his band and making one student's parents very proud. And I knew that the vibe at the Bowery Poetry Club made me want to check out again. Just maybe not within the next six days.
Day 94: done.
Less than a week to go.
4/5/09: Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band @ Bowery Ballroom (73/100)
Back to life. Back to reality. Back to the Bowery Ballroom.
After a week in Europe, visiting Sunshine, seeing a wide variety of bands in venues totally new to me in great cities like London and Paris, it's back to the grind in NYC. And I'm sorta bummed about it. Even if this week is looking like it could be a really good one. It's not because I've seen 73 straight days of live music. I think I got the post-vacation blues. Luckily I was able to chill out most of the day and recover from jet lag. And even luckier for me, the Bowery is only a 3-block walk from my apartment. Not the hour long jaunts of London and Paris.
Tonight was Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band from Seattle. I learned of them from old high school I recently reconnected with, then noticed they were playing a show at Bowery with Bishop Allen. How's that for instant gratification? Plus, Bishop Allen's not bad, either. I have one of their records, there are some good songs. But I was more interested in MSHVB.
I rolled my ass off the couch around 9pm, threw on some clothes and stumbled over to the Bowery. Walking into the club, I felt at home – like I was stepping into my basement for some Sunday night tunes. Of course, I wasn't in my basement because I live in a 350 square foot apartment in Manhattan. The only thing in my basement is the boiler, and probably a shit load of rats.
The first band Team B just finished when I walked in. All I saw was them breaking their gear down. No biggie. I was looking for a quick night tonight since jet lag was beginning to kick in.
Twenty minutes later, MSHVB (which is not a very easy acronym to type) was on stage. Just looking at them, it seemed like they were going to be fun. They wore matching outfits, one of the guitar players had fashioned a headband out of what looked like spare material, and the female keyboardist/percussionist was holding big, stick thingys. They smiled a lot, bantered with the crowd, and seemed really nice. But when it came to the songs, they were all business.
Big thick, Gibson riffs. A little bit prog rock, a little bit garage and roll. Think Yes mixed with the De Stijl-era White Stripes (when they were interesting), Black Mountain and somehow, somewhere, a little bit of Led Zeppelin. Plus other references I can't think of. See for yourself below.
This video is from the show:
This one is from SXSW (not mine, but I wish it was):
Well…it happened again tonight. I was on my couch. Not in the mood to get dressed and head out to see a band. But once I got there, and they MSHVB was on stage doing their thing, I was happy. I ignored my jet lag for an hour, took it in – and it was fucking great.
Sorry, I've been trying to control my cursing more lately (wait, I did say shit earlier, too – damnit). But MSHVB were that good. I even bought the CD afterwards. And I wasn't the only one. The line at the merch table after their set was how every band wants to see it – packed.
I put my new CD in my pocket, walked upstairs, stopped for a moment and looked at the stage – trying to figure out if I could manage another hour and a half of music tonight. Bishop Allen, or not? Hmm. I thought, "Maybe." But my jet lag said, "Hells no." So I listened to the jet lag and went home.


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Naval Weapons Station (NWS) Earle Military Sealift Command (MSC) Firefighting School Drinking Water Information
A public information session was held on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at the Community Enrichment Center – Southard School, 115 Kent Road, Howell N.J. The session was held to provide results of the drinking water sampling performed by the Navy as a part of a perfluorinated compound (PFC) investigation. The session was similar to the one conducted by the Navy, federal, state, and local agencies in February prior to the sampling effort.
The meeting format included information displays along with representatives from the Navy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).
The purpose of the meeting was to share information and answer questions about the Navy's PFC test results for drinking water samples taken from properties near NWS Earle in Howell Township. The validated, test results have been received, and they are the same as the preliminary results:
• Twenty-seven of 28 drinking water wells tested near NWS Earle fell below the U.S. EPA provisionary health advisory levels for Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and the New Jersey DEP Interim Ground Water Quality Standard for Perfluorononanoic Acid (PFNA) and require no other action at this time.
• One property had a level meeting the U.S. EPA preliminary health advisory levels for PFOS. This property has received bottled water.
• One property had a level above the New Jersey DEP preliminary health-based guidance for PFOA. This property owner has been contacted by the New Jersey DEP to coordinate corrective actions.
The Navy started testing drinking water for PFCs in December 2015 at installations, including NWS Earle, where firefighting foam that contained PFCs was once used for training. The firefighting foam is no longer used for training.
In January, drinking water samples on the installation showed that the water did not contain PFCs above the U.S. EPA provisional health advisory levels or the New Jersey DEP Groundwater Quality Standard for PFNA. However, the groundwater samples from the shallow non-potable test wells installed as part of the study did indicate elevated PFC levels. On Feb. 12, the Navy notified residents within a half mile radius down gradient of the elevated PFC location on-base and asked for permission to conduct additional testing to determine if the PFCs had migrated off the installation.
The Navy is working with Federal and State regulators to determine which corrective action(s) are best to use for a long-term solution.
PFCs and Navy Policy:
PFCs are man-made chemicals, which have been used since the 1950s in many household and industrial products because of their stain and water repellant properties. PFCs are now present virtually everywhere in the world because of the large amounts which have been manufactured and used. Once these compounds are released to the environment they break down very slowly.
Currently, PFCs are classified as unregulated or "emerging" contaminants, which have no Safe Drinking Water Act regulatory standards. PFCs are being studied by the U.S. EPA to determine if regulation is needed. The U.S. EPA, however, has established health advisory levels for PFOS and PFOA. Additionally, the New Jersey DEP has established an Interim Ground Water Quality Standard for PFNA and a health-based guidance for PFOA. The U.S. EPA and New Jersey DEP recommend actions be taken to reduce exposure if drinking water contains PFC concentrations above those levels.
As of May 2016, the U.S. EPA health advisory level is 70 parts per trillion (ppt) for PFOS and 70 ppt for PFOA. When both PFOA and PFOS are found in drinking water, the combined concentrations of PFOS and PFOA should be compared to 70 ppt. The New Jersey DEP preliminary health-based guidance for PFOA is 0.04 ppb and the Ground Water Quality Standard for PFNA is 0.01 ppb.
Health Information:
Exposure to PFOA and PFOS appears to be widespread. Studies have found both compounds in the blood samples of the general human population and wildlife nationwide. Exposure to PFOS and PFOA through ingestion is the primary health concern for people. Studies on exposed human populations indicate PFOS and/or PFOA may cause elevated cholesterol levels and possibly low infant birth weight. When animals are given large doses, they exhibit developmental, reproductive and liver effects. Other studies suggest a link with certain cancers.
Health effects from exposure to low levels of PFOS and PFOA are not well known and studies are continuing. At this time, it is not possible to link exposures to PFOS and PFOA in water to a person's individual health issues. Blood tests are available, but they are not routinely done because the results can be inconclusive and test results do not predict health effects. Long term exposure effects are still being investigated by U.S. EPA. Based on what is known and still unknown about PFOS and PFOA, the EPA recommends people not use water that contains PFOS and/or PFOA above the provisional health advisory levels for drinking or cooking.
Until a decision on regulating PFOS and PFOA or other PFCs is made by U.S. EPA, the Navy proactively developed a policy to ensure drinking water has not been impacted by PFC contamination at installations where there has been a nearby known or suspected release of PFCs to the environment.
The Navy has started an investigation under our Environmental Restoration Program to determine if PFCs have moved off the NWS Earle property in the groundwater. Our first priority in this investigation has been determining if PFCs are present in the drinking water of nearby residents and taking appropriate action as needed.
Off-Base Drinking Water Sampling:
The Navy began notifying residents in the designated sampling area on February 12, 2016 to request to sample their drinking water. Off-base drinking water sampling was conducted at no cost to residents in the sampling area in February 2016. The sampling process took approximately 30 - 45 minutes, and involved a team of two technicians coming into the home to collecting a sample from a faucet. Prior to collecting the sample, the technicians also went over a homeowner questionnaire that was provided with the sampling notification packet.
The questionnaire was designed to gather information about the drinking water well and any filtration systems being used which helped with selecting the appropriate tap to sample and assist when evaluating the sampling results and developing follow-on investigation plans as needed.
Actions Based on Results:
Results were received in March 2016. The Navy provided notification to each resident sampled of their personal drinking water results on April 4, 2016 as well as notification of and follow on actions if needed for their home.
Provide Alternate Drinking Water: The Navy is providing an alternate water source (e.g. bottled water) for drinking and cooking to one residence within the designated sampling area as their drinking water sample was found to contain PFOS or PFOA at or above the EPA provisional health advisory level. The Navy will continue to provide alternate water at no cost to this residence until connection to an existing water main is established. With the lowering of the U.S. EPA health advisory level to 70 ppt. in May 2016, a second residence will be connected to the existing water main.
The Navy has determined that based on the drinking water sampling results; there is no need to expand the drinking water investigation area. The Navy in consultation with the U.S. EPA and New Jersey DEP will use the results to guide the installation of monitoring wells both on-base and off-base as needed for a groundwater investigation. The Navy will work with the EPA and New Jersey DEP to identify and evaluate long-term solutions to PFCs in groundwater.
To learn more about the emerging contaminants PFOS and PFOA, please see the EPA fact sheet at: http://1.usa.gov/28VRCu5.
To answer any questions you may have on the sampling program, please call (732) 866-2171 or email at colt.wpnstaearlepao@navy.mil.
Open House Information:
Open House Fact Sheet - Apr. 14, 2016
Open House Posters - Apr. 14, 2016
EPA Fact Sheet on PFCs
Letter to Residents
Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Heath Fact Sheets
NWS Earle MSC Drinking Water Test Sampling Results
Perfluorinated Chemicals and Your Health
Perfluorinated Chemicals (PFCs) in Private Wells
Public Health Statement on Perfluoroalkyls
Searching for Emerging Contaminants in Drinking Water
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Intel Core i7-7700K 'Kaby Lake' Processor Reportedly Clocked At 3.6GHz With 4.2GHz Boost Clock
It's almost hard to believe, but it's already been over 9 months since Intel released its latest processors based on the Skylake microarchitecture. If you'll recall, Skylake landed at a bit of a strange time, as its predecessor, Broadwell, had been released only a couple of months earlier. Never before did we see an CPU series replaced so quickly, but as we found out not long after, Broadwell wasn't going to be the only odd duckling in Intel's processor lineup.
In November, a new leak showed us that Skylake's original successor, Cannonlake, was definitely not going to be happening on time. Instead, Intel had to push back the release of that new "tick" to give us something else in the meantime: Kaby Lake.
When it gets here, Cannonlake will be built on a 10nm process, but as with Skylake and Broadwell, Kaby Lake is going to retain the 14nm design. What this in-between release will afford us is native USB 3.1 support, full fixed-function HEVC Main10 and VP9 10-bit hardware decoding, and support for HDCP 2.2. As with Skylake, Kaby Lake will support DDR4 and Thunderbolt 3. The new chips should also be installable in modern LGA1151 motherboards with an EFI update.
Up to this point, we haven't heard much about specifics regarding Kaby Lake, but now, some questions are being answered (if the rumor is correct, of course). According to the latest leak, Intel's next top-end mainstream chip will be the i7-7700K, which would follow in the direct footsteps of the i7-6700K. These names are so simple, it's almost as if they could be guessed!
Thanks to a results publishing to SiSoftware's Sandra website, we can see that this new i7-7700K is clocked at 3.60GHz and can top out at 4.20GHz. This is a little interesting as the i7-6700K is a 4.0GHz chip out-of-the-gate. Perhaps the 7700K will be a great overclocking chip, helping to negate the clock loss? Time will tell.
If you're wondering if you'll want to upgrade to Kaby Lake from Skylake, Broadwell, or even Haswell, the immediately safe answer would be "no". While Kaby Lake is a great iterative release, there's nothing ground-breaking here. So unless you are running an outdated rig, you'll almost assuredly be fine holding off until Cannonlake's release.
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Taking professional training classes, or even just going to the range to perform drills, provides an opportunity to learn and evolve. A great way to ensure that lessons, events, and other data are retained is to take notes and write detailed After Action Reports (AARs). Getting professional training is not a small endeavor. It is an investment, and for some, a very costly one. Tuition cost for a two-day basic class can cost up to $500 plus costs for ammunition, food, lodging, and transportation. That is a considerable investment for most, and a shocking price to new shooters who need the training most. Ensuring that those expensive lessons are retained makes those costs more justifiable.
AARs not only provide a reminder to the writer, but also build upon simple notes, help fellow students retain their knowledge, help prospective students know what to expect from a class, and how to better prepare for it. Instructors also benefit from AAR through accounts of what students are actually learning, where they struggle, and where they are not challenged enough. They also can provide positive or negative feedback on how an instructor's demeanor and teaching style affects the class.
So what should be included in an AAR? Below, I have included a sample template that I use for AARs. It is simply a good starting place, and can be modified in any number of ways to suit the writer, audience, and class. Basically, the more detailed an AAR, the more accurate story it tells. It is a good idea to start with information on class preparation. What were the expected weather conditions? What clothes did you wear? What support gear like slings, holsters, magazines, protective equipment, details on the guns you brought, and what snacks you brought help provide needed details. For instance, if you encountered a holster failure where a part broke, but did not mention what make and model holster you were using, there is little to be learned. Equally important as a list of gear you brought is a list of gear that you did not bring, but should have. Did you get sunburn because you forgot sunscreen? Did mosquitos feast on students all day long because you wore short sleeves and did not pack bug spray? Did you leave rain gear at home, expecting impossibly blue skies and fluffy white clouds, but end up facing an early morning soaking rain that left you wet and miserable throughout the rest of the day? Small details make big differences in AARs, and no lesson is so small that it should be forgotten.
Good instructors encourage note taking, and those notes help feed a detailed AAR. Notes on drills, ammunition used, malfunctions encountered, gear failure, "light bulb" moments, and so on can easily be forgotten without good notes. Even if you just go to the range to practice, recording details for future use is worth the effort. Also important s recording what you were thinking throughout the class. Were mental mistakes made? Were there adjustments that the instructor asked you to make which had a positive impact? Did another student bring up a new perspective that helped? Including your thoughts and thought process, humorous moments, humbling lessons, and so on, all help make a well-rounded and relatable AAR.
To go a bit further on notes and how they help feed an AAR, take a notebook up with you to the firing line and take notes about what the instructor and other students say. Ask anyone for clarification or more detailed information on how or why certain things may work better. During breaks for meals, and especially overnight between training days, take some time to go over your notes to keep the lessons fresh in your head.
After you get home from training, take some time to decompress. Clean and sort your gear to get it ready to use again or to put in storage. Spend some extra time with your family who sacrificed a weekend or more of their time with you so that you could train to be a better provider or protector. After a couple days, come back to you notes and read over them a few times, expounding on various points. Call up fellow students or the instructor to discuss things that you may not remember or want to get some different perspectives on. Then take some time to flesh out those notes into a story that keeps your training alive on paper, and at the same time helps both fellow and prospective students learn from your experiences. I cannot stress the last sentence enough. Training without retention is meaningless and wasteful in the long term. Training without passing along knowledge is selfish. Learning is generational, building off the experiences of the past. It is important to be a part of that passing of knowledge so that others do not to repeat every step and misstep you made.
Now that you have written your class AAR, send it to other students you attended the class with, as well as the instructor. If they have any feedback, determine if their perspective deserves mention. At the same time, ensure that your AAR tells your story, not theirs. Once you are happy with it, make it available to a wider audience. If you are a member of firearms related websites or social media, post it for others to see. Even posting on your open social media page could help other people better understand what goes in to being a responsible citizen who invests time and effort into being an asset to society.
In the end, writing AARs ensures that you did not waste your training time and money on learning skills and lessons that you will forget. Keeping a record of details like your gear choices, preparation, drills, mistakes, and thought process throughout it all ensures that you will retain what you learned. It also helps prospective students determine what classes are right for them, how they should prepare, and also how they should record their experiences for others. Last, it will help your fellow students and instructors learn from your lessons and perspective, enhancing their experiences as well. Writing and publishing AARS is the greatest tool for not only retaining what you learned, but build a foundation for future learning.
Class Title: Provide the company name and the title of the class you are attending.
Instructor: List the primary and any assistant instructors.
Location/Date: Provide the venue the class is using, what state, and town, as well as the date.
Equipment Details: This is a chance to go into great detail on what guns you are bringing, and modifications done to them to include barrels, sights, triggers, lights, etc. List out what gear like magazine pouches, footwear, eye and ear protection, rain gear, number of magazines you brought and so on. Write down what you brought to eat and drink, plus other sundry items. Little details can help in big ways. Going back to certain gear items throughout the narrative of your AAR can help put context into what worked and did not work for you.
Personal Experience: Tell the reader who you are, and what perspective you brought to the class. Are you a soldier, a cop, an armed citizen? Have you attended training before, and if so, what? Do you have any other applicable experience?
Preparation Drills: Did you train up for your class? Did you practice any particular drills to bring your basic skills up to speed before the class?
Class Demographics: Who else is attending the class? Ensure your fellow students are okay with their names being mentioned before doing so, or whether they would prefer you not mention them in any way. Is the class full of beginners, professional shooters, or a mix of all experience levels?
Training Day 1 TD1) Morning: This is the time to write about the morning activities. How was the class set up? Was the venue easy to find? Was there certain safety information that was briefed? What drills did you start off with, and how did your preparation help?
TD1 Afternoon: Same as above, but with the afternoon's activities, as well as how any lunch break was handled. Was food brought in? Were students expected to bring their own? Did the instructor head to the nearest restaurant?
Overnight: Write about what happened over night. Was there a class dinner? Was there a recommended hotel? Were the accommodations at your hotel satisfactory? Did you perform any maintenance on your gear or guns? In the morning, was there a place to eat breakfast?
TD2 Morning: Same as TD1.
TD2 Afternoon: Same as TD1.
Class Debrief: At the end of the actual training, most classes have a time set aside for students and instructors to talk about what they leaned, what they liked, and what challenges they faced. Providing highlights from your lessons as well as other students' lessons can be very helpful.
After Class: What happened after everyone left the range? Was there another class dinner, or did everyone head home? What did you do once you got home? What was your procedure to get your gear and guns back into serviceable condition?


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Is This Facebook Email a Fake?
Verifying that an email came from Facebook is incredibly simple, but only if you know where to look. We show you how.
By Neil J. Rubenking
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/is-this-facebook-email-a-fake
(Illustration: René Ramos)
If you work for a company of any size that is even remotely online, chances are good you've had to undergo some training on how to spot phishing (fraudulent) emails. Even if you don't, you may have gained a certain amount of expertise in how to spot phishing scams just by virtue of receiving tons of them.
If the sender's email domain is not quite the same as the supposed sending company, that's a red flag. A message from an address at paypal.com may very well be fine; one from paypal-acount-verefy.com probably isn't. Messages telling you to click a link before some deadline or else lose access to your account are also highly suspect.
It's too bad that Facebook seems to be sending legitimate mail that raises these flags. Just how do you determine if an email that seems to be from Facebook is legitimate? The best security suites are good at detecting phishing emails, but what if you want to check a particularly tricky message for yourself? I'll show you the process I went through with one such email, below.
A Strange Message From Facebook
I started looking into this problem when an old friend of mine asked about a slightly odd email he got, purportedly from Facebook. It noted that since his posts have "the potential to reach a lot of people," he's required to enroll in Facebook Protect. Not only that, if he doesn't do it within about three weeks, he'll be locked out of the account. There's that pesky deadline. To top it off, the message was sent from the domain facebookmail.com—a variation on what you'd expect. That's two strikes. Oh, and according to its own description, Facebook Protect was designed for "candidates, their campaigns and elected officials." My friend doesn't fit any of those categories.
And yet…the message is not asking him to send money, or give away his password, or anything nefarious. It's insisting that he increase his security. How would a scammer benefit from that? Also, strange as it seems, Facebook confirms that it uses the facebookmail.com domain to send official emails. Could it be that the message is legitimate?
How to Verify Whether an Email Is From Facebook
As it turns out, verifying that an email came from Facebook is incredibly simple—but only if you know where to look. Here's how.
Go to Settings. On your own Facebook profile page, find the down-pointing triangle icon at top right. Click it, then choose Settings & Privacy > Settings to open the main Settings page.
Find Facebook's List. Near the top left you should find Security and Login. Click that and scroll down to the Advanced section. Click the item titled "See recent emails from Facebook."
Match Your Message. If you see a match for the questionable message's subject line, you can be pretty sure it's legitimate. Be sure to look both in the list of Security-related messages and in the list titled Other. Note that Instagram has a very similar feature—not surprising, as both Facebook and Instagram are owned by Meta Platforms.
Other Ways to Verify
If the message you're wondering about doesn't appear in the list of messages sent by Facebook, that should make a strong case for it being a fraud. By observation, though, this may not be the case. I shared the instructions above with my friend who received that suspect message. He reported no matches in the list of messages. On the flip side, he pointed out that Facebook recently extended the Facebook Protect program to a wider audience, including journalists. As it happens, he's a journalist, living outside the US.
At this point I was convinced that, despite its quirks, the message was probably legit. To further support this judgment, I combed through the original message and checked all the links. A scam message that uses deadlines or other scare tactics to make you click a link will almost certainly link to a dangerous page. All the links in this message went straight to facebook.com.
That left the very unlikely possibility that somebody spoofed the sending address, [email protected] Nothing I'd learned thus far suggested any possible motivation for that sort of hack, but I checked anyway.
The Proof Is in the Header
Every email message comes with a collection of routing information and other metadata hidden away in its header. You don't normally see this data. It's not intended for you—it's for use by your email client. But if you want to check for signs of address spoofing, you must dig into that header data.
Just how you view an email message's header data varies depending on how you get your mail. In Gmail, you click the More icon (three vertical dots) to the right of the Reply icon and select Show Original. This immediately showed that the message passed three tests designed to detect spoofing: SPF (Sender Policy Framework), DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail), and DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance). That's all I needed to know; I didn't bother clicking Download Original to view the precise details of header data.
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Outlook isn't quite as helpful as Gmail. You open the message, select File from the menu, and click the Properties icon. In the resulting dialog you get the full semi-incomprehensible details of the message header, in a small, awkward scrolling window. Carefully picking through the headers I found lines like
spf=pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 69.171.232.140 as permitted sender)
That's the unpolished text that Gmail summarizes as "SPF: PASS". Poring a bit more over the header data I confirmed that fields such as Return-Path and Errors-To all correctly contained the sender's address. That cinched it. This was a legitimate email from Facebook.
Verify Messages From Facebook
If you get an iffy message claiming to be from Facebook, you can log into your account and view a list of recent messages sent to you by the service. Finding your message in this list pretty much guarantees it's legitimate.
Not finding it should mean it's a fake, but as we've seen, that isn't always true. For a sanity check, search the web for information about the sending domain; facebookmail.com turned out to be legitimate. Check all links in the message to make sure they link to safe pages. And peruse the email header to make sure the sender's address wasn't spoofed. If the message passes these tests, you can rely on its validity, even if it doesn't show up in Facebook's list.
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I am still climbing out the daze of jet lag. I did three flights back to back. I went from LAX to Dubai--that was over fifteen hours--then I jammed to the next flight, got the gate just in time to get on and go another five hours to Nairobi, Kenya, and upon getting off the plane, a man holding a card with my name gave me a boarding pass, took a brief glance at my passport and told me to go down a walkway and get on the plane as they were waiting on me so they could take off. As I was power-walking to the plane, a cheerful and very in-charge woman told me that my backpack wouldn't be making it on the flight and that I would have to deal with that on the other end. She informed me that her name was Christina, gave me a number to call, and told me to tell them that she sent me. Whoa. At that moment, a man came running from behind the other plane with my backpack in his hand. He asked me if that was it and I said yes, and Christina said they would put it on the flight and for me to get up the stairs. I got into the plane and got that look that you get when you are the reason the plane is still on the ground. I sat down for the third and final flight and landed an hour later in Entebbe, Uganda. I am now down the road a piece in Uganda's capital city, Kampala.
I will be in Uganda and Sudan for the next couple of weeks. I am here with Drop In The Bucket. They drill for water and build sanitation systems in remote parts of Uganda and Sudan. I have participated in two of their fundraisers and have tried to get the word out about the great work they are doing out here as best I can. They are in this part of Africa quite often, working on projects. Months ago, I asked if I could go with them on their next trip and they said yes. So, here I am. I will be going along with them, checking out villages and learning what I can. If you want to learn more about what they're up to: www.dropinthebucket.org is the place to go.
Today was amazing. We went from Kampala due south to Masaka to inspect a well that is over one hundred feet deep. The DITB team went to assess the safety level and potential success of the well and to bring supplies. Before we went to the well, we went into Masaka city center and bought bags of cement for the well, loaded it into the truck, and went on down the road with the truck's suspension not enjoying the almost half ton of cement in the back at all. The well is located next to a school with about seven hundred children. I think I met almost all of them. They saw my camera and ran towards me. Good thing I had a wide lens on because everyone wanted to be in the picture. We were there for quite awhile as the DITB people and the workers were discussing things. While they were doing their thing, I walked around and took in how beautiful this part of Uganda is.
We went from there to another school that's drilling another well. More kids, another well. More discussions. This is all being done because DITB is trying to make things better. There's no profit incentive here. It's only about getting people to water and keeping them alive and healthy. It's great to be around these people and watch them work. It's great to see something like this happen. As you can imagine, it's a lot of effort and very complex. Who gets a well? Who doesn't? You want to lose sleep over that one? We were out there almost ten hours today. I am baked but grateful I had the chance to go into the field with them.
Tomorrow, the rest of the team arrives and we hit the road for Gulu, Uganda, and from there, into Southern Sudan. One of the drivers--a man named Will--was a soldier in Southern Sudan when he was thirteen. His stories are incredible. He has seen so much yet his sense of humor is broad and we have had some good laughs so far.
This will be my third trip to Africa this year. There's something about the people I meet here--what I see and what I learn that is beyond me to try to express in words. Just trying to get my head around the enormity of Will's stories is an overload.
As to last week's drama over who was to get the employment opportunity after the spittle had settled post voice-down where I went larynx-to-larynx with some other male, the victor was declared. It's nice to win one every once in awhile.
I finished my stint on the television show with no regrets. Everyone on the set from cast to crew were the epitome of friendly, funny and professional. I kept up with them as best as I could.
When in Los Angeles, serving the great machine is always a fairly surreal experience. I would much rather be out here in the world. The older I get, the more urgently this feeling pulls at me. So for now, I am where I am supposed to be. What is coming in the next couple of weeks, I'll have to find out as it comes. For me, this is what it's all about.
While I do not take myself all that seriously, I take the delivery of music from 1800 hrs. to 2000 hrs. every Saturday night on 89.9 KCRW with a great deal of seriousness. With what pitiful life force I can muster, I hurl tuneage and invective over the wall and onto the air like every show was the last one and the only opportunity to apply for another opportunity to do it again. Never discount the value of desperation. So again, Engineer X and I have worked late to put together a wonderful show that even though it is pre-taped, it carries the full weight of our unbridled enthusiasm and intent. Details are below.
From the territory, hold ye well until next week.
Fanatics! This a good place to be, together again on the radio. A top-shelf set of jams we have prepared for you tonight. Check it out! Live Zeppelin right into live Thin Lizzy to start us off. I think you probably know that The End Of The Century album by the Ramones was produced by Phil Spector. Phil, as you know screwed up two lives, his own and the woman he shot and killed in his house years ago, Lana Clarkson. He is currently being kept in a government facility in gorgeous Cochran, CA. I saw the Ramones on this tour. Summer of 1980, I think it was. I still have my ticket stub.
I hope that I have not been beating you over the head with the MC5 too much. You will see that another track of the great Michigan band appears tonight. I hope you don't mind. If you look down the list, you will see a track by Tommy Dahill. I don't know the man but he sent me his CDR and I checked out a song he directed me to in his letter. It's not the topic matter that I find as interesting as his vocal phrasing that is perfect for our show. Thanks for checking in, Tommy.
More Japandroids tonight, great band. Deerhoof going into Discharge, that's working for me. If you get a chance, listen closely to the lyrics of the Tralala track, brilliant heaviness wrapped in a pop disguise. I don't know what happened to them. Perhaps they called it a day. I have not seen a new record of theirs in a long time. Again, another track from the Lux & Ivy's Favorites download series. Tonight, it's the Lancers. It's not the stupidity of the lyric that is interesting to me, it's the sounds on the song that really get to me. When you hear the song, you realize that there was the opportunity go way out there, as it were, and rarely was it pounced upon and exploited nearly as much as it should have been.
Next month, we will have an chance to check out tracks from the newly re-mixed Kill City album by Iggy Pop and James Williamson. I can't wait to hear what was done to those tracks. I always liked the songs on that record but the production, not so much. I was not aware of this re-release until Marcus of L.A. heavyweight rock band Mother Superior brought it to my attention when he was over at my hovel the other day. I will hear it when I get back to the LA.
I am sitting here in my small room in Kampala, battling the internet, which is intermittent at best, dealing with the fact that there hasn't been much water coming out of the faucet for awhile and listening to this batch of songs all strung together and Fanatic, I think we have a good show. Next week's broadcast is one of the best ones we have ever put together and I can't wait for you to hear it.
Not that you hang on these words at all but there is a chance that I will not be able to deliver the show notes to you next week as I will be off the beaten path, so to speak. I might just send in something in a few hours to have on hand in case of me being "off the grid" as they say. Nonetheless, like this week's show, next week's is a great one and I hope you get a chance to listen as we let the music do the talking.
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