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Smash-hit Tudor musical SIX returns to the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford 1 – 12 March
The international smash-hit musical SIX returns to the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford 1 – 12 March. Multi award-winning, with a soundtrack storming charts across the globe, the sell-out Tudor phenomenon is back! The six wives of Henry VIII take to
MORR & CO – A CHANGE OF NAME FOR LEADING LAW FIRMS MORRISONS SOLICITORS, WHEELERS SOLICITORS AND HARROPS & HEPBURN SOLICITORS
On Monday 10th January 2022, the Morrisons Group, which includes Morrisons Solicitors, Wheelers Solicitors and Harrops & Hepburn Solicitors, rebranded to become Morr & Co. With eight offices across Surrey, Hampshire and South West London, Morr & Co is one
BCC FINDS RISING CYBER-ATTACK FEARS IN HYBRID WORKING WORLD
More than half of firms believe their exposure to attack has increased due to working from home arrangements One in 10 firms have been the victim of a cyber-attack in the last year This rises to more than one in seven for larger firms
Government announces grants to support businesses impacted by the Omicron variant
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Award-winning New Old Friends present Crimes, Camera, Action at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre 25 & 26 Feb
Multi-award-winning theatre company New Old Friends are back at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford with Crimes, Camera, Action (25 & 26 Feb). Set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Crimes, Camera, Action is the glamorous and hilarious new instalment
MEET THE TEAM THAT MAKE IT EXCEPTIONAL AT BROOKLANDS HOTEL
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45% of Firms Facing Difficulties Trading with EU Under Post-Brexit Trade Agreement
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Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) Reveals Busiest Year In 2021
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Impact of 'Plan B' on SMEs could derail fragile UK recovery, warns Azets expert
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Arts Minister visits Brooklands Museum following Cultural Recovery Fund grant.
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We are changing how banking is done in the United States. We partner with existing banks and credit unions (not-for-profit retail banks) to transform their digital banking. Our founders used to run a credit union and saw first hand how backwards banking is today. Our online banking, mobile banking and open banking API helps Americans better understand their financial story and interact with their finances. Our product is already used by thousands of people everyday.
We are an early stage startup and are looking for someone who is excited by the prospect of working in a small team. Working in a small team offers many rewards, but also a great amount responsibility. You will need to be comfortable working up and down the stack, as well as getting your hands dirty in the devops world. You'll need to be able to work closely with the other team members to quickly plan, develop, implement, and iterate on new features and new products. You'll need to be self-disciplined and able to work in an environment with less structure than a typical corporate / later stage startup setting. You'll need to take security seriously (don't worry we automate a lot).


Doesn't actually matter or important where you are, the profession you engage in, you can learn how to earn money online at your comfort zone with the 7 Core Tips Of Unfailing Online Money Making.
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For few years now, the world of traditional business has been totally transformed, likewise it's difficult to find a prolific entrepreneur who has earned his fortune and who is not on the internet.
With diverse of alternatives to earn online, not only has the life of companies changed but also that of all people and, therefore, those of the labor market.
To earn money without the internet you need a job, but on the internet a job is not necessary.
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Here are series of alternatives for you to earn money online, which require little or no investment/capital and will help you to carve a future in a constant and quite stable.
1. Sell Your Photographs To Banks of Images.
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Basically this tool works as an intermediary which, through contests, you compete with other designers to win the client.
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Top 10 Best Butter Brands in India
Food By Santosh December 2, 2016
Butter! Yes the only thing better than butter is more butter. Most of us love to have a bit of butter in some of our food items. Butter makes it taste better. A lot of food items are prepared with butter as an ingredient, such as cookies, cakes, pastries, breads, sweets, etc. A spoon of butter even to a curry makes it special. A lot of Indian sweets are prepared with butter and for the same reason it is important for Indian's to choose the best butter available. Butter is not only loved due to its yummy taste, but its various benefits for health and overall growth too.This is the reason it is advised for kids to eat butter on a daily basis.
Here's a list of top 10 best butter brands in India.
10. Dudhsagar Dairy Butter
It was established in 1963 in Gujarat as the result of an Amul – model cooperative movement in Mehsana in Gujarat.They are registered under the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation which can be abbreviated as GCMMF. It later became well established and started to trade by products of milk too. At this time Dudhsagar started to trade in butter. The butter they sell is of good quality. Their motto is 'Dudhsagar, The Pride of India'.
9. Milma
Milma was established in Thiruvananthapuram in 1980 as a movement by the Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation. Most of the Milma products are produced and marketed in Kerala itself. So is its butter too. Milma butter is the common butter brand available in Kerala. The butter is then obtained from the milk cream. The quantity of fat is 81% and water is less than 15.6% in this butter. The two variants of this butter are salted butter and unsalted butter. They are available in packs of 100g, 200g and 500g.
8. Aavin
Aavin is a diary under the Tamilnadu government. It was established in 1958. The word 'Aavin' translates as cow's milk. They sell plain butter with the title Table butter and salted butter as cooking butter. Both are available in 200g and 500g packs.
7. Britannia
It is a product of the Maharashtrian Company, the Dynamix Dairy. It is a private company and was established in 1995. Their products are sold in Maharashtra and many other states too. It is 100% pure butter with 80% fat content. They are available as salted butter and are easily spreadable on toast or bread. It is available in 100g and 500g pack.
6. Vijaya
It is a product of the AP Dairy Development Cooperative Federation Ltd. The company trades all its products under the name Vijaya. It is a good quality butter that has variants like salted and unsalted. The Vijaya products are available to the consumers with affordable rates. It was established in 1960
5. OMFED butter
OMFED is the abbreviation for Orissa State Cooperative Milk Producer's Federation. It was established in 1985. They also prepare butter by churning the pasteurised milk cream. Then annatto colour and salt are added before packaging. The OMFED butter is available as 100g and 500g packs.
4. Nandini
Nandiniis the brand name of Dairy products marketed by the Karnataka Co-operative Milk Federation. It is the largest Cooperative Dairy organisation in South India. Salted butter is available in 10g, 100g, 200g and 500g packs.whereas unsalted butter is available only in packs of 200g and 500g. The price for a 500g pack of nandini butter is Rs.200. They claim their butter to be creamy and nutritious with the goodness of pasteurised milk.
3. Kwality butter
Kwality was established in 1992 and was named Kwality Dairy Limited. It is not a brand popular in India alone, but has its name in other countries too. Their products are marketed in India and 20 other countries around the world. The Kwality butter was established only 2015 and it became popular because the company already had a good name and was recognized. Their butter is sold under the brand name 'Dairy Best'. It is available in different sizes and they are planning to expand their Dairy business furthermore.
2. Mother Dairy
Mother Dairy was established in 1974 in Uttar Pradesh. It is renowned for the quality of its products. They not only trade in milk and its byproducts but also in processed food, jam, juices, etc. They trade salted butter and unsalted butter. Salted butter is available in packs of 100g and 500g and the plain one is available as a 180g pack. The former has a shelf life of 12 months, but the latter has only 9 months shelf life. They claim their butter to be creamier and smoother than other brands.
1. Amul
Amul is the top ranked butter in India. When thinking about butter the first name that comes to the mind of an Indian will be normally Amul. It has its endeavors in the overseas markets too. It was established as a result of the White Revolution in 1946. Amul is famous for the little girl ad and has won the Guinness world record for being the most popular ad for several years. 'Utterly Butterly Delicious' is the catch word for Amul butter that has synced with the brand name.
Whatever brand butter is butter. A little bit of butter added to anything makes it smooth, soft and tasty, be it cakes, pastries, sweets or whatever. Butter in moderation is healthy too.
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Melodic moments at the National Gallery
Myra Hess playing in the Barry Rooms during the Second World War. Photo: © The National Gallery, London
Introducing Rakewell, Apollo's wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories.
In 1939, the pianist Myra Hess proposed a series of chamber music concerts at the National Gallery in London, its collection already decanted to a Welsh slate mine for safeguarding during the war. Then director Kenneth Clark was 'delighted', he wrote, 'at the thought of the Gallery being used again for its true purpose, the enjoyment of beauty, rather than for the filling in of forms or the sticking up of envelopes'. The first of the concerts was held on 10 October. They would run on a daily basis in the Barry Rooms, with only a short break at the end of the war, for six and a half years – with more than three-quarters of a million attendees.
Rakewell is delighted to discover that, in our own difficult times and in homage to Hess, the National Gallery is to release four videos of concerts by the members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. These were recorded earlier this year – not in front of hundreds of people, alas, but in the great octagon of the Barry Rooms nevertheless, and transmitted on the gallery's website and YouTube channel. Hess's first programme – she took on the first concert, in case the whole venture was a flop – included music by Schubert, Beethoven and Chopin. The LPO concerts feature music for string players 'chosen to match paintings in the Gallery's collection' – Haydn with Drouais' Madame de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame, for example.
Members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra play in the Barry Rooms of the National Gallery. Photo: © The National Gallery, London
'Painting and music are the most natural of partners,' says National Gallery director Gabriele Finaldi – himself is no mean musician, having as a young man played professionally in an Italian dance band in London. Perhaps, when this crisis is over, it will be time for daily concerts in the Barry Rooms once again (freelance musicians could certainly do with the work). The director keeps a small grand piano in his office in Trafalgar Square, after all…
Got a story for Rakewell? Get in touch at rakewell@apollomag.com or via @Rakewelltweets.
The enigmatic visions of Odilon Redon
A new exhibition suggests that Redon's pictures owe as much to literature and music as they do to the visual arts
The addictive art of Ragnar Kjartansson
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Q: Finding the distribution Suppose $X$ is a continuous random variable with a cdf of $F(x)$. If we let $Y=F(X)$. What is the distribution of $Y$?
I am unsure how to approach this problem. All I have is the following:
$F(x)=P(X\leq x)$
$F(y)=P(Y\leq y) = P(F(X)\leq y)$
Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.

A: Hint: How can we justify writing something like...
$$ \mathbb{P}( Y \leq y ) = \mathbb{P} (F(X) \leq y) = \mathbb{P} ( X \leq F^{-1}(y) ) $$

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Ekseption was best known for their creative rock arrangements of classical music, and this is one of their best known pieces. Maybe if old JS had access to a saxophone he would have done it this way too. Or not. Whatever, it's still a fun example of Bach Rock.


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VW Agrees To Cut Executive Bonuses In Light Of Scandal
In a statement Wednesday, VW announced that its management and supervisory boards agreed that the bonuses should send "a signal" in light of "the current situation of the company."
Volkswagen executives will see reduced bonuses as the company continues to deal with the fallout from its diesel emissions scandal.
Company officials met Tuesday amid pressure from a top shareholder and union leader to curb bonus pay in solidarity with workers, investors and customers that bore the brunt of the emissions controversy.
"As a consequence, this would lead to a significant reduction of the variable remuneration," the company said.
Discussions about appropriate bonus payments remain ongoing and are slated to be approved late next week. Reuters, citing a source familiar with the talks, said the cuts would exceed 30 percent -- a relatively modest total given the scale of the scandal.
The reductions would apply to the management board -- including CEO Matthias Mueller -- but not to the supervisory board, which functions as a board of directors. Hans Dieter Poetsch, who served as CFO until taking over as board chairman, will voluntary receive a reduced bonus.
Cumulative bonus amounts will be presented as part of the company's full earnings report on April 28. VW sales fell off dramatically after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency disclosed the installation of software to manipulate emissions in its diesel vehicles in September.


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Silverado Vineyards, Winner, Best in Show by Country (US)
01/12/2021 Experience a great estate with Russ Weiss, President as we dive into what winning means to the company, the impact of Covid on business, and future plans.
Founded back in 1981 by the wife and daughter of cartoon pioneer Walt Disney, Napa Valley-based Silverado Vineyards is today run by the third and fourth generation of the family, who farm 360 acres across six estate vineyards in the Stag's Leap region. Best known for its Cabernet Sauvignon, the winery recently won Best in Show by Country at the London Wine Competition, a real feather in the cap of an estate not widely known outside Napa.
President of Silverado Vineyards, Russ Weiss tells us what winning means to the company, the impact Covid has had on the business, and plans for the future
What does winning Best in Show by Country at the London Wine competition mean for you?
We are very proud of Silverado's wines, and the quality speaks for itself. All the wines in our portfolio are estate grown, produced, and bottled. There are very few true estate wineries left – especially in Napa Valley. For a small winery like Silverado, not everyone knows who we are outside of California, so competitions are an excellent way to give luxury wine consumers confidence in the selections they make.
What do you think makes your wines special?
The wines that won the gold medals in the 2021 London Wine Competition are three of our estate-grown Cabernets:
The 2018 Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon, the single-vineyard 2018 GEO Cabernet Sauvignon, and the single-vineyard 2016 SOLO Cabernet Sauvignon
We're so lucky to be the custodians of two incredibly historic vineyards in the Napa Valley where we grow Cabernet: The Silverado vineyard and Mt. George vineyard.
In 1968, Silverado Vineyard became the fourth planted to Cabernet Sauvignon in the Stags Leap District. Over the next two decades, meticulous field selection created an entirely new clone of Cabernet Sauvignon. The University of California, Davis, designated this unique vine the Disney-Silverado Heritage clone. It is one of only three Cabernet Sauvignons to attain Heritage status – and the only one from Stags Leap District.
Our GEO Cabernet is named after our Mt. George vineyard which goes back to 1868 and is one of the first planted in the Napa Valley. Our Estate Cabernet, our largest seller, earned 95 points, a gold medal, best in the show, and best in the country.
We also won medals for our Vineburg Chardonnay and our Miller Ranch Sauvignon Blanc which we are also very proud of. While we are traditionally a Cab house, our Sauvignon Blanc is our second-best-selling wine and one of the fastest-growing varietals in the US.
What is the size of your annual production and how does that compare over the past couple of years?
Our depletions are approximately 50,000-75,000 cases per year. Obviously, 2020 was a tough year with the closure of the winery and many on-premise locations, in addition to constraints on the export market.
How is the 2021 harvest looking in terms of yield and quality and how did it compare to previous years?
We are in the middle of harvest now. Like many wineries in the Napa Valley, we sadly lost our entire harvest of red wine in 2020 due to smoke. So, while 2021 is a relatively light harvest, we are grateful to have what we expect to be a high-quality vintage.
What were the biggest problems you encountered during the 2021 vintage?
2021 was a much smoother process than last year, although we had a very dry season with relatively no rain and high temperatures, which is always a challenge. We also had some new ones such as deer who had an affinity for Kerner grapes.
What about Covid? What impact has that had/continue to have on your business?
Our tasting room was closed for most of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 so that had a significant impact on our business. The closure of bars and restaurants was devastating to most wineries, and for Silverado – cruise ships, theme parks (Disney), and Duty-Free locations also affected us. However, we are optimistic as the on-premise business continues to rebound.
Sales and velocity are up significantly over 2020 and are even surpassing 2019 in many locations
What are your key export markets and which are growing fastest?
Our key markets are general luxury travel and duty-free markets, as well as the UK, Japan, Canada, and Denmark. Currently, exports account for around 10% of our business. All our markets are pretty fast growing since we are bouncing back from Covid. We are a bit more granular with how we look at a market – as we are looking intently at where the luxury wine consumer is. For example, we can't just say "California" which is a very big market – as there are areas within the state that focus on fine wine and are experiencing bigger growth – so it's really by postal code.
Are you eyeing up any new markets and if so where are they? What potential do they hold?
We are always keeping our eye on emerging new markets. Since we are an estate winery, if a new market gets an allocation – it influences the allocations to existing markets. As such, we are very thoughtful about how we allocate our limited inventory into a new one.
Can you share any future plans for your business?
We are celebrating the winery's 40th anniversary this year, so we are looking forward to the next chapter. As the industry rebounds from Covid, we are rebuilding our on-premise and export business, while continuing to build on the DTC e-commerce momentum created during the shut-downs.


The flu vaccine should be given to everyone 6 months and older, as it is the best option for protection during the upcoming season, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The annual flu vaccine significantly reduces a child's risk of severe influenza and death.
During the 2016-17 season, more than 100 U.S. children died of the flu, and thousands more were hospitalized for severe illness or complications from the virus. Historically, more than 80% of children who died of influenza were not vaccinated.
"Getting a flu shot as soon as the vaccine is available in your community should be on every parent's checklist, along with other back-to-school routines," said Flor Munoz, MD, FAAP, co-author of the report. "We know that the flu should not be taken lightly. Everyone in the household, including pregnant women, grandparents, and child care providers, should be vaccinated to help prevent its spread."
In addition, antiviral medications are important in the control of influenza, but are not a substitute for influenza vaccination. Pediatricians should promptly identify children suspected of having influenza for timely initiation of antiviral treatment, when indicated, to reduce morbidity and mortality.
"Clinical judgment is an important factor in treatment decisions for children who present with influenza-like illness," said Dr. Bernstein. "The best results are seen when treatment is started within 48 hours of symptom onset."


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Top Australian Coal Mines Are Spewing More Methane Than
Since 2009, Western Australia produces coal from two mines at Collie - Premier and Ewington. Most of the coal produced is used in Synergy power stations, located at Muja and Collie, and the remainder in industrial processing for resources like mineral sands and bauxite. One of the major Western Australian coal producers, Premier (formerly.Jun 04, 2021 Anglo American's mining activities will return at the Moranbah North coal mine in Queensland this month, with the Grosvenor mine to resume in late-2021. After both mines suffered major setbacks.
Whitehaven Coal's Winchester South Mine To Use
Yancoal Australia is Australia's largest pure play coal producer. It boasts three tier one thermal coal mines in New South Wales together with interests in three other metallurgical and thermal coal mines located in New South Wales and Queensland. Yancoal Australia also manages five other Australian coal mines on behalf of related parties.The Carmichael Mine is located in the North Galilee Basin, than 300 kilometres from the Queensland coastline and approximately 160 kilometres north-west of Clermont in regional Queensland. Once construction is complete, the Carmichael Mine will be one of 125 coal mines in Australia. The mine will produce 10 million tonnes of coal per annum.
Curragh Chpp: One Of The Largest Coal Reserves In Asia And
Premier Coal is situated in the Collie Coal Basin in the South West of Western Australia, about 200km south-south-east of Perth. The mining operations are about 15km east of the town of Collie, which is situated in the jarrah forests of WA. The Collie region is picturesque and a popular tourist destination.Approximately 80,000 inactive mines are littered across Australia, with 19,000 of those located in Victoria. Many are from Australia's gold rush that started in the 1850s – long before the.
Why Is Australia Still Opening Coal Mines The Lighthouse
Sep 05, 2015 The most active mines in Australia are Olympic Dam situated in South Australia. This mine produces uranium, silver and copper and is considered as the largest resource of uranium in the world. The Super Pit gold mine is another major mine in Australia. This is the biggest open pit mine and is the largest gold producer in Australia.Sep 19, 2019 Graph 1. For most of the past decade, coal has been Australia's second largest resource export, after iron ore, and since 2015 has averaged around one-quarter of annual resource export values and 14 per cent of total export values (Graph 2). In 2018, the value of coal exports was $67 billion, equivalent to 3 per cent of nominal GDP.
Mines: Coal Mines Show Caves Of The World
The latest returns shew the death rate in the United Kingdom in respect of deaths through accidents in coal mines as 1.31, and for the British Enspire 1.33 per 1000 Persons employed in coal mines. For France the rate is given as 1.10, for Germany 2.55, and the United States 4.66. For foreign countries generally the into is stated at 3,04 per 1000.The quality of the coal is not as important as it was. Probably the most important of those modern mines are located in Australia, producing coal for the iron industry in Japan and worldwide. Coal is mined open cast and tranported with exptremely long trains through the desert to the sea, where it.
Anglo American To Resume Mining At Qld Coal Mines
Apr 04, 2019 Mining is a significant and important part of Australia's economy. The Australian mining industry origins stem back to the early days of Australia's settlement when first settlers identified sources of coal in 1797 near Newcastle New South Wales (Nobby's Head).Coal was first used as a source of heating for the emerging economy and the rich Hunter Valley seams (often protruding from the.Title Map of abandoned mines in Queensland Author Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Subject Map indicating the location of abandoned mines in Queensland indicating gold, copper, lead, zinc, silver, tin, opal, sapphire, coal and other resources.
Operations And Projects Glencore Australia
Minerva Coal Pty Ltd.'s Minerva South and Minerva No.1 coal mines located approximately 3 km to the north of the Springsure Project. The Minerva Open-Cut mine is a multi-seam mine designed with a production capacity of 2.8MT p a within the Reids Dome Beds coal measures. Resource and Exploration.Summary Mandalong Mine is a modern underground longwall operation located on the western side of Lake Macquarie near Morisset and west of the M1 Motorway. The Mine is situated approximately 130 km north of Sydney and 50 km from the Port of Newcastle, supplying up to 6.5 million tonnes of coal to the domestic power and export markets.
Carmichael Mine Bravus Mining & Resources
May 18, 2015 History and location. Our Illawarra Metallurgical Coal operations are in the Illawarra and Wollondilly regions of the southern coalfields of New South Wales, about 75 kilometres south of Sydney. Steeped in coal mining history dating back than 150 years, the region's first coal mines opened in the early nineteenth century.Jun 30, 2017 BMA is Australia's largest coal producer and supplier of seaborne metallurgical coal. It is owned 50 50 by BHP and Mitsubishi Development. BMA operates seven Bowen Basin mines (Goonyella Riverside, Broadmeadow, Daunia, Peak Downs, Saraji, Blackwater and Caval Ridge) and owns and operates the Hay Point Coal Terminal near Mackay.
Queensland Coal – Mines And Advanced Projects
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How will Mars Colonists look like in Distant Future
Some of the biggest names in science and technology have called for the colonization of Mars, including physicist Stephen Hawking and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. They say that populating other planets would help ensure our species' survival should Earth be rendered uninhabitable by some disaster.
"The future of humanity is fundamentally going to bifurcate along one of two directions," Musk said last year. "Either we're going to become a multiplanet species and a spacefaring civilization, or we're going to be stuck on one planet until some eventual extinction event."
That sounds about right. Scientists and engineers are rapidly developing the technology needed for interplanetary travel, and humanity does seem all too vulnerable to existential threats. Think runaway climate change, global pandemics, nuclear war. And don't forget about asteroid strikes like the one believed to have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
But the call to put Homo sapiens permanently on Mars seems to sidestep a perverse irony: experts say that a long period of isolation on the red planet — where gravity and sunlight are weaker than on Earth and mutation-causing radiation more intense — could eventually cause the bodies of Mars colonists to change. And at least one expert believes the colonists could evolve into a new species.
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Student's Fears Result Of Media, Not Gun Laws
Posted at 12:00 pm on May 8, 2019 by Tom Knighton
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Beto O'Rourke couldn't win an election to be a senator in his own state, but he thinks he can be president. The idea is hysterical, yet he's going for it. On some level, you have to appreciate the chutzpah it takes to lose at the state level and believe you can still win at the national level.
During one of his campaign stops, one at a middle school in Iowa, a student expressed fears and concerns over such shootings.
More than 40 students piled into a classroom and O'Rourke began with a brief introduction that echoed comments he makes several times a day while campaigning. When he joked about his Republican mother voting for him during the Senate race, an adult listening from the back was the only one who laughed. Ditto for comments about finding rare independent voters in Texas.
But things grew emotional moments later when 14-year-old Milan Underberg cried openly as she asked about the "little or no effort" that the federal government has made to stop school shootings. Her voice breaking, she said, "I'm afraid that, one day, I'll go to school and I'll never come out."
"I apologize," she concluded of the tears. O'Rourke responded softly, "No, you're good."
I get young Milan's fears. I honestly do, especially since she asked this question on the same day as yet another school shooting.
However, those fears aren't based on reality. They're based on the media's portrayal of reality, and those two things aren't exactly similar.
The media portrays schools as potential killing zones, pretending that the chances of kids going to school and not coming home as something other than astronomical. Each mass shooting fills the television screens for days or weeks, all while anti-gun groups manipulate the data to pretend that these events are happening each day. They're not.
I get her fears, but they're misguided.
Her fears aren't uncommon. They're the drive behind things like March For Our Lives and the school walkout last school year. However, if you want to blame anyone for that fear, blame people like Beto O'Rourke who won't point out to Milan that the odds of her being involved in a mass shooting aren't that great. Blame the media.
As New York Magazine put it last year [emphasis mine]:
By keeping the national spotlight on the mass murder at their high school — and calling on their peers across the country to walk out of their schools, so as to "no longer risk their lives waiting for someone else to take action to stop the epidemic of mass school shootings" in the United States — the theater kids of Marjory Stoneman Douglas have built the broadest public consensus for gun-safety measures that America has seen in a quarter-century.
But they've also (inadvertently) triggered a moral panic about the safety of America's schools that has little basis in empirical reality — and which is already lending momentum to policies that would increase juvenile incarceration, waste precious educational resources on security theater, and bring more guns into our nation's classrooms.
Note the bolded section. I happen to agree with that part. Completely.
Young Milan is afraid, but she's afraid because anti-gunners and the media benefit by her being afraid, so they don't admit to the facts. Beto O'Rourke benefits from not repeating the actual facts.
She's afraid, and they prefer her that way because people scared of getting shot are far more likely to become anti-gun crusaders. They like it that way.
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Tom Knighton is a Navy veteran, a former newspaperman, a novelist, and a blogger and lifetime shooter. He lives with his family in Southwest Georgia. https://bearingarms.com/author/tomknighton/
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A History of Wallachia
By: Alan Chanter
Where is Wallachia?
The modern country of Rumania in the Eastern Balkans was created from a union of a number of smaller states, amongst which the three largest were Transylvania, Moldavia, and Wallachia. Rumania is crossed by two mountain chains, which in medieval times separated the three most important states in the region. These mountain chains are the Carpathian mountains running in a north-south direction. These separated the Transylvania plateau in the west from her eastern neighbour Moldavia. Transylvania's southern border was marked by the Transylvanian Alps which run in an East-West direction and separated Transylvania from a number of southern neighbours. The largest of these neighbours was the Principality of Wallachia, an area of approximately 77,700 sq miles, whose southern border rested on the mighty River Danube.
The region has a continental climate, with hot dry summers and very cold winters. In the summer months hot dry winds blow across the country, whilst in winter there is only light rainfall. Much of the higher ground in heavily forested chiefly with fir, beech and oak, and in these forested areas the wildlife can include bears, deer, boar, lynx, wolves and foxes. In the plains and in the Danube delta can be found large flocks of bustard, partridge, heron, swan, ducks, pelican, wild geese, and quails. The main rivers, which for the main part flow from the Carpathian Mountains into the Black Sea, contain sturgeon, trout, perch, and pike.
Principally rural in economy, the main crops are maize, wheat and sugar beet. Large amounts of fruit and grapes for wine making are also grown. Domestic animals include the raising of Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Horses and Poultry. The area does have significant mineral resources including coal, iron, copper, salt and some Gold and Silver (and today, oil, natural gas, manganese and aluminum deposits). The native language is, like French, Italian and other Romance languages, descended from Latin.
Earliest History
Although there is evidence of habitation by man since Neolithic times, the first real civilizations began when this area of the Balkans as settled by Skythian tribesmen expanding outward from the Crimea. Later Greek colonists settled along the Black Sea coast. During the reign of the Roman Emperor Trajan the dominant Dacian (so named because the region was the nucleus of the slave trade), and Getae (a Skythian people) tribes were defeated in A.D. 106 and the area became a Roman province. About A.D. 271 the Emperor Aurelian withdrew the garrisons although many Roman settlers remained behind. From the sixth until the twelfth century the region was constantly overrun by successive waves of barbarians, Goths. Tatars, Huns, Avars, Slavs, Bulgarians, Magyars, and finally Petchenegs and Cumans, who largely replaced the earlier inhabitants (except perhaps for the Vlach people of Transylvania who may still have been descended from the remnants of the earlier Dacian-Romans).
In the 10th and 11th Centuries the Transylvanian area was conquered by the Hungarians and incorporated into the Hungarian kingdom. This brought the feudal dukes into close contact with the Byzantine Empire, which controlled the region south of the Transylvanian Alps. Thus the area became very much a buffer zone between these two great empires which effectively compelled the Hungarian Kings to recognize and collaborate with the local Romanian leaders, giving them a certain amount of individuality and autonomy. In the 12th-13th Centuries the Hungarians began introducing colonists of German origin, particularly Saxons and Szeklers (of unknown origin), and for a short time (1211-1225) even Teutonic Knights into Transylvania. In true feudal fashion these colonists were given land in exchange for a military obligation.
Information on the Wallachian medieval age is a little sketchy, largely due to the fact that the first native literature did not appear until the early 16th century, and even then it was mostly confined to translations of Slavic religious text and psalms. The first attempt at recording a factual history not becoming available, apparently, until quite late in the 16th century.
The state of Wallachia was founded in 1290 by Randolf the Black, known as the Black Prince, with his capital being established at Cimpulung. During Randolf's reign Wallachia would stay a vassal of the Hungarian crown, but in 1330 the Voivode (Prince) John Bassarab the Great would inflict a crushing defeat on King Charles I of Hungary. This would lead to a fourteen-year period of independence, before Louis the Great again reasserted Hungarian suzerainty.
Wallachia would become an Ottoman vassal state in 1383, although the Voivode Mercea the Old (1386-1418) would lead a brave campaign against Turkish expansion into the region, but ultimately he would be obliged to recognise Ottoman suzerainty. From then on Wallachian Princes would be obliged to become either an Ally of Hungary or to accept the rule of the Ottoman Turks.
A nationalistic uprising during 1437-1438 in Transylvanian resulted in an alliance being concluded between the ruling Hungarians, Saxons and Szeklers (known as the 'Unio trium nationum') which left the majority Romanian population with no rights, and being considered as merely 'tolerated'. Under such Hungarian control the Principality of Transylvania would be heavily involved in Hungary's struggle with the Ottoman Empire, especially during the reign of Prince Iancu de Hunedoara, who would ultimately become the Regent of Hungaria in 1446, gaining many victories over the Turks. The most notable being the Battle of Belgrade in 1456 in which the Ottoman Turks of Mahommad II were defeated.Serbia would fall under Ottoman control in 1459 and neighboring Bosnia in 1463. Moldavia, under Polish control from 1397 would hold out a little longer, not being incorporated into the Ottoman Empire until 1504.
Following the disaster of the Battle of Mohacs (1526), Hungary surrendered to the Ottoman Turks, which resulted in the region becoming a group of autonomous principalities owing their allegiance to the Ottoman Empire in 1541. It would not be until the reign of Michael the Brave (1593-1601) that Wallachia would once again achieve independence.
Throughout this era Wallachia, Moldavia and the other Balkan states seem to have been very much a frontier region whose princes often owed their suzerainty to their more powerful neighbors, including Hungary, Poland and the Ottoman Empire. It would appear that generally the Romanian population much preferred to be ruled by the more tolerant Turks than by the Hungarian Magyars whom they utterly detested. In fact, the Wallachians would often provide quite large contingents to Ottoman Armies and the area soon became a favoured recruiting ground of candidates for recruitment into the Sultans elite Janissary Corps. In contrast the Hungarians, under influence from the Roman Church, considered the Wallachians heretics, with all the resultant violence that this implied. Wallachia's northern neighbour Poland too tended not to employ Wallachians in their armies either, much preferring Cossacks or western mercenaries instead.
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Follow up: FA Cup Allocation at Arsenal
THST has now received responses to our Freedom of Information requests from both the Metropolitan Police and Islington Council with regards to the lower ticket allocation given to Spurs for the FA Cup game.
The Metropolitan Police informed us that they had no information relating to our request. The only way this would be possible is if they had no part in the decision. We shall be following this up with both Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal to ask if they agree that this was indeed the case.
The response from Islington Council stated that a risk assessment their Safety Team had conducted earlier in the year identified risks with persistent standing and difficulty in policing/stewarding potentially violent behaviour in the upper tier. They used behaviour in the Capital One Cup game against Chelsea as an example of where this had been proved correct. In an earlier letter a number of general issues are raised about the tier, including the steeper gradient, height and persistent standing often seen among away fans.
Whilst the Council states that they take each game on its merits, we have put in a further request to both the Police and the Council for the information used to come to a differing decision in the game against Coventry City.
We will update you once this information is received. Should Liverpool FC be given an allocation including the upper tier we will put in a further request.
THST is sharing the FOI responses below.
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Michael Ray talks about Ronald Khalis Bell
2021-07-19. Published in category Articles.
Michael Ray has been busy writing a thesis during the pandemic. Now he talks about his longtime friend and colleague Ronald Khalis Bell.
Pursuit of Happiness is the last song that Khalis wrote. He is one of the principal writers. There are a couple of versions of it. He's got a rap version of it and some other stuff. It's good you know. He wrote it for America because a lot of people kind of didn't get it. My favorite line is "I want to live in a world full of peace. If you do then pull up a seat".
Pursuit of Happiness
I think that it's one thing that Khalis felt that you need to pay attention to. This country was really being torn apart. But music has always been the message. Khalis has always been a great writer. And George Brown - he wrote a lot of the songs. They took it to the studio, and then everybody put their touch on it. The concept that Khalis had was stacking and taking out what wasn't working. It's a good process.
Kool & The Gang playing an intimate show at BB King's
There are many songs in the can. We have all this material, but if they don't hear Celebration or something like that… From the first album Khalis has always kept his ear to the mainstream. Khalis was a jazz musician. He has written some of the most beautiful music I ever heard, and we never even played it. Khalis did certain equations. They had to change with the times. We recorded so much music through the years. What they do with it is up to the studio. There is so much material. We've got enough for about two or three albums.
I never got bored with playing the Kool & The Gang hits. It's a happy feeling because a lot of these songs have reached people all around the world, and seeing the response is exhilarating. It's a real purpose of music, and how it effects different people. That is always a positive thing. I reflect back on how music has inspired my life and I'm happy that it inspires somebody else.
I don't know what's going on with an album release because there is some restructuring with Kool & The Gang to make everything workable. With Khalis transitioned a lot of things have changed. He is actually the captain. He's been holding down the fort. A lot of things were really going on with the pandemic, you know. We are trying to get back into the swing of things.
I should mention ShawnyMac McQuiller. He always brings his A-game to the stage. Always. He should be the poster child of Kool & The Gang.
Charles Smith was the most eccentric guy in the group. Khalis also. It's what we did and so it was normal. With the business it's a whole other thing. The music industry is a long, plastic hallway where thieves and murderers run free, and good men and women die like dogs – and then there's the negative side.
We are planning on doing a tribute to Khalis sometime next year, with Kool's son Prince Hakim, who's been making a lot of noise. He has written so much music that people have never heard. It's work in progress.
A later version of that horn section...
I'm writing a thesis on vibrational music. Some of it is common knowledge, but a lot of people don't know the connection between vibrations and tones. I do that to keep my mind busy. When the pandemic hit both my knees were taken out. I feel improvements now. I'm not ready to fly yet, but I feel like walking fast. My energy is a mix of God and adrenaline. I thank God for the energy that he has given me.
MICHAEL RAY is a highly successful musician since decades with Kool & The Gang, Sun Ra Arkestra and Cosmic Krewe. Mr. Ray has kindly contributed pieces to this platform previously. Read them HERE and HERE. Read more pieces on Sun Ra Arkestra HERE and HERE, and on Cosmic Krewe HERE.
As this piece is made there are currently items on the internet suggesting that a new album with previously recorded material with Kool & The Gang is on the way. Here is an example of that.
Michael Ray, Ronald Khalis Beyyan Bell, Kool & The Gang, George Brown, Charles Smith, ShawnyMac McQuiller, Prince Hakim, Sun Ra Arkestra, Cosmic Krewe
Michael Ray remembers Clifford Adams
2019-01-11. Published in categories Articles and Quotes.
He was my closest and best friend on the planet.
We played together in our neighborhood band the VSQs, we played together, with The Stylistics and with Kool & the Gang. He was such an energetic player.
I stay in touch with his sisters.
I still grief for him.
They don't stand still, do they? Trenton natives Mike and Cliff perform together.
Clifford Adams, October 8, 1952-January 12, 2015
Enjoy the New Jersey heroes!
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Clifford Adams, Michael Ray, The VSQs, Kool & The Gang
Michael Ray: - You need to nurture the energy
Musicians' Corner meets Michael Ray
An article with Michael Ray. In this photo we see The Cosmic Krewe: Laranah Phipps-Ray and Michael Ray
There is no way that you can walk upon this Earth without music. You can't communicate without music. People stay strong through music. Sometimes it's the world against them. But music remains true.
The Cosmic Krewe have a new single out, which was recorded in Santiago. It contains highlights from two performances. We have been going for quite some time, and there were even two versions for a while. I also just did a recording with the Sun Ra Arkestra and Bono.
The Cosmic Krewe in action
It's always very busy for me. I work with Kool & The Gang, and with them it's pretty much the same show in the same way all the time. I work with the Arkestra, and with them there is no telling what's going to happen during a performance - and it's what comes after five to twelve hours of rehearsal.
Kool & The Gang at B.B. King's
It's hard to be involved in as many things as I am, but it's fun to be on the road. I stay in shape. I have been in most places, so there is no point in going out much. I stick to doing what I'm doing, and when I go on vacation I do nothing at all.
Some people are so creative and they don't even know it. They hum where they go and can't hear it themselves. You need to be in tune with the planet, and nurture that energy. The world can be like a long, plastic hallway. You need to stay true to yourself.
U2 with Sun Ra Arkestra at the Apollo
Michael Ray is presented thus by his partner in music and life, artist Laranah Phipps-Ray: - Michael is so well respected even in the most remote places. They love him and they might not speak the same language. He is very hard-working, very detailed, very technical, and keeps the excitement of a beginner. I am always inspired by him. He is fast-moving, energetic and exhausting - and we are both eclectic, and this keeps us drawn to each other.
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Michael Ray, Laranah Phipps-Ray, The Cosmic Krewe, Sun Ra Arkestra, Kool & The Gang, U2


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Cover Girl is a monthly music column in which Associate Editor Nina Corcoran compares cover songs to their original version. To celebrate Friday the 13th, this month's column highlights 13 cover songs that give us the spooks, either from their lyrics or their musical arrangements.
As the world keeps turning and so does everything with it, the descriptors we use to better understand what surrounds us shift. What does it mean to be scared? What makes something scary? Well, if you look at the last few years, quite a lot. We've transitioned from horror films about vampires and zombies to ones about a children's pop-up book and vaginal teeth. Songs about death frighten just as much as songs about fear of loss. What scares us no longer stems from direct, obvious imagery but rather the potential for it to arise, to appear before us, or to be taken away.
Music changes in a similar fashion. Serial killer stories make just as good of lyrical fodder as a desire to perform said acts, even if never followed through. Creeping '80s synths set the mood as much as deadpan pop punk can. When a musician has their eyes set on a mood, they see to it, creating tracks that wrap themselves up in a mist and leave much to the imagination — especially when writing dark material.
To honor Friday the 13th, take a stroll through some of the scariest cover songs in music history. Artists know how to write bone-chilling lyrics or set the mood with eerie instrumentals. Other musicians know how to take those two facets, wrap them in ways they see fit, and offer up a rendition that turns an already eerie song into one that's far more unsettling than anyone could have predicted. After all, what's scarier than being surprised?


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Movin' on Up: The Renminbi Becomes a Global Currency
By Elizabeth M. Lynch, December 1, 2015
It all started in 1992 with Deng's Southern Tour
Why the New York Times put the news that the renminbi is now a part of the IMF's global currency reserve below the fold is beyond comprehension. Make no mistake, this news is huge. As an IMF-designated global currency, the renminbi now joins the likes of the U.S. dollar, the British pound, the Japanese yen and the Euro as a currency of influence, stepping up China's power on the global stage. And all of this happened in a little over 20 years. In the early 1990s, China was still an economic backwater and was destined to stay that way with the re-entrenchment of conservative socialist values after the 1989 Tian'anmen protests and subsequent crackdown. Any attempts at reforming China's economy were rejected by the conservative party ideologues then in power. But in 1992, in a courageous move, Deng Xiaoping single-handedly took on these conservative forces by launching a grassroots "Southern Tour" to win the hearts and minds of the people for economic liberalization. The success of Deng's tour assured China's course to capitalism. Fast forward to 2015, China has the second largest economy in the world and the renminbi is declared a global currency reserve. To achieve this stature – and to raise millions out of poverty – in the spanse of twenty-odd years is phenomenal.
Money, money, must be funny!
China's economic miracle cannot be denied. But at the same time, the IMF's designation comes with the imprimatur that China offers a stable business environment, akin to the U.S., the U.K., Europe,and Japan's environments. But with its Party-controlled economy and a Party-captured legal system, it still seems dubious to place China on the same level as these other economies. Does China's increased global status reflect a country ready to let go and allow the economy and the legal system to operate on its own? Or is it just another necessary notch in the Chinese Communist Party's belt of success?
For now these questions cannot be answered. But make no mistake, China's ascendancy to a global reserve is a game-changer. And while China Law & Policy hopes to explore these issues in future posts, for now, the New York Times' analysis, which discusses many of these questions, is a must read (should have been above the fold!).
Economy | China, Deng Xiaoping, global currency reserve, IMF, Southern Tour


I get asked a LOT about social media - how to get started, how to grow a following, and how to get sales from that following.
I think because social media is so prevalent in our personal lives, we feel like we should easily and quickly gain this following for our brand - and that it shouldn't be this complicated!
But I'm here to tell you, building a social media following IS difficult - people are constantly being pitched to, advertised to, and given options, and gone are the days of just throwing things out there and having people follow you (or paying a few dollars a day for advertising your page and getting hundreds of Facebook followers from that - let's take a moment to mourn that).
Because social media has grown so much over the past few years, you have to have a very strong identity and direction for your account. Basically, you can't just post random things without any flow or connection to each other or your business and expect that people are going to follow you.
Visual branding is probably the most noticeable, and the easiest to work on if you are just getting started or just trying to really dive in to see a difference in your growth.
Your social media should have a certain "look" to it.
There isn't one set look that it needs to have, but it should be recognizable. In looking at your page/feed, customers should infer a tone from the pictures or a consistency to the look of your postings.
All three of these brands (Freshly Picked, Polders Old World Market, and June and January) have mastered the art of building a beautiful and cohesive feed.
The pictures have a similar feel, colors, and style which leads to a recognizable brand identity as soon as you see it. You could be mindlessly scrolling along through your IG feed, and you'd see one of these pictures and recognize who posted it maybe even before it totally registered what the picture is.
It is important that your style of pictures is similar. People want to know what to expect from you, and the people who follow you will enjoy whatever style you're consistently posting.
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The second area of focus is the topics and boundaries of your social media profile.
To be honest, this has always been a struggle for me.
On a personal level, I'm not really big into posting on social media - I'm a private person and I just don't find that many moments in my everyday life "Instagrammable" (or else it feels like the moments that are out of the ordinary or especially exciting make for bragging IG posts).
I struggle to feel good about using it for those kinds of posts, but I also know that it has been an integral part of the success of my business so I trudge on (and occasionally enjoy it -- it isn't *all* bad -- I've made some great friendships and connections through social media that I am SO thankful for).
For my Etsy shop, the social media I use for my business is pretty strictly just business.
I know that often times people suggest that social media should be a mix of business, personal, behind the scenes, etc. and that can be great if you enjoy it or are building a more personal brand. My Creative Mom Boss instagram has way more personal and behind the scenes type posts on it than does my Etsy shop (Funky Monkey Children) instagram.
I also think it is fine if you don't want personal posts on your Instagram or if you prefer to have your personal and business profiles completely separate, and I've seen good success and engagement sticking strictly to business and product posts.
Above is a snapshot of my Funky Monkey Children business Instagram page. As you can see, there are no personal posts (that's not my baby!) I post strictly product posts, and don't really contribute any personal details to any copy on the posts. This is my personal preference, and certainly not the *only* way of doing it.
Amy Porterfield and Beth Anne Schwamburger have chosen to integrate both business and personal posts in their feed and still produce a cohesive design with posts that their customers are interested in.
There is no right or wrong way, but it is just something that you need to consider as you are beginning your account or beginning to grow your account so that there can be some consistency with content and you aren't all over the place.
As a side note, I do think that the trend in social media right now is to move toward more personal posts. While I don't know that I agree or disagree with the thought process behind that, I've seen more and more people who are bigger "influencer" types (Amy Porterfield is one) who started off posting almost exclusively business content and have moved toward a much more "behind the scenes" type content.
As a product based business on Etsy, I think the personal and behind-the-scenes or more vulnerable postings are less important. People aren't necessarily following your Instagram account because they are invested in you as a person or your personal life; they like your items.
However, if you are building a service based business or a business that has a more personal spin on (perhaps you design wedding invitations or you create printables for people), it may be better to incorporate more of the personal posts.
Lastly, an important aspect of social media is consistency.
Like everything else in life, people want to know what to expect with your social media postings.
ou do *not* have to post every single day, but your customers should know kind of what to expect -- Once a week? Once every other day?
The frequency is not as important as the consistency, so make sure that you set some sort of schedule for yourself and then stick to it. I've found that once per day works best for me, both in terms of creating content and not having to come up with SO many things to post about, but also in terms of my audience being engaged.
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Growing a social media following is not simple work. It takes some thought, some planning, and some work to continually post on a consistent basis.
How do you feel about social media, both personally and professionally? Do you love it? Hate it? Have a love/hate relationship with it?
Drop your favorite social media link below and I'll check it out!


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US wanted man arrested in Manchester
An American citizen who is wanted in New York, United States on multiple criminal charges, was arrested during an operation Greenvale, Manchester on Wednesday.
He has been identified as 18-year-old Matthew Pinnock.
Pinnock is wanted on a provisional warrant of arrest for attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, robbery, assault, criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment, among other charges.
The Jamaica Constabulary Force's Corporate Communications Unit says he was nabbed by members of the Jamaica Fugitive Apprehension Team and Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime (C-TOC) Special Ops.
The team reportedly went to a house in the Manchester community and carried out a search and Pinnock was allegedly found hiding.
He was subsequently transported to Kingston where he remains in custody.
He is set to appear in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Friday.
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Q: Markup of oEmbed codes in the editor? Is there a way to give oEmbed codes a special markup in the visual editor? In my dream implementation you paste an oEmbed-enabled url in the editor, which will then automatically replace it with a thumbnail of the media object you want to insert. A basic implementation would at least highlight the URL so the user knows "something special" could happen there (if no errors occur).
Is there a plugin that does this? I could create something like this myself, but I would need some pointers on how to hook into the TinyMCE editor in the most WordPress-stylish way.

A: I think this might be a step in the right direction:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference
Specifically the the_editor_content filter which is "applied to post content before putting it into a rich editor window."
Sorry I can't flesh it out more for you but I am just starting to play around with filters myself and have miles to go before I can be useful.


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Why Do Snakes Eat Themselves?
Mac Montoya
For most people, the idea of someone wanting to eat themselves is rather startling, but for many snakes, this is a common behavior that occurs naturally.
This article will give you some facts about snakes and then attempt to explain why it happens.
Scientifically speaking, autophagy is the act of self-cannibalism.
It is a survival mechanism that allows the snake to consume its own body mass for certain nutrients and energy.
It is a common theme among captivity-bred snakes than those caught from the wild.
In fact, some research has shown that up to 72% of captive-bred ball pythons will engage in autophagy.
Reasons Why Snakes Eat Themselves
As aforementioned, the reason why snakes eat themselves is to provide themselves with the nutrients to survive starvation or deprivation.
Another reason for this behavior has to do with the snake's natural instinct to reduce competition among its own species.
This could be due to a shortage of food or because the snake is an outcast among its relatives.
A common misconception about snakes that eat themselves is that they are doing so due to stress.
This theory did have some basis in fact, but there has since been research conducted which disputes this claim.
Instead, it is now believed that self-cannibalism is a natural part of the snake's biology and it is an adaptive behavioral mechanism that has been genetically passed down from previous generations.
There are many physical consequences to eating itself, not just for the snake but also for society as a whole.
While snakes may be able to survive after doing so, there are often issues with food absorption.
This prevents the snake from properly digesting its own meal and may lead to serious health complications or even death.
Medical and nutritional means are ways to treat these issues.
Cons of Snake Self-Cannibalism
However, there are many cases where snakes will die due to their habit of eating themselves.
It is also important to note that snakes that eat themselves are often easy prey for predators.
This is due to the fact that they struggle to defend both their tail and their head as the rest of their body begins to shrink.
The tail is usually attacked first since it can be eaten by other snakes without causing harm, whereas the venomous fangs of the snake cannot be used until its head is consumed.
In a nutshell, eating itself seems to be a rather disgusting habit that even the snake may try to resist.
However, it is a common behavior among captive snakes who have been deprived of necessary nutrients and/or have been abandoned by their own species.
There are also steps you can take as a proprietor to help reduce the chances of your snake eating itself.
This includes making sure you have a proper diet, giving them adequate space to live, and making sure they have enough contact with other snakes.
In conclusion, "eating themselves" is a natural response for some snakes that may be caused by a combination of nutritional deprivation and instinctual behaviors.
However, this behavior can lead to many issues such as reduced ability to absorb nutrients and increased risk of predation.
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Q: Plugin: BuddyPress Activity Plus - How can I call the full size image? I'm using the BuddyPress Activity Plus plugin and wanted to know if there was a way to call the full size image that was uploaded when viewing the single page of the activity?
I've looked at placing a line of code in "activity/entry.php" of the child theme but can't find anything that will call its full size image, only the thumbnail shows with the link to the full size image to open in a lightbox.
This isn't what I'm looking for, the full size image needs to be in place of the thumbnail when viewing the single activity page.
Any idea anyone? Sorry if this is the right place for this, just having trouble getting an answer
Many thanks

A: I'm looking to do a similar thing, not too much luck yet. Also - have you noticed that if you upload multiple images, they stack, rather then laying out side by side?
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Found out how to make the images in the stream bigger:
You can set your preferred thumbnail size separately from your default thumbnail size settings, if you wish to do so. You can do that by adding this line to your wp-config.php:
define('BPFB_THUMBNAIL_IMAGE_SIZE', '200x200');

Where "200x200" are width and height (in that order), in pixels.
Finally, be sure to verify your default sizes for embedded media. It's in Settings -> Media -> Embeds -> Maximum embed size