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Date of birth 17 Jan 1981
Nationality Northern Irish
Warren Feeney is a former Northern Ireland footballer, who has had spells in charge of Linfield and Newport County, but is currently out of work after losing his job at the latter.
At Linfield, Feeney guided the club to a 2nd place finish, while maintaining a good record in derbies against rivals Glentoran. But, in October 2015, Feeny left to become assistant manager of Newport County.
Just three months later Feeney was made manager of the League Two strugglers, with whom he kept in the Football League, but lost his job early on the following season after a poor run of form.
Newport County 34 7 8 19 20.6 13 Jan 2016 - 28 Sep 2016
TOTAL 34 7 8 19 20.6
Warren Feeney Quotes
Any manager will tell you there are so many different aspects to the job and I just wanted to bring the knowledge I gained from my career in England and use it to change mindsets and the environment here in the Irish League which is part-time.
No disrespect to David Jeffrey but I brought my own English professionalism to the job.


70% of the ads in Mitula for Santro include photos. The average number of photos per ad we show in our listings for Hyundai Santro Pakistan is 2.429.
The average mileage of Santro is 78,418.25ml, whereas the most common reg. years for Hyundai Santro Pakistan for sale are 2010, 2008 and 2005.
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This is the perfect solution when you want a stunning two-tier border of variegated foliage and delightful blooms.
Save 20% on this package of plants that make an unusually striking two-tier border or edging.
The Liriope's variegation will look great even when the plant is not in bloom, as will the blue-grey foliage of the Dianthus.
Each of these packages will make 25 feet of border or edging. Plant the Liriope 12 inches apart and the Dianthus 6 inches apart. Plant the two rows 12-16 inches apart, depending on how much overlap you desire. Full sun to part sun in zones 5/6-9!
Lily Turf 'Variegated' (Liriope muscari 'Variegata'): Profuse lilac clusters of blooms on a handsome, evergreen clump-forming groundcover with vibrant white to creamy yellow and green variegated foliage that arches gracefully. 12-16" tall.
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I have a large client that I'm trying to improve and I planted a mix to cover crop last summer consisting of winter wheat winter rye turnips Dicon radish and Austrian winter peas. I need to lodge it now . I'm wondering if I can use my tiller without the power take off to Lodge the crop.
Got me a bit there -- not sure what you mean by client, or is that spell-check gone bad!
I would give it a go with the tiller, especially as you have a large area (client!). If you've got a machine, and it looks like it would work, then there's no harm in trying. You might end up with a big mess, but it should still mangle/cut/bend/crush or somehow halt the growth and get it to eventually rot down - if that's what you're looking to achieve.


This Review contains major "Public Art"- related terms, short phrases and links grouped together in the form of Encyclopedia article.
It is hoped that the project will serve as a model of community participatory approach in public art in Hong Kong.
The Alte Pinakothek was at its founding in 1836 one of the first public art galleries in the world and a model for all museums.
The majority of public art is sculpture.
Tibetan Buddhists make use of a particular set of eight auspicious symbols, ashtamangala, in household and public art.
Short phrases about "Public Art"
Originally created: April 22, 2008.
Links checked: January 31, 2013.


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Lifelogging relies on two principles – being integrated and meaningful. Integrated in the sense that the lifelogging devices used can be easily assimilated into our everyday lives, while collecting data that is meaningful enough for us to carry on. These concepts, are in turn often tied to wearable tech, which in this article is said to be currently divided into two contrasting design ideas: the visible and the subtle – visible so that every one can see how cool and futuristic the devices are, but subtle enough so it doesn't turn people away. Examples of these incognito devices are the Dash in-ear headphones that also measure our body's vital signs and the Google Glucose Monitoring Contact Lenses that you see in the picture above, which through a small wireless chip, will test the wearer's tears for his or her glucose levels. But what will it really take for wearable technology to reach a tipping point? Are the ideas of being visible, subtle, integrated and meaningful enough? Or will they have to become one with us? That future doesn't seem too far when two biomedical students are already working on the powering of wearable electronics using naturally occurring chemical processes in the blood. What do you think?
Reminiscing is no longer confined to digging out those old photo albums tucked deep in our cupboards. Just this week, Google introduced a new way for us to reminisce, which puts their years of lifelogging on the streets to good use. The Google Maps Street View has been so helpful to us all in navigating our way through new places. Now, its Street View has a new bonus feature that allows users to go back in time to see how a particular place looked like years ago. Perhaps that building you used to jog past is now gone. Or maybe there's now a new office building three streets down that you never noticed before. From its teleporting capabilities, Google Maps Street View now also becomes a time machine good for all who love lifelogging. According to Time, there will be double the number of Street View images that were previously accessible, captured by the Google Trekkers who have driven more than 5 million miles in 50 countries since 2007. Thank you Google for doing so many things for us!
Many of us use all kinds of apps for our lifelogging pleasures – Instagram, Step and Chronos, just to name a few. Now if you love the filters on Instagram, you might just want to try these little life-hacks that Mashable arrived at. Using simple things that can be found in our everyday lives, and then attaching them to our point-and-shoot cameras (try them on the Narrative Clip, if you'd like!), you'd find pretty interesting images that follow! Some of these everyday items proposed by Mashable include sunglasses, old film negatives, lace and the Pringles lid that resulted in the image above. So grab those translucent cups or cellophane paper for that added effect! Let your creativity run free and feel free to share your photos with us!
Now if a picture is worth a thousand words, the above is probably worth a couple of million words. This was taken by architectural photographer and aviation geek Michael Kelley at the Los Angeles International Airport, which allegedly had an average of 1,685 takeoffs and landings a day in 2013 (that's 1 takeoff or landing every minute!), making it one of the busiest airports in the world. In his website, Michael points out that he is interested in making photographs that aren't just snapshots of a single moment and thought that it would be interesting if he could seem to capture more than one plane in flight at once. Michael also enjoys taking aerial views of cities by taking helicopter flights over diverse landscapes. Check out more of his works here and get some inspiration (perhaps combining with the DIY filters above)! Have a good weekend, everybody!


Introduction to real analysis is a gateway. The idea is to find balance between rigorous proofs and real understanding - this principle is the core of mathematics at all levels.
Be prepared to learn to write proofs.
Be prepared to accept a little absract but clarifying approach to well known, and not so well known topics related to calculus.
Natural numbers, abelian groups, Grothendiecks construction, integers, fields, rational numbers, ordered fields, completeness, Peano's axiom, uncountability of real numbers.
Limits, monotone sequences, subsequences, Bolzano-Weierstrass, limsup and liminf, application to continuous functions.
Metric spaces, Cauchy sequences, completeness, sequential compactness and total boundedness, open, closed and compact sets, application to Heine Borel and continuity of inverses. Connectes sets, intermediate value theorem.
Uniform continuity, C(K) is a complete metric space, Dini's theorem, application: interchanging differentiation and limit.
Rolle's Lemma and Mean value theorem, application differentiation of power series.
Definition, interching limits, fundamental theorem, application to power series.


Development in Gainesville threatens the future of its live oak population.
About 20 minutes north of Gainesville in an open field in Alachua stands the Cellon Oak, the largest live oak in Florida. The tree, nicknamed Atticus, with a massive 85-foot trunk and a canopy that sprawls 160 feet across the sky, is estimated to be anywhere between 300 and 500 years old.
Live oaks were once scattered across the city. But as the savanna, the tree's natural habitat, is increasingly transformed into paved parking lots or plots destined to become apartments, the typically resilient trees have come under threat, said UF botanist Francis Putz.
In 2003, Putz conducted a study that found that 90 percent of live oaks in Gainesville's suburban areas weren't getting enough sunlight due to overcrowding by taller trees, namely the sweet gum, magnolia and, laurel oak that don't need as much space to establish a root structure. Three years later, Putz and graduate student Tova Spector found that a similar phenomenon was occurring in the county's rural areas. The establishment of pine plantations had decreased the open savanna cover from 70 percent to less than 30.
Putz's research led him to conclude that encroaching trees were in danger of destroying more than half of Gainesville's live oaks in a process that could take anywhere from 10 to 30 years. 12 years later, Putz believes nearly 97 percent of the county's savanna has been lost, taking many live oaks with it.
One big tree is worth how many small trees? You take down one big tree and you plant ten, twenty or one hundred small trees, but they hardly make up for it.
Live oaks can live to be centuries old, so while the population isn't in imminent danger, the practices that hurt trees now could cause their disappearance in the future. Putz found that a combination of heavy rainfall, an increased use of lawn fertilizers, a decrease in fire suppression and, of course, a warming climate, give tall, fast-growing tree species an ecological edge.
forming a dense canopy above the former tree that blocks sunlight. Laurel oaks also tend to live less than a century and aren't as hurricane resistant as the sturdy live oaks.
Gainesville offers several resources in order give heritage trees a fighting chance. In 2013, the city commission approved a tree ordinance to protect 25 heritage tree species, including live oaks and longleaf pines, whose population has also rapidly declined in the industrial age.
Developers desiring to take down regulated trees on commercial property are required to pay a mitigation fee. This fee is put toward a tree fund that the city uses to plant new trees in the community. Homeowners who take down a protected tree located on their property have to plant trees to make up for it.
Putz said that though these efforts are great, the city and developers often plant live oaks "in places where they can't do live oak things," like extend their roots 100 feet into the ground and grow big, branching canopies.
The city commission has also developed an Urban Forestry Management Plan, a community-driven effort to improve the local forestry and landscape. The plan hopes to identify challenges to the ecosystem, such as hurricanes and laurel oak encroachment, combat them and find ways to diversify the city's urban forestry.


Thank you very much to all our supporters for making the Rock the Green party such an incredible success! We managed to raise over $20,000 to support local muscular dystrophy research!
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Q: How to ensure saving of application state on crash c# I am very new to c# programming, so that in mind:
I have an in-memory data object with data I need to save the information when(if) my application were to crash OR closed. Is there a way to do this deterministically or reliably?
I have been looking at destructors
~MyObjectName(){}

finalizers and Dispose(),
but as far as I understand none of these will do reliably what I want?
Currently I am using the destructor, and it works when I am closing the program, but this doesn't mean it will work on crashing, or always.
Should I be looking at events as well?

A: There is no 100% reliable mechanism that you can use to save data (or do anything else for that matter) when a process (any process, not just a .Net process) terminates - most processes can be terminated at any point using the "End Process" option in the task manager, when this happens the process is immediately killed. As a more extreme example the power cord could be pulled out the back of the machine.
If its not 100% necessary that this data object be up-to-date and saved once the process is killed then the AppDomain.UnhandledException Event may suffice.
If its absolutely 100% necessary that this be the case then you need to be continuously saving this information as the process is running - there is absolutely no guarentee that you will get a chance to do it at a later date.  This is how databases operate, no transaction returns until some record of the change has been recorded to disk in some format (e.g. a transaction log).  This is what the D stands for in ACID.

A: I believe you are looking for catching unhandled exceptions? something like this:
static void Main()
{
  Application.EnableVisualStyles();
  Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);

  Application.ThreadException += new ThreadExceptionEventHandler(Application_ThreadException);
  AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += new UnhandledExceptionEventHandler(CurrentDomain_UnhandledException);

  Application.Run(new Form1());
}

static void Application_ThreadException(object sender, ThreadExceptionEventArgs e)
{
  MessageBox.Show(e.Exception.Message, "Unhandled Thread Exception");
  // here you can log the exception ...
}

static void CurrentDomain_UnhandledException(object sender, UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
{
  MessageBox.Show((e.ExceptionObject as Exception).Message, "Unhandled UI Exception");
  // here you can log the exception ...
}

This example shows how to manage all exceptions that haven't been
  caught in the try-catch sections (in Windows Forms application).
The UnhandledException event handles uncaught exceptions thrown from
  the main UI thread. The ThreadException event handles uncaught
  exceptions thrown from non-UI threads.

A: You can achieve this with windbg.

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*Keep a breakpoint in zwterminateprocess method in windbg. This method will be called when your application exits.

*when the breakpoint is reached , use !dumpheap -type MyObjectName to get the address of your object

*Use !dumpobject "address of MyObjectName" to know the values inside the object

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Saved: I was saved at a youth service in the summer of 2014.
Sports Team: The one that wins!
Life Motto: I must decrease. He must increase.
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Most People Don't Know This About Me: I am the first Christian in my family!


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The history of Cochem in Celtic, Roman and early Middle Ages is unknown. It is first mentioned in a document of the Abbey of Prüm dated 20. XII 866. The noble matron Hieldilda donated a number of properties to the monastery, including a manor house "in villa cuchema".
There, in the fortified castle the Rhenish counts palatine, the Ezzonen, held court until 1151. It was probably built by one of them, Ehrenfried, the brother-in-law of Emperor Otto. Richeza, his daughter, married Miseco, King of Poland, but after his death was driven out of Poland and returned to the Moselle.
A less glorious role was played by Count palatine Hermann of Salm and Luxemburg, who was put forward as an alternative monarch to Emperor Henry IV in the investiture conflict. In 1085 he was defeated by the Emperor, after which he engaged in various adventures along the Moselle Valley before being killed in front of his own Cochem Castle in 1088. He does not seem to have earned much respect, his nickname being the "Garlic King".
The disputes between the Reineckers and the Stahleckers of the Rhine over the title of count palatine was finally settled in 1151 when Konrad III, coming from Boppard, overran the castle and occupied it as an imperial fief.
Cochem remained imperial property and a royal customs station until 1294. The castle was inhabited and administered by royal burggraves, who occasionally became so called robber barons. Indeed in 1282 Rudolf of Habsburg was obliged to lay siege to the castle and call Count Cuno, lord of the castle, to account for his activities of this type.
Im "Burgfrieden" unterhalb der Burg und auch in der "Herrenstraße" wohnten die Unterministerialen, meist adlige Burgmannen, die dem Burggrafen verpflichtet waren, jedoch Freiheit von allen städtischen Lasten und Fronden genossen. Das "Cochemer Reich", ein weites Gebiet, das außer den späteren Ämtern Cochem, Kaisersesch und Mayen, das "Cröver Reich", Springiersbach und Kondelwald umfasste, schob sich wie eine Barriere zwischen die beiden Teile des Erzbistums Trier, das Nieder- und Oberstift.
The "Burgfrieden" below the castle and also the "Herrenstraße" were occupied by nobles who had sworn allegiance to the lord of the castle and enjoyed freedom from the burdens and duties imposed on the other inhabitants. The "Empire of Cochem", an extensive area covering the future magistratures of Cochem, Kaisersesch and Mayen as well as the "Cröver Empire", Springiersbach and the Kondelwald, effectively formed a barrier between the two parts of the Archbishopric of Trier, the Upper and Lower Dioceses. In 1294 the impoverished King Adolf of Nassau fulfilled the wish of the Trier archbishops by mortgaging Cochem to Archbishop Boemund I. The mortgage was never repaid and Cochem continued to belong to the territory of the Electorate of Trier until 1794. Thus, began a happy and prosperous time for the castle, town and newly formed magistrature of Cochem. The motto of the day, "Life under the crosier can be quite pleasant" was not without foundation.
Archbishop Balduin (1307 – 1354), brother of Emperor Henry VII of Luxemburg, further extended the castle. The Moselle Way was also extended and Kemplon fortress built. Cochem received its town charter in 1332 and was fortified. Distinguished families such as von Dietz an der Lahn, von Ulmen, Bürresheim, Arras and Monreal were proud to be associated with the castle. The Winnenburgs, whose fortress in the Endert valley probably dates from 1200, and later the Metternichs held court in the Markt and dominated life in the town. The leading figures from the Electorate liked to visit Cochem often, and in 1512 Archbishop Richard of Greiffenklau and his guest Emperor Maximilian I led a procession to the town and St. Martin's Church.
Cochem however was not spared less fortunate times. St. Peter's Chapel, below the castle, recalls the years of the plague (1423 – 1425). During the 30 Years' War bands of robbers such as the Moselle band mentioned in the journal "Simplizissimus" left their mark.
But the worst came in 1688 and 1689. In 1687, Louis XIV's master builder of military buildings Vauban had built Montroyal fortress near Traben-Trabach. From here the French filled the Moselle Valley with violence and terror. Again and again magistrates and town clerks travelled to Montroyal to try to obtain relief.
In 1689 Winneburg Castle was attacked and burned, and two days later the same lieutenant du Saxis turned Cochem Castle "sacrificed to the volcano in broad daylight". When imperial and Electorate forces reoccupied the town, the French decided to counter-attack. On 25 August they stormed the town, slaughtered the weak garrison and a large part of the population, and set fire to the town and the Capuchin monastery, the defenders' last refuge. This left the town impoverished and deserted. Reconstruction was slow, in part using materials from Montroyal fortress, which in turn had itself been razed to the ground. The parish church tower was not completed until 1733.
During the course of the 18th century, Cochem became more and more a centre of commerce. Every week the market ship full of goods and merchenats sailed to Koblenz. For the Frankfurt Fair Cochem rigged out a ship and sold spices, ironmongery, corn, wood, leather, and the finest Cochem cloth. A large number of inns sprang up, their signs forming a chain from gable to gable, with the Bear greeting the Ox, the Swan the Lion, the Holy Spirit the Sun, and so on. The
Double Eagle, the German Emperor, the Roman King and the Court of Cologne were well-to-do inns, situated mostly on the banks of the Moselle, and catering to the upper classes. In the early 19th century a travel writer marvelled at the fact that Cochem "had as many wine and beer taverns as Breslau, the second largest city in Prussia with more than 90.000 inhabitants". In 1796 Cochem was occupied by French Revolutionary troops and subsequently, together with the entire Rhineland, came under the wing of France. Troup movements, taxes and billeting brought about increased prices and poverty, which in turn led to the formation of bands of robbers roaming the Moselle Valley, the Eifel and above all the Hunsrück.
At the Congress of Vienna in 1815 Cochem was given once and for all to the Kingdom of Prussia and in 1816 became the administrative centre of the newly created district authority. The crazy days of 1848/49 led to the formation of the "merry democracy of Cochem". Grandiose speeches were made in the Sun and the Customs House (nowadays the Union Hotel). Even today at Carnival time a song can be heard in Cochem telling about the "year when it was Carnival all year round".
Between 1869 and 1877 the Berlin steel merchant Ravené had the ruined castle rebuilt according to old plans from 1576. In 1942 the castle became the property of the state. The rebuilding coincided with the opening of the Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel, which reduced the "Cochem Hairpin" from 21 to 4.2 km and was the longest tunnel in the Federal Republic of Germany until 1987.
Since the 1st of April 1978 the castle has belonged to the city of Cochem. The two fishing villages of Cond and Sehl developed independently of Cochem, and for many years Cond belonged to the territory of Stablo-Malmedy imperial abbey. The Moselle bridge was completed in 1927 and in 1932 Cochem and Cond were combined into one town.
The stationing of an air force squadron near Cochem in 1956 led to the development of the Brauheck district of Cochem.
In the early 19th century, the first real tourists came to Cochem, filled with romantic enthusiasm. Foremost among them were English artists who recorded the beauties of the Moselle Valley in their drawings and paintings. The development of Cochem into the first and most important tourist centre on the Moselle river manifested itself in the 1930s.
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Richard Feldman: Success of public health rendered its interventions invisible - until now
Richard Feldman
So how does it feel to travel a hundred or more years back in public health history?
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic takes us back. It transports us to a time when there were no available antibiotics, virtually no vaccinations and limited medical-care interventions compared to what exist today. Since treatment of infectious diseases was very limited, public health measures and strategies to prevent and contain diseases were what we primarily relied upon. For now, this public health approach of a century ago is also all we can employ to contain the coronavirus, a virus without a specific antiviral medication to treat it or a vaccination to prevent it.
COVID-19 is a novel virus is 10 to 20 times more lethal than influenza and is now on every continent except Antarctica. Compared with the MERS and SARS coronaviruses, this coronavirus will probably be much more difficult to control. As of this writing, there is rapid national escalation in number of illnesses with over 3,000 reported cases and over 60 deaths with underreporting likely.
Public health officials expect that we have not seen the worst of this pandemic and many more cases and deaths will follow. Although relatively few cases have been identified in America, it is anticipated that intensification will occur in the U.S. as person-to-person community transmission increases. A long incubation period of up to 14 or more days, spread of infection from asymptomatic infected individuals and a high mortality rate make this virus especially worrisome. However, remember that most infections are relatively mild and not life-threatening.
►MORE FROM RICHARD FELDMAN: Measles outbreaks stark reminders of lifesaving importance of vaccines
Possible effective antiviral medications are being explored. A vaccine will take a year or more to develop. Therefore, the public health measures we will use in the meantime are: containment through quarantine of exposed people, isolation of infected individuals, border and travel restrictions, social distancing, venue closings, public education especially pertaining to personal measures to help prevent transmission, surveillance, and diagnostic testing. Our approach will evolve as cases escalate.
This latest health threat should be a reminder of the value of supporting public health on the federal, state, and local levels. The very success of public health — the absence of diseases that once routinely killed healthy people — has rendered public health interventions invisible and taken for granted by the public and government. These interventions involve advancements in sanitation, housing, food protection, nutrition, clean water, pure food and drug legislation, antibiotics and vaccination.
Historically, we have woefully underfunded federal, state and local health departments. The Trump administration closed the National Security Council's pandemic unit in 2018. Indiana ranks 49th in public health funding with the Indiana State Department of Health spread thin and most local health departments lacking adequate infrastructure and personnel. The state does have sufficient resources for COVID-19 crisis planning and is preparing with local health departments, hospitals and other entities. But the capacity for health departments and hospitals to optimally respond to a public health crisis is something different.
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Indiana and most states need significant federal assistance and leadership. The Trump administration has provided a delayed and less-than-acceptable federal response with President Trump busy politicizing what should be a bipartisan issue. We can only hope that Vice President Pence, not highly enlightened in public health matters but now in charge of the federal government's coronavirus response, will leave the decision-making to federal public health experts.
And what about those anti-vaccine advocates among us? Will they refuse a COVID-19 immunization when available? I wonder.
Richard Feldman is a physician and former health commissioner for Indiana.


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The Nigerian financial system underwent a banking crisis in 2008–09, owing to the global financial crisis and domestic events. The decisive crisis response effectively stabilized the banking system, but the challenge now is to devise a credible exit strategy. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has a broad resolution toolkit, which was put to use during the crisis to resolve the intervened banks. The Nigerian authorities set up the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to purchase nonperforming loans of banks.


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Bruce Jackson
SUNY Distinguished Professor
James Agee Professor of American Culture
narrative theory and performance; ethnography; film; photography
bjackson@buffalo.edu
Working with the Wooster Group on a follow-up play to our 2017 production, "The B-Side" (which the NY Times named one of the ten best plays of the year). Finishing work on two photo books, one landscape photography in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert, 2011-2019, the other a book of previously unpublished color photographs from Texas and Arkansas prisons, Inside/InColor: Kodachromes, Ektachromes & Polaroids, 1964-1979, to be published by Twin Palms.
American Chartres: Buffalo's Waterfront Grain Elevators (photographs) (SUNY Press, 2016)
Being There: Bruce Jackson, Photographs 1962-2012 (Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, 2013)
Inside the Wire: Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons (University of Texas Press. 2013)
"In this timeless time": Living and Dying on Death Row in America (with Diane Christian. University of North Carolina Press and Duke Center for Documentary Studies, Documentary Arts & Culture Series. 2012)
Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture (Temple University Press, 2009)*
Cummins Wide: Photographs from the Arkansas Prison (Center for Documentary Studies/Center Working Papers, 2008)
The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories, 2007 (Temple University Press)*
Disorderly Conduct (political and social essays, 1992, University of Illinois Press)
Fieldwork (University of Illinois Press, 1987)*
Law and Disorder: Criminal Justice in America (University of Illinois Press, 1985)
Doing Drugs (with Michael Jackson, St. Martin's, 1983)*
Death Row (with Diane Christian, Beacon Press, 1980; French ed., Le Quartier de la mort, Editions Terre Humaine, Paris: Plon, 1985; 2nd French ed. with additional photographs 1986; 3rd French edition with new post-face, 2011)*
The Programmer (novel, Doubleday, 1979)*
Killing Time: Life in the Arkansas Penitentiary (photographs. Cornell University Press, 1977)*
"Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me": Narrative Poetry from Black Oral Tradition (Harvard University Press, 1974; Routledge 2004 with new CD)*
Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons (Harvard University Press, 1972*, 2nd paperback edition, with additional photographs and new introduction University of Georgia Press, 2000)
In the Life: Versions of the Criminal Experience (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972: French editions with title Leurs Prisons, preface by Michel Foucault, Editions Terre Humaine, Paris: Plon, 1975 and with new signature of my photographs, 1978)*
A Thief's Primer (Macmillan, 1969, paperback title Outside the Law)*
The Negro and his Folklore in 19th Century Periodicals (ed., American Folklore Society and University of Texas Press, 1967)*(Most recent reprint: 2014.)
Robert Creeley on the Poet's Work. In Conversation with Bruce Jackson (BlazeVox, 2020)
Deux jours à La Ribaute: A celebration at Atelier Anselm Kiefer (Room With a View Press, 2020)
Yevtushenko in Buffalo (with Tanya Shalina-Conte. Center Working Papers, 2020)
Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons (re-mastered audio, with new notes and photos of LP originally published by Elektra in 1964, Moochin' About, London, 2020)
Places: Things heard, things seen (BlazeVox, 2019)
Babel: The First Ten Years (photographs) (Just Buffalo, 2018, ed. by Barbara Cole)
Terlingua Necropolis. (Synergistic Press, 2017)
I Look at Diane Christian/Diane Christian Looks at Me. Photographs 1971-2017 (Synergistic Press, 2017)
No More Good Time in the World for Me (2CD album, Dust-to-Digital, 2015)


It used to be the tills ringing up the sales throughout Christmas but these days it's more likely to be the clicks of the mobile completing the purchase. Businesses across the UK have to ensure that they're mobile friendly as that's the way that large numbers of us prefer to do our shopping.
According to research from CJ Affiliate, nearly a third of all online orders from the UK, France and Germany in the 2016 Christmas period came from mobile phones. And the UK led the way: mobile shopping here amounted to 44% of total online orders, well ahead of 32% in the US and 26% in France.
Jules Bazley, regional vice president in Europe for CJ Affiliate, said "Last year I did more than half of my Christmas shopping on the train, and it's clear that the rest of the UK is right behind me. I believe that mobile spending will only grow, especially at busy, stressful times like Christmas, when consumers want to do their shopping quickly and conveniently.
The CJ Affiliate report also shows that smartphone sales are rising as tablet spend drops, probably as a result of smartphone screens and resolutions are getting larger – this makes it easier to use for online shopping. The report found that orders made on tablets are on the decline in the US and across Europe, with tablet orders in France down by 40%, US and Germany by over a quarter (26%) and the UK by 19%.


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Terror attacks have dropped considerably in recent weeks, Shin Bet says
ZAKA personnel cleaning the scene where two Israelis were killed and at least two others wounded in a stabbing attack in southern Tel Aviv , November 19, 2015. (Moti Karelitz/ZAKA Tel Aviv)
JERUSALEM (JTA) — There has been a "considerable decline" in the number of terror attacks committed by Palestinians in recent weeks, the Shin Bet security service told the Israeli Cabinet.
The number of attacks described as "significant" also has seriously declined, according to the Shin Bet, which reported 20 in March, compared to 78 last October, and three in April.
The main reason for the decline, according to the agency, is Israel's counterterrorist operation. In a statement about the Shin Bet presentation released by the Prime Minister's Office following the Cabinet meeting on Sunday, the Shin Bet cited the operation against Hamas, "which significantly increased its efforts to carry out attacks during this period (including abductions and suicide attacks), effective deterrent measures to prevent additional attacks and determined action against Palestinian incitement."
"All of these were in the context of an effort not to disrupt the fabric of life of a majority of the Palestinian population, which is not involved in terrorism, and to continue cooperation with the Palestinian security services," the statement said.
The effective preventative measures have "left a sense among the Palestinian public (especially lone terrorists) that escalation is useless," according to the Shin Bet.
Since the beginning of the escalation of Palestinian terror attacks beginning on Oct. 1, Palestinian terrorists have committed some 270 significant terrorist attacks, the Shin Bet said, and attempted attacks including shootings, stabbings and vehicular attacks, leading to the deaths of 29 Israelis and four foreign nationals, including two Americans. Some 250 civilians have been wounded.
Most of the attacks have been isolated and carried out by youth. While some had nationalistic motives, the Shin Bet said, most were due to economic or personal hardship. In addition, "terrorist organizations, especially Hamas, have been trying in recent months to carry out major attacks" in the West Bank and in Israel proper "in order to accelerate the escalation," according to the Shin Bet.
The Shin Bet said it and other security services have foiled over 290 significant attacks since the beginning of 2015 — most in the past six months — including 25 abductions and 15 suicide attacks. The last fatal attack was a month ago.
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On December 2, 2010, FIFA president Sepp Blatter stood before a giant blue screen at his organization's headquarters in Zurich and announced the two countries that had won the rights to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. After hours of presentations and last-ditch lobbying efforts from Prince William, David Beckham, Morgan Freeman, and Bill Clinton, FIFA's 24-man executive committee — down to 22 after two members were caught trying to sell their votes to undercover journalists — had elected Russia and Qatar to follow Brazil as the next hosts of soccer's biggest tournament.
On the face of it, the choices were surprising. FIFA's inspection team had evaluated all nine bids1 and rated Russia and Qatar as the riskiest of the lot. Russia presented major infrastructure problems. Qatar got so hot in the summer that the inspectors deemed a World Cup there a "potential health risk for players, officials, the FIFA family and spectators." Nevertheless, Blatter, a winking, bald-pated 75-year-old from FIFA's home country of Switzerland, looked overjoyed as he read out the results. "I am a happy president," he gushed.
FIFA has a longstanding reputation for corruption, and even before the executive committee convened, there was widespread concern that the voting would be rigged. Alarming details had been leaking out for months. In October, Sunday Times reporters posing as American lobbyists had secretly videotaped two ExCo members, Tahiti's Reynald Temarii and Nigeria's Amos Adamu, demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars for their votes. They each claimed that the money would be used for development projects — a soccer academy in Auckland, New Zealand, four artificial fields in Nigeria — but wanted the money to be paid to them directly. Three days before the vote, the BBC's Panorama program broadcast an investigation into FIFA corruption that accused three current ExCo members of taking bribes in the 1990s.
In the weeks after the vote, the suspicion intensified. It was noted among the losing nations that the committee had handed the World Cup to two oil-rich countries with troubling, arguably outright authoritarian governments. In doing so, it had voted down bids — including those from the United States, England, and Japan — that outperformed the winning nations in both tournament-readiness and revenue potential. England's bid, one of the most highly praised by the inspection team, received a paltry two votes. Multiple newspapers reported that the delegates from CONCACAF, the governing body of North American soccer, had voted against the country from their own confederation, the United States.
FIFA had faced this sort of suspicion before. Both Blatter's election as president in 1998 and his first reelection campaign were dogged by allegations of bribery. The old boys on the ExCo — it has never had a female member — had long been rumored to buy votes, manipulate TV deals, get fat on corporate kickbacks. Sometimes there were more than rumors. In 2006, Jack Warner, the head of CONCACAF, was censured by FIFA's Ethics Committee when an Ernst & Young audit found that he'd made a million-dollar profit selling World Cup tickets in Trinidad.
None of this had ever really fazed FIFA. But the rumblings about Russia and Qatar persisted for months, and they came at the worst possible time for Blatter. His third term as president was up in June, and he faced an unexpected challenger in the election: Mohammed bin Hammam, the Qatari head of the Asian soccer confederation and a key mover behind Qatar's successful World Cup bid. Bin Hammam had once been known as a Blatter loyalist; now, somewhat breathtakingly, he was capitalizing on the widespread mistrust of Blatter by running for the presidency on an anticorruption platform.
Should it matter to soccer fans if FIFA is corrupt? By almost any measure the game is thriving, with more fans in more corners of the world, every day. If the combined audience for just the final two rounds of the 2010 World Cup were a country, it would be, by far, the most populous nation on earth. Most of these fans seem to be enjoying themselves, so if a cabal of scheming old men in Zurich happens to be pulling strings behind the scenes, why should the rest of us worry?
It's easy to see FIFA as unimportant in part because, as the Blatter-bin Hammam wrangle illustrates, there's something deeply silly about many of the organization's Machiavellian twists. One of the common misconceptions about FIFA corruption is that it flourishes because the organization is rolling in money. In fact, if FIFA were a corporation, its revenue of just more than $1 billion a year wouldn't get it within a Tim Howard goal kick of the Fortune 500. In 2010, ExxonMobil raked in $284.6 billion; Blockbuster Video, the 500th company on the list, had revenues more than four times the average for world soccer's governing body. By the global scale on which it operates, FIFA is at best a medium-sized outfit. And it's the organization's middlingness, combined with its exposure to much larger economic powers, that determines the peculiar character of its scandals.
FIFA executives tend to be vain bureaucrats and unctuous politicians rather than cutthroat businessmen. From an economic standpoint, their only real purpose is to control the point of access to the World Cup, from which the organization derives 87 percent of its income. FIFA's top executives are thus in a position to be courted around the clock by massive corporations, which want to secure one of the competition's prized sponsorships, and by governments, which want the prestige of hosting the tournament. It's easy to imagine how a sports administrator's ego would unfurl under these conditions; the majestic, indomitable beard of Chuck Blazer, the American functionary who wrote the report accusing bin Hammam,2 provides a useful visual aid. As a result, the FIFA corruption stories that become public — and there are presumably many that don't — tend to be silly, tawdry, or decadent rather than chilling or deeply outrageous. They're just a bit of glitzy filth, the mildew of globalization.
The best recent example of this is the case of Lord Triesman, the former chairman of the English Football Association and head of England's 2018 bid. In May 2010, Triesman was ousted from both roles after a former aide secretly taped him saying that Spain and Russia were trying to bribe World Cup referees. A year later, as bin Hammam and Blatter were plotting against each other in Zurich, Triesman appeared in London, testifying before a parliamentary committee about the failure of England's bid. The location was significant. Under Europe's stringent libel laws, making accusations, even against public figures, can lead to heavy penalties. Speak under parliamentary privilege, however, and you're immune from legal action.
Best of all was Triesman's meeting with Nicolás Leoz, the six-term president of the South American soccer confederation. "I was guided from the table," Triesman said, "to a display cabinet, in which there was a large book." In the book were facsimiles of the honors Leoz had been given by various countries — knighthoods, photos of streets that had been named after him, and so on. Leoz told Triesman through an interpreter that "he believed the appropriate way of recognizing his achievements in world football were not by money, he didn't need money, he already was personally a very wealthy man." Instead, Triesman continued, "I was shown the facsimile of his Légion d'honneur.4 I was then told, through the translator but directly after he had spoken, that he believed that a knighthood from the United Kingdom would be appropriate. And it was put to me that as a former Foreign Office minister, I must know how these things are organized and could probably achieve it.
Did any of this really happen? It almost doesn't matter. Triesman's portrait of FIFA as a rogues' gallery of parasites accorded deeply with what everyone already sensed about the organization. On the other hand, his portrait of himself as a lion of British rectitude, shocked and outraged by each hint of impropriety, was so absurdly implausible that even if Triesman's accusations against FIFA weren't true, FIFA could still be regarded with suspicion simply for consorting with men like Triesman.5 The whole narrative sank into a soft bottom of rottenness. Like a scene in a comic novel, it felt detached from reality — something that sounded like the truth told in a way that sounded like lying.
The pivotal moment in the history of FIFA corruption came in the summer of 1974. That year, West Germany upset Johan Cruyff's Netherlands at the World Cup; the Jules Rimet trophy, which was actually held by the winners, was retired in favor of the FIFA World Cup trophy, which was awarded only in replica; and João Havelange, the tall, grim-faced head of the Brazilian Sports Confederation, was elected as FIFA's seventh president.
Under Havelange's predecessor, the Englishman Sir Stanley Rous, FIFA was not notably corrupt, only racist and Eurocentric. Rous, who was born during the reign of Queen Victoria, championed values of amateurism; as a young man, he had served as a referee. As president, he alienated FIFA's non-European contingent by resisting efforts to expand the World Cup — in the 1966 tournament, there was one spot reserved for Asia and Africa combined — and by supporting apartheid South Africa's right to a place in world soccer.6 Rous' FIFA was hopelessly outmoded, an artifact of the game's colonialist past.
First, only the very largest multinational companies, whose advertising budgets could bear the load and whose global reach matched the TV audience on offer, should be approached as sponsors. Second, sponsorship and advertising would be segmented by product type: There could be only one soft drink, one beer, one microelectronics firm, or one financial services company that could be the official World Cup product or supplier. Third, FIFA would have total control over all forms of TV rights, advertising, stadium space, etc. Any and all existing deals in a host country would have to go. Fourth, FIFA itself would not handle the details of the sponsorship and TV deals. Marketing and TV rights would be handed over for a guaranteed sum of money to an intermediary who would sell them on.
To cover the last part, the selling of TV rights and sponsorships, Dassler created a marketing company called ISL, short for International Sports and Leisure, and established an office across the street from FIFA headquarters in Zurich.
The combined effect of Havelange's two insights was to covert FIFA into a sort of hydraulic cash-flow machine. Dassler and Nally brokered deals with huge companies — Coca-Cola was the first to sign on, in 1975. The money flowed into ISL, which paid FIFA a fixed fee for the rights. To enjoy exclusive access to the rights, ISL also made off-the-books payments worth tens of millions of dollars to FIFA executives.7 To preserve the power structure, FIFA ExCo members funneled resources — and ISL money — to the regional confederations that supported them. The people at the top made deals with big companies, then filtered cash to the people at the bottom in return for the votes that let them make the deals.
Havelange reigned at FIFA for 24 years and kept the machine working through sheer grandiose force of personality. (Late in his career, when the Swiss were competing with the French in the race to host the 1998 World Cup, they nominated Havelange for the Nobel Peace Prize and they still lost.) When he announced his retirement in 1998, the race to succeed him pitted Lennart Johansson, the Swedish president of UEFA, against the oleaginous Blatter, who was then FIFA's secretary general. Johansson had a reputation for incorruptibility — it was thought he might open the books. Blatter was Havelange's protégé. Blatter won, 111-80.
When asked after the election about rumors of improprieties in the vote, Blatter — always snifflier and more preening than his mentor — openly teased the questioner: "The match is over, the players have already gone to the changing rooms; I will not respond to this question." The investigative journalist Andrew Jennings records in his book Foul! that Havelange's allies in Qatar were rumored to have paid $50,000 each to delegates who agreed to vote for Blatter. In a savory twist, the Qatari bribes that secured Blatter's election were dealt out by the candidate's loyal friend, future anticorruption advocate Mohammed bin Hammam.
Swiss law, that wonderfully flexible instrument, didn't formally prohibit bribery until 2000, and even then nonprofit sporting entities were made exempt. FIFA's ethics code does include a bribery provision, Article 11.1, which states unambiguously that "officials may not accept bribes" — but then FIFA operated without a written code of ethics until October 2004. It's possible, amazingly, that the worst behavior of the Havelange and Blatter eras was neither illegal nor expressly proscribed by FIFA policy.
Which raises the question again: If FIFA corruption is simply a closed system, detached from reality, a mechanism for assigning World Cup sponsorship rights, and none of the actions it entails are illegal, then where's the harm? Surely we aren't expected to weep when one multibillion-dollar company loses an advertising opportunity because another multibillion-dollar company is better at cheating. So as long as the games are good, why does it matter if FIFA is corrupt?
One of the most striking venues constructed for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa was Mbombela Stadium, in the Mpumalanga province in the northeast of the country. Seating just shy of 41,000 people, the stadium rises out of open land, a silver disc ringed by jutting roof supports designed to look like colossal orange giraffes. This was where tiny New Zealand held Italy, the defending champion, to a draw in one of the most memorable matches of the tournament. All in all, Mbombela hosted four World Cup games.
The cost to construct the stadium that hosted those four games was initially estimated at about $80 million; the final tally was closer to $140 million. Construction was funded by public revenues — by taxes. Two schools were bulldozed to make room for the stadium. Parents and children from the nearby village staged protests; as the New York Times reported last March, police "dispersed them with rubber bullets." Local politicians in Nelspruit, the provincial capital, began turning up evidence of massive graft surrounding the project. In 2008, Jimmy Mohlala, the head of the local council, came forward with evidence that an official named Jacob Dladla had conspired with the stadium's contractors to effectively steal public funds. The ANC held a meeting to consider the allegations, the outcome of which was that they left the accused, Dladla, unpunished and demanded Mohlala's resignation. "The ANC has its reasons for taking its decision, which will be communicated to the public in due time," the party spokesman said.
Mohlala persisted, refusing to resign and announcing that he planned to file charges against a company called Lefika Emerging Equity, which had won the contract to manage the stadium project. Lefika was co-owned by Bobby Motaung, the heir of the South African soccer dynasty that also controls the powerful Kaizer Chiefs team; its CEO, Chris Grib, had fled the country in 2008 after being implicated in a tax-evasion case. Mohlala claimed to have evidence that Lefika had forged a government document and committed bank fraud.
Then, on January 4, 2009, two men wearing ski masks showed up at Mohlala's house. According to some sources, they started an argument about parking their car. Then they drew guns and shot Mohlala's 19-year-old son in the ankle, shot Mohlala in the shoulder, and fled. Mohlala died on the way to the hospital.
FIFA has been silent about all this. The past four World Cups to be awarded, representing 16 years of FIFA's work and tens of billions of dollars in revenue, have charted a line straight down the Democracy Index, from South Africa (30th place) to Brazil (47th) to Russia (107th) to Qatar (137th), where political power is hereditary and homosexuality is a crime. FIFA demands a byzantine range of legal and tax immunities, for itself and its sponsors, from countries that want to stage its marquee tournament; South Africa, where more than half the population is below the poverty line, collected no tax on the $3.5 billion the soccer group inhaled from the event. It's not that liberal democracies are unwilling to make similar concessions. But when you're accustomed to being bribed, exempted, accommodated, and indulged — when you never want to pick up the check — in some ways the worse the partner, the better.
FIFA corruption matters, in other words, not because the integrity of the ExCo makes much difference to the average American or European fan, but because FIFA isn't a closed system. Its decisions, however farcical in themselves, open the door for better or worse things to happen elsewhere. Old men fluttering about knighthoods in Asunción lead to exploitation and murder in South Africa. "Society is full of devils," Blatter once said, "and these devils, you find them in football." For all that they act like minor Dickens villains, FIFA executives are not sequestered in a novel; they impact the real world.
Preparations, as always, are moving ahead for the next World Cup. Brazil 2014 will be a comprehensive spectacle, soccer's triumphant return to the country where Nike thinks it began, and the fireworks displays will drop showers of money on FIFA. The man in charge of the preparations, Ricardo Teixeira, is a stocky 64-year-old Brazilian with a mobster's neck-wattle and a plutocrat's blunt eyes. He is also João Havelange's former son-in-law. Teixeira was married to Havelange's daughter Lúcia for nearly 30 years; they divorced in 1997, the year before Havelange retired. He was named in both Lord Triesman's testimony and the BBC Panorama investigation as one of the corrupt eminences of the ExCo, a charge to which he responded, with characteristic subtlety, by vowing to make English soccer's life "hell" as long as he sat on the committee.
Beauty and money, production and reproduction, fortune and misfortune and riches. There are signs that the old Havelange coalition is starting to break apart, that Blatter's grip on FIFA is weakening. Bin Hammam turned on him; proposed changes to Swiss law might threaten FIFA's tax status; the press is forever getting closer to the box of dirty secrets. The domestic clubs, who increasingly hold the real power in soccer, are correspondingly restless; Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the great German striker who now heads the European Clubs Forum, has said that "I don't accept any longer that we should be guided by people who are not serious and clean." Havelange, now 95, is being investigated by the International Olympic Committee for accepting a seven-figure bribe. Blatter's strongest reform effort to date — appointing Henry Kissinger and Placido Domingo as anticorruption consultants — has met with widespread derision. If nothing else, the average age of the ExCo is 64 — surely one of the main reasons FIFA broke its own tradition by awarding two World Cups at once last year. Some sort of change must be coming.
But Blatter has withstood crises before, including the sudden collapse of ISL in 2001, which revealed yawning holes in FIFA's books. Somehow or other, he always seems to emerge at the end, smiling above the rubble and purring that it would be reprehensible to assume he masterminded all this. This may be because he understands better than anyone, Havelange included, that while FIFA might influence the real world, it is never finally judged there. Reform movements and protests are local and particular. FIFA's plane is abstract and global, the bright, hard everywhere of logos and sponsored theme music. To thrive, Blatter doesn't have to make the World Cup a force for good. He just has to make it look good on TV.
For 2018: England, Spain/Portugal, Russia, Holland/Belgium. For 2022: the United States, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Qatar.
This past May, Mel Brennan wrote a hugely entertaining and bizarre account of working for Blazer at CONCACAF, including strip clubs, massages, and the AMEX Centurion Card. This past weekend, the investigative journalist Andrew Jennings reported that Blazer is being investigated by the FBI.
In an unrelated coincidence, France hosted the World Cup in 1998.
For instance: Triesman accused Worawi Makudi, the ExCo member from Thailand, of asking him to schedule a friendly match between England and Thailand and to give Makudi the TV rights. In May 2010, the FA did schedule a friendly match with Thailand, which they canceled in December after Makudi failed to vote for their bid.
Other Rous winners: In 1973, two months after the Pinochet coup in Chile, he ordered the Soviet Union to play a World Cup qualifier against the Chileans in Santiago. The only problem: The Pinochet regime had been using the stadium as a death camp. "In order to stage the game against the Soviets," Tim Vickery has written, "the remaining prisoners were transferred or released and the bloodstains hurriedly cleaned up." The Soviets refused to play the match. Rous threw them out of the World Cup.
This was the subject of a trial that took place in Zug, Switzerland in 2008. The bribe-takers unsurprisingly appear to have included both Nicolás Leoz, he of the many knighthoods, and Ricardo Teixeira.
Last October, Mpumalanga police arrested three suspects in the murder, but subsequently released them for lack of evidence. In March, the police dismissed two officers who were themselves now seen as suspects in the killing.


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Three charged after gun-parts bust
Criminals continue to try to import firearms, with Australian Federal Police and Australian Border Force busting three men who attempted to bypass the Customs barrier with gun components hidden inside a toy motorcycle mailed from the US. Inside the package were 16 earth-coloured plastic frames for compact handguns. They appear to be Glock 26 or similar. Also found were large capacity handgun magazines - 26 box magazines of 30-round capacity and 24 drum magazines of 50-round capacity - which appear to fit Glock handguns.
The operation started on January 9 when ABF officers at the Melbourne International Mail Facility spotted a suspicious parcel containing a child's plastic sit-on toy motorcycle. An X-ray analysis identified anomalies and on opening the parcel officers found multiple firearm parts hot-glued to the outside of the motorcycle. The AFP said following further investigation the ABF identified another two packages found to contain similarly concealed firearms parts.
Police subsequently raided premises in the Melbourne suburbs of Brunswick and Southbank as well as locations in NSW believed to be associated with the importations. Three men aged 25, 26 and 33 were arrested and charged with a series of offences relating to possessing a traffickable quantity of unregistered firearms as well as trafficking and importing prohibited firearms parts.
During the raids officers seized further firearms parts including 60 gun receivers, 26 magazines of 30-cartridge capacity as well as springs, magazine followers and end caps. Because the three are now before the courts the AFP declined to disclose any further information, such as what type of firearm the 60 receivers would make up.
AFP Detective Superintendent Jayne Crossling said these seizures were significant and attempts to illegally import firearms parts were always treated seriously. "We do not want unregulated and unchecked items possibly making their way to criminal groups, which then has far-reaching consequences for the safety of the community," she said in a media statement. "There is now no chance these firearms will end up in the dangerous hands of outlaw criminal motorcycle gangs or other criminals."
ABF Regional Commander for Victoria, Craig Palmer, said the detection highlighted ABF effectiveness at the border. "ABF officers working in the international mail environment in Melbourne and around the country are highly skilled in targeting suspect consignments and detecting firearms parts, no matter how they're concealed," he said."Our officers are supported by technology and use other detection methodologies at our international mail centres to identify a range of high risk items. In this case these techniques have helped us prevent a significant number of firearms entering the community and potentially falling into the wrong hands."
Much more remains to be revealed about this case. It surely shows that illicit imports, dismissed by some anti-gun campaigners as a minor source of illegal firearms compared to those stolen from legal owners, remains a significant source of black market guns for criminals willing to pay high prices for unregistered firearms.
That was demonstrated in 2017 when police busted a gang in Sydney which imported 130 Glock handguns from Germany and sold them on the black market. Just a couple of dozen have since been recovered, one from a member of the Comanchero outlaw motorcycle gang.
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TBT NEWSWATCH, THUNDER BAY - The creative brain behind well-known comic works such as Marvel's Thanos, DC's Darkseid and Epic's Dreadstar has been officially confirmed as a special guest for ThunderCon 2018.
Jim Starlin, comic writer and illustrator, is best known for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock and creating or co-creating Marvel characters Drax the Destroyer, Gamora and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. His career dates back to the early 1970s.
Having had a role in the creation of Marvel universe villain Thanos, Starlin's appearance in Thunder Bay comes at a relevant time for movie fans. Thanos will be a prominent character in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War, which is expected to have its theatrical release in May 2018.
Organizers put significant effort into attracting internationally recognized keynote guests, including Robert Picardo (Star Trek Voyager; Stargate), along with making other event improvements for 2017. Those efforts led to a significant increase in out-of-town and local attendance, and put ThunderCon on the convention circuit map. Those same efforts continue into 2018.


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package natsconsumer

import (
	"testing"
	"time"

	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers"
	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
	"github.com/nats-io/nats"
)

const (
	testMsg         = "cpu_load_short,host=server01 value=23422.0 1422568543702900257"
	testMsgGraphite = "cpu.load.short.graphite 23422 1454780029"
	testMsgJSON     = "{\"a\": 5, \"b\": {\"c\": 6}}\n"
	invalidMsg      = "cpu_load_short,host=server01 1422568543702900257"
	metricBuffer    = 5
)

func newTestNatsConsumer() (*natsConsumer, chan *nats.Msg) {
	in := make(chan *nats.Msg, metricBuffer)
	n := &natsConsumer{
		QueueGroup: "test",
		Subjects:   []string{"telegraf"},
		Servers:    []string{"nats://localhost:4222"},
		Secure:     false,
		in:         in,
		errs:       make(chan error, metricBuffer),
		done:       make(chan struct{}),
	}
	return n, in
}

// Test that the parser parses NATS messages into metrics
func TestRunParser(t *testing.T) {
	n, in := newTestNatsConsumer()
	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
	n.acc = &acc
	defer close(n.done)

	n.parser, _ = parsers.NewInfluxParser()
	n.wg.Add(1)
	go n.receiver()
	in <- natsMsg(testMsg)
	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 25)

	if acc.NFields() != 1 {
		t.Errorf("got %v, expected %v", acc.NFields(), 1)
	}
}

// Test that the parser ignores invalid messages
func TestRunParserInvalidMsg(t *testing.T) {
	n, in := newTestNatsConsumer()
	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
	n.acc = &acc
	defer close(n.done)

	n.parser, _ = parsers.NewInfluxParser()
	n.wg.Add(1)
	go n.receiver()
	in <- natsMsg(invalidMsg)
	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 25)

	if acc.NFields() != 0 {
		t.Errorf("got %v, expected %v", acc.NFields(), 0)
	}
}

// Test that the parser parses line format messages into metrics
func TestRunParserAndGather(t *testing.T) {
	n, in := newTestNatsConsumer()
	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
	n.acc = &acc
	defer close(n.done)

	n.parser, _ = parsers.NewInfluxParser()
	n.wg.Add(1)
	go n.receiver()
	in <- natsMsg(testMsg)
	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 25)

	n.Gather(&acc)

	acc.AssertContainsFields(t, "cpu_load_short",
		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(23422)})
}

// Test that the parser parses graphite format messages into metrics
func TestRunParserAndGatherGraphite(t *testing.T) {
	n, in := newTestNatsConsumer()
	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
	n.acc = &acc
	defer close(n.done)

	n.parser, _ = parsers.NewGraphiteParser("_", []string{}, nil)
	n.wg.Add(1)
	go n.receiver()
	in <- natsMsg(testMsgGraphite)
	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 25)

	n.Gather(&acc)

	acc.AssertContainsFields(t, "cpu_load_short_graphite",
		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(23422)})
}

// Test that the parser parses json format messages into metrics
func TestRunParserAndGatherJSON(t *testing.T) {
	n, in := newTestNatsConsumer()
	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
	n.acc = &acc
	defer close(n.done)

	n.parser, _ = parsers.NewJSONParser("nats_json_test", []string{}, nil)
	n.wg.Add(1)
	go n.receiver()
	in <- natsMsg(testMsgJSON)
	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 25)

	n.Gather(&acc)

	acc.AssertContainsFields(t, "nats_json_test",
		map[string]interface{}{
			"a":   float64(5),
			"b_c": float64(6),
		})
}

func natsMsg(val string) *nats.Msg {
	return &nats.Msg{
		Subject: "telegraf",
		Data:    []byte(val),
	}
}

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Sauvillers-Mongival (picardisch: Seuvilé-Mongivo) ist eine nordfranzösische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) im Département Somme in der Region Hauts-de-France. Die Gemeinde liegt im Arrondissement Montdidier, ist Teil der Communauté de communes Avre Luce Noye und gehört zum Kanton Ailly-sur-Noye.

Geographie
Die im Südosten von einem Trockental begrenzte, landwirtschaftlich geprägte Gemeinde liegt rund sechs Kilometer südlich von Moreuil an der Kreuzung der Départementsstraßen D83 und D84.

Toponymie und Geschichte
Mongival ist ein früherer Weiler, der 1636 bei der Belagerung von Corbie durch spanische Truppen zerstört wurde. Die Gemeinde kam 1393 an die Herren von Raineval. Im Ersten Weltkrieg wurde sie fast vollständig zerstört, im Juli 1918 von den französischen Truppen zurückerobert. Sie erhielt als Auszeichnung das Croix de guerre 1914 – 1918.

Einwohner

Verwaltung
Bürgermeister (maire) ist seit 2008 Gilles Peltiez.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Die 1918 wieder aufgebaute Kirche Saint-Martin aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.
 Kriegerdenkmal
 Gedenksäule am Weg nach Mailly-Raineval

Weblinks

Ort in Hauts-de-France
Zerstört im Ersten Weltkrieg
Träger des Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (Ort in Frankreich)


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Are you ready for Low Code?
What is Low Code?
Low Code is simply the concept of "no coding necessary" to build software applications. It's a way for non-engineers to build apps in the cloud using visual drag and drop modules provided by a number of platforms available in the market. It's also a way for developers to shorten development timelines and programming costs.
How much is Low Code's market growing?
Much like web development platforms such as Wix, SquareSpace or WordPress dominate over 54% of the web development market, Low Code platforms are expected to reach 65% market share over the next 4 years, according to Gartner.
What have been Low Code's challenges?
Over the past few years, Low Code platforms have been disparaged by traditional software developers. Criticisms include Low Code's app enhancement limitations, black-box effect, inefficiencies derived from code bloating, extra costs related to adoption, unforeseen coding requirements, data management issues, and integration capabilities. However, these challenges have all been successfully addressed. Low Code platforms are now positioned to become the standard for not just small customers, but professional developers as well.
Where's the Low Code market going?
Current market trends in which the average app lifecycle is getting shorter, combined with the constant shortage of app developers, is fueling a Low Code movement. This is evidenced by the recent increase in M&A activity. AppSheet, Mendix, AppMakr, and Infinite Monkeys are examples of Low Code platforms that have recently been acquired, indicating that the Low Code segment is already undergoing market standardization.
Who benefits from Low Code?
As Low Code becomes more and more standardized, it's important to keep in mind from a user/customer standpoint that Low Code serves mainly two types of customers: those requiring a very simple app and the ones where the app can be built using a Low Code platform but a limited amount of additional custom coding is or will be required. Customers still need to evaluate the long term goals of the app early on before deciding which Low Code platform to engage with, if any.
How compatible is Low Code?
While cross-platform mobility and compatibility is available within the Low Code space, the long-term risk/cost factor can be high. User retention can be sensitive to major UX/UI app changes as opposed to gradual, and data migrations require a fair amount of sophisticated technical planning prior to execution. Knowing early where one wants to go with a particular app should determine if the use of a Low Code platform is viable and if so, which particular one is most suitable. While many projects can be done by non-programmers using a Low Code platform, it's highly recommended to have a consultation with a reputable software development expert such as Opentrends in the planning stages to derisk the long-term viability of the app.
What to keep in mind?
You can think about this like buying a home. If you have shopped for a home you know you have three choices: purchase a lot and build your own, buy an older existing home to fix/remodel, or buy a home that is turnkey.
- A custom home takes longer to build but provides the most customization options and flexibility: You can decide the size, position, and design of the entire structure.
- A fixer-upper can take a while before it's move-in ready but provides a fair level of customization: you can change the size of some rooms, windows, countertops… but you can't change the structure without incurring major costs.
- The existing turnkey home is fast to acquire, but will require more compromises: you may change the paint color and flooring, but any major change will cost you dearly.
Deciding to develop an app in Low Code is like buying a fixer-upper or a turnkey, it may require compromises, but it may serve your needs just fine. The reason it's important to know early on what the long-term plan is with the app and to consult a software developer such as Opentrends is that, unlike a home, the app can't be sold and exchanged for a new one. So if the app becomes limited, expanding it may not be worthwhile and a brand new custom one may be required.
Author: Anselm Bossacoma


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Home Arts Educational magazines Mahl, Thomas E. 1943-
Mahl, Thomas E. 1943-
COPYRIGHT 2009 Gale
PERSONAL: Born 1943, in OH.
ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Brassey's, Inc., 22841 Quicksilver Dr., Dulles, VA 20166.
CAREER: Writer, professor, and lecturer.
Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-44, Brassey's (Washington, DC), 1998.
SIDELIGHTS: Thomas E. Mahl draws on memoirs and declassified government documents in his book Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-44. The book explores the ways in which Britain drew the United States into supporting the European fight against the Nazis. American manpower and production capabilities were seen as key to winning the war, but many Americans opposed involvement, including prominent citizens such as aviation hero Charles Lindbergh. Attacked as anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi, Lindbergh was really an isolationist whose views were similar to those held by the majority of American citizens. British forces needed to alter this viewpoint, and the ways in which they did so constitute "the largest, most intricate, and finally most successful" conspiracy of the twentieth century, according to Gore Vidal in the Times Literary Supplement.
Movies favorable to the British cause were made, pro-British messages were read by influential newsman Walter Winchell, and propaganda was spread by a variety of other means, much of it engineered by William Stevenson, a British spy known as "Intrepid." Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration aided the campaign, as well. Mahl contends that congressional elections were rigged with the help of foreign money, ensuring the defeat of isolationist candidates, and that polls were tampered with in order to make it appear there was greater support for the war in Europe than there really was. Mahl's work is "carefully researched" and is an "engrossing addition to World War II history and the history of covert operations," stated a writer for Kirkus Reviews. Justus D. Doenecke, reviewing Desperate Deception in the Independent Review, called it "our fullest account of hidden British operations," though he also found the book marred by some overstatement. Eliot A. Cohen, rating the book in Foreign Affairs, recommended it as "a fascinating account" of covert British activity in the United States.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
Foreign Affairs, July-August, 1998, Eliot A. Cohen, review of Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-44, p. 126.
Independent Review, summer, 1999, Justus D. Doenecke, review of Desperate Deception, p. 133.
International Journal of Public Opinion Research, June 1, 2003, Allen H. Barton, review of Desperate Deception, p. 212.
Kirkus Reviews, November 15, 1997, review of Desperate Deception, p. 1691.
Times Literary Supplement, October 30, 1998, Gore Vidal, review of Desperate Deception, p. 3.
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Category: No. 349 // August 2015
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Recently, the Bureau of Statistics predicted that by 2056 Melbourne's population will overtake Sydney's to become the largest populated city in Australia.
A quiet conversation
Here we find ourselves on the banks of the Mooloolah River on the stunning Sunshine Coast, for this month's A Quiet Conversation. With me is Ross and Yvonne Raynor and their three-year old grand-daughter Lani. It's late April, which means it's still warm on the coast.
Bracing wall distribution
The Australian Standard (AS) 1684 "˜Residential Timber Framed Construction' document states that, "Wall bracing shall be approximately evenly distributed throughout the building" and, furthermore "Shall be placed in the external walls and at the corners of the building as much as possible" (refer to clause 8.3.6.6).
The ATFA turns 10!
The Australian Timber Flooring Association has just celebrated 10 years of service to the industry, marking its milestone with a look back over the years.
How to handle a complaint
It doesn't matter what sector of the flooring industry you work in, it would seem that consumer complaints are a certainty
Three years in the making
It has now been three years since the WADIC committee considered the very ambitious step to test low-density timber products up to the Bushfire Attack Level 29 with testing company Exova Warringtonfire.
A walk down memory lane
You can't teach desire or passion. Fortunately Greg King, the founding publisher of TimberTrader News, had enough of both to ensure the magazine's survival over the past 30 years. It's been his baby, and he's very proud of it. Megan Macdonald got out the tape recorder for this special interview.
State of the Industry – July 2015
Results from the July survey show a slight decrease in budget performance since the start of the new financial year, though there has been increased activity in staff hiring.
Why have an enterprise agreement?
Agreements in the workplace have existed for many years, often co-existing with the underpinning award that applies to the work being done.
Getting to know Hoo
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Hurley steht für:
 Hurley (Familienname), Familienname, zu Namensträgern siehe dort
 Hurley Ramey (1915–nach 1950), US-amerikanischer Jazzgitarrist
 Hurley Marine, ehemalige Segelbootswerft
 Hurley 22, bekanntes Modell dieser Werft, auch bekannt als Hurley 700
 Hurley (Sportgerät), beim irischen Mannschaftssport Hurling genutzter Schläger
 Mr. Hurley & Die Pulveraffen, deutsche Folk-Band aus Osnabrück

Hurley ist der Name folgender

Orte in den Vereinigten Staaten:
 Hurley (Mississippi)
 Hurley (Missouri)
 Hurley (New Mexico)
 Hurley (New York)
 Hurley (South Dakota), im Turner County
 Hurley (Tennessee)
 Hurley (Virginia)
 Hurley (Wisconsin)

Orte im Vereinigten Königreich:
 Hurley (Berkshire)
 Hurley (Warwickshire)

geografischer Objekte:
 Hurley-Gletscher, Gletscher auf der Adelaide-Insel, Antarktis
 Kap Hurley, Kap im Georg-V.-Land, Antarktika
 Mount Hurley, Berg im Enderbyland, Antarktika


Thermally activated heating, cooling and dehumidification technologies will become an essential tool for efficient use of all forms of fossil energy. Watch this space for important information on engineering tools to help recycle energy.
ICHPS has extensive experience in applying thermally activated technologies to Cooling, Heat and Power (CHP) systems and has amassed a significant amount of market data to assist its clients. The following is one example of market screening data.


The initial consultation involves a detailed exploration of your health problems, your symptoms and how they affect the quality of your life. Your personal and family medical histories are carefully examined and your nature and way of being are explored gently yet thoroughly. The homoeopathic consultation offers a unique experience and most people find this initial consultation very helpful in its own right, even before a medicine is prescribed.
I then offer you feedback on what I have perceived in you, your disease and your life situation. I make some suggestions as to how you might help yourself to get better and then I prescribe a medicine on the basis of everything that we have together discovered about you. The purpose of the medicine is to stimulate your own natural healing abilities so that you can, in time, restore yourself to health.
Follow-up appointments are made to follow and support your healing process. The number and frequency depends entirely on you and your situation. I may prescribe other medicines for you or suggest other therapies to help you further. I am clear that, whilst homoeopathy is a wonderful system of medicine, it cannot help everyone all the time. No system of medicine can reasonably claim to do so and I am more than happy to own my limitations and, where necessary, refer you back to your GP or on to another practitioner.
Central to your healing process is YOU. Humans are wonderful at repairing and healing themselves. My task is to provide just enough of the best stimulus to that process and then allow you to restore yourself. Restoration of health is the aim of treatment, not simply the removal or management of symptoms.
The homoeopathic process is empowering of you and your way of being in the world.


Q. Why are Alarm Services important?
A. In 2015, Longview police officers responded to 5,046 false alarms. The more false alarms the city has to respond to, the more it costs in resources and police availability. In an effort to reduce the number of false alarms overall, the City Council passed an ordinance requiring annual registration of all residential and commercial security alarms within the city effective January 1, 2014. Alarm systems will need to be registered every year no later than the registration anniversary date. Annual registration allows residents and businesses to update all contact information at the time of renewal, which maintains the effectiveness of enhanced call verification.
Q. Whom does it affect?
A. All residents and commercial businesses residing or operating within the City of Longview who have a security alarm system.
A. An alarm system is defined as any assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal entry or other activity and intended to summon police. This system may or may not be monitored by a third party service.
Q. What about monitored fire alarm systems?
A. The Longview Fire Department manages the registration of monitored Fire Alarm Systems. For more information, please contact the Longview Fire Marshal's Office at 903-237-1119.
A. If you live or own a business within the City of Longview city limits and operate an alarm system, then you are required to register.
A. False alarms are defined as an alarm notification to the police department, when the responding officer finds no evidence of a criminal offense or attempted criminal offense after having completed a timely inspection of the alarm site. For the purposes of this article, this term does not include an alarm signal caused by violent conditions of nature or other extraordinary circumstances not reasonably subject to control by the alarm company or alarm user. Unless otherwise provided, the Police Chief shall be the sole and exclusive judge of whether an alarm is a false alarm for the purpose of this section. See the Rates and Fees page for False Alarm fees.
Q. Who is Public Safety Corporation?
A. The City of Longview contracted Alarm Services from Public Safety Corporation using CryWolf technologies via RFP# 1415-24. City of Longview Alarm Services (CLAS) has partnered with Public Safety Corporation to manage alarm registration, payments, and records.
Q. Is there a sample invoice available to compare to what I received in the mail?
A. Yes, a sample invoice is available to demonstrate what you may receive by mail from Public Safety Corporation on behalf of the City of Longview Alarm Services.
See additional information on the City of Longview Alarm Services website managed by Public Safety Corporation.
A printable informational brochure about the City of Longview Alarm Services is also available.


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Q: How to apply the same unitary transformation to a list of square matrices? Given a unitary matrix U and a list of matrices Mlist how can I apply the unitary transformation to the list?

A: This is a sample example that uses Map. I have defined a function to generate any  $2\times2$ $SU(2)$ transformation upto an overall phase and used one such transformation to change the list of matrices.
matrices = RandomComplex[{-1 - I, 1 + I}, {10, 2, 2}];

unitary[θ_, ϕ1_, ϕ2_] := {
 {E^(I ϕ1) Cos[θ], E^(I ϕ2) Sin[θ]},
 {-E^(I ϕ2) Sin[θ], E^(- I ϕ1) Cos[θ]}
 };

(ConjugateTranspose[
      unitary[π/4, π/5, π/6]].#.unitary[π/4, π/ 5, π/6]) & /@ matrices;

A: Matrix operations automatically use parallelization when possible, so using matrix operations and avoiding Map will provide a speed gain. Using @Henrik's example:
a = Map[ConjugateTranspose[U].#.U&, matrices]; //RepeatedTiming
b = cf[matrices,ConjugateTranspose[U],U]; //RepeatedTiming
c = Transpose[ConjugateTranspose[U] . Transpose[matrices] . U]; //RepeatedTiming

Block[{Internal`$EqualTolerance=5}, a==b==c]

{0.0086, Null}
{0.0024, Null}
{0.0016, Null}
True

So, using Dot and Transpose is faster than @Henrik's compiled version.
Note that I used 10^4 matrices instead of 10^5. As the number of matrices increases, the compiled version eventually becomes faster.

A: If you have to do that really often and with numerical matrices, it may be worth the effort to write a CompiledFunction with RuntimeAttributes -> {Listable}. This is usually faster than using Map, since it can also utilize parallelization.
cf = Compile[{{A, _Complex, 2}, {U, _Complex, 2}, {V, _Complex, 2}},
   U.A.V,
   RuntimeAttributes -> {Listable},
   Parallelization -> True
   ];

n = 4;
matrices = RandomComplex[{-1 - I, 1 + I}, {100000, n, n}];
U = RandomVariate[CircularUnitaryMatrixDistribution[n]];

a = Map[ConjugateTranspose[U].#.U &, matrices]; // RepeatedTiming // First
b = cf[matrices, ConjugateTranspose[U], U]; // RepeatedTiming // First
Max[Abs[a - b]]

0.077
0.021
0.


PETALUMA, Calif., Jan. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 18th 2017, Lloyd Chapman, the President and founder of the American Small Business League (ASBL) issued a statement regarding their campaign to rally women, minority and Veteran groups to prevent the closure of the Small Business Administration (SBA).
"I predict that within the next 90 days there will be legislation put forth in Congress to close the SBA by combining the SBA with the Department of Commerce and end all Federal programs for small businesses, including small businesses owned by women, minority and service-disabled veterans," said Mr. Chapman.
"When Ronald Reagan made it clear that he wanted to permanently close the SBA and end all Federal small business programs, his plan to do that was by combining it with the Department of Commerce. In 2011 this tactic was proposed again by Senator Richard Burr in with fox news reporting that Burrs proposed legislation would eliminate all federal programs to assist small businesses."
During his campaign, President-Elect Donald Trump promised to create 25 million new jobs over the next decade; however the ASBL argues that with Trump's appointment of Linda McMahon to head the SBA, despite her support of closing the agency in 2012, Trump has taken an anti-jobs stance before even being inaugurated. The ASBL cites government data that shows small businesses create 90% of the net new jobs as a substantiation of their concern.
"The argument that closing the SBA is the best method of streamlining government is ridiculous," Mr. Chapman elaborated. "The notion that you can streamline our $4 trillion Federal Government by eliminating an agency with a budget of $711 million instead of addressing the $6.5 trillion that the Pentagon can't account for is laughable."


Great price to get into sought after Broadlands South. Bright and open floor plan. with wood floors on main level. Large open lower level with a fireplace rough in for bath. Fully fenced. Now is the time to scoop this one up! Conveniently located just off Claiborne and a short distance to restaurants and shopping. Sold Strictly AS-IS! Great spring renovation project.


Summary: Tony moves on after he tells Jeanne he never loved her.
Summary: It's snowing, and Tony is trapped in his apartment with only his boyfriend for warmth. Fifth in the Tony's Soundtrack series.
Summary: Tony and Maddie go for a walk.
Summary: Tony's father has come for him. Can his team protect one of their own.
Summary: Tony and Ian have lunch and plan a weekend before Christmas.


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