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Should sex between teachers and adult students be illegal?
Posted 9:41 pm, January 7, 2013, by Angela Pellerano, Updated at 09:18AM, January 8, 2013
RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) – In Virginia, there is no law on the books that says an adult student and a teacher are committing a crime if they have sex.
State Delegate Manoli Loupassi (R - RICHMOND) wants to explore the possibility of creating such a law.
"It`s something I want to study and look at," he said.
Loupassi is introducing a bill that would potentially make it a crime for a teacher and a student over the age of 18 to have sex.
In House Bill 595, Loupassi wants the Virginia State Crime Commission (VSCC) to study available criminal penalties. Loupassi is a member of the VSCC.
"We got people in the state crime commission that are prosecutors, we have former judges, we got people in the attorney general's office, so we have a lot of smart people there," he said.
Loupassi came up with the bill after 24-year-old Anna Michelle Walters, a substitute teacher at Cosby High School, was convicted of having sex with an underage student.
His bill has the potential of making it a crime had the student been 18 years old or older.
"You`re teaching all these kids and then you`re grading their tests, and you`re having sex with the people," Loupassi said. "Are you kidding me -- that`s really bad."
But CBS 6 legal analyst Todd Stone disagrees.
"We can all agree that it is inappropriate, but the question is should it be criminal for the state to say you're committing a criminal offense when one adult has a sexual relationship with another adult, even if it is in a school setting."
Stone said an affair between an adult student and a teacher should not be criminalized, but rather punishable if it's coercive.
"Teachers have obligations and they could lose their jobs and lose their licenses," Stone said.
"I think studying it, looking at it, and drawing conclusions based upon the information you gather, that makes sense to me," Loupassi said.
If Loupassi's bill passes subcommittee and full committee, and passes the House of Delegates and the Senate, the governor could sign it into law.
Topics: Manoli Loupassi, Politics Elections and Voting, Todd Stone
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Martin Audio CDD Deployed in Santo Domingo's Peperoni Restaurant
Sound Video Lighting (SVL has installed a full complement of Martin Audio CDD speakers and SX subwoofers in the elegant Peperoni restaurant and bar in the Dominican Republic capital of Santo Domingo, to ensure consistent coverage and the highest level of sound quality.
Describing the venue, SVL's Jonathan Del villar explains: "Peperoni is a very popular restaurant serving what is essentially international cuisine in a variety of styles. Owner Jean-Pierre Bahsa used to be a club owner who knows that business very well. He had gone to Bachata Rosa, a popular restaurant in Punta Cana, owned by singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra, and was very impressed by the Martin Audio system that we had installed there.
"Since we are friends, he asked us to work on the project early on during the planning stages which was good because we were able to have significant impact in terms of everything that has to do with technology–the audio, video, WiFi and security systems."
In terms of the audio, the owner wanted a good system with small speakers that could be loud and clear when required. "Basically, there are four main areas in the restaurant with audio systems. On the first floor, they have a large dining area with high ceilings, then an indoor bar with lower ceilings and a cozy party ambiance where the music gets louder later at night. On the second floor, they have two separate areas for private parties."
To provide the consistent audio coverage and quality required, SVL designed a system with six white Martin Audio CDD8 in the main dining area, three per side, mounted horizontally on the walls, facing down with a SX212 subwoofer mounted behind an air conditioning vent. In the bar, there are four CDD8 in black mounted in the corners, with an SX212 subwoofer underneath the centre of the bar.
Each private room on the second floor is equipped with eight Martin Audio C6.8T ceiling speakers and a ceiling mounted SX112 subwoofer. Everything works off a centralised system with a Yamaha MTX5B multiroom processor functioning via Dante with over 96 AVIO audio insert point adapters. The programme material comes from computers running music profile services that are then fed to the Martin Audio amplifiers and speakers.
Asked about the results, Jonathan sums up: "The sound and coverage is excellent throughout the downstairs area and upstairs rooms. We used EASE Focus software to predict the speakers' interaction and coverage and show the owner exactly how the system would perform.
"He is very happy with how the system turned out in terms of the coverage and audio quality. We've brought many prospective clients to the restaurant so they can hear how good the Martin Audio system sounds, and we've received some good projects from those demos."
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Obama says there is evidence of chemical weapon use in Syria
30 Apr, 2013 14:53
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the media in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, April 30, 2013. (Reuters/Larry Downing) © Reuters
United States President Barack Obama said Tuesday that his administration has evidence of chemical weapon use in Syria but remains hesitant to respond with the might of the US military until more details develop.
Last week the White House said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was believed "with varying degrees of confidence" to have used chemical weapons and had "demonstrated a willingness to escalate its horrific use of violence" against the people of his country engaged in a two-year-old civil war. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Pres. Obama upgraded his administration's stance to say proof of chemical weapon use in Syria is concrete but cannot be directly tied to Pres. Assad's regime at this time.
"What we now have is evidence that chemical weapons have been used inside of Syria, but we don't know how they were used, when they were used [or] who used them," said Obama.
The president made the remarks after White House Correspondents Association President Ed Henry asked, "Do you risk US credibility if you don't take military action?" Obama spent several minutes responding by saying his administration has long opposed the actions of Pres. Assad and has been adamant with his requests for the leader to resign from office.
"I think it's important to understand that for several years now what we've been seeing is a slowly unfolding disaster for the Syrian people. And this is not a situation which we've been simply bystanders to what's been happening. My policy from the beginning has been that President Assad had lost credibility, that he attacked his own people, has killed his own people, unleashed a military against innocent civilians and that the only way to bring stability and peace to Syria is going to be for Assad to step down," said Obama.
Assad's regime, added Obama later during the presser, is "more concerned with staying in power than the wellbeing of its people."
Pres. Obama continued that his administration has taken "a whole host of steps" to weaken the Assad regime, including directly strengthening the Syrian opposition, imposing sanctions on the country and appealing to the United Nations. Should the physiological proof of chemical weapon use link back to Assad, however, the White House and its allies remain willing to escalate their actions against the regime, said Obama.
"The use of chemical weapons would be a game changer. Not simply for the United States but for the international community," he said Tuesday.
Before the US intervenes, however, the president said more information would have to directly tie Assad's regime with the use of chemical weapons before he could escalate American efforts overseas.
"When I am making decisions about America's national security and the potential for taking additional action in response to . . . chemical weapon use, I have to make sure I have the facts. That's what the American people would expect. And if we end up rushing to judgment without hard effective evidence then we can find ourselves in a position where we can't mobilize the international community to support what we do."
"It is important for us to do this in a prudent way. And what I said to my team is we have to do everything that we can to investigate and establish with some certainty," said Obama.
The president added that he had conversations with the US Department of Defense as early as last year about how to handle the Syrian issue should it intensify, but said, "I won't go into details as to what those options would be."
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They most often arise when an employee has strong relationships with customers with special needs and requirements, or if the employee has knowledge of sensitive business information such as the source code structure for a company's most successful product or pricing structure.
But many employers do not know what rights they have if their former employee discloses or uses the former employer's information in their new employment.
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Tesco took a hit on Friday after announcing that things weren't going according to plan.
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//  JJSkin
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//  Copyright (c) 2015 JJ. All rights reserved.
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#import "JJSkinStyle.h"

#import "JJSkinManager.h"
#import "NSObject+JJ.h"
#import "NSString+JJ.h"

NSString *JJSkinStyleStatusFinishIncludeSon = @"finishIncludeSon";
NSString *JJSkinStyleStatusFinish = @"finish";

@implementation JJSkinStyle

#pragma mark - JJSkinStyleDataSource

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{
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    NSMutableDictionary *propertNameToAttribute = (NSMutableDictionary *)[self jj_classPropertyNameToAttributeListIncludeSuper];
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    {
        [theStyle setValue:[style objectForKey:key] forKey:key];
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Explore Health Catalyst News
Healthcare IT Veteran Jack Kane Joins Health Catalyst Board
Health Catalyst
athenahealth director, former IDX CFO will chair Board's Audit Committee
SALT LAKE CITY– NOVEMBER 11, 2015 – Health Catalyst, a leader in healthcare data warehousing, analytics and outcomes improvement, announced that John A. ("Jack") Kane is joining the company's Board of Directors as Audit Committee Chairman, effective November 15, 2015.
Kane brings over 30 years' experience as a healthcare technology company CFO and board director. He has been a director and audit committee chair of athenahealth since 2007, after previously serving as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of IDX Systems Corporation until its acquisition by GE in 2006.
"I am honored to join the Health Catalyst board of directors," said Kane. "As the industry continues to move towards a value-based system of payment based on improved health outcomes, I am looking forward to working with Health Catalyst's management team as they continue to deliver results-oriented solutions to the U.S healthcare provider market."
Health Catalyst CEO Dan Burton commented, "Health Catalyst is thrilled to bring such a well-respected and veteran healthcare technology executive to our board of directors. Jack will prove to be a strategic asset given his vast experience as a CFO and board director, and his unique knowledge of the healthcare technology industry."
Fraser Bullock, a Founder and Managing Director of Sorenson Capital and Chairman of Health Catalyst, added, "Jack's significant financial accounting and board experience will provide valuable expertise to Health Catalyst's Board and its Audit Committee as the company executes on its strategic imperatives in 2016 and beyond. We look forward to benefiting from his vision and experience as a member of Health Catalyst's board."
Kane joined the Board of athenahealth in July 2007, shortly before the company's well-received Initial Public Offering. As a Board member, he has helped to oversee athenahealth's numerous acquisitions and a steady growth rate that has made it one of healthcare's most successful technology companies.
During his 22 years at IDX, Kane guided the company through its IPO and more than a dozen acquisitions, and at various times managed the finance, facilities, legal, human resources and information systems functions for the company. Previous to his employment with IDX, Kane worked as an audit manager at Ernst & Young, LLP, in Boston. In addition to his membership on the board of athenahealth, Kane served as a director of Merchants Bank (MBVT), and several private organizations. He holds a B.S. and Master of Accountancy from Brigham Young University.
The Health Catalyst Board of Directors includes the following members in addition to Kane, Bullock and Burton: Penny Wheeler, MD, President and CEO of Allina Health; Michael Dixon, Partner at Sequoia Capital; Promod Haque, Senior Managing Partner of Norwest Venture Partners; Todd Cozzens, Managing Director of Leerink Capital; and Steve Barlow, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of Health Catalyst.
About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a mission-driven data warehousing, analytics and outcomes-improvement company that helps healthcare organizations of all sizes perform the clinical, financial, and operational reporting and analysis needed for population health and accountable care. Our proven enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and analytics platform helps improve quality, add efficiency and lower costs in support of more than 50 million patients for organizations ranging from the largest US health system to forward-thinking physician practices. For more information, visit https://www.healthcatalyst.com, and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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Health Catalyst Closed-Loop Analytics Addresses Physician Burnout, Enables Health Data Ecosystem
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But times are changing. On June 29, Apple disclosed to TechCrunch they will rebuild Apple Maps from the ground up. This entails, among other things, Apple taking control of the data that powers Apple Maps instead of relying on third parties.
The widely reported and commendable makeover is good for consumers and businesses — and also underscores how far Apple has to go in order to offer a strong alternative to Google Maps.
Apple needed to wipe the slate clean and do a data makeover. As the future of navigation includes the use of autonomous cars and connected cities, consumers require reliable mapping data more than ever.
Relying on third-party data providers made Apple too vulnerable to someone else's quality control issues or limitations becoming Apple's problem and hurting its brand. The best way Apple could be reasonably sure it had eradicated bugs in Apple Maps and gain control of its own destiny was to rebuild Apple Maps with Apple's own first-party data. And managing its own first-party data should give Apple better insight into how its customers use Maps.
… using first-party data gathered by iPhones with a privacy-first methodology and its own fleet of cars packed with sensors and cameras. The new product will launch in San Francisco and the Bay Area with the next iOS 12 beta and will cover Northern California by fall.
We wanted to take this to the next level. We have been working on trying to create what we hope is going to be the best map app in the world, taking it to the next step. That is building all of our own map data from the ground up.
Can Apple Maps catch Google Maps?
The existing Apple Maps interface is not changing. Rather, Apple Maps is focusing on making the app more functional, for example, making addresses more accurate, doing a better job spotting new construction, giving travelers pinpointed instructions to a location's front door, using human-edited, accurate 3D renderings of places and identifying commonly walked but previously unmapped public areas.
These changes are good if for no other reason than to make navigation safer and to offer users an alternative to Google Maps. Competition is good; it keeps Google on its toes.
But Google hasn't been waiting around for Apple Maps to challenge Google to get better. Google Maps has been growing by leaps and bounds on its own. Over the years, Google has continually improved Maps not only by making the tool more accurate, but also by making landmarks like businesses stronger sources of useful data, such as user reviews.
They are making Google Maps a better tool to not only find businesses but to learn about the places you're visiting, too.
In 2018, at its I/O developer conference, Google announced a slew of impressive improvements to Maps, such as the incorporation of augmented reality (AR) to take wayfinding to another level. The incorporation of AR shows how Google Maps is not only a utility but also an innovation platform.
Personalizing the app by suggesting places to visit based on your usage of Google Maps, including places you and your friends have rated. The personalized content results from Google Maps using machine learning to get smarter more about your preference and to provide better recommendations for how to use Google Maps, similar to how Spotify recommends songs to you based on how you and your friends use Spotify.
Making Google Maps more social and shareable. Google is allowing users to create shareable short lists of recommended places to visit. Users can use the shareable lists to collaborate with friends on planning things to do, thus making Google Maps more social for users and more useful to businesses with well-developed identities on Google Maps.
Google has been making additional changes, such as the adoption of landmarks as the basis for giving directions.
For instance, Google Maps may instruct users to "turn left at McDonald's" the way people naturally talk to each other instead of saying, "turn south at 141st Street," which is not always helpful when a person is navigating an unfamiliar area.
It is these types of improvements by Google that underscore how far Apple has to go. It's great news that Apple is investing on building out a solid data set to get users from one point to another efficiently and accurately, but this owned dataset is something Google began building in 2004 with its acquisition of Where 2 Technologies, an Australian software company.
By 2006, Google was already collecting its own data for the 2007 launch of Street View.
Consider some of the new features that the map teams at Apple and Google are speaking to these days.
While Apple may very well catch up with Google with the core mapping dataset, Apple will also need to improve its Points of Interest (POI) dataset substantially.
Currently, Apple relies on a number of sources to populate their POI data set. But the results often are incomplete and missing a number of locations that are relevant. For instance, one of the most popular Mexican restaurants in my neighborhood has been open for more than a year, has more than 77 Google reviews and still doesn't appear on Apple Maps when you look for "Mexican restaurants near me" due to a mislabeled category.
Similar to the way Apple is taking complete ownership of its mapping dataset, it's only a matter of time before Apple decides to invest in building out tools and services to allow businesses to manage their data easily and at scale. Even with all of the spam we see on Google Maps these days, the delta in having the most relevant list of locations being returned for searches is growing, not shrinking.
Obviously, businesses need to put a high priority on keeping your listings on Google Maps up to date. Without question, Google Maps is the gold standard for brands. Use tools such as your Google My Business dashboard to keep your data and content up to date (including customer reviews, especially given Google's updates from I/O).
You should also treat Apple as an important publisher; as Apple improves wayfinding, businesses with a strong presence on Apple Maps will benefit.
If you are a small business, you can claim your listing in Apple Maps Connect, but for multilocation businesses, utilizing a trusted reputation management platform can help.
Whatever path you choose, invest your resources and time heavily into your Google Maps presence, and protect your flank on Apple Maps, too.
Adam Dorfman is Director, Product Manangement at Reputation where he leads the teams responsible for the best in class local automation platform Velocity. Follow him on Twitter @phixed.


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#ifndef MODULES_PLANNING_LATTICE_STANDING_STILL_TRAJECTORY1D_H_
#define MODULES_PLANNING_LATTICE_STANDING_STILL_TRAJECTORY1D_H_

#include <stdint.h>
#include <string>
#include "modules/planning/math/curve1d/curve1d.h"

namespace apollo {
namespace planning {

class StandingStillTrajectory1d : public Curve1d {
 public:
  StandingStillTrajectory1d(const double p, const double duration);

  virtual ~StandingStillTrajectory1d() = default;

  double ParamLength() const override;

  std::string ToString() const override;

  double Evaluate(const std::uint32_t order, const double param) const override;

 private:
  double Evaluate_s(const double t) const;

  double Evaluate_v(const double t) const;

  double Evaluate_a(const double t) const;

  double Evaluate_j(const double t) const;

 private:
  double fixed_position_;

  double duration_;
};

}  // namespace planning
}  // namespace apollo

#endif  // MODULES_PLANNING_LATTICE_STANDING_STILL_TRAJECTORY1D_H_


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Moons:
October 9th – Full Moon 16 degrees Aries at 4:55 A.M.
October 25th – New moon 2 degrees Scorpio at 6:49 A.M.
Partial Solar Eclipse at 7:00 A.M.
Venus opposes Jupiter at 2 degrees (Libra/Aries) at 2:11 P.M.
This transit brings in an energy of conceit and vanity. We may feel an urge to exaggerate our situations and use others to achieve our goals. Our feelings maybe touchy and sensitive. On the plus side our intuition may flourish.
Challenging for Libra, Aries , Cancer & Capricorn
Mercury goes direct at 24 degrees Virgo at 5:07 A.M.
The planet of communication now moves ahead! Good time to get things done!
Good for Virgo
Rough for Pisces
Challenging for Gemini & Sagittarius
Pluto goes direct at 26 degrees Capricorn at 5:56 A.M.
The planet of transformation and reform will not begin to move forward in the sky. Pluto in Capricorn is about rebellion and breaking free form tradition!
Good for everyone!
Mercury enters the sign of Libra at 7:50 P.M.
The planet of communication now moves into a more-diplomatic energy. Our thoughts may be broader minded and friendly. We process information more-fairly and impartially. Our love for arts, refined intellectual stimulation and perfectionism will help us enjoy the lovely fall season. Good time to seek out friends and family to hang out.
Good for Libra
Rough for Aries, Cancer & Capricorn
Mercury opposes Jupiter at 1 degree (Libra/Aries) at 3:23 A.M.
This transit may bring in an energy where we may expect too much from others thus creating conflict at work or home. We may have difficulty focusing and expressing our belief or even communicating at all. Good time to work on research or beefing up on reviewing facts before we speak.
Challenging for Libra, Aries, Cancer & Capricorn.
The Sun will square-Pluto 26 degrees (Libra/ Capricorn) at 9:23 A.M.
This transit brings in a willful and arrogant energy to the day. We may have difficulty harnessing ourselves today. People may thing they know one thing but it ends up being another thing all together. We must control our tempers and be more diplomatic when dealing with home and work relationships.
Challenging for Libra Aries, Cancer & Capricorn
Venus will square-Pluto at 26 degrees (Libra/Capricorn) at 2:02 A.M.
This transit brings in a very strong psychological energy to the day. Frustrations with Love life, finances and goals setting may trouble us. We may feel we haven't met our desires thus feeling dejected and touchy with others.
Challenging for Libra, Aries, Cancer & Capricorn
The Sun conjuncts Venus at 29 degrees Libra at 5:17 P.M.
This transit brings in a very gracious and charming energy to the evening. We may all feel affectionate, social and want to express our love for life and living! Good time for having family gatherings, attending events or parties.
Rough for Aries
Challenging for Cancer & Capricorn
October 23rd
Saturn goes direct at 18 degrees Aquarius at 12:07 A.M.
The planet of karma, security and discipline now begins to move ahead. Those who have felts its influence over the past four months will feel it again! Watch our of old issues with teeth, skin, knows and hearing to come back up. If you have been ignoring these its time to get them fixed!
Challenging for Aquarius, Leo, Taurus & Scorpio
Venus enters the sign of Scorpio at 3:51 A.M.
The planet of Love and socialization now moves into a very intense energy. Our emotions will feel deep and passionate. We may become more-jealous and insecure-in our relationships. A good time for mystical education or exploring the occult, or religious pursuits. Love can easily turn to hate so be careful of pushing others when dealing with them.
Good for Scorpio
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Challenging for Leo & Aquarius
Oct 23rd
The Sun enters the sign of Scorpio at 6:35 A.M.
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Solar Eclipse at 2 degrees Scorpio at 7:00 A.M.
Solar eclipses happen about every 19 years or so. You may need to look back at 2003 to get an idea of how this eclipse may influence your chart. Eclipses are times to do self-reflection and deal with your own inner shadow self. Good time for healing us and the planet
Jupiter re-entered the sign of Pisces at 1:09 A.M.
The planet of expansion and growth will not re-visit the sign of Pisces. This brings in a more-friendly, imaginative energy to our planet of Freedom. Last time it was in this sign was back in May 1-10th, It will linger around 28 degrees then move forward. For all wh have felt its influence strongly back then please pay attention.
Good for Pisces
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Mercury enters the sign of Scorpio at 3:22 P.M.
The planet of communication now enters a very critical type of energy. Our opinions may become set and suspicious. We may have a hard time changing our minds. Our thoughts may become more-shrewd, skeptical and forceful. Be careful of being too truthful that it hurts others needlessly. Good time for investigating, researching and exploring mysteries around us. Be careful of becoming too fixated on subjects.
Mars will retrograde at 25 degrees Gemini at 26 degrees at 9:26 A.M.
The planet of communication will now appear to travel backwards in the sky. It will be a time of re-visiting old work connections, past vocations, and past conflicts. Be careful of dredging up old destructive energies or fights. If old wounds show up it is time to heal them. Find the courage and strength to fight for your own wholeness.
Rough for Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo & Pisces
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DETROIT - The father of a Detroit boy whose disappearance made national headlines after he was found in the family's basement after an 11-day search by federal and local investigators has pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree child abuse charge.
Charles Bothuell IV told the court Tuesday at a hearing that he hit his then 12-year-old son, Charles Bothuell V, with a PVC pipe. He pleaded guilty to the charge in exchange for the dismissal of a second-degree child abuse charge. The prosecution agreed the father's sentencing will be 18 months probation, no contact with his son and anger management classes.
Young Charlie was reported missing by his parents on June 14, 2014. More than a week later, the FBI, state and local police found him in the family's home on Nicolet Place isolated behind some boxes in the basement.
During an interview with Nancy Grace, the father was told on live TV that his son had been found in his own basement. Charles Bothuell IV appeared shocked and maintained he had no idea where his son had been.
He and Charlie's stepmother, Monique Dillard-Bothuell, each were initially charged with second-degree child abuse and torture, but the torture charge was later dropped. Dillard-Bothuell's case was dismissed.
Charlie testified that he was kept home from school and forced to do rigorous exercise routines by his parents. He also testified that his father hit him with a PVC pipe.
Stay with Local 4 News and ClickOnDetroit.com for updates to this developing story.
In an interview earlier this month with Local 4's Shawn Ley, Charles Bothuell maintained his innocence.


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Please be advised that due to a water line break at the Leader and District Integrated Healthcare Facility, all long term care residents have been transferred to The Cypress Regional Hospital and The Meadows long term care facility in Swift Current until further notice.
Until further notice emergency outpatient and acute care services will not be available in Leader. Primary Health Care Services are also impacted and those affected have been contacted directly.
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A white, veteran, Virginia high school teacher was disciplined for using a racial slur in class — as she was delivering a lesson on racism and derogatory racial names.
Lynne Pierce, who teaches Advanced Placement History in Newport News, used the Washington Redskins as an example of a derogatory term.
When a student asked how that could be derogatory, she replied by her use of the N-word, saying that it would be similar to naming a local football team the "Newport News N******," ABC local affiliate 13 News Now reported.
When a student complained afterwards, Pierce was placed on administrative leave.
Former students are coming to the teacher's defense.
"It's not what you think it is, she's not a bad person," Juslena Williams, a 2011 graduate of Heritage High School told 13 News Now.
Williams started a petition to bring Pierce back, and she said it already has hundreds of signatures.
"I'm not offended by anything Mrs. Pierce teaches or said, because I feel like Heritage High school and just any of the high schools around here, she is probably the best teacher around here that I've known," she told the station.
"Honestly, in every day life as an African American, there are people that use this word to greet one another, but as soon as someone uses it in terms of expressing themselves, people get offended," Williams added.
Pierce, for her part, said she only used the term to illustrate how inappropriate it was.
Being forced to teach a lesson on inappropriate terms without using inappropriate terms is akin to teaching anatomy without mentioning the names of organs.
Watch the report, via 13 News Now.


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Simon Reynolds, author of "Shock and Awe"
We recently spoke with Simon Reynolds and asked him "Five Questions" about his new book Shock and Awe: Glam Rockand Its Legacy, From The Seventies to the Twenty-First Century. Reynolds is also the author of the critically acclaimed Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, as well as Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews and Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Here's what Simon had to say about the glam movement.
Your book casts a wide net over what glam rock is. For instance, I was surprised to see bands like Be Bop Deluxe (huge fan here) or Ultravox included. What is your definition of glam?
I use "glam" as an elastic term to cover a whole range of music from the first half of the Seventies – glitter rock, art pop, theatrical rock, what you could call "late glam" and bands that are glam-influenced but could also be seen as "punk before punk". Be-Bop Deluxe would on the edge of glam as commonly understood, but there was certainly a Bowie influence early on and the image was chic and smart in a Bryan Ferry-esque style. Ultravox are somewhere between glam and punk on their early records – and getting Eno to produce the first album is a bit of give-away. At the same time those first three albums are too early for Glam's Second Wave, by which I mean the New Romantics and Eighties Brit videopop. John Foxx solo gets the timing just right except that Gary Numan, a fan of Ultravox, had moved in for the kill already.
The primary thing that gives glam coherence as a movement is image – and what I'd say defines it is a relationship with glamour that isn't straightforward. It's more like a parody or cartoon travesty of glamour, jumbling up ideas from the Hollywood heyday with early rock'n'roll, science-fiction, trash B-movie influences and sluicing all that through typically Seventies over-statement and excess. If you look at the way early Roxy Music or New York Dolls or The Sweet dressed, they're not glamorous or chic in the way that Diana Ross or a contemporary film star was, they're togged out in a mish-mash of clashing clothes, with make-up and hair that aims to make you laugh rather than look at them enviously or aspirationally. It's a burlesque of glamour more than a straightforward projection of it. Bowie is slightly different: he is exquisite and alluring and someone that people imitate, but he is also looks much weirder than conventional ideas of glamorousness.
Another thing that defines glam is an interest in theatricality, a belief that rock music by the 1970s had turned out to be just a junior branch of showbiz rather than its adversary, so let's accept that and let's pile on the razzle dazzle. With Alice Cooper and David Bowie that entails a full-blown embrace of stage sets, props, costume changes, semi-choreographed or out-right choreographed routines. They achieve a merger of rock'n'roll and musical theater.
Sonically glam is more diffuse, but I think there is a core there which is a reversion – after the late Sixties progressive and heavy rock phase – to simpler rock and roll structures rooted in the Fifties and early Sixties. But it's fed through the super-production of the early Seventies, all the advances made in the progressive / heavy era in terms of huge close-miked drum sounds, guitar-layered riffs and power-chords, stacked harmonies, and so forth. Gary Glitter invokes early rock'n'roll, The Sweet harks back to early Who and "Paperback Writer", but the Seventies super-production makes it much more powerful and modern-sounding.
There also seems to be some division — musically, visually, artistically, or philosophically — between the approaches of English glam bands and their US brethren. Let's take the English first: Many of the bands took some sort of cue from books, art, philosophy, etc, from Marc Bolan, to Bowie, to Roxy Music. Yet there was also the Slade's, the Sweet, and Mott The Hoople's, who were really boogie with makeup. What's the relationship between these two offshoots?
It's a spectrum from "high glam" as some call it – the autodidact intellectual Bowie with his Nietzsche references, the art school influenced Roxy Music, the self-conscious romantic Mott the Hoople, the literate Cockney Rebel, – across to "low glam": music whose appeal is much more primal and lumpen, like Gary Glitter, Slade, Mud, The Sweet, Suzi Quatro. The high Bowie / Roxy glam appealed to older teenagers, students and young people whose outlook was shaped by the rock-as-art value system that emerged in the late Sixties. Bowie was seen as a Seventies successor to Dylan and the Beatles, writing poetic lyrics about existential quandaries and so forth. On their early astonishing experimental albums Roxy were as much a progressive band as they were a pop group. But the low-brow stomping glitter groups targeted an audience that was early teens or prepubescent. They were making dance music above all: massive drum sounds, a pounding beat to stamp your feet and clap your hands to, big hooks and shout-along choruses. It was music aimed at discotheques, which had mushroomed in number in the UK in the early Seventies. In the case of Slade, they were about big concert-hall shows and hordes of teenagers driven crazy by the roar and blare of this stomping sound they generated. Energy-burst rock designed for release and abandon, the lowbrow glitter appealed to a working-class audience looking to let loose at the weekend. Whereas Bowie and Roxy walked a line between dance pop and more cerebral, lyric-based rock.
The American version of glam, which is decidedly smaller, seemed to be more simply grounded in rock, nihilism and decadence — trash and vaudeville. Yet, arguably, The New York Dolls, and "Raw Power"-era Iggy are often thought to cast a greater mainstream influence musically. Agree? Disagree?
I don't think New York Dolls or Iggy had much influence on the mainstream at all in their own time. The Dolls were a complete bust in America, as any kind of mainstream rock presence – they were considered a failed hype on the part of a major label and a cohort of sympathetic critics. But the Dolls and the Stooges were formative influences on the next way of teenage rampage, i.e. the punks. The Pistols covered "No Fun" and although they wrote the sneering "New York" it was obviously a form of iconoclastic patricide rooted in "the anxiety of influence", given how much Steve Jones owed to Johnny Thunders.
Glam in America was really concentrated in two cities – New York and Los Angeles. There was some glam support in Detroit, where Creem, the only US rock magazine to really get behind glam, was based and where Alice Cooper had been based for a while. And also Cleveland, which has a very advanced radio station WWMS, that was among the first to play Bowie and even played things as obscure in US terms as Sensational Alex Harvey Band. But overall to be a glitter fan in the rest of America was to be a pretty rare creature, and it was likely to make you an outcast socially.
New York already had the Warhol tradition and the gay underground where camp and theatricality and the trash aesthetic were well established, in addition to a high concentration of the nation's rock critics, so it was a welcoming climate for the visiting Brits, and obviously it spawned the Dolls and a bunch of other trash-aesthetic bands in the pre-punk lull years. As for Los Angeles, it has always had an Anglophile orientation, so there was a fan base for glitter and a fair amount of local musical action (although not really any LA glitter groups of note really, with the possible exception of Zolar X, who dressed as sci-fi B-movie aliens). But certainly a segment of young LA looked to the U.K. – hence the Sunset Strip club The English Disco – and also welcomed the New York Dolls with open legs whenever they came to play.
Let's talk about that influence: in the book, you connect the dots between glam and pop music, disco, perhaps the hair metal of the Eighties and on and on. What do you consider glam's greatest contribution, and how does that resonate in music today?
The influence of glam is legion, it crops up all over the place, and what I tried to do in the final section of the book, which is called "Aftershocks," is to hopscotch through history in a fun way, leaping from example to example across the Eighties, Nineties and into the 21st Century. I didn't want to ploddingly lay out the linear connections and talk about the legacy in any kind of dourly validating way. It's more a question of echoes and eruptions of the glam spirit. So there's Goth (Siouxsie and the Banshees meeting originally at a Roxy concert, covering T. Rex's "20th Century Boy" as an early B-side, Siouxsie as a forbidding ice queen). There's the MTV videopop menagerie of New Romantics and gender-benders from Visage and Adam Ant to Boy George and Eurhythmics. There's stylized performance-art pop from Klaus Nomi and Grace Jones. There's the mascara-caked, blow-dried tarts of Sunset Strip hair metal. There's Marilyn Manson's Alice Cooper-style shock rock and most recently figures like Lady Gaga who is very explicit about her debts to Bowie and that era. You also get more seemingly unlikely examples of glam influence, like Morrissey (once the president of the New York Dolls fan club and author of a Dolls biography). I also had fun tracking the increasingly unimpressive and misguided later career of Bowie through this entire post-glam period.
The word "legacy" in the subtitle was chosen for its ambiguity – because people talk about negative legacy or dark legacy as well as the more standard use of the word to indicate a positive inheritance bequeathed to posterity. The legacy is a certain spirit of absurdist over-the-top entertainment, an insistence on fun and the ephemeral thrills of rock-as-pop, rather than the worthy notion of rock as generating a bunch of quasi-literary statements of supposedly lasting value, whether it's the first two Band albums, Steely Dan's clever lyrics, the work of Costello, etc. I see that glam spirit cropping up all over the place, from Def Leppard to Ke$ha. You could also say that glam helped to liberalise attitudes to sexuality and gender, paving the way for the openly gay pop performers of the MTV videopop Eighties, and prefiguring the fluidity and ambiguity of 21st Century genderqueer performers.
On the less positive side, glam has contributed to our contemporary culture's obsession with fame. Indeed one of the more interesting – and unlikely on the face of it – places I seem glam's echoes today is in hip hop. Just as glam rockers sang self-reflexively about stardom, so you have a host of rappers whose main subject is fame and the darkside of celebrity: Kanye West and Drake are the most glaring examples, where fame is their principal topic, but it seems to be present in a lot of mainstream rap and R&B. Overall, I think Seventies glam prefigures the way that in the 21st Century we've seen the completely subsuming of pop music within a showbiz value system: glitz and spectacle. It feels like we're long overdue another anti-glam phase, like grunge, to take over and put across a different viewpoint rooted in low self-esteem and realism: the worldview of burn-outs, slackers and the born-to-lose, as opposed to narcissistic wish-fulfilment fantasies of the "work hard and your dreams will come true" type.
It always seems to come back to Bowie. From Ziggy, to Iggy, to Mott, to Lou Reed, to stagecraft, songwriting, producing and, of course, gender-bending. Is David Bowie ultimately glam's greatest star?
Bowie dominates glam in the same way that Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols dominate punk. There's even the same manipulative strategist manager figure, Tony Defries as precursor to Malcolm McLaren. But punk wasn't just the story of the Pistols, it was many stories, and likewise glam is a big cast of figure that to my mind are as compelling as Bowie and who made just as much interesting – and differently interesting – music. Bowie necessarily dominates Shock and Awe just because he went through so many changes so fast, and was involved with so many other artists – Lou Reed, Mott, Iggy, Eno, Kraftwerk, Nic Roeg on The Man Who Fell To Earth. But I also wanted to give a similar amount of serious attention to Marc Bolan, Alice Cooper, Roxy Music, Sparks, Cockney Rebel – all of whom were strange characters, inflated egos, excessive performers, to equivalent degrees to Bowie. I also wanted to give overdue respect to the more stompy "teenage rampage" end of the glam spectrum, figures like The Sweet and Gary Glitter, and their producers like Phil Wainman, Mike Chapman & Nicky Chinn, Mike Leander. My goal with Shock and Awe was really to situate Bowie as the major figure in a cultural field that had a lot of other things going on in it. Bowie is the greatest glam star, no doubt, but he wasn't the first (that would be Bolan) and he wasn't the biggest-selling (T.Rex, Slade, Sweet all had much bigger scores in terms of Number one and number two hits in the U.K.). What Bowie was able to do was dominate the discourse of the time: he was the most written about and analysed and puzzled about, he spawned more thinkpieces. With his image, his knack for publicity stunts and killer quotes, his inconsistencies and contradictions, he was able to marshal intrigue in a way that no other star of that era did. And because there was a lot of ideas and references thrown about, and such a varied body of work, Bowie became a sort of cultural treasure figure of the kind that is ripe for huge museum retrospectives like the one at the Victoria and Albert Museum a few years ago, or endless books parsing his every move. You couldn't imagine a museum exhibition about Marc Bolan I don't think, even though as a pop star he was huger than Bowie was by some distance, and arguably that run of killer singles has a greater concentration of pop thrills. It was T.Rextacy that got compared to Beatlemania in terms of the hordes of screaming teenagers. But it was Bowie who was able to signify in the same way that the Beatles had signified in the Sixties.
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The Money Side of Life | Do I Need Renters Insurance?
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If you're renting your property, whether apartment, condo or home, the answer is yes – you need renter's insurance. In fact, proof of insurance may even be required by your landlord in some cases. Sure, your landlord has insurance, but this is only protecting damages to the actual structure of your place. It doesn't protect your property and things that occur inside your home.
Before you sign up, keep in mind that policies can vary greatly. Below are some of the things that may be covered by renter's insurance. Be sure to read and understand your policy as all of these may not be covered.
This is protecting your stuff – simple, right? If your belongings are destroyed in a fire or if something is stolen, this coverage can help you replace what you lost. You'll select the amount of coverage you'd like based on what you estimate the value of your possessions to be. Think you don't have enough stuff for this to be worth it? Even if you don't own a ton of things, realize that items really add up quickly. Your television, computer, cell phone, other electronics, clothing and accessories, any jewelry, furniture and kitchen gear can easily equal thousands of dollars.
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If something should unexpectedly occur in your rental, such as a fire, making it unlivable, this coverage can help with your additional costs you'll face up to a certain designated amount of time. These costs can include a hotel stay and even pet boarding or the extra cost of food you may incur because of your displacement.
The cost of your renter's insurance is going to depend on what your coverage is including and how much personal property coverage you're electing for. The average monthly premium ranges from $15 to $30 per month, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. If this is an expense you weren't planning on, keep in mind that the average homeowners insurance costs $300 to $1,000 per year, according to the Federal Reserve Bureau.
Looking to save money? Call your insurance provider for any plans you already have, such as your car insurance or personal property insurance. Bundling coverages can give you a discount. Some insurers may give you a discount depending on features at your property, such as having a sprinkler system, fire alarm or deadbolts. You can also opt for a higher deductible to save money. According to Money Talks News, opting for a $500 deductible over a $250 deductible can save 10 to 12 percent.
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Having highlighted on the 10 most corrupt counties in Kenya as of 2018 in our last article, here are top 10 least corrupt counties in Kenya according to a survey which was done by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). Lamu county is the least most corrupt county with a corruption index of 5.80 %. Public works areas, hospitals, procurement departments and finance departments are the major areas which were surveyed. Coastal region counties dominate the list below.


Sidemount diving is the fastest growing configuration in technical scuba diving. Developed by trail blazing cave divers, the versatile sidemount configuration offers new possibilities for open water, cave and wreck enthusiasts.
With years of sidemount experience, Brian Kakuk and Jill Heinerth, have teamed up to share their expertise in this generously illustrated and practical manual. Featuring advice from side mount pioneers Wes Skiles, Lamar Hires, Jakub Rehacek and Steve Bogaerts, Side Mount Profiles is an essential tool, filled with contemporary knowledge to help divers enjoy the underwater world as a competent sidemounts diver.


Years ago my daughter was having a really bad day. Like nothing was going right. At all. She was cranky. Really cranky. Like spouting off to me and her brother for nothing. Everything was bad. Really bad. Like climb back into bed and pull the covers over your head bad.
And then the tears started. And they wouldn't stop. I remember coming out of her room, shaking my head at her little brother, who was nine at the time.
So that little memory came back to me last week. I was having a bad day. Like nothing was going right. At all. And I was cranky. Really cranky. And everything was bad. Really bad. And all I wanted to do was climb back into bed and pull the covers over my head.
It started with an innocent comment, early in the morning. I was tying my running shoes and Chief asks, "Where you going?" I said I thought I'd talk a walk. "Good!" he says, way too enthusiastically.
And then the phone rang. It was the pharmacy with it's annoying computer-generated voice that I think is supposed to be cheerful, reminding me that I need to pick up my prescription.
And if anyone asks when my cycle is, I'll dust off my husband's semi-automatic and pretend I'm Angelina Jolie. Any other questions?!
Think I'll take action on that thought to retreat to my sleep number bed and disappear beneath the feathers.


Figure out the secret rules that govern how the other players move pieces on their turn.
An area with diverse items that you can group in general categories. A table with four place settings at your local late-night diner should do nicely.
Before the game begins, agree on what is in game, like "The surface of the table and everything on it." The players automatically count as "in game".
Make up a rule and write it down. This rule dictates how you move pieces when it's your turn.
I may not touch a piece that the last two players touched.
I must place a piece so it is about two inches from another piece.
I may only move pieces that share a color with my shirt.
Once everyone has a rule written down, start the game.
Move a piece in accordance with your secret rule.
Ask another player a yes or no question about his or her rule. Your target must answer publicly.
When your rule has been guessed correctly, show everyone what your rule was. No other player may attempt to guess it.
The game ends when all rules but one have been guessed. If your rule remains unguessed, then you lose 1 point. The player with the most points wins.
I Take My Joe Black: Don't play for points. Just play. The original version of Diner Chess didn't have points; they're only there to keep you from making your rules too easy or hard. If you're all on the same wavelength, it's more fun to ingore the points and just play.
Ever hang out at a diner with friends and pretend to play Chess with the water glasses and ketchup bottle? Five years ago I spent many late nights hanging out at diners with LARPers. I decided to create a game that we could play almost anywhere with a flat surface and lots of distinct objects. These rules, less the point system, evolved pretty naturally after the third or fourth game. Over the years I've played this game with Ben's oil and acrylic paint set, in many diners with utensils and condiment dispensers, and with an Icehouse set (which worked very nicely indeed).


text:
/*
 * kmp_str.h -- String manipulation routines.
 */

//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
//
// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//

#ifndef KMP_STR_H
#define KMP_STR_H

#include <stdarg.h>
#include <string.h>

#include "kmp_os.h"

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif // __cplusplus

#if KMP_OS_WINDOWS
#define strdup _strdup
#endif

/*  some macros to replace ctype.h functions  */
#define TOLOWER(c) ((((c) >= 'A') && ((c) <= 'Z')) ? ((c) + 'a' - 'A') : (c))

struct kmp_str_buf {
  char *str; // Pointer to buffer content, read only.
  unsigned int size; // Do not change this field!
  int used; // Number of characters printed to buffer, read only.
  char bulk[512]; // Do not use this field!
}; // struct kmp_str_buf
typedef struct kmp_str_buf kmp_str_buf_t;

#define __kmp_str_buf_init(b)                                                  \
  {                                                                            \
    (b)->str = (b)->bulk;                                                      \
    (b)->size = sizeof((b)->bulk);                                             \
    (b)->used = 0;                                                             \
    (b)->bulk[0] = 0;                                                          \
  }

void __kmp_str_buf_clear(kmp_str_buf_t *buffer);
void __kmp_str_buf_reserve(kmp_str_buf_t *buffer, int size);
void __kmp_str_buf_detach(kmp_str_buf_t *buffer);
void __kmp_str_buf_free(kmp_str_buf_t *buffer);
void __kmp_str_buf_cat(kmp_str_buf_t *buffer, char const *str, int len);
void __kmp_str_buf_catbuf(kmp_str_buf_t *dest, const kmp_str_buf_t *src);
int __kmp_str_buf_vprint(kmp_str_buf_t *buffer, char const *format,
                         va_list args);
int __kmp_str_buf_print(kmp_str_buf_t *buffer, char const *format, ...);
void __kmp_str_buf_print_size(kmp_str_buf_t *buffer, size_t size);

/* File name parser.
   Usage:

   kmp_str_fname_t fname = __kmp_str_fname_init( path );
   // Use fname.path (copy of original path ), fname.dir, fname.base.
   // Note fname.dir concatenated with fname.base gives exact copy of path.
   __kmp_str_fname_free( & fname );
*/
struct kmp_str_fname {
  char *path;
  char *dir;
  char *base;
}; // struct kmp_str_fname
typedef struct kmp_str_fname kmp_str_fname_t;
void __kmp_str_fname_init(kmp_str_fname_t *fname, char const *path);
void __kmp_str_fname_free(kmp_str_fname_t *fname);
// Compares file name with specified pattern. If pattern is NULL, any fname
// matched.
int __kmp_str_fname_match(kmp_str_fname_t const *fname, char const *pattern);

/* The compiler provides source locations in string form
   ";file;func;line;col;;". It is not convenient for manipulation. This
   structure keeps source location in more convenient form.
   Usage:

   kmp_str_loc_t loc = __kmp_str_loc_init( ident->psource, 0 );
   // use loc.file, loc.func, loc.line, loc.col.
   // loc.fname is available if second argument of __kmp_str_loc_init is true.
   __kmp_str_loc_free( & loc );

   If psource is NULL or does not follow format above, file and/or func may be
   NULL pointers.
*/
struct kmp_str_loc {
  char *_bulk; // Do not use thid field.
  kmp_str_fname_t fname; // Will be initialized if init_fname is true.
  char *file;
  char *func;
  int line;
  int col;
}; // struct kmp_str_loc
typedef struct kmp_str_loc kmp_str_loc_t;
kmp_str_loc_t __kmp_str_loc_init(char const *psource, int init_fname);
void __kmp_str_loc_free(kmp_str_loc_t *loc);

int __kmp_str_eqf(char const *lhs, char const *rhs);
char *__kmp_str_format(char const *format, ...);
void __kmp_str_free(char **str);
int __kmp_str_match(char const *target, int len, char const *data);
int __kmp_str_match_false(char const *data);
int __kmp_str_match_true(char const *data);
void __kmp_str_replace(char *str, char search_for, char replace_with);
void __kmp_str_split(char *str, char delim, char **head, char **tail);
char *__kmp_str_token(char *str, char const *delim, char **buf);
int __kmp_str_to_int(char const *str, char sentinel);

void __kmp_str_to_size(char const *str, size_t *out, size_t dfactor,
                       char const **error);
void __kmp_str_to_uint(char const *str, kmp_uint64 *out, char const **error);

#ifdef __cplusplus
} // extern "C"
#endif // __cplusplus

#endif // KMP_STR_H

// end of file //


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Just want to mention that I will be on the Levy/Meijer READ THIS! Author Tour, barnstorming 9 Meijer locations in Michigan in mid-September.
10:30am Lansing/2055 W. Grand River Rd.
3:00pm Ann Arbor/5645 Jackson Rd.
10:30am Rochester Hills/3175 Rochester Rd.
Also, for folks who are on Google Read or other blog feeds and wonder why I haven't been updating on my writing progress, I have. They updates are appended to the original post.
Hey! How about hopping the border and doing a signing in Toronto? There are lots of booklovers here…really! We can bribe you with donuts if necessary.
Thanks for the lovely invitation.
Who knows, may be some of the other ladies I'll be going on the trip with might just be that enterprising, and I might tag along. Cuz I do adore Canada but have never been to the English-speaking part.
Now you have my mouth watering badly!


Bentley Jones made official today the release of his latest album, So Much More.
The album, centered around the main theme to Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, contains the main track, a ballad, three remixes, and an instrumental. On the Bentley Jones Official Shop, you can order a limited edition bundle, which includes an autographed photo.
Should that not tickle you fancy, you can still order the album via Amazon, and through iTunes. On Amazon, the entire album goes for $6.99. On iTunes, expect to dole out $8.91. The Limited Edition CD runs for £8, or about $13.09 in US dollars.


Ford owned the U.S. full-size-van business for decades with its E-series offerings and, as a consequence, was a bit behind some other manufacturers in offering Euro-style full-size boxes. Mercedes, Ram, and Nissan all were established players with the new type by the time Ford's big Transits rolled onto the scene for the 2015 model year. But being a little late to the starting gate doesn't seem to have diminished Ford's robust van business—the company still leads the commercial-van sales race by a healthy margin—and the Transit seems to have been well worth the wait.
It's offered in multiple sizes—two wheelbases and three roof heights—with three engine options, including a diesel. Ford offers single- and dual-wheel rear axles and the choice of either cargo (Van) or passenger (Passenger Wagon) versions; the latter is available in four seating configurations capable of accommodating between eight and 15 occupants.
That would seem to cover the basic van market. The competition, by the way, includes no direct answer from General Motors, which still peddles the old-school Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana vans that were all-new in 1996.
Our test unit was a mid-roof, long-wheelbase 350 Passenger Wagon XLT, meaning it was nearly six feet in interior height from the floor to the ceiling (if you need to transport basketball players, the high-roof version adds nine more inches). Who has a need for a van such as this? Pole-vault squads? Fly-fishing teams? Resorts, maybe, or church schools? Whatever its use case, there were seats for a dozen in our van, arranged in four rows—two up front, three in the second row, three in the third (two on the left with an aisle separating the right-hand seat), and four on a bench spanning the rear. The available 15-seat configuration adds another row of three seats and an industry-first five-row curtain airbag—but it has only 73 cubic feet of cargo space behind the rearmost seats (in mid-roof, long-wheelbase configuration) compared with the 94 cubic feet in the van we tested. Need more? There's an optional extended-length body (high roof only) with 15 seats that boasts 100 cubic feet out back.
Although this van was kitted out with more than $7000 in optional equipment, the passenger accommodations were a little spartan. There are no USB ports aft of the front row, and cupholders and armrests are few and far between. On the other hand, each passenger seat provides enough room for a pretty good-size set of gluteal muscles, and of course there's plenty of space in the vertical dimension.
The passenger seats are accessed via a very large, single sliding door on the right side, and this particular van was equipped with a power running-board step ($940) that deployed when the sliding door was pulled opened.
Up front a pair of relaxed-fit bucket seats look out over the sloping snout, affording excellent forward sightlines. Similarly, the base of the front windows slope down and provide a better-than-average view of what's going on in the forward quarters, and the side windows in the wagon versions are generously sized, giving passengers a good look at passing scenery. No danger of claustrophobia here.
However, the driver's view directly astern, minimized by rear-seat head restraints, is about the same as what you'd get in a buttoned-up Sherman tank—and that's with an empty van. With passengers back there, what's going on behind the van verges on mystery. The standard rearview camera in this vehicle is more than supplementary, it's essential. That also goes for the exterior warning chime that activates when the driver engages reverse, a $125 option.
Selecting any gear in the six-speed automatic transmission is achieved with a shift lever mounted in the lower dashboard, just to the right of the steering wheel. There's no sport mode—not at all surprising—but the shifter can be operated manually, via a thumb switch set into the top left side of the shifter; it's not likely to see much use unless you're a tour guide in some mountain park.
These track figures are achieved with only a driver aboard, of course, and we know the base 3.7-liter V-6 (275 horsepower, 260 lb-ft of torque) wouldn't fare so well. But this van, like that cargo version, was equipped with the optional 3.5-liter EcoBoost mill, a turbocharged gasoline-fueled V-6 that huffs up more torque (400 lb-ft) than even the third available engine, a turbo-diesel 3.2-liter inline-five making 185 horsepower and 350 lb-ft that proved to be the segment's diesel acceleration king in a three-van comparison test.
How might the Transit perform with its 12 seats full and enough baggage to challenge its 9000-pound GVWR (gross vehicle weight rating)? With our test Transit's 6272-pound curb weight, a full load works out to 2728 pounds. A ton and a half of load would certainly mitigate the enthusiasm of the turbocharged V-6, but it's fair to assume that a heavily laden Transit like this one could do better than hold its own in urban traffic.
The rest of the Transit's dynamic résumé isn't so compelling. It turns and stops about as well as you'd expect of a vehicle with this much mass and an aspect ratio—the relationship of width to height—reminiscent of something powered by sails.
Achieving an indifferent 0.68 g on the skidpad was an adventure for the test driver, who reported massive understeer. With a center of gravity hovering somewhere close to the altitude of the driver's backside and a compliant suspension, rock and roll is abundant. And it's no surprise that a vehicle with 147.6 inches of wheelbase has a turning circle of almost 44 feet. It's hard to say what, if anything, the optional ($325) limited-slip rear differential contributed to the van's performance in dry conditions. Braking from 70 mph consumed nearly two-thirds of a football field, although there was no hint of fade in repeated stops.
While you wouldn't expect a vehicle of this size to be quick on its feet, another behavioral element can be unsettling. With its clipper-ship sail area, the Transit becomes unpleasantly active at freeway speeds, especially in a crosswind or in the wake of large semi trucks, a trait it shares with its competitors.
On the other hand, the Transit's steering, while slow (3.5 turns lock-to-lock), is surprisingly accurate and even informative, particularly by the standards of this elephantine class. Ride quality is smooth, and interior noise levels are low, attributes that will certainly be appreciated by the folks in the back of the bus. As with heavy-duty trucks, the EPA doesn't require fuel-economy ratings in this class. We logged 14 mpg overall, about the same as the Ram ProMaster but nowhere near the 22 mpg we recorded in a 2015 Transit with the same EcoBoost engine during a test with a much heavier bias toward highway travel.
As noted, this Transit had a number of options, none of them really associated with passenger comfort, unless you count the power-assist step. And maybe the privacy glass ($675 with an included rear-window defroster). Okay, a stretch: The 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 will probably get your curling team (or UnicornCon group, or baseball nine) to its destination a little quicker. To snag it, add $1865, the biggest-ticket item on our van's bill.
The second most expensive item on the window sticker is Ford's Sync 3 infotainment system with navigation, a $1595 addition and probably a must in a van slated for urban delivery duty. All told, the extras added up to $7255, for a grand total of $49,220. That may seem a little stiff for a vehicle that is essentially utilitarian, but it's in line with similarly equipped models from the competition, and fleets no doubt can receive a bulk discount.
The Ford Econoline and Club Wagon ruled the U.S. full-size-van biz for at least two generations—as in human generations. It looks as if the Transit era will sustain the family tradition.


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Writers are solitary creatures, so it seems like a slam-dunk to combine your talent with someone else's. But what can go wrong? How do you leverage the strength of two people to make something greater than the both of you?


I bet that at some point you've flown 'cattle class' – that distinguished seating area into which most of us are herded. Some of us have a few scars to prove it… like the unlucky Asian doctor on an airline that's been trying to convince us of its hospitality with its 'Friendly Skies' slogan.
Having boarded a United Airlines flight in April, he was 'removed' from his 'friendly' seat, and dragged through the 'friendly' carpeted aisle while law enforcement banged parts of his face against the 'friendly' armrests.
Apparently that's what you get for not reading the fine print aka United's 37,651-word 'contract of carriage.' I downloaded it and dozed off while reading Rule #1 (the 80-page document contains about 4,000 words).
What followed was a serious image issue with people declaring war using alternative tag lines with the hashtag #NewUnitedAirlinesMottos.
Here are a couple they came up with: "Normal flights have cabin crew, we have bouncers" and "Board as a doctor, leave as a patient." The poison darts in the form of parodies of United's TV commercials by Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Kimmel were equally devastating.
So to alleviate this airline image crisis and reduce the passenger pain threshold, I suggest that airlines stop throwing money into expensive PR and begin pandering to two powerful forces that sway humans – egotism and fear.
EGOTISM FIRST Let's say a flight leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport has to 'involuntarily bump' two passengers.
Before picking the victims, the airline could hire Oprah Winfrey to show up, walk up to the check-in counter and make an announcement inviting two passengers to have dinner with her at a nearby upscale restaurant.
She could also offer to play a round of golf with them the next morning as they wait for a limo to the airport.
If Oprah isn't available, I highly recommend Ivanka Trump. What better way to diffuse a hashtag attack than a series of vain Instagram posts by passengers sporting Ivanka's line of beachwear?
CHOOSING FEAR The airline must ensure that a few passengers in the waiting area accidentally 'overhear' the real reason the flight is being delayed – i.e. that inspectors had spot-checked the oxygen masks and found that five failed to discharge.
When questioned, the airline could make it known that passengers in those assigned seats would be free to fly at their own risk after signing a waiver that's also covered under paragraph 32 of the aforementioned contract.
'Of course!' replied some airlines, singing off the same hymn sheet.
A few years ago, when Delta, American and United realised there is no more space into which they can squeeze us, they rolled out a 'Basic Economy' seating category. As it implied, there would be fewer benefits.
How long will it be before there's a 'Bare Bones Economy' class where you get to sit in the lavatory? They will serve you a 'bare bones' in-flight meal of leftovers from First Class, slipped under the lavatory door. No armrests… but hey, there's unlimited toothpaste!
So whatever happened to the tag line on which we were sold? What became of the brand promise of 'Fly the Friendly Skies' that implied a country club experience at 30,000 feet, sipping complimentary cocktails with little coloured umbrellas?
It's buried somewhere in Rule #28 of the contract. But most of us don't read pig Latin.