Renée Zellweger, Bridget Jones's Diary, 2000. Naomi and Lucy Lawless were the two down-under queens ridiculously considered for the dumpy/lumpy 30-something London office worker. Even if they dared to put on 20 pounds like Zellweger did.
Rachel Weisz, Runaway Jury, 2002. Impossible to play Marlee due to committed to a better movie. Bridget Moynaham and Amanda Peet also came and went.
Jennifer Lopez, An Unfinshed Life, 2003 An ironic title considering the health of the two original stars - Newman and director Robert Altman. (They died in 2008 and 2006). Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom took over, being somewthing of a dysfunctionals' expert after What's Eating Gilbert Grape?and The Cider Houser Rules. He brought in Redford and Jennifer Lopez, succeeding Watts as his battered daughter-in-law. Not released until 2005.
Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener, 2004. Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles considered Nicole Kidman too old (at 36) and so called in her pal Naomi (35) for the John Le Carré film. Weisz was 36 - and loved by Oscar!
Jessica Alba, The Fantastic Four, 2004. Once bitten - by the King Kong re-remake - twice shy of the fantastique. Namely, The Invisible Girl, aka Susan Storm.
Radha Mitchell, Melinda and Melinda, 2004. Woody Allen craved Winona Ryder but no agency would insure her after her infamous shoplifting arrest.Naomi was too busy. Instead of looking further, longer, Woody allowed the film to fail by choosingthe Aussie he enjoyed inTen Tiny Love Stories, 2000, who was unable to carry a movie. Or indeed two, considering her dual role.
Carla Gugino, Sin City, 2004. Directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller also looked at Ashley Judd, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sarah-Jessica Parker and Uma Thurman for Lucille in their "live" comic-strip.
Uma Thurman, Be Cool, 2004. Second stanza of John Travolta as Elmore Leonard's Chilli Palmer is a music biz satire with heaps of songs, shylocks and gangsters (both kinds) but no bite. Watts, Halle Berry (Travolta's partner in Swordfish, 2000), Jennifer Connelly and Charlize Theron were up for Edie, aided by Chilli after her husband is rubbed out by the Russian mob. For John, Edie had to be a Pulp Fictionreunion. Not. Quite.
Hayley Atwell, Cassandra's Dream, 2006. Woody calls again... and her schedule interferred again. Naomi made sure she was free next time - You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, 2009.
Nicole Kidman,Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, 2006. Suddenly, after 20 years on studio shelves, the New York 60s photographer was being seen as Australian: Toni Collette, Naomi and, obviously, the Aussie with an Oscar... up for everything in 2004.
Hilary Swank, Conviction, 2010. Change of Betty Anne Waters, the high school drop-out who spent close on 20 years putting herself through law school to reverse her brother's murder conviction. "Not every scene happened," commented the real Waters, "but every emotion happened." Bro' was no no angel. No killer, either, Following his death in a fall, she continues fighting for the unjustly convicted.
Susan Sarandon,Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, 2009. Another down-under legend, Cate Blanchett, also passed on being Sylvia Moore.
Cate Blanchett, Robin Hood, 2009. When Sienna Miller quit as the maid, er widow Marion (sic), Naomi (and her pal Nicole Kidman) were among several Sherwood candidates: Marion Cotillard, Charlize Theron,Annabelle Wallis, Kate Winslet.
Hilary Swank, Conviction, 2009. Watts was first due as Betty Anne Warren, the working Mom who put herself through law school to fight her brother's murder convicytion.Perfect for double Oscar-winner Hilary!
Jennifer Aniston, Horrible Bosses, 2010. Watts and Sarah Jessica Parker were In the mix for Charlie Day's erotomaniac dentist boss - "You're gonna give me that dong, Dale" - in a masculine take on Nine To Five.
Sandra Bullock, Gravity, 2012. Natalie Portman was #1 choice after Angelina Jolie wanted $20m to be Ryan, lone survivor of a space mission to repair the Hubble telescope - trying to to return to Earth and her daughter. But Natalie was pregnant. Enter: Naomi, Marion Cotillard (pregnant!), Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Blake Lively, Sienna Miller, Carey Mulligan, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Wilde.
Nicole Kidman, Queen of the Desert, 2013. Watts had to quit when shooting was delayed and so - inevitably - Nicole took over as as Gertrude Bell, the 1868-1926 writer, archaeologist, cartographer, explorer, political officer, spy. In short: the female Lawrence of Arabia.


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Beat the recession with DAB radios
One addition resellers might be wise to make to their product portfolio is DAB digital radios. These products look different, have a degree of topicality and are very popular with users.
One reason for digital radios being a sensible choice is that they now stream over a wireless network, which makes them a clear technology sale. The products are also starting to merge with other forms of digital technology in the consumer electronics and prosumer market.
Another reason it that these items are incredibly desirable. Recent research by UK radio body Rajar showed that more people are listening to radio now than ever before.
The number of people turning to digital technology is continually increasing, and as a result a reseller carrying some sexy models will attract new customers.
When it comes to choosing a DAB radio, one of the leading names in the market is Roberts. The company sent in a couple of models for Tech Trader to cast an eye over – the Sports Dab and the solarDAB.
Sports DAB
The portable Sports DAB is the sort of product that most cricket and football fans have been waiting for – a pocket-sized radio that picks up digital sports radio stations.
The one concern we had at first glance was whether battery life would let the product down. But, having fully charged the battery, we used it on and off for a few days with no battery issues. If anything, the fears about DABs and batteries have probably been overstated and can be consigned to the history of the first editions of these products.
Using the headphones as an aerial, the Sports DAB quickly picked up more than 30 stations. It also features the option to switch to FM if required.
Sound quality is excellent and the unit is straightforward to use, so thumbing through the instruction book is not really necessary.
For those users who have already grasped the concept of the iPod, this is not only a product that looks and feels similar, it also plugs the gap in terms of providing radio.
solarDAB
The second model, the solarDAB, is also portable, but has an different take on the battery issue – it uses solar power.
Again, we fully charged the unit from the mains initially, and then left the sun to do the rest. After three weeks of at least 90 minutes' use per day, it is still going strong.
Available in a choice of colours, we opted for the green as this is an eco product. It features a solar strip on the top of the radio which picks up the sun's rays.
Its simple to configure settings allow you to listen to your favourite radio shows by just rotating and pushing a couple of knobs.
Not only is this radio ideal for those who care about the environment, it is also a useful gadget for anyone who is likely to be away from a power source for any length of time but still wants to keep up to date with the progress of Crystal Palace as they slide down the league table.
Give customers choice
The real message here, as shown so clearly with the Sports DAB and solarDAB, is that there are numerous products to suit different customers' needs.
Resellers can extend their armoury and add colour, topicality and revenue by choosing a product group which seems to defy the downturn and continues to grow.
Thinking slightly outside the box can help resellers find additional markets in these tough times.
digital audio broadcasting (DAB) – SearchMobileComputing
Videologic Digital Radio Tuner DRX-601E – ComputerWeekly.com
Virgin Mobile users to get live TV over DAB – ComputerWeekly.com
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Imagine this: After a raucous evening out with friends at your favorite watering hole, you stroll home, only to encounter a heinous goon dead set on relieving you of your wallet and valuables. It's not an impossible scenario, sadly: The Federal Bureau of Investigation's most recent batch of national crime data indicated there were 300,000 robberies in 2015 alone. Violent crime has been on the decline in the US for decades, but the casual mugging is still a sad reality for many Americans.


MONROVIA, LIBERIA-The UN Security Council has extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) to the end of 2016.
The Security Council's decision to extend UNMIL's mandate was taken Wednesday morning, September 14, 2016 in New York, the United States.
The release quotes the Council as having reaffirmed its readiness to consider withdrawing the operations and transitioning to a future UN presence, following a proposed mid-November review of situation in Liberia.
It also says with the unanimous adoption of a new resolution, the Council decided that the authorized ceilings of the Mission's military and police components remain at 1, 240 and 606 personnel, respectively.
The Council recalled its request for the Secretary-General to conduct an assessment mission to Liberia to provide recommendations and up-date on the proposed modalities regarding the transfer of the regional quick reaction force by 15th November, 2016.
"This will require long-term robust engagement by all concerned, particularly by this august Council," the UN SRSG in Liberia emphasized.


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Rooftop solar panels atop homes in Austin, Texas. Credit: Roschetzky Photography via Shutterstock.
Goal: Convince big box stores to put solar on their rooftops and parking lots.
The Cleanest Energy
More Americans are going solar every day. By 2019, our country had enough solar energy capacity installed to power the equivalent of more than 14.5 million homes.
Yet we're still not even close to reaching our solar potential. Every year, enough sunlight shines on America to provide 100 times more power than we need. We're capturing only a tiny percentage of that resource. Harnessing more of the sun's energy would mean cleaner air and a more stable climate, less strain on natural resources, more resilient communities and an energy source we can depend on to be virtually pollution-free for for as long as we can imagine.
So what's slowing us down? What, if anything, can stop us?
In some places, we're thinking too small, failing to update policies that would encourage even more Americans to go solar. In other places, we're thinking too narrowly, putting the short-term interests of old industries with outdated business models ahead of our health, environment and wellbeing.
Solar on Superstores
Think about your local big box stores — maybe Walmart, Target, Costco, or Home Depot come to mind. What if the entire rooftop and parking lot of that big box store was covered in solar panels? What about all the big box stores in the country?
As anyone who has walked through a superstore knows, these buildings are sprawling. Their vast, flat rooftops are great places for hosting clean energy. In fact, the rooftops of America's big box stores and shopping centers could host 62.3 gigawatts (GW) of solar photovoltaic capacity, equivalent to the amount of electricity used by more than 7 million average U.S. homes or more than 7,500 average Walmart stores, and more than double the solar photovoltaic capacity that had been installed in the U.S. by 2016. Putting solar panels on the rooftops and parking lots of our big box stores would be good for the planet, good for consumers and good for businesses.
We're asking big box stores to put solar panels on all of their rooftops and parking lots. We want these businesses to hear from their customers and the public about how great it would be if they went big on solar. Some big box stores like Ikea are already leading the way: By 2020, the retailer had installed over 700,000 solar panels on their stores across the world.
To start, we are asking Walmart to publicly commit to putting solar panels on the rooftops of nearly all of its more than 5,000 locations across America — and over the parking lots that surround them — by 2035.
Stand up for solar
Every great technological advance disrupts one or more existing industries, and solar is no exception.
A few utilities, including Green Mountain Power in Vermont, have embraced solar, retooling their business models around a grid with thousands of homes generating power as well as consuming it. Unfortunately, others have been less forward-thinking. Threatened by the growth of an energy source that requires less capital investment but smarter distribution, many electric utilities and their trade associations are pushing to roll back the policies that have enabled and encouraged solar's growth. Fossil fuel interests, including the Koch brothers, have also lobbied regulators and others to weaken or dismantle these policies that would have made it easier for Americans to go solar.
Dan Jacobson, Environment California
We're countering misinformation with facts, including data showing how solar's benefits to utilities and their customers outweigh the costs of pro-solar incentives. We're also bringing together leaders from an array of fields to support solar power development.
Energy Sage
Have you ever thought about going solar at your home or business? Environment America has partnered with EnergySage to make finding your local solar options easy. Find out more: http://www.EASolar.org
Cities Go Solar
Cities are major drivers of the growth in solar in America. From 2013 to 2018, most major American cities more than doubled their installed solar capacity, according to our annual Shining Cities report. One third of the biggest cities in the U.S. more than quadrupled their solar capacity in that time.
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The cities that have been most successful share a set of priorities: they've set high goals for solar capacity, they've ensured that homeowners receive a fair price for the solar energy they supply to the grid, they have made installing panels hassle-free and they provide attractive financing options.
That's why our Cities Go Solar project works with local elected officials to think bigger, plan smarter, and tap the sun for more power. For example, our state and local advocates, members, and activists are:
Calling on cities to join over 150 other U.S. communities in committing to a future powered by 100 percent renewable energy, and establish a plan to get there using locally produced solar energy, and
Backing ambitious solar energy goals, as well as the policies and programs that will help make them a reality.
Of course every mayor wants her city to be a leader, especially when it comes to an innovation with the kind of broad transpartisan support that solar enjoys. So we're encouraging mayors to run a race to the top on solar by comparing the growth of solar city by city in our bi-annual Shining Cities report, showcasing the results through the news media and on social media, and providing the resources cities need to capture more energy from the sun through our Mayors for Solar Energy project.
Even as we make the case for solar on environmental grounds, our national network is bringing together a broad coalition that can offer a variety of reasons to persuade local officials to act — from "Green Tea Party" activists in Georgia who want "energy freedom" to solar installers in Arizona who want green jobs, from low-income communities in Massachusetts who want cleaner air to business owners in Colorado who want to power their breweries and cafes with solar.
Since the 1970s our network of state affiliates has been calling for and winning pro-solar policies and progressing all the way to California's Million Solar Roofs Initiative of 2006 and beyond. Environment Maryland and our national network have chalked up solar policy victories in 12 states, plus Atlanta, San Diego, Albuquerque, St. Petersburg and more than a dozen other cities. Past successes make it easier for cities to aim higher now, and for more cities and states to jump on the bandwagon.
If we want cleaner air and a more stable climate, we need to harness energy from the sun. That's why we're calling on cities to go big on solar.
Sign up to get more involved in our work.


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BAREFOOT DANCES AND OTHER VISIONS
JIM MCNEELY & THE FRANKFURT RADIO BIG BAND
Nominated for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Recording
cover art: Terry Lamacchia
Now available on iTunes, Amazon and CD Baby
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Barefoot Dances and Other Visions is a seven-part suite composed in 2014 for the Frankfurt Radio Big Band. Each piece expresses a different kind of fantasy. We performed it live in two concerts in Frankfurt February '14, then recorded it in the studio in September of that year.
When I wrote this music I had been working with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band for about six years, so I knew the players quite well. The suite was written so that every one of the band's soloists is placed in a framework that would be both familiar and challenging. Each piece features a pair of soloists, playing individually, sometimes together. Several of the pieces begin with a chamber-sized group, "in front of the curtain". Then the curtain rises to reveal the whole band, having assumed yet another formation.
Bob's Here imagines the return of composer/trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, who died in 2011. Black Snow conjures up the vision of a normally tranquil scene, still tranquil but rendered improbably dark. Barefoot Dances are just that, something I've never actually done in my life. A Glimmer of Hope tries its best to be optimistic, a difficult task these days. Redman Rides Again imagines the return of the arranger/reedman Don Redman. Among other things he was known for writing fantastic clarinet trios. This piece features a real clarinet trio, and a second "trio" formed by Oliver Leicht and his harmonized clarinet. Falling Upwards: try as I may, I still find it impossible. The Cosmic Hodge-Podge offers a vision of the cosmos where galaxies are replaced by blocks of sound; super novas become solo explosions; and a single black hole emerges at the end, emitting just a smidgen of light. Jim McNeely
SOLOS
Christian Jaksjö, valve trombone
Martin Scales, guitar
SOLO
Martin Auer, flugelhorn
Günter Bollmann, trombone
Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn, soprano saxophone
Rainer Heute, baritone saxophone
Manfred Honetschläger, bass trombone
Axel Schlosser, flugle horn
Oliver Leicht, clarinet
Peter Reiter, piano
Steffen Weber, tenor saxophone
Jean Paul Höchstädter, drums
Thomas Heidepriem, bass
Tony Lakatos, tenor saxophone
Axel Schlosser, trumpet
The artist Paul Klee wrote "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible." From our earliest days as children, we all have visions and fantasies. Imaginary friends; winning "the big game"; confronting monsters; visits from mysterious people we don't recognize. We create images and sounds in our minds' eyes that typically don't exist in the "outside" world. It is the calling of an artist to midwife these fantasies into reality. In Klee's case he used paint, pencil, canvas and cardboard. In my case I've used rhythm, pitch, and the musical spirit of the Frankfurt Radio Big Band. These are seven imaginary scenes. A couple of them imagine the return of great musicians no longer with us. A few begin with chamber-size visions before the whole band develops. They all represent inner visions made audible.
Bob's Here imagines the return of composer/trombonist Bob Brookmeyer—one of my mentors—who died in 2011. Christian Jaksjø soars on valve trombone; then Martin Scales' guitar solo leads into a whirling dervish of a finish. Peter Reiter's piano solo leads into Black Snow. Martin Auer's Flügelhorn conjures up the vision of new-fallen snow, normally a tranquil scene, but rendered improbably dark by internal conflicts within the observer. Barefoot Dances is inspired in part by Henri Matisse's The Dance, and in part by years of dreaming. Gunther Böllman starts the dance on trombone. Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn finishes the celebration on soprano saxophone. A Glimmer of Hope is optimism struggling to survive in an ocean of darkness. It starts with a theme (to return later) elaborated on by Rainer Heute on baritone sax and Manfred Honetschläger on bass trombone. The main body of the piece follows, with Peter Feil's trombone solo providing the glimmer.
Among many other things, the great arranger/reedman Don Redman was known for writing fantastic clarinet trios. After a prelude that bathes Flügelhornist Axel Schlosser in cascades of sound, Redman Rides Again imagines Redman's return. It features a "real" clarinet trio, and a "virtual trio" formed by Oliver Leicht and his harmonized clarinet. I've dreamt about Falling Upwards, but so far can't actually do it. It starts with a tenor solo by Tony Lakatos. Then the first theme from Glimmer of Hope returns, this time a little more optimistically. Steffen Weber raises spirits on tenor sax. Then the band returns with more cascades swirling around Jean-Paul Höchstädter's drum fills.
The final piece starts with bassist Thomas Heidepriem offering a reflective solo cushioned by the ensemble. Then begins The Cosmic Hodge-Podge, a vision of a cosmic soup where galaxies are replaced by blocks of sound. Super novas become solo explosions by Tony Lakatos on tenor, Axel Schlosser on trumpet, and Jean-Paul Höchstädter on drums. A single black hole emerges at the end, emitting just a smidgen of light (another glimmer of hope?). It may flourish and grow; then again, it may be simply the last gasp.
It takes a few years of writing for a band before you really get to know them. I started working steadily with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band in 2008. After three or four projects I began to see the musicians' faces on the score. I could hear their sounds; imagine their improvising. I could hear how they laugh. I was making thousands of arranging decisions based on the characteristics of each player. By the time I wrote the pieces on this CD I knew the "ins and outs" of this band so very well. I tailored my musical visions to fit each player in the ensemble, and placed each soloist in a framework both familiar and challenging. This is truly a collaboration between the members of the band and myself. Thank you, all, for giving such an elegant voice to these visions.
Jim McNeely
www.JimMcNeely.com
THE BAND
Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn--Alto Sax, Soprano Sax, Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Flute, Clarinet
Oliver Leicht--Alto Sax, Clarinet, Flute, Alto Clarinet, Alto Flute
Tony Lakatos--Tenor Sax, Flute, Alto Flute
Steffen Weber--Tenor Sax, Flute, Clatinet, Bass Flute
Rainer Heute--Baritone Sax, Bass Clarinet, Alto Flute
Frank Wellert--Trumpet, Flügelhorn
Thomas Vogel--Trumpet, Flügelhorn
Martin Auer--Trumpet, Flügelhorn
Axel Schlosser--Trumpet, Flügelhorn
Günter Bollman--Trombone
Peter Feil--Trombone
Christian Jaksjø--Trombone, Valve Trombone
Manfred Honetschläger--Bass Trombone
Martin Scales--Guitar
Peter Reiter--Piano
Thomas Heidepriem--Bass
Jean-Paul Höchstädter—Drums
Recorded: September 9 to 12 2014, Hörfunkstudio II, Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt am Main
Mixed: July 2015, Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt am Main
Mastered: October 2017, Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt am Main
Produced by Olaf Stötzler
Recording Producer (Recording/Editing/Mixing/Mastering): Axel Gutzler
Recording Engineer: Michael Wayszak
Cover Art: Terry Lamacchia, www.terrylamacchia.weebly.com
Cover Art Photography: David Corrigan, www.davecorriganphotography.com
Package Design: Valerie Trucchia, www.valerietrucchia.com
This project has been supported by a generous grant from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program
Planet Arts - Thomas Bellino, Managing Director/Producer - P.O. Box 387 - Catskill, NY 12414 - 518 945 2669 - planetarts@gmail.com


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by: Aurora Amidon
Leaked documents: Has the Chinese Communist Party infiltrated UK firms?
According to leaked documents delivered to The Daily Mail, members of the Chinese Communist Party have been working in British consulates, companies, and universities for a while now. Here's everything we know about the unanticipated news so far.
The shocking report
According to a database leak, there are around 1.95 million registered members of the Chinese Communist Party currently permeating the British work-f0rce. Some members, who have allegedly sworn an oath to "guard Party secrets, be loyal to the Party, work hard, fight for communism throughout [their] life . . . and never betray the Party" have jobs in British consulates.
There's no evidence, however, that anyone has spied on behalf of China. It can be assumed, then, that most members are working in the British work-force simply on behalf of their careers.
The information was initially leaked on Telegram, an instant messaging app.
Comments from officials
Former Tory Party leader Duncan Smith appeared to be concerned about the revelations, telling the Mail: "This investigation proves that members of the Chinese Communist Party are now spread around the globe, with members working for some of the world's most important multinational corporations, academic institutions, and our own diplomatic services."
Smith continued: "The Government must now move to expel and remove any members of the Communist Party from our Consuls throughout China. They can either serve the UK or the Chinese Communist Party. They cannot do both."
In addition, the Foreign Office declared it has "robust procedures in place to keep information secure and to vet staff at our overseas posts." Based on this, it's assumed they're aware that some of their employees are Party members, yet they conclude that they pose no threat.
A senior Whitehall intelligence source claimed recent findings did, however, raise a few concerns. "In that station [the official] will be sat one floor away from the MI6 team and could have identified intelligence officers."
Member of the U.S. Homeland Security Committee Senator John Hawley stated emphatically: "CCP agents have no place in U.S. government facilities, and this report should serve as a much-needed wake-up call to Washington, DC, and corporate executives, who continue to welcome the Chinese government with open arms."
Hawley continued, stating that this recent news "is just more evidence of the extent to which the CCP has successfully infiltrated American companies and government".
What did the leak reveal?
The leak included extensive information into the Chinese Communist Party. It offered a number of surprising facts, including major players in COVID vaccine solutions, Pfizer & AstraZeneca, employed a whopping 123 party members. Other big names that hired party members were Airbus, Boeing, and Rolls-Royce.
In addition, there were over 600 party members working at British banks HSBC and Standard Chartered.
The leak also revealed information about ties between the Chinese Communist Party and academia. Party members attended a variety of British universities, and studied a variety of science subjects that would potentially place them in government jobs in the future.
Where did the data leak come from?
Though it has not yet been confirmed, it is believed that the data leak came from a party-opposer who hacked the information from an office in Shanghai. This hacker obtained the information on a laptop, despite the high risk of being severely punished on account of treason.
Indeed, this revelation is timely. Just last week, the U.S. Director of National Security suggested that China presented the "greatest threat to democracy and freedom" since World War II, and had plans to dominate "the planet economically, militarily and technologically."
Information is still being brought to light, and motives from party members are still ultimately unclear. Though no corruption has been officially stated to have taken place, some British consulate members have warned the UK is "playing with fire."
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Whether you are riding a beach cruiser or collecting miles wearing spandex, Oceanside is a great place to ride a bike. Many restaurants and retail shops even offer bike parking, making it easy to get out and meet the locals.
Geographically, Oceanside is a great hub if you are looking to explore the Southern California terrain. Check out these eight bike routes that begin at the Oceanside Pier.
to Carlsbad: 7 mi. to Encinitas: 24 mi. to Mission San Juan Capistrano: 65 mi. to Mission San Luis Rey: 13. 9 mi.
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Delight in the fine music making of the newly evolved Resonance Z (18 - 24 years) and Resonance Y (25 - 35 years) as they join forces for their first concert of 2019. It is Resonance of Birralee in concert like you have never seen them before.
Apply now to join one of Australia's finest child and youth choirs in 2019 - Voices of Birralee! Read more about our ensembles by clicking on the links below.
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Please note that "Primary Contact" should be the name of the parent or a chorister over 18. The child's details will be requested in a later screen.
The $45 enrolment fee is non-refundable and must be paid in advance to secure the chorister's position in the ensemble.
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Understanding the levels of conflict—strategy, operations, and tactics—can help policymakers mitigate the effectiveness of a disinformation campaign. Russia's operation against the 2016 U.S. election is a case in point.
Melissa K Griffith is a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, and Trey Herr is a post-doctoral fellow with the Belfer Center's Cyber Security Project at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
When did your Facebook page become a weapon? The dissemination of targeted information and propaganda has been an enduring characteristic of local and international politics, yet Western discussions of cybersecurity have historically given it comparatively little emphasis. This changed with Russian efforts to undermine the legitimacy of the 2016 U.S. election. These efforts were neither the first nor the last but certainly one of the most dramatic instances of information as a tool of conflict in recent memory.
In trying to structure an evaluation of information operations like Russia's work to undermine confidence in the recent U.S. presidential election, analysts face the challenge of the strategic corporal in a more dramatic fashion: tactical behaviors can rapidly have strategic effects. Much as the actions of a corporal interacting with an angry crowd can resonate across oceans, a few users reposting on Twitter can spiral into a campaign of rumor and falsehood that shakes the faith of an electorate.
How then do analysts distinguish between levels of war in information operations and appropriately categorize means and effects? The traditional paradigm considers three levels—strategic, operational, and tactical. The strategic is the realm of state power: diplomatic tools mated with military force to advance national priorities. The operational level of war considers the combined engagements of an ongoing campaign, along with the logistics and planning supporting them (e.g. how an air tasking order is generated to manage the flights of bombers and refueling aircraft). The tactical level, in contrast, is concerned with the particularities of a single engagement (e.g. whether the caliber of an armored vehicle's main gun can penetrate a certain thickness of armor).
Considering traditional conflict, these levels of war are debated but largely clear, a product of hundreds of years of martial tradition and scholarship. In cyber conflict these levels are less clear. This was a subject of extensive discussion several weeks ago at the State of the Field of Cyber Conflict conference hosted by Columbia University. Why then apply the levels of war in cyber conflict? They provide an important means of parsing strategic purpose from the operational and tactical activities supporting it. Russian efforts to undermine the 2016 U.S. election generated a strategic shock, one which resonated throughout the electoral process and preyed on a tremendous rural/urban divide in the U.S. electorate. Responses spanned the gamut, from demanding social media companies like Facebook and Twitter do more to prevent the spread of disinformation to calls that the United States send more arms to the Ukrainians and "fry Russian computers". A clearer categorization would be useful, to distinguish between the Russian strategy, the operations carried out to achieve that strategy, and the tactics deployed within those operations.
The Russian strategy appears to have centered on the twin goals of shifting public opinion against Clinton and undermining American confidence in the credibility of the democratic process. There is evidence that part of the underlying motivation for driving negative public opinion was retribution against Clinton for what Putin viewed as her role in fueling massive protests against the Kremlin in 2011. More broadly, efforts to undermine confidence in the electoral process also held potential to impact future elections and fragment U.S. politics, paralyzing decision-making.
Russia pursued a multi-faceted campaign to achieve these two strategic goals, running a massive espionage and targeted leak campaign in parallel with an operation to compromise local voter records infrastructure and another to sow disinformation and spread rumors. The first was comprised of espionage efforts against U.S. political organizations. The dissemination of this information was tailored in terms of the content, the timing, and the target population. Russia's use of the Guccifer 2.0 personality as a shill and collaboration with Wikileaks to disseminate materials from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) typified a tendency to use third parties and invented personas as the public face of these efforts.
A parallel Russian operation focused on compromising local election boards and voter registration databases. There is no evidence in the public domain that we are aware of that these compromises or any access obtained through them had an impact on vote tallies at the state or local level.
A third operation focused largely on propaganda. This was a joint effort between Russian state-sponsored media and a "network of quasi-government trolls" in the words of the U.S. intelligence community operating online. Together they created and disseminated content to domestic and international audiences. Examples of this can be found in the consistently negative coverage of Clinton in Russia Today (RT) alongside the proliferation of fake news on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
To achieve the strategic effects these operations sought to achieve, Russia utilized a variety of tactics. Within its propaganda operation, Russia leveraged its network of quasi-government trolls, supplying them with content and targeting information on potentially receptive users on different social media platforms. Organizations in the Russian government, in conjunction with a network of outside groups, utilized targeted data collection to acquire personal information from users on social media to tailor content to particular demographics, create fake accounts, and alter or take over existing accounts. Using this information, these groups began to create new accounts and content including fake news stories and highly viral memes. Distributing content to an army of trolls, the Russians could amplify (falsely) the perceived attention on these stories and memes, using newly created accounts to share, comment on, or 'like' disinformation through social media platforms. These efforts were amplified and aided by real users commenting on, liking, and sharing these stories themselves.
Taken together, a levels of war analysis highlights how the tools and goals of information operations largely differ at each level. At the tactical level, Facebook has published a White Paper on information operations detailing the tactics deployed on their platform and how they are building in tactical responses to mitigate the effectiveness of these types of tactics in the future. At the operational level, there has been little serious effort made to moderate the pace of information flow in the media cycle while groups clearly recognize the threat of becoming a useful fool by repeating rumor and speculation without verification.
Using levels of war to parse information operations like Russian attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. election and the 2017 French election can help researchers and practitioners alike. It shapes the ways both groups understand events and calculate responses. It highlights how in cyberspace facilitated information operations tactical behaviors can have strategic outcomes, impacting the broader military and political environment. While Facebook may very well be on the front lines of information warfare at the tactical level, it does not necessarily follow that they are or should be on the front lines determining broader US strategy. Understanding these differences, systematically, can help drive new priorities in research and sharpen policymakers grasp of the options arrayed before them in response.


In August, I launched the new website for Crossroads Prison Ministries Canada. (Read the original blog post.) That launch was the first of three phases of the project. Today, I'm excited to reveal phase 2: an e-commerce shop.
With the e-commerce shop, Crossroads can now explain their ministry by sharing their specific needs and requesting funding in specific areas. In other words, you can ask Crossroads to put your money towards sending Bibles to prisoners, or sending Bible courses to prisoners. You can even help pay for postage (which is really expensive for bulky lesson plans). Check out the catalogue.
The website's new e-commerce addition is powered by WooCommerce, but features an entirely unique front-end design. It's designed to be intuitive to use on mobile and desktop, and to make browsing and checking out as quick and easy as possible. Crossroads' blog has also been re-designed to match their new storefront, so the website's aesthetic remains consistent.
Finally, I had the exciting opportunity to take all the pictures for the catalogue. I couldn't be happier with how they turned out. I would love to take more pictures for clients, so consider this your infrequent reminder that I offer professional photography as part of any design project.
Work like this is always a result of close collaboration between the designer and the client. The folks at Crossroads have tremendous taste and are a pleasure to work with. If you haven't seen Crossroads' new website yet, you can check it out here.


Ready for the latest scoop on Tom Carvel?
The ice cream icon's niece believes the man behind Cookie Puss and Fudgie the Whale was murdered 19 years ago - and has filed new court papers asking for an exhumation and fresh autopsy. Pamela Carvel wants Westchester County officials to resolve her concerns that the gravelly-voiced ice cream man was served up cold by a pair of disgruntled employees. "I feel I owe it to him," says Carvel. "The truth is what we're after. If it turns out there was no foul play than there wasn't - but if there was, I don't want any crime to go undetected. "My family really feels something happened to him." According to Carvel, her 84-year-old uncle was worried in the days before his death on Oct. 21, 1990. And she suggested in a 2007 Florida lawsuit that Tom Carvel was killed by two workers trying to cover up a multimillion- dollar embezzlement scheme. Her uncle was known for his raspy, rumbling voice and his low-fi TV commercials touting Fudgie the Whale, Lo-Yo frozen yogurt and other desserts. Carvel, who died in his Dutchess County home, suffered from heart disease - and his death certificate listed a heart attack as the cause of death.
2. NY's Surrogate's Courts are "Criminal Enterprises"
Dig for whatever you want. All of Carvel's money is gone- all of it went to the lawyers. But I didn't get any. The next meat for the picking will be Astor's money. I hope Scarpino throws some of that estate's money to other law firms who didn't get any of the ice cream cash. Be fair, Tony, you've been making a lot of lawyers angry.
Pitchforks and Torches! That's the only cure for the NY Judiciary. I'm certainly not advocating violence but until the masses fill the courtyards oustide the courts chanting for justice, nothing will change.
Sampson's hearings will go the way of Judge Kaye's Comission, bla bla bla bla! I do applaud all the brave victims for making the effort to try once again for help.
I still have my carvel b-day card from when I was a kid. Now when I take my kids to Carvel all I can thing about is this story.
I'd be prouder of my children if they chose a life as prostitutes rather than a NY lawyer/judge.
The W.C.Fields of the Hudson Valley Bank and his buds got it! Al P. & Tony S. just got a few crumbs.
who you know snow or blow!
So sorry,for Tom Carvel if he died prematurely. Luckily, in my case one of the miscreants, Ann Kennedy, died after fleeing when discovered outside my house just after 6 AM to her death minutes later in auto accident when she most likely speed out on to the opposite side of the State Highway to her death. The scum in our legal system have a responsibility for these deaths. See ExposeCorruptEssex.com for more details. See Federal action 08-5977-cv for more details about Ann Kennedy.
Where is Tony (the mob) Scarpino in the Carvel thing?


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Embattled Dakota Access Pipeline To Start Operating Next Year
By Irina Slav - Sep 09, 2020, 9:00 AM CDT
An expanded Dakota Access pipeline could go into operation by the third quarter of next year, Energy Transfer said in an investor presentation.
The embattled project, which aims to transport crude oil from the Bakken shale play to the Gulf Coast, recently suffered a blow from a federal judge, who ruled in July that the pipeline had to be emptied and closed for the duration of a new environmental review.
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia said that the Army Corps of Engineers had violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when it gave a permit to the pipeline to build beneath Lake Oahe.
Following that last unfavorable ruling, however, an appeals court overturned it, allowing Energy Transfer to keep Dakota Access in operation until that same court decided whether it needed to be closed for the environmental review.
The Dakota Access pipeline has a capacity of 570,000 bpd, and according to Energy Transfer, the recently completed open season had seen this capacity fully committed. By the third quarter of next year, the company also said, "additional capacity to service commitments received through recent open seasons" will be in use.
The $3.8-billion project has faced stiff opposition from the beginning. There were even mass protests against it that resulted in clashes with police, and ultimately arrests and forceful removal of the protesters. Despite all this, earlier this year, Energy Transfer said it planned to boost the capacity of the DAPL to 1 million bpd of oil.
Then reports emerged that the company had declared force majeure on the project in order to prevent companies that had already made commitments for certain volumes of oil from pulling out amid the oil price crisis.
"Honestly, DAPL is not needed," one industry insider told Reuters at the time. "They're trying to build a house that all these people signed up for. Even if there's no longer a need for the house, you can't really walk away from it. Would I like to get out? Yes, for sure."
Oil Markets Get A Major Reality Check As Demand Sours
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The PJ Tatler
No, 'Illegal' Is Not Like the N-Word
By Walter Hudson Jul 07, 2014 12:00 AM ET
The Blaze brings our attention to recent commentary by CNN columnist Sally Kohn on the topic of illegal immigration. She claims that describing immigrants that way, as "illegal," is like using the n-word to describe black people. Kohn writes:
During the civil rights era, Alabama Gov. George Wallace was asked by a supporter why he was fixated on the politics of race. Wallace replied, 'You know, I tried to talk about good roads and good schools and all these things that have been part of my career, and nobody listened. And then I began talking about n*ggers, and they stomped the floor.'
Today, opponents of immigration reform attack undocumented immigrants as 'illegal immigrants.' Even worse, like anti-immigration extremists, some prominent elected officials use the term 'illegals.' Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, said, 'I urge all Mainers to tell your city councilors and selectmen to stop handing out your money to illegals.'
Not the same thing? Of course it is.
No, it isn't. Kohn's equivalence is beyond despicable.
The n-word serves no descriptive purpose. It does not speak to a factual truth about its object. The n-word is plainly and only derogatory.
The word "illegal" is an adjective with objective meaning that describes a factual reality. We call illegal immigrants "illegal" because they are here illegally. It's pretty simple.
Of course, Kohn knows that. An eighth grader knows that. Surely, someone writing for CNN understands that words have meaning and that communicating concepts accurately proves essential to any policy debate. We may therefore conclude with confidence that Kohn's campaign to remove "illegal" from our policy vernacular is a naked attempt to deny the illegality of certain immigration by erasing any linguistic reference to it.
The answer is no, Sally. We're not changing our language to suit your agenda. We're not going to stop categorizing people objectively as illegal immigrants. We're not going to dilute the gravity of truly derogatory terms by conflating them with one that is not.
(Today's Fightin Words podcast is on this topic. 10:27 minutes long; 10.09 MB file size. Want to download instead of streaming? Right click here to download this show to your hard drive. Subscribe through iTunes or RSS feed.)
For media inquiries, please contact [email protected]
Walter Hudson hosts "Closing Argument" on Twin Cities News Talk AM 1130 / 103.5 FM 9-11p CST weeknights and makes regular appearances on Twin Cities Public Television. Walter is a city council member in Albertville, MN. Follow his work via Twitter and Facebook.
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Q: How to solve TypeError: items.map is not a function I have created a Redux reducer to navigate. Initially the localhost opens fine but when i go to another page and try going back there is an error stating the above.
Error
TypeError: items.map is not a function
HomeScreen
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import React, { useEffect } from 'react';
import { Link } from 'react-router-dom';
// import axios from 'axios';
import { useSelector, useDispatch } from 'react-redux';
import { listItems } from '../actions/ItemsActions';

function HomeScreen(props){

  const bookList = useSelector(state=>state.bookList);
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  const dispatch = useDispatch();
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}

export default HomeScreen;

This is the home page.
I am suspecting that while going back the HomePage reads a wrong function and items.map does not return map. I have tried changing the API links but it's not working.

A: I suspect that the loading prop is set to False on the subsequent time you returned to this page.
You may want to add a check before iterating over the items array.
{
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<Link to ={'/book/' + book._id}>{book.name}</Link>

{book.author}

Rs. {book.cost}

Stars: {book.rating} ({book.numReview} Reviews)

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A: Try this:

Array.isArray(items) && items.map(book=>

<Link to ={'/book/' + book._id}>{book.name}</Link>

{book.author}

Rs. {book.cost}

Stars: {book.rating} ({book.numReview} Reviews)

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A: When your API called for the first time it does not return data at once so before sending your response you might want to check if the response you are returning is an array.
app.get("/api/items", (req, res)=>{

    if(Array.isArray(data.items)){

       res.send(data.items);
    }

});

Or in your client-side check if the items is an array before iterating to avoid the error.

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Justia › US Law › Case Law › North Carolina Case Law › North Carolina Supreme Court Decisions › 1967 › State v. Tillman
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State v. Tillman
152 S.E.2d 159 (1967)
269 N.C. 276
STATE of North Carolina v. James Hiram TILLMAN.
Supreme Court of North Carolina.
*161 T. W. Bruton, Atty. Gen., Harrison Lewis, Deputy Atty. Gen., Charles M. Hensey, Trial Atty., Raleigh, for the State.
Fred Darlington, III, Burlington, for defendant.
SHARP, Justice:
This appeal presents only the question whether the State's evidence is sufficient to withstand the motions for nonsuit. The State's evidence is circumstantial, but the test of its sufficiency is the same whether the evidence be circumstantial, direct, or both. State v. Bogan, 266 N.C. 99, 145 S.E.2d 374. "[I]f there be any evidence *162 tending to prove the fact in issue, or which reasonably conduces to its conclusion as a fairly logical and legitimate deduction, and not merely such as raises a suspicion or conjecture in regard to it, the case should be submitted to the jury." State v. Johnson, 199 N.C. 429, 431, 154 S.E. 730, 731. Accord, State v. Roux, 266 N.C. 555, 146 S.E.2d 654; State v. Stephens, 244 N.C. 380, 93 S.E.2d 431.
Defendant contends that the State's evidence discloses no more than an opportunity for the defendant to have taken the money and that it further reveals that others had an equal opportunity to have taken it. With this contention we cannot agree. Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the Stateas we are required to do in evaluating a motion for nonsuit, 1 Strong, N.C. Index, Criminal Law § 99it is clear that defendant and Overman spent a large part of the week before Friday September 3, in apparent idleness at the Cum-Park Plaza Shopping Center. They did no work there, but sat in an automobile or loitered in the vicinity of Byrd's and the Remnant Shop. The reasonable inference is that they were reconnoitering one or both of those places of business, probably Byrd's since Overman was seen at least twice inside that store. Their actions aroused the suspicions of Joe Cole, a former sheriff of the county, who knew them both, and he mentioned their activities to Young, the administrative assistant to one of the owners of the shopping center. Undoubtedly, Cole thought that the two men were "casing the joint." On Friday at noon, Young went with a policeman into Byrd'sfor what purpose the record does not specifically statebut their presence coincided with Overman's and defendant Tillman's, whom they encountered in that part of the store which was clearly posted for "Employees Only." At a time when the manager was out to lunch, defendant Tillman was inside the office from which the money was taken. At the same time, Overman was seen 2-3 feet from the stairs going toward the double doors.
Defendant had no legitimate business in the office. Those who did, had access to a key. Someone who had no key had evidently used a knife to jimmy the lock to obtain entrance. If that person were one other than defendant, the record does not suggest it. When defendant opened the door at Taylor's knock, he opened it only 6-8 inches wide and closed it as soon as he had answered Taylor's question.
After a week of loitering in the shopping center, defendant's unauthorized presence in the office where the money was on the day the money disappeared permits the logical inference that he is the thief who broke into and entered the office. To quote Lord Byron: "A `strange coincidence,' to use a phrase. * * *"
No error.
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I would assume so. I believe gain is 45-50-55-60 with the stock gain boards. And besides the 4 settings on the loading boards, I understand blank boards can be gotten solder in your own selected pairs of resistors.
Yes, blank boards are supposed to be available but numerous efforts on my part to get blank cartridge loading boards have come and gone without any results. I've contacted all the usual suspects and they all say they'll look into it and get back to me. They never get back to me.
Since the Unit is still in production, one would assume this should be a simple matter. Have Chad at Acoustic Sounds put you in touch with Ron Sutherland himself.
You might also be able to contact Ron through the manufacturer's list on this forum's homepage under Sutherland?
I used to own the PhD. Yes, you can use MM cartridges. It's likely that you can use the stock gain board at 45db and loading board at 47k for most MM cartridges.
Although the PhD is the quietest phono stage I've owned (very important since I use Avantgarde Duo horns), I prefer the overall sound of the Diyhifisupply LCR Cole phono stage at half the price. Considering that it uses vacumm tubes, it's quiet enough in my system with more refined sound. I recently sold my PhD here for $2200. They come up fairly often.


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Cassie Chantel Kickstarts 2020 With New Single 'Hate Me' | Music News
US rap artist Cassie Chantel's first track of 2020 "Hate Me" has just been released! Her next album EmoSlime is scheduled for spring 2020. The artist, originally from Athens, Georgia, now lives in Atlanta.
In addition to performing, recording and touring, Cassie Chantel also has her own event company Slab Cypher and her own label TRIB3 HOUSE Records, consisting of a collective of engineers, producers and songwriters.
She is inspired by artists such as Jay-Z or Ice Cube who have succeeded in their careers to excel in many different fields and companies, while also being influenced by the likes of 2Pac, Lauryn Hill, Young Thug and Future.
The Hip-Hop artist full of project and energy was awarded the prize for the 'Best Female In Athens' a few years ago, and the prize for the 'Best Collaboration In Athens' with the song "Chances". She has more than 300,000 streams on all platforms.
On "Hate Me", Cassie Chantel expresses the fact that she has done a lot of harm in her past loving relationships. From the beginning of the track, we hear a voice message on Cassie Chantel's answering machine with a voice saying "I hate you". This message comes from a quarrel from her last marriage.
The R&B song is therefore about Cassie Chantel's quarrels in her former loving relationship, accompanied by a soft melody and a sensual voice, listen to the track below:
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Rillettes [rijet] je masová pomazánka, která patří ke specialitám francouzské gastronomie.

Připravuje se obvykle z vepřového bůčku, ale dá se použít i jiné tučné maso (kachna, husa, králík, losos). Maso se nakrájí na kostky o hraně dlouhé 2–3 cm, které se osolí, opepří a na pekáči podlijí bílým vínem. Mohou se přidat také aromatické ingredience jako česnek, rozmarýn lékařský, tymián obecný nebo bobkový list. Maso se pomalu peče v troubě (až osm hodin), dokud se nerozpadne a nevytvoří kompaktní hmotu, která se nechá vychladnout a podává se nejčastěji s bílým pečivem (některé recepty doporučují pro jemnější texturu rozmělnit maso vidličkou, tyčovým mixérem nebo v mlýnku na maso).

Recept pochází z oblasti Touraine ve střední Francii, místní rillettes mají chráněné zeměpisné označení původu. První zmínka o nich pochází z roku 1480, název vznikl jako zdrobnělina výrazu rille označujícího podlouhlý špalíček sádla (z latinského regula – tyčka, pravítko). O této pochoutce se ve svém díle zmiňuje již François Rabelais.

Specifickými krajovými variantami jsou grillons v Akvitánii, cretons v Québecu nebo rillettes z uzeného bůčku ve Franche-Comté. Podobným pokrmem jsou rillons, připravované z větších kusů masa, které se pečou kratší dobu, takže zůstanou oddělené podobně jako škvarky.

Reference

Externí odkazy

 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/CS/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52012XC0623(05)
 http://fresh.iprima.cz/recepty/rillettes-s-rozmarynem
 http://www.apetitonline.cz/recepty/299-francouzske-skvarky-rillettes.html
https://receptypanicuby.cz/maso/veprove-rillettes/

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4 results for North Carolina Historical Review Vol. 41 Issue 3, July 1964
1.Charles McIver Fights for the Tarheel Negro's Right to an Education by King, William E. North Carolina Historical Review Vol. 41 Issue 3, July 1964
King, William E.
Educational reform was a major component of early 20th century Democratic political campaigns with men like Governor Charles B. Aycock leading the way. Working with Aycock, Charles McIver was a crucial figure in developing legislature to include education for African Americans despite popular opinion of the time. McIver was president of the Industrial College in Greensboro and believed in education for African Americans if not completely equal education. These opinions are expressed in a series of letters between himself and his political allies which are reprinted in this article.
North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 41 Issue 3, July 1964, p360-369, f Periodical Website
Education--Laws and legislation
2.Development and Organization of the North Carolina Militia by Wheeler, Milton North Carolina Historical Review Vol. 41 Issue 3, July 1964
Wheeler, Milton
The state militia began with a charter in 1663 allowing the eight Lords Proprietors of Carolina to enlist and train a force for the defensive purposes. Militia was to defend early North Carolinians from Native Americans, pirates along the coast, and England's European foes, especially the Spanish. From this initial act the author describes the history of the state's militia, statistics concerning recruitment, and the legislative measures to both form and maintain the state's defensive force through the 18th century.
North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
3.The North Carolina Tobacco Marketing Crisis of 1933 by Daniel, James C. North Carolina Historical Review Vol. 41 Issue 3, July 1964
Daniel, James C.
Tobacco prices were greatly affected by both the Depression and the overproduction in 1933. Governor John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus became an instrumental figure in unifying the state's tobacco growers in an effort to regulate and reduce production so that costs would go up. The author describes Governor Ehringhaus' efforts to restore the state's tobacco market through both state and national legislation.
Tobacco industry--History
4.Thomas Hart in North Carolina by Stokes, Durward T. North Carolina Historical Review Vol. 41 Issue 3, July 1964
Stokes, Durward T.
Thomas Hart was a prominent businessman in 18th century Orange County. He served both Hillsboro and Orange County in a number of ways from political, to business, religion, and through military service. The author recounts Hart's service to the community from his move from Virginia to his service as Sheriff and later as the Captain of the Orange County Militia.
Hillsborough--History


We brought our son to be tested for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) this summer. He was fidgety, found it hard to sit still in school, had low concentration and was very impulsive. In other words, all completely normal symptoms of a five-year-old boy.
But I wanted to be sure so that I could give the best and most appropriate response to help him be his best self. Also, I am a complete overreacter.
To my surprise, the therapist explained that not only did he not have ADHD, he had retained some of his primitive reflexes and this was a really common issue that is often misdiagnosed as ADHD. And these retained reflexes could be responsible for a lot of the things that were getting him in trouble at school and at home. Wait, what?
Reflexes are muscle movements that happen unconsciously to certain stimuli. For example, you pull away your hand if it gets burnt on the hair-straightener. Babies are born with a set of these reflexes and they are called 'primitive reflexes' because they originate from the most primitive part of the brain.
They are hard-wired into our system to protect us from harm in infancy and to prepare us for later development changes like sitting and crawling. In fact, that's why these steps are so important in a baby's development. (My son crawled briefly but was up running at 10 months old).
Primitive reflexes should disappear within the first year of life and are replaced by higher-level conscious reflexes, and when they remain (retained) these pathways in the brain can result in symptoms that are linked to immaturities such as clumsiness, lack of concentration, squirming, over sensitivity, poor coordination, and much more.
Like anything, there are different levels of severity depending on how much of a reflex is retained. Luckily, my son had only retained two reflexes and they were extremely mild. The therapist was sure that with some repetitive exercises, we should notice a big difference.
The Moro reflex develops in a baby while in the womb and is fully noticeable at birth. It is the way your little one 'startles' suddenly in their sleep. It is part of the fight or flight survival response. It is completely involuntary and is activated at brainstem level.
This over-activation can also impact other parts of your child's body – high cortisol levels released will result in an inability to balance blood sugar levels and can affect energy and mood throughout the day.
What struck me is that often, a child is labelled as having behavioral problems or being disruptive in school when in fact, they can't help themselves.
Our therapist explained that my son involuntary might kick his feet under the desk, while sitting in school. It seems like he is being 'difficult' or 'disruptive,' but the reality is that the poor love doesn't even realise what he's doing – it is involuntary.
In the school line, he might look around, and slightly lose balance because of another reflex called the Symmetrical tonic neck reflex (ATNR). It looks to the teacher like he is pushing in the line when, in fact, he has just fallen forward. The more it was explained to me, the more I realized how this was impacting every part of my son's life.
Another one is the Spinal Galant Reflex. This is where your baby curves their back when you stroke a finger down their spine. Its purpose is to encourage movement for walking and crawling. Those who retain this reflex can often have problems such as bed-wetting, fidgeting, the inability to sit still and an inability to concentrate.
This is why ADHD is often, wrongly, diagnosed.
The best part is that retained reflexes can be overcome through movement re-education or re-patterning.
The brain is extremely plastic. By taking the body through the physical motions of the developmental stage which was skipped, the brain is encouraged to develop the connections, which should have been formed during infancy.
We have exercises to do at home each evening with my son. The idea is that repetition should help the brain to reform these connections. We have already noticed some changes after 6 weeks – a calmer child who is less impulsive.
Of course, my son's personality also plays a large part. He is like his dad – energetic and mischievous, and I wouldn't want to change that for the world. But the part I feel I CAN guide him through I will focus on now and hopefully it will help him navigate the world a little more smoothly.


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News in brief: Thursday in Finland
A round-up of stories that are making the news before the start of Neste Oil Rally Finland.
Positive news for Thierry Neuville and Craig Breen
Both drivers crashed on Thursday morning's Shakedown but both are hoping to start the rally tonight as planned. Neuville's battered Hyundai i20 was checked over by FIA scrutineers and given the all-clear but the team has a lot of work ahead to get the bent bodywork replaced in time for tonight's opening stage. It's a similar story at camp Breen after the Irishman rolled his Peugeot 208 T16 at shakedown as a result of a tyre deflation.
New faces in the Hall of Fame
Colin McRae, Sandro Munari and Juha Kankkunen are the latest heroes to be inducted to Finland's Rally Hall of Fame at the national transport museum in Kangasala, near Tampere. They join 14 other previously nominated drivers including Paddy Hopkirk, Hannu Mikkola, Carlos Sainz and Michèle Mouton.
Volkswagen dedications
Each of the three factory Polo R World Rally Cars in Finland is sporting a personal message on its boot lid. Sebastien Ogier's [above] carries the Twitter tag #RIPJules, in memory of his friend, Marussia F1 driver Jules Bianchi. Jari-Matti Latvala's carries #Sisu - a Finnish word for bravery and determination, while Andreas Mikkelsen's 'Dust married' [right] celebrates the marriage of his race engineer Richard Browne to his fiancée Maggy a fortnight ago.
Kennard reaches his half century
John Kennard, Hayden Paddon's co-driver since 2005, will mark two significant achievements this weekend – it's 30 years since his first World Rally Championship event as a co-driver and it's his 50th WRC start. "He's getting old!" joked Paddon. "It's a great event for him, it's amazing for him. He's been a big part of my career over the last ten years. There are two of us in the car, there is me behind the wheel and this guy is just as important." And after a second and a fifth place on his last two WRC outings Kennard, 56, has no plans to retire. "I still love it; I love being competitive at this level. As long as Hayden's happy with what we're doing, I'll carry on," he said.
Champions get digging
A group of Finnish rally legends picked up their spades this afternoon to mark the opening of a new Champions Park in Jyväskylä. Each driver planted a tree to commemorate their achievements in an area close to rally headquarters. The planters, pictured below, are (from left to right): Simo Lampinen (three time Finland winner), Ari Vatanen (the first Finnish World Champion), Marcus Grönholm (seven-time Finland winner and double World Champion), Harri Toivonen (brother of Henri and son of Pauli Toivonen), Markku Alén (six-time Finland winner), Rauno Aaltonen (winner of the 1000 Lakes Rally in 1961), Hannu Mikkola (seven-time Finland winner and World Champion in 1983), and Tommi Mäkinen (four-time World Champion, five-time Finland winner and head of Toyota's 2017 WRC programme.)
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Lake Braddock's John Nice made a pair of 3-pointers and scored eight points during the first quarter of Friday's 6A state semifinal matchup against Colonial Forge at VCU's Siegel Center in Richmond.
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2010 release from 14-time Grammy-winning producer, writer and performer Kanye West. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy includes Nikki Minaj, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver on the smash street single "Monster" and Pusha T on "Runaway" which received the Best New Music stamp from Pitchfork. Other guests include Kid Cudi and Raekwon and contributing producers include RZA of Wu-Tang Clan, Pete Rock, and Q-Tip. The album was recorded in Honolulu and at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York City.
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Interview with Fastball
If it's been a while since you've rocked out to a Fastball song, your luck's about to change. For our latest NoiseTrade One-on-One, we talked to Fastball's co-lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter, Miles Zuniga about the band's upcoming album Step Into Light, shooting new music videos with friend/industry vet Nigel Dick (Guns N' Roses, Britney Spears, Oasis), and the new life that's been given to their '90s hit "Out of My Head" via Machine Gun Kelly's new hit single "Bad Things."
NoiseTrade: Two decades into your career, tell us how the writing and recording of your new album Step Into Light compares to the experience of your first few albums?
Miles Zuniga: The first few albums were recorded back in the days when record companies had big piles of money. Those records were done in Los Angeles in beautiful recording studios where people would offer you cappuccino and bring you cocaine on silver trays. Okay, I made that last part up. That never happened to Fastball. Maybe it happened to Fleetwood Mac, but it never happened to us. We did get offered cappuccino though. In contrast, we recorded Step Into Light in two weeks at The Bubble, our pal Frenchy's studio. For reasons I'll explain in a minute, we were under a tight deadline. The deadline meant that we had to be very efficient in the studio. I would be singing upstairs and Tony would be playing bass downstairs or vice versa. There was very little idle time. I'm quite pleased with the results. Most of the songs were written separately. A few were songs that we've had that for whatever reason, never made the cut. "Best Friend" and "We're On Our Way" were written and recorded for the Keep Your Wig On record but we scrapped them. We re-recorded them for Step Into Light. We recorded "Love Comes In Waves" with Mike McCarthy a few years back.
NT: With your last album Little White Lies having been released in 2009, what was the first spark that got you guys back into the studio for Step Into Light?
Zuniga: We notoriously take a long time between records but we're always writing songs. The spark was a tour that we were going to go on but the tour fell through. We made the record for that tour.
NT: Fastball has always seemed to have more of a melodic touch than most of your '90s contemporaries. To what do you attribute that and who do you guys count as songwriting influences?
Zuniga: I just like melodic stuff. I always have. I enjoy other kinds of music but nothing beats a well-written song with an amazing melody. The Beatles are obviously a big influence but I love and listen to a lot of different kinds of music. Howling Wolf, Monk, Mingus, Bob Marley, Willie Nelson, Brian Eno, Nick Cave, Tom Waits… I listen to all kinds of stuff, but I know what I do well. I could write a certain kind of song but I wouldn't be able to pull it off. Ultimately I'm writing the songs for me to sing and so that narrows it down as to what I'm going to do.
NT: You guys have always had a knack for making fun, interesting music videos. What can you tell us about the three new ones you guys shot for "We're On Our Way," "Behind The Sun," and "I Will Never Let You Down" and why did you pick those specific songs for videos?
Zuniga: We're lucky to be friends with Nigel Dick. Nigel directed "Sweet Child of Mine" for Guns N' Roses, "One More Time" for Britney Spears, and "Wonderwall" for Oasis, just to name a few. He's a genius and we cranked those videos out as fast as the record. We shot one a day. Originally we were just going to do "We're On Our Way" and "Behind The Sun," but Nigel really liked "I Will Never Let You Down." Tony did a great job acting in that one. "And the Oscar goes to…"
NT: How has your songwriting been shaped by having such a huge hit like "The Way" come about so early in your career?
Zuniga: It's a blessing and a curse. That song is not our best song, I personally think "Out Of My Head" is better, but "The Way" is our biggest song. I'm always just trying to write the song in front of me and while I'm writing it, I'm just trying to finish the song without ruining it. The initial inspiration is almost always good but there are a million ways to ruin it and only a few ways to set the plane down without crashing. You can easily ruin it by trying to force it, or over-thinking it. It's a strange alchemy. It helps to play the song for other people and then you can see what it needs. If people are excited by it that's great, if they're staring at their phone midway through, it's not that great.
NT: One of your '90s hits "Out of My Head" has recently been re-imagined for the chorus of Machine Gun Kelly's new single "Bad Things." How did you first learn of your song's new life and what do you think of what MGK did with it?
Zuniga: Our publisher told us they wanted to use the tune and sent us the track. We liked it so we worked out a deal with them. "Bad Things" is giving "Out Of My Head" a whole new life. It's exposing us to a brand new audience. It's in the Top 20. I told you that was our best song.
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This is your opportunity to taste bourbon from a bygone era - a 1982 O.F.C. vintage-dated bourbon - and fund rare disease research at the same time. Only 50 bottles of this very rare bourbon were ever bottled, placing each bottle's worth at $10,000. Buffalo Trace released all 50 in 2016 to charities for fundraising. One recipient was The NUBPL Foundation, which funds research for a very rare Mitochondrial disease caused by mutations in the NUBPL gene. Be a part of bourbon history while supporting an important cause.
When: Saturday, February 25, 7-10 p.m.
Mark your calendars for the 5th Annual Gravy Cup, the world's largest biscuits and gravy competition! There are three categories: Traditional, Non-Traditional and —BACK for 2017 by popular demand— Veggie/Vegan Gravy! A trophy will be awarded to the winners of each category, and an additional trophy will be awarded for the "People's Choice Award" as voted by the attendees of the event. There will be live music, beer and spirits as well. Proceeds benefit the Boys and Girls Haven.
When: Saturday, February 25, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
The 14th Annual Taste of St. Michael is an evening of both silent and live auctions, tastings from approximately 20 local restaurants and DJ entertainment. Held in the Community Center, this event typically attracts more than 500 people and has sold out in past years. Don't miss out on your chance to take home one of the class baskets, your child's class project or a gift card from the gift card tree.
When: Saturday, February 25, 6 p.m.
Here Come the Mummies is an eight-piece funk-rock band of 5000-year-old Egyptian Mummies with a one-track mind. Their "Terrifying Funk from Beyond the Grave" is sure to get you into them. Come see their return to Mercury!
Come out on Saturday for an immersive art experience at the Tim Faulkner Gallery to support scholarships at St. Francis School. Enjoy cocktails, strolling dinner, auction and, of course, breathtaking works of art by local and national artists!
When: Saturday, February 25, 6:30 p.m.
Country-rocker Brantley Gilbert will bring his "Devil Don't Sleep Tour" to the KFC Yum! Center this Saturday, with special guests Tucker Beathard, Luke Combs and Brian Davis. The 2017 tour supports Gilbert's fourth studio album of the same name, set to be released in January.
When: Saturday, February 25, 7 p.m.
Come out to Haymarket for Maximón's album release show! They'll be premiering their new album If Yes Do on Saturday, with special guests Cat Casual & the Ordinary Bones and Dr. Girlfriend.
When: Saturday, February 25, 10 p.m.
A world-premiere film to accompany classic music — and next — a world-premiere soundtrack to accompany a classic film. Teddy Abrams and the LO bring you a concert event in collaboration with the Speed Cinema with film and live music at the Kentucky Center.
Join the Louisville Film Society at the Gillespie this Sunday for their annual Oscars Watch Party. There will be hors d'oeuvres and desserts, hollywood-inspired libations, a silent auction and door prizes.
You like vinyl? Have a collection? Like to buy/sell/trade those bad boys? This is the event for you. Keep Louisville Loud Radio is hosting Louisville's Only Vinyl Swap Meet. Four Bands, four DJs and all the vinyl you could want. And even better - Crosley Radio will be raffling off a free RECORD PLAYER!
When: Sunday, February 26, noon-10 p.m.
Cheer on the Cards as they take on Syracuse right here at home. Go Cards!
When: Sunday, February 26, 2 p.m.
Need a place to watch the Oscars? Want to watch it on the big screen and get a chance to win prizes and eat free food? Then come down to the Floyd Theater! Free snacks will be provided and don't miss out on our ballot competition, where you could win one of the Best Picture nominated films on DVD.
When: Sunday, February 26, 7 p.m.
Where: Floyd Theater, 2100 S. Floyd St.
Brides- and grooms-to-be, it's never too early to start planning your perfect day. Head over to Southern Indiana's Premiere Bridal Show this Sunday to find everything you need.
When: Sunday, February 26, noon-3 p.m.


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