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"LIONEL RICHIE – ALL THE HITS"DEBUTS IN LAS VEGAS TO SOLD OUT CROWD!
LIONEL RICHIE DEBUTS "LIONEL RICHIE – ALL THE HITS" TO SOLD OUT CROWD AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD RESORT & CASINO
International Music Icon Triumphantly Launches Las Vegas Headlining Residency Show
Photos By Denise Truscello
Las Vegas (April 27, 2016) – Tonight, multi-platinum-selling artist, four-time Grammy® Award winner and music icon, Lionel Richie, had the audience "Dancing on the Ceiling" during his premiere performance of "Lionel Richie – All the Hits." Marking the beginning of his Las Vegas headlining residency inside The AXIS at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, Lionel unveiled his show to a sold-out theater and multiple standing ovations.
In an unforgettable evening featuring his brightest and best anthems which have defined the music icon's unparalleled career, Lionel takes fans on a spectacular musical journey, performing a variety of his seminal hits, including "All Night Long," "Hello," "Stuck on You," "Say You, Say Me," and "Dancing on the Ceiling."
The spectacular, state-of-the-art production, designed exclusively for The AXIS, gives audiences an intimate, only in Las Vegas concert experience. The show is jointly promoted by Live Nation and Caesars Entertainment and presented by SiriusXM.
Tickets and VIP packages for performances through Oct. 2016 are currently on sale. General ticket prices begin at $59, plus applicable tax and fees, and may be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.com/lionel or in-person at the Planet Hollywood box office. Prices for VIP packages vary depending upon the show date. All shows are scheduled at 8 p.m.
Lionel has sold more than 100 million albums and is the recipient of countless awards, including four Grammy Awards®, an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe Award. This February, he was honored as the 2016 MusiCares® Person of the Year prior to the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards®. Lionel has also been recognized with some of the world's most significant honors, including honorary doctorates from Boston College and Tuskegee University, a "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the United Negro College Fund (making him the first recipient to graduate from a UNCF school),and remains an active member of one of the most prestigious fraternities in history, Alpha Phi Alpha. In addition, he won ASCAP's "Publisher of the Year" and "Lifetime Achievement Award," as well as 16 American Music Awards, five People's Choice Awards, A World Music Lifetime Achievement Award, TV Land Icon Award, Germany's Echo Award for Lifetime Achievement, Hong Kong's Rojo Award, Goldene Kamera Award, Italy's San Remo Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Governors Award, and more. He received the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award presented at Harvard University. He's been inducted to both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Alabama Music Hall of Fame and knighted in France receiving the Legionnaire Award. Always giving back, his charity work extends from Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center to UNICEF and The Art of Elysium.
Songwriters Hall of Fame will honor Lionel Richie as the 2016 recipient of the esteemed Johnny Mercer Award at the 47th Annual Induction and Awards Dinner slated for Thursday, June 9th at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. The Johnny Mercer Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, is exclusively reserved for a songwriter or songwriting team who has already been inducted in a prior year, and whose body of work is of such high quality and impact, that it upholds the gold standard set by the legendary Johnny Mercer. Lionel Richie was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994.
As a member of the Commodores, Lionel developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre categories, penning smashes such as "Three Times A Lady," "Still," and "Easy." After writing "Lady" for Kenny Rogers, and "Endless Love" (which garnered an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe nomination), Motown asked him to do a solo album. The self-titled debut would cement him as a star in his own right and earn him his very first Grammy for the hit "Truly." The diamond-certified "Album of the Year" winner Can't Slow Down followed in 1983, giving the world classics such as "All Night Long," "Penny Lover," "Stuck On You," and "Hello." The next year he performed at the historic 1984 Olympics Closing Ceremony. 1985 saw him join forces with Michael Jackson to write one of most important pop songs in history, "We Are The World," for USA for Africa and the album We Are The World. That same year "Say You, Say Me" would achieve an Academy Award® and Golden Globe Award for "Best Original Song." Lionel upped the ante yet again with 1986's seminal Dancing On The Ceiling, which remains one of his most infectious and incendiary offerings to this day. A decade later in 1996, he began a run of powerful, personal albums that commenced with the Gold-certified Louder Than Words and followed by 1998's Time and 2000's Renaissance. Lionel has collaborated with everybody from Lenny Kravitz to Ne-Yo, The-Dream and Akon, as well as some of country music's biggest names for his 2012 album, Tuskegee. His cultural impact continues to resound as loudly as ever with guest mentor spots twice on NBC's The Voice, first at the request of Christina Aguilera and most recently for Pharrell. He also did a medley of hits on the finale of 2013's China Idol, drawing an audience of over 453 million people.
For more information on the show and tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.com/lionel.


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Clairy Browne &
The Bangin' Rackettes
Baby Caught The Bus
Vanguard Records
The Clairy Browne and the Bangin' Rackettes experience is like a vivid flashback to the sixties -- one that transports you straight onto the set of Shindig but with a darker undercurrent with shades of David Lynch or Federico Fellini piercing through. Their debut album, Baby Caught the Bus, drips with heart-wrenching doo-wop, noir theatrics, party attitude and tough-as-nails soul. The songs on the album have drawn favorable comparisons to artists as diverse as Sharon Jones, Tina Turner and Bettye LaVette, and that commitment to raw emotion is readily apparent on the luridly seductive "Yellow Bird", the torchy, angst-fueled "Vicious Cycle" (a homage to the fallen icons of classic soul), the drunken party clap-a-long "Frankie", the vengefully dramatic "She Plays Up To You", the title track "Baby Caught The Bus", with its fetching ah-OOH vocals and rapid-fire choreography, and "Love Letter" (inspired by the film The Piano Teacher), with its mix of sensuality and menace. Baby Caught the Bus is a powerful and arousing listen. Check it out.
Two weeks. That's how long The Features had to work up roughly a dozen new tunes before they traveled some 2500 miles from their native Tennessee to Vancouver, Washington to make their new album, The Features. Capturing their thrilling, stage-tested sound was a no-brainer on previous albums, but for The Features, the band was game to shake things up. Just two months away from the release of their hailed 2011 album, Wilderness, they decided that they weren't going to wait another two or three years to start work on the follow-up. They'd make it in the two months they had to spare. From their first night in town – when they loaded into the studio and immediately started firming up the song they were set to track the next day – the band didn't flinch at the task at hand. With no time for second-guessing, they embraced a slew of previously untapped sonics and styles, resulting in their most adventurous set of songs yet.
Boxer Rebellion
INgrooves
Promises is the uplifting and cinematic follow-up to the Boxer Rebellion's critically-acclaimed 2011 album The Cold Still. Tennessee-native Nathan Nicholson, Australian Todd Howe, and Englishmen Adam Harrison and Piers Hewitt took to their London rehearsal space and transformed it into a recording studio where the songs for Promises would eventually come together over the course of 18 months. Moving away from the more analog and darker soundscapes that enveloped the band's previous album, Promises is a significant step in a different direction for the London four-piece - a hi-fi, soaring piece of work that truly delivers on the band's epic, signature sound, and individual skill as musicians. From the retro-glossiness of the album's opener, "Diamonds," to the wall-of-sound of "Fragile," to the towering beauty of "Low," "New York," and "Dream," Promises presents itself as an evolution in aesthetic - diverse in soundscapes but singular in grand ambition.
Dennis Callaci & Simon Joyner
New Secrets
Simon Joyner, who over the course of thirteen albums has released a unique and influential body of work on a myriad of independent labels, and Dennis Callaci, who has recorded nearly as many records with his band Refrigerator and runs one of those said labels (Shrimper), present their second record, New Secrets. Their first collaborative release was a one-sided vinyl-only release on Catsup Plate Records released a decade ago called Stranger Blues -- a direct-to-one-track live recording of the two playing together and sharing one mic. Though recorded and mixed in the same spot (i.e. the living room of the Callaci) home in merely three days, New Secrets is a different record altogether -- a call and response exercise of sorts, with a Joyner song answering the plea to the preceding Callaci dirge.Augmenting the album's eleven tracks are guest appearances by Franklin Bruno (Human Hearts, Nothing Painted Blue) and Kevin Morby (The Babies). Dig it.
Liam Hayes
A Glimpse Inside The Mind
Of Charles Swan III
Night Fever Music
Set in a stylized Los Angeles, A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan Iii is a playful comedy of lost love, friendship, revenge fantasies, and Brandy Alexanders. Charles (Charlie Sheen) is a successful graphic designer whose fame, money and charm have provided him with a seemingly perfect life. When his true love, a perplexing beauty named Ivana, suddenly breaks off their relationship, Charles' life falls apart, and he swirls into a downward spiral of doubt, confusion and reflection. With the support of his loyal intimates—Kirby (Jason Schwartzman), Saul (Bill Murray), and his sister, Izzy (Patricia Arquette) — he begins the hard road of self-evaluation to come to terms with a life without Ivana. The film begs the question: Is it possible to love and hate someone at the same time? The soundtrack was composed by Liam Hayes – the reclusive genius behind the band Plush – who appears in the film playing Hammond Organ on a beach.
Man or Astro-man?
Defcon 5...4...3...2...1
Man or Astro-Man? has returned to earth for the human masses and after years of hibernation they are unveiling their finest recorded work to date. Nearly 12 years since the band last released their intergalactic sonic wave forms, the new album, Defcon 5...4...3...2...1 is here with a striking validity that the band is unquestionably as tuneful and energetic as ever. Defcon combines the familiar Astro audio tones and the well-established ferocity that MOAM? is known for yet there is now an undeniable evolution of the band that is both intuitive, logical, and well crafted. Defcon is here and with imminent purpose. Recorded with longtime Astro copilot, Steve Albini, as well as producer Daniel Farris (St. Vincent) this album finds the band bringing their unique powerful style of Science Friction back to humanity in supreme form. It seems Man or Astro-Man? hasn't missed a beat. Put on your space helmet and strap in. The countdown begins now...
A powerful, multi-faceted beast, packed with the most aggressively dancefloor-focused music Jon Hopkins has ever made, Immunity is about achieving euphoric states through music. Inspired by the arc of an epic night out, the album peaks with the huge, apocalyptic, techno monster of "Collider" and dissolves with the quiet, heartbreakingly beautiful closer, "Immunity" -- a track featuring vocals from King Creosote that could sit comfortably alongside the gems of their Mercury-nominated collaboration, Diamond Mine. Immunity is a confident, dramatic record defined by an acute sense of physicality and place. It feels like the hypnotic accompaniment to a journey of creativity, a trip inside Hopkins' mind, using analog synthesis alongside manipulations of physical, real-world sounds to make dance music that feels as natural and unforced as possible. Immunity is the most human electronic album you'll hear this year.
Tommy Emmanuel & Martin Taylor
The Colonel & the Govenor
Mesa/Bluemoon
The world-renowned Australian "Fingerstyle" phenomenon Tommy Emmanuel and Britain's jazz icon Martin Taylor are back with The Colonel & The Governor -- an album of duets that re-creates jazz classics from masters such as Django Reinhardt, Karl Krass, and Eddie Lang, and features Standards like "Jersey Bounce," "The Nearness of You," and "Lullaby of Birdland." Both Emmanuel and Taylor also contributed original compositions to the project. Taylor and Emmanuel and had an instant chemistry: "Martin and I go back to the early 90s when I first saw him on TV in Australia. I was so amazed by his playing, I rang the TV station and they gave me his hotel details," recalls Tommy. "I have learned so much from Martin, as he comes from a jazz background and I come from a country and rock background. We both have a strong love of melody and arrangements that allow our playing to interweave effortlessly. Sometimes it feels like time stands still when we are playing together."
Dine Alone
Furiosity is the debut full-length from Monster Truck. The title, Furiosity, is a portmanteau of furious and curiosity -- as in, wanting to know what's out there, and what's going on, but doing that with aggression and passion.Monster Truck was formed in 2009 by Jon Harvey, Jeremy Widerman, Brandon Bliss, and Steve Kiely as a side-project for their other more serious bands (The Reason, Saint Alvia). Quickly the original plan of getting wasted and playing sloppy rock got twisted into something new entirely. Everyone's influences gelled in a cohesive and exciting new take on all of the classic rock that had come before them. Quickly show offers piled up as well as festival slots (landing them on tours with The Sheepdogs, Slash, Deep Purple, and playing alongside Iron Maiden and Alice Cooper) and Monster Truck realized that they had something that was undeniably fun and exciting on their hands. You will agree.
JC BROOKS &
THE UPTOWN SOUND
With a sound that calls to mind the melting pot Chicago Uptown neighborhood they're named for — a meeting of Otis Redding and the Stooges — JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound get crowds twisting and writhing on the floor. The charismatic Brooks erupts with raw emotion, harnessing the Uptown Sound's post-punk reimagining of JB's moves and MG's grooves to unleash pure and uncompromising soul music ranging from sweaty on-the-one workouts, dance-punk booty shakers, and garage rock thump humps. Known for their wonderful re-imagining of Wilco's "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart," Howl finds the band looking for so much more. Throughout Howl, the dark side of love and longing is explored by frontman JC Brooks's starkly personal lyrics and the Uptown Sound's willingness to bare all their influences and let the grooves fall where they may. A collective evolution has been made where influence meets experience, and this organic progression results in 11 songs that are more open than ever both in message and vibe.
Quadron
When Quadron released their self-titled debut album, the Denmark-born, Los Angeles-based duo -- which is multi-instrumentalist/producer Robin Hannibal and vocalist/lyricist Coco O. -- quickly established themselves as an exciting young act to watch.Avalanche is a funky, soulful game-changer that shows what these two can do when armed with a live band, an actual budget, and the luxury of time to deliver their vision. Quadron's first shot across the bow in 2013 is "Hey Love," that Pitchfork loved, saying "Coco delivers an agile, complementary performance; when she takes over the song in its final minute, it's a display of both vocal power and chemistry." The remainder of Avalanche also reflects Coco and Robin's love for buoyant melodies and insistent grooves as it summons up the gritty synth-driven funk of Stevie Wonder's 1973 landmark album Innervisions and the dancefloor euphoria of Michael Jackson's 1979 classic Off The Wall — two albums that the duo say served as touchstones during the writing and recording process.
A Bad Girl In Harlem
The Denmark trio New Politics -- who uprooted their lives and relocated to Williamsburg, Brooklyn -- return with their new album, A Bad Girl In Harlem. The band started out with over 60 demos -- many inspired by, lead singer, David's new single life --that embraced a greater variety of musical styles, drawing influence equally from punk rock and pop music. The new songs kept coming during the albums recording and, in fact, a few of the disc's final tracks feature the original demo vocals. The songs' lyrics, too, were rooted in the musicians' shifting lives and experiences. "Harlem," the album's first single, was inspired a fling David had with a girl from Spanish Harlem, an area he never thought he'd visit. The throbbing rock number captures a boisterous party vibe and marked a turning point in the band's writing process, which the rest of A Bad Girl In Harlem delivers in spades.
It's not easy to stand out of the shadow of a towering music genius like Paul Simon (Just ask Art Garfunkel), but Harper Simon's sophomore album, Division Street, defiantly shines in its own right. Division Street is a departure for Simon: it features a sound that's much more driven by electric guitars than his Alt-Country flavored debut. Simon co-produced Division Street with Tom Rothrock, who produced three albums for Elliott Smith (Either/Or, XO and Figure 8) and Beck's first album Mellow Gold, among others. Division Street was recorded with a small coterie of guest musicians including Pete Thomas from Elvis Costello's Attractions on drums, Nikolai Fraiture from the Strokes on bass, vocals by Inara George, Feist's musical director Brian LeBarton playing synths, as well as Nate Walcott from Bright Eyes and Wilco's Mikael Jorgensen. Despite the title, this is a family affair – and one well worth exploring.
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The Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) is a group of some of the best independent music stores in America. CIMS was founded in 1995; its current membership is made up of 29 accounts that handle 47 stores in 21 states. Many of the accounts have been recognized by the music industry and their local communities for their outstanding dedication to customer service and developing artist support.
Each member is bound by its shared love of music, a reputation for great selection and customer service in its community, yet each CIMS account is as unique as the market it represents. Most importantly, CIMS member stores continually seek to challenge the jaded, color-by-numbers advertising and marketing of other retailers.
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Gastrocotylidae is a family of polyopisthocotylean monogeneans. All the species in this family are parasitic on fish.

Systematics
The gastrocotylids are known by their rather very diffuse distribution, and a marqued preference for scombroid fishes and carangids.

The Gastrocotylidae Price, 1943 was erected to separate Gastrocotyle and its allies., named and described by reference to a diagram of the clamp type alone Sproston agreed on the importance of the difference in clamp structure in microcotylids, however, she reduced the Gastrocotylidae to sub-family status included in Microcotylidae Taschenberg, 1879. Palombi did not recognize Sproston's subfamily Gastrocotylinae and placed it in the subfamily Microcotylinae Monticelli, 1892 then in his own family Arreptocotylidae Palombi, 1949. This arrangement was refuted, and The Gastrocotylidae was brought back from the synonymy of Sproston in order to accommodate the subfamilies Gastrocotylinae Sproston, 1946 and Vallisiinae Price, 1943 and others which may later be adjudged similar. Price's name was employed for the family as the latest was recognizable, and Gastrocotyle Van Beneden & Hesse, 1863 was designated the type genus. Dawes and Chauhan also considered earlier Gastrocotylidaeas a valid and useful family. The latest valid genus included within this family is Allogastrocotyle Nasir & Fuentes Zambrano, 1984, erected by Nasir & Fuentes Zambrano, 1984 to accommodate Allogastrocotyle bivaginalis Nasir & Fuentes Zambrano, 1984, from the gills of Trachurus lathami off Venezuela.

Subfamilies
According to Lebedev (1986)  and the World Register of Marine Species, the family includes 2 subfamilies:
Gastrocotylinae Sproston, 1946  including Pseudaxine.
 Gastrocotyloidinae Lebedev, 1984

References

Polyopisthocotylea
Platyhelminthes families

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Research Recap: Solar Ovens
September 14, 2021 | Claris Lam
When people think of solar energy, they often think of using it for the sake of replacing commonly-known sources of energy. However, did you know that solar energy can also be used for cooking? Solar ovens are increasingly popular as tools for cooking, and it's possible that they could shape the future of the culinary industry and become mainstream in everyday cooking.
What are Solar Ovens?
Solar ovens are devices that gather sunlight and create heat to cook food without other fuel sources. They are also an affordable and sustainable cooking method that can be used in isolated communities and rural areas in the developing world. The solar energy that these ovens use is a clean, renewable source, which also helps prevent deforestation, fossil fuel usage, and greenhouse gas emissions.
Picture of a Solar Box Oven. Photo from: https://gosun.co/blogs/news/box-solar-oven-advantages-and-disadvantages
There are three primary categories of solar ovens: box ovens, panel ovens, and parabolic ovens. Box ovens reflect sunlight directly into an enclosed container. Panel ovens create heat through strategically positioned surfaces and direct it to a separate container. Parabolic ovens use a curved surface to concentrate sunlight to a single point. Most ovens can be moved easily, set up anywhere with sunlight, and DIY versions can be made at a low cost.
Solar ovens gather sunlight and direct it into an enclosed surface, where the trapped heat gathers. The exact process varies depending on the design. However, all solar ovens require highly reflective materials (such as mirrors, polished metal, or aluminum foil) to be set at particular angles to gather light properly. Solar ovens also need to retain heat well by separating outside air from the air inside the cooking vessel. For example, box solar ovens often have a glass lid to allow sunlight into the oven and, in a process similar to the greenhouse effect, which retains heat inside.
Some of the benefits of solar ovens are that they can work without electricity. This makes them a great option for hurricane preparedness kits and situations when areas could be without power for an extended period of time. Since solar ovens do not require a fire, they are considered safer than burning wood or other materials.
Even though there are obvious advantages with using solar ovens, there are also some disadvantages. While there are dual electric/solar ovens available, with an electric hot plate at the base for overcast days, most solar ovens will not function at night or when it is too cloudy. Additionally, just because the solar ovens use solar energy does not mean there are any risks. Parabolic solar ovens reaching intense temperatures frequently require close supervision. It is also important not to seal cooking jars too tightly or they could explode while in the oven.
What impact could they have globally?
There are some businesses whose products center around using solar energy, such as GoSun. GoSun creates many solar-powered products including coolers and solar panels. They were founded in Cincinnati Ohio and they have worked with dozens of nonprofit organizations to provide discounted solar cookers and other solar products to those that need them most. Additionally, they also provided over 2,500 units at substantial discount to NGO's throughout the U.S and the World.
Photo of Sun Ovens International's All American Sun Oven. Photo from: https://www.sunoven.com/product/all-american-sun-oven/
Sun Ovens International is another company that creates solar ovens and other related products. They assist entrepreneurs to make and market their ovens in the country in which they will be used and in implementing projects to help orphanages to gain self-sufficiency through the sale of bakery goods sun-baked in these ovens.
There are also smaller companies and businesses trying to implement solar cooking into their products. For instance, Kivu is India's first gluten-free and vegan cookie brand that bakes their cookies using solar ovens. Dr. Minal, the founder of Kivu, hopes to spread the Kivu brand all across the world, and chose to use solar ovens to decrease the use of wood stoves, which can damage the eyes and lungs of people that use them over time.
How can they be implemented in Canada and KW?
Glenergy Solar Cooker. Photo taken from https://glenergy.ca/pages/glenergy-solar-cooker
There are also other companies in Canada that create solar cooking products. For example, Glenergy created a solar cooker that concentrates sunlight and captures it as heat inside a glass vacuum tube. The food goes on a tray that slides into the tube, allowing it to cook meals without the use of fuel or electricity. The user can control the temperature by adjusting the aim of the cooker, or by adjusting the optional reflector extensions. The humidity inside the cooker can also be controlled by adjusting the cooking tray. With a drastic increase in using solar ovens, it's possible that they could be the future of how we cook in our daily lives. Could they become the absolute future of the culinary world, even in our daily use? Let us know what you think on social media by tagging us with @SustainableWat!


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The Carson Valley Arts Council is having their final concert of the season featuring Hot Club of Cowtown May 13 at the Genoa Town Hall, 2287 Main Street in Genoa. There will be a wine reception hosted by Tahoe Ridge Winery at 6 p.m. followed by the concert at 7 p.m.
Events committee chairwoman Bonnie Rogers said the change of venue from the CVIC Hall to Genoa was due to a scheduling conflict, and not a permanent change.
Hot Club of Cowtown is a western swing trio that have opened stadiums for artists such as Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, and continue to bring their brand of western swing to a wide range of festivals all over the world. The band is comprised of guitarist Whit Smith, fiddler Elana James and bassist Jake Erwin.
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Grenade picked up by boy explodes on Nigeria-Cameroon border; 9 reported dead
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Nine people were killed on the Nigeria-Cameroon border when a child picked up a grenade from a bin, mistaking it for scrap metal.
All of the dead were Nigerian nationals. Twenty-six people were also wounded in the blast on the Nigerian side, according to a Cameroonian official. The injured, some whose limbs had been blown off, were taken to a local hospital, residents in Gamborou, Nigeria told the BBC.
The boy, believed to be under 10, mistook the grenade for iron, which he intended to sell, according to witnesses.
The grenade exploded late Monday on a busy bridge linking Nigerian and Cameroonian towns, the governor of Cameroon's Far North Region, Midjinyawa Bakary, told the BBC.
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The origins of the grenade are unknown, but the area is embroiled in a conflict between the military and an Islamist insurgency. Boko Haram and its splinter faction, the Islamic State West Africa Province, are prevalent in the region.
Bakary said officials are investigating the grenade's origins but it was almost certainly the property of the military fighting Boko Haram extremists or the Islamic extremist group itself, according to Africa News.
Boko Haram's decadelong insurgency began in northeastern Nigeria and has since spilled into Cameroon as well as Niger and Chad. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and more than 2 million have been displaced as a result of the conflict.


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Terme Zreče Pools Extension by ENOTA
AASA 10 October 2022 7 October 2022 enota, Extension, News, Slovenia, Swimming pool
Terme Zreče is one of Slovenia's higher-profile providers of thermal spa, wellness, and health spa services. Unlike other such complexes, the facility is not sited in a broader natural environment but within an urbanised area.
The development is confined by blocks of flats on one side and public buildings on the other; as a result, the area available for its future development is strictly limited. The space constraints caused the complex to evolve in an increasingly introverted way and be formed around inner atriums. Of the hotel and congress atrium, and the entrance, service and restaurant atriums, the pool atrium is the only one which remains undefined.
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The capacities of both the interior and the exterior pools have proven insufficient; as per the requirement for clearly separating the programmes of individual sections of the pool complex (the therapy, family, and wellness sections), the first step in planning the future development of Terme Zreče is establishing the missing swimming pool atrium by adding a new wellness pool on the southern edge of the pool platform.
In this way, the pool programme also becomes introverted, while the lack of exterior surfaces is compensated for by the expansion of the pool park in the direction of the forest edge on the western side of the area. The basic visual element of the pool atrium is the timber cross-beam facade. The load-bearing cruciform structure is used both in the structural refurbishment of Hotel Vital's balconies and in the renovation of the facade of the existing interior pool.
The structure is also used in the design of the new wellness pool. A paraphrase of a distinctive element of the local rural built landscape, the facade now envelops the pool atrium from three sides while on the fourth side, it opens towards a stretch of green surface with a forest further afield. The intervening space of the atrium is filled with a new, larger water surface occupying the entire available open space between the buildings.
Down the middle, it is split with a passage, which separates the pool segment into the activity section and the relaxation section. At the same time, the central path acts as the main overflow edge and is the primary attraction of the new exterior pool. The exterior lounging space is moved from the atrium to the surface previously occupied by a swimming pool with chutes and slides.
A central relaxation surface established there terminates in a forest. The open green space thus becomes the exterior atrium pool users' only contact with the surroundings. The slides are relocated to the furthest point of the north-western part of the area, thereby confining the noisiest programme item to the edge of the area.
The exterior poolside surfaces are expanded into the forest, enlarging the area gravitating to the exterior pool section while allowing additional relaxation programmes to be accommodated, giving the complex a leg up over the competition. The central load-bearing structure of the new pool section is made of glulam beams and complements the load-bearing cruciform structure of the facade section.
The central placement separates the interior into the swimming area and the lounging area while – together with the furnishings – optically dividing the open lounging surface into several more intimate sections. The roof of the building is designed as a contiguous roof landscape.
The shape and size of the elements used are evocative of other roof elements in the surrounding area, thereby tying together the visual refurbishment of the complex. In combination with the cross-beam load-bearing facade, complex Terme Zreče is endowed with a unique and distinctive expression, yet also one of ingenuous familiarity. Source by ENOTA.
Location: Zreče, Slovenia
Architect: ENOTA
Project Team: Dean Lah, Milan Tomac, Nuša Završnik Šilec, Carlos Cuenca Solana, Jakob Kajzer, Peter Sovinc, Sara Ambruš, Goran Djokić
Client: Unitur
Status: in progress
Site: 20.940 m2
Size: 5.940 m2
Footprint: 5.940 m2
Images: Spacer, Courtesy of ENOTA
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At #NRF17 on day one we spotted (in no particular order): Lyle Bunn, Dave Haynes down from Toronto, Steven K Pratt, Barry Frey and former Quividi Vice President Sales for North America, Mitchell Wade, who joined T1V, Inc / Cenique to lead their efforts in Analytics and Retail almost exactly a year ago.
On day two we had the privilege of bumping into Bryan Meszaros, Tom Nix, BroadSign's Stefanie Gutnik, Craig Henderson and Nanolumens' Joe Lloyd (smart lady) and new Nanolumens Vice President of Global Retail, Matt Nurre.
Also about but not spotted by us were: Manolo Almagro and Will Amos.
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Ruminations on Freedom and Democracy…
I want to take a moment to comment on a few recent political news items that aren't specifically related to drug policy, but have undeniable drug policy implications.
"bullet" I Pledge Allegiance…
The House of Representative just passed a bill that says: "No court created by Act of Congress shall have any jurisdiction, and the Supreme Court shall have no appellate jurisdiction, to hear or decide any question pertaining to the interpretation of, or the validity under the Constitution of, the Pledge of Allegiance . . . or its recitation."
Now this is silly-season lawmaking. The House loves to pass these kinds of bills that they know the Senate will wisely squash, just so they can score political points.
But it's bad law, and bad precedent.
In the drug reform community, we depend on every possible protection from government overreaching devised by the framers. For example, we cannot rely on the legislature. They have consistently worked against science and the will of the people when it comes to medical marijuana. So in addition to trying to change the law, we have to pursue other avenues — voter initiatives and court challenges, including the medical marijuana cases working their way to the Supreme Court regarding the federal government and the commerce clause.
Well, just suppose, due to the large campaign contributions from pharmaceuticals, Congress decided to pass a law stating:
"No court created by Act of Congress shall have any jurisdiction, and the Supreme Court shall have no appellate jurisdiction, to hear or decide any question pertaining to the interpretation of, or the validity under the Constitution of, the Controlled Substances Act . . . or its enforcement."
Freedom depends on checks and balances on government power.
Regardless of your views regarding the Pledge of Allegiance, tell your Representative that you don't appreciate them messing with traditional separation of the branches of government.
"bullet" Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism… Act
The Patriot Act is rearing its ugly head again via the newly formed Coalition for Security, Liberty and the Law (see National Review item.
The Coalition has prepared a letter about the Patriot Act, signed by a ton of important sounding people (although seeing William Bennett and Edwin Meese's names was enough to lose any respect I might have had for the group). Their position:
we ask that no provision of the Patriot Act be allowed to expire and the temporary provisions be made permanent.
The rest of the letter has its share of distortions and outright lies.
As Hit and Run notes, the most hilarious line in the letter:
In passing the Act, Congress extensively debated the commonsense updates in the law and provided safeguards for civil liberties.
That one really had me rolling on the floor.
The Patriot Act has a few minor things in it that could be good. Overall, as a tool for fighting terrorism, it's not that great. Most everything the country needed to fight terrorism it already had. Federal law enforcement didn't need more tools — they just needed to focus on the problem rather than spending so much of their resources on the drug war.
There just wasn't time before passing the Patriot Act to properly develop a set of tools specifically for fighting terrorism (heck, there wasn't time to read it). The Patriot Act was primarily a Justice Department wish list that they already had lying around to give them more power and reduce the rights of the individual.
Already for decades, the federal government had worked tirelessly, chipping away at individual rights through the courts in the name of the drug war, always using the "compelling government interests" of "dangerous drugs" and "protecting children" but never being forced to prove that
their assertions were true
the drug war was the best way to solve the problem
the drug war even worked at all
the drug war didn't actually increase the problem
Hence we got civil asset forfeiture, and no-knock warrants, and loosened restrictions regarding searches and evidence, and military-style attacks on our own citizens.. Remember what the 4th amendment used to look like?
Ah, those were the days. Freedom and democracy.
When Ashcroft promoted the Patriot Act, he said that we shouldn't worry about it. It's things we're already allowed to do in the War on Drugs and we just want to add them to the War on Terrorism (why doesn't that make me feel better?). Of course, if that's true, the strange thing is that the Patriot Act has since been actually used for more drug convictions than terrorism convictions.
We must not give in to fear. We can be strong and resolute without giving up our rights. Ashcroft wants you to give them up.
It's to fight the terrorists. Really. We won't use the powers for inappropriate purposes. You'll have nothing to worry about. Trust us, we're the government.
"bullet" The Exquisite Cacophony of Freedom
Recently there's been a lot of talk about the inappropriateness of government criticism. Some have gone so far as to equate criticism of government policies with treason or aiding the enemy. I find this troubling — in part, because I know it so well.
For decades, the drug policy reform community has operated under a virtual gag order because we're at war — in the War on Drugs. Ordinary people have been afraid to question drug laws because they might be perceived as druggies. Even today, I have people tell me that they agree with me, but are afraid to speak up, and I've had readers email me from anonymous remailers because they'd lose their job if they were seen to be favoring drug policy reform. And I've had people tell me that I personally should be held responsible for the deaths of overdose victims, because of what I say on this blog.
It is dangerous (and should appear suspicious) whenever one group is so entrenched in their position that they don't even want a different view to be heard, and are willing to make outrageous accusations to silence it.
During a June, 1999 Congressional Hearing, Rep. Benjamin A.� Gilman, from upstate New York declared:
"[Legalization] cannot and ought not be any topic of serious discussion in our nation's debate of the challenges of illicit drugs."
In the same hearing, Rep.�Bob Barr asked whether anti-racketeering laws could be used to prosecute people conspiring to legalize drugs.�
It is not only my free speech right to speak out when I disagree with government policies; it is my responsibility as a citizen in a democratic society.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…
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Memo Could Sink Samsung's Case Against Apple
By Brad Chacos 2012-08-07T09:09:29Z
The second week of the Apple vs. Samsung case began with a bang yesterday, courtesy of a 2010 memo written by Samsung's own president of mobile electronics. In it, J.K. Shin repeatedly calls for a drastic improvement to the design of the company's phones -- and he repeatedly points out the iPhone as the standard to be met.
Early in the memo, Shin relates a scene he says he experienced again and again with carriers who have spent their subsidy budget on buying Apple's handset: "I hear things like this: Let's make something like the iPhone. When everybody (both consumers and the industry) talk about UX, they weigh it against the iPhone. The iPhone has become the standard. That's how things are already."
"Do you know how difficult the Omnia is to use? When you compare the 2007 version of the iPhone with our current Omnia, can you honestly say the Omnia is better? If you compare the UX with the iPhone, it's a difference between Heaven and Earth."
It's easy to see why Samsung didn't want this note released as evidence.
Later on, Shin moves on to the interface specifically. He's fine with the external design of Samsung's phones, he says, "but when it comes to the ease of use of our (user interface), I lack such confidence.
"Influential figures outside the company come across the iPhone, and they point out that "Samsung is dozing off. All this time we've been paying all our attention to Nokia, and concentrated our efforts on things like Folder, Bar, Slide. Yet when our UX is compared to the unexpected competitor Apple's iPhone, the difference is truly that of Heaven and Earth. It's a crisis of design."
In the wake of the iPhone, Shin says, the company needs to cater less to the whims of carriers and create phones with more natural interfaces and metallic exteriors rather than plastic ones. "The iPhone's emergence means the time we have to change our methods has arrived."
AllThingsD has a transcript of the complete memo.
Image credit: Apple evidence, edited for space constraints, via AllThingsD.
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Jaroslav Matějka (* 17. prosince 1940) je bývalý český politik, v 90. letech 20. století poslanec České národní rady a Poslanecké sněmovny za KSČ, respektive KSČM, pak za Levý blok.

Biografie
V únoru 1990 se stal poslancem České národní rady v rámci procesu kooptací do ČNR. Je tehdy uváděn jako bezpartijní. V řádných volbách v roce 1990 potom byl zvolen do České národní rady za KSČ (respektive za její českou část KSČM). Opětovně byl do ČNR zvolen ve volbách v roce 1992, nyní za koalici Levý blok, kterou tvořila KSČM a menší levicové skupiny (volební obvod Jihomoravský kraj). Zasedal v hospodářském výboru.

Od vzniku samostatné České republiky v lednu 1993 byla ČNR transformována na Poslaneckou sněmovnu Parlamentu České republiky. Během volebního období 1992-1996 přešel do strany Levý blok (skupina reformní levice, která po rozpadu koalice Levý blok přijala název této střechové platformy a v parlamentu působila nezávisle na KSČM).

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Členové KSČ
Členové KSČ politicky aktivní po roce 1989
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Poslanci České národní rady
Poslanci Parlamentu České republiky (1992–1996)
Narození v roce 1940
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Meghan Markle's family issues continue apace. The Duchess of Sussex's future sister-in-law Darlene Blount is arrested for the second time this year.
Blount was arrested on suspicion of assault on Friday. The 37-year-old fiancée of Meghan's half-brother Thomas Markle Jr. was charged with assault in the fourth degree.
The police were called to the couple's home in Oregon on a domestic violence complaint. Blount was held in jail overnight before being released on bail the following morning.
Law enforcement previously attended the property on New Year's Day. Thomas Jr., 51, was involved in some kind of drunken brawl with Blount at that stage, which also landed his fiancée in jail on a charge of fourth-degree assault.
He later blamed his half-sister's engagement to Prince Harry for causing the argument.
"It hasn't been easy. ... It doesn't help when you have issues and your sister is engaged to royalty. It adds a whole new level of scrutiny. We've been under a lot of stress because of all the attention. At some point you find yourself drinking too much to escape the pressure," he admitted at the time.
Thomas confirmed that he and Blount would be seeking professional help for alcohol abuse and to deal with their ongoing relationship issues. Neither party attended Suits alum's wedding to Prince Harry back in May.
The Duchess of Sussex has been getting it from all angles lately, with her father, in particular, doing interviews with British tabloids to discuss their strained relationship in great detail.
A source close to the newly minted royal advised she's taking it pretty hard.
"She's upset ... She doesn't even know how to communicate with her dad without knowing he won't exploit her. She lives in fear that he'll leak their communication. If he's spoken this much already, why wouldn't he leak their conversation?" advised an insider.
Her half-sister Samantha recently tweeted that if Thomas Markle Sr. were to die, it would be Meghan's fault. Samantha Markle is in talks to appear on the upcoming season of Celebrity Big Brother, which likely won't go down well with the royal family.
Queen Elizabeth has clearly accepted Meghan into the fold as she recently gifted the newlyweds a brand new cottage to live in. The home in question is Adelaide Cottage in Windsor, formerly home to Princess Margaret's lover Peter Townsend.
They are set to move in soon, leaving Harry's home in Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace. There are seven-gated entrances and exits to Windsor Castle, so the new place should afford the couple the privacy they crave.


Welcome to Huracan (Argentina - Torneo Inicial) statistics. Below you find a lot of statistics for this team. Last and next matches, top scores, best players, under/over stats, handicap etc.
To defend the most demanding players will be Lucas Emanuel Gamba 6 goals, Andres Chavez 5 goals, Andres Felipe Roa 4 goals, Carlos Auzqui 3 goals, Diego Mendoza 3 goals, Lucas Barrios 3 goals, Carlos Luciano Araujo 1 goals, Patricio Daniel Toranzo 1 goals, Juan Fernando Garro 1 goals, because this season they scored the most goals for Huracan of the entire composition.
Streaks for for all matches played in Torneo Inicial is undefeated from 5 matches in a row.
Streaks for for matches played only away in Torneo Inicialfrom recent 10 matches in a row can't win a match.
Statistics of matches that the team Huracan won or lost with a particular goal difference.


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By Dave Fratello | May 21st, 2014
One way to track the Manhattan Beach real estate market is to watch what's happening with the oldest, and often smallest, homes in town.
In the Tree Section, there have been several recent sales.
Today, Dave's listing at 1600 N. Poinsettia (2br/1ba, 920 sq. ft.) just closed for $1.370M, somewhat over the asking price of $1.350M. That's a mostly original 1940s cottage that will be getting a makeover by the new owners.
Very similarly, slightly larger 1500 N. Poinsettia (3br/2ba, 1230 sq. ft.) sold 7 weeks ago for $1.399M, and will also be remodeled. (Dave represented the buyers there.)
Both of those Poinsettia homes have lot sizes a bit under what's typical for the Tree Section, at about 4200 sq. ft. each. Both drew interest from buyers who would have rebuilt new on site, but buyers willing to work with the existing homes prevailed.
On Tuesday, a fully remodeled dollhouse of a cottage at 1500 Walnut – just one block over - sold for $1.650M.
That's also a small place, at 3br/2ba, 1200 sq. ft., but wow oh wow does it look marvelous, with an open kitchen/great room up front, and a terrific sense of modern beach style across the board. No chance this was going to wind up a lot sale. The outgoing owners had saved the house by improving it.
You had to know when they listed at $1.499M that the list price was just the starting point. It was just that. Off to the races went the buyers. The end result is a PPSF in excess of $1,300/PSF, pretty amazing in the Trees.
A 1950s cottage at 2409 N. Poinsettia did wind up as a lot sale. Our information is that a spec builder grabbed the 4480 sq. ft. lot and will be rebooting that particular plot.
The dirt value at 2409 Poinsettia: $1.400M.
Somewhere in between all of these was the 2br home at 1404 Pine.
Tax records show 3br, but with a wall removed between two of those, it shows as a 2br/2ba, 1165 sq. ft. home that's been opened up substantially in the main common areas, with a lot of yard showing through the kitchen, for a nice indoor/outdoor feel.
1404 Pine came in at $1.475M.
What looks like a screaming bargain came in early in April at 1817 Oak.
There, a 2br/1ba, 1245 sq. ft. house with a western-side 4480 sq. ft. lot (the "good" side of Oak) sold for $1.030M. That's 25% cheaper than the least expensive property mentioned in this rundown.
Going back several months, 750 30th drew a monumental amount of interest (30+ offers) when the little 3br/1ba, 1150 sq. ft. original 1950s cottage was offered for $1.150M.
Climbing to the top of the pile: A bulldozer.
A spec builder paid $1.515M (according to tax records) in December and, by doing so, signaled to all that Tree Section land values were about to rocket into the stratosphere.
There's debate about what's "best" or "right" for Manhattan Beach as little, original homes find new owners. A new article in the new LA Register captures the debate. (See "Wrecking balls on the beach: Can small-town Manhattan Beach be saved?")
We're pleasantly surprised to see that most of the publicly listed, original homes sold in the Trees recently are actually going to stay standing. We're all for progress, but how can you not have a soft spot for preserving MB's original flavor, too?