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Via Super Punch, we learn about a sign for a podiatry practise that's become a landmark on a corner of Sunset Boulevard over the past four decades and a daily portend for residents on how their day will transpire—depending on what side of the revolving sign greets you first, which will be dismantled shortly as the doctor prepares to retire. An interview with the Echo Park practitioner is a segue to consider all of Los Angeles' endearing and ritualised kitsch and the prompt to notice one's own local architectural mascots. Eye-sore is such a cruel phrase but do you have one you wish upon?
catagories: America, health and medicine
Via Mysterious Universe, on this fiftieth anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 from Cape Canaveral we learn that according to one imminent historian, John F Kennedy, who famously charged his nation with committing "itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth," did not intend for the Space Race to become the bi-polar, ideological struggle and ongoing rivalry that it since morphed into but rather entertained it might be an international collaborative effort that might help foster peace and cooperation.
In an interview granted to the Telegraph (possible paywall) ahead of his book release, John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute and former member of the NASA advisory council. Delivering that speech before Congress in May of 1961 with the Bay of Pigs standoff only recently diffused, US-Soviet tensions were heightened and the private meeting between Nikita Khrushchev and JFK in Vienna a few weeks later was probably dominated by negotiation on nuclear proliferation and spheres of influence, but there is evidence to suggest that Kennedy might have broached the idea of a joint mission to the lunar surface. Later even entertained before a United Nations assembly, it's a matter of some speculation why this did not occur but is nonetheless satisfying to indulge what the common effort might have looked like for geopolitics. Though crewed landing on the Moon was not itself a shared endeavour, the détente and cooperation was ushered in with the last mission of the programme itself, with the Apollo-Soyuz test project conducted in July of 1975.
catagories: 1969, America, foreign policy, Moon, nuclear policy, Russia, space science
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Polish graphic designer Jacek Walesiak invites us to celebrate some of the modern, more off-kilter holidays and observances through a special, commemorative run of postage stamps that also fête the country's rich op art heritage. The collection includes sheets that mark International Day of Vegetarianism (1 October), International Sock Day (4 December), Towel Day (25 May), Trolley Drivers' Day (see also) and International Day of Caps Lock (observed semi-annually on 28 June and 22 October).
catagories: graphic design, holidays and observances, lifestyle
Painted in triplicate for each episode of The Joy of Painting's eleven year run, over a thousand originals of Bob Ross' landscapes exist.
Lovingly curated, however, the paintings are not part of the behemoth art market, turning masterpieces into stores of wealth without patronage but are rather stored in a central repository in Virginia with plans to put some on display at a national gallery. Not tempted to break-up the collection by present pressures, the caretakers of Ross' legacy are confident that he'd much rather inspire emulation and imitation to create something by one's own hand over being a sought-after acquisition.
catagories: art, education, television
Replacing industrialist partners Matthew Bouton and James Watt of steam-engine fame, the Bank of England's next batch of £ fifty notes will feature on the reverse mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, whose pioneering work not only helped defeat Nazi Germany by decrypting transmissions between command and control and the front but was also indispensably formative in how we regard electronic cognition and artificial intelligence.
Speaking of his work programming the British Bombe, one of his code-breaking electro-mechanical machines, the bill has the quotation, "This is only a foretaste of what is to come and only the shadow of what is going to be." Although this statement does not amend past missteps—Turing's contributions only much later acknowledged and rehabilitated and the country's marked ingratitude, such decisions are consequential and meaningful, standing in marked contrast to the United States, whose money mostly only features dead presidents and the planned roll-out of a black, female abolitionist on the $ twenty note was delayed and deferred over the current pretender's affection for the observe as it stands, featuring a president infamous as a slavery apologist and for his genocidal treatment of Native Americans.
catagories: Britain, education, mathematics, technology and innovation
Provocatively the US Sh*t-Poster-in-Chief launched an attack on a group of progressive congress members, unbidden but not quite of the blue, that rounded the gauntlet for racism, xenophobia and misogyny. Tweeting throughout the day Sunday, Trump criticised the four freshmen representatives, known as the Squad for disrespecting America and America's allies and spoiling morale and cohesion within the rival Democratic Party.
While it is unclear what is the best strategy to pursue to dislodge the Trump syndicate from government, the infighting is far from sectarian and disagreement is healthy for democracy and certainly does not merit the ugly arson of language unacceptable in any context—Trump telling the duly elected representatives and their constituents (and Trump's supporters since all this transpired very publicly) that they should not presume to dictate to a great power such as the United States of America how it ought to operate and instead invited them to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came." All four members of the Squad are America citizens and all but one were born in the US. Though not the first time Trump has used such hateful vitriol to pander to his political and ideology base—his political career such as it is premised on amplifying a narrative that called into question the legitimacy of his predecessor based on lies about his citizenship, this schoolyard bully may have finally picked the wrong fight. Trump was not wrong in his own assessment that their government is a catastrophe and in urgent need of reform and made unequivocally clear that his regime is only focused on retaining power to keep him unaccountable and out of court.
catagories: America, foreign policy
From one of our favourite weekly features, Nag on the Lake's Sunday Links, we are invited to ruminate over the fact that while most countries are named after one of four things—often tautologically, especially in translation—that are sometimes not very consequential to present geopolitics, there are some notable mavericks that defy or really lean into categorisation.
With nearly all countries named in deference to either a cardinal direction, a distinguishing geographical feature, a tribe or clan or an important personage, we'd wish that the campaign to make America great again was an effort to improve scholarship on the Latinised name of a fifteenth century Florentine cartographer from the Vespucci family but alas and alack. There are nonetheless some notable (and notably disputed too) outliers as well. Our favouites being Malta named for bees (Μελίτη, honey-sweet), Mexico after a simplification of an Aztec city (Mēxihtli) that meant in the navel of the Moon and the Pacific island nation of Nauru, possibly derived from the native conjugation anáoero, I go to the beach.
catagories: bees, cartography, language, Malta, México, Oceania
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Chennai, INDIA: The famous Meenakshi temple in Madurai is setting free a large number of parrots that have been an integral part of the 1,200-years-old temple.
The temple authorities have decided to free the birds following requests from animal welfare organisations like the Blue Cross. Similar requests had also come from the state forest department, according to P. Bhaskaran, executive officer of the temple.
The authorities plan to keep only one pair of parrots in the temple to maintain the tradition and 60 of the caged birds have been freed already.
The temple, about 500 km from here, have been keeping parrots traditionally, as the statue of the goddess in the temple holds a golden parrot in her hand. Devotees started donating parrots to the temple about a century ago.
Later, an aviary was set up in one wing of the massive temple, which is called the "kili koondu mandapam". The astrologers in the temple town have been taking help of the parrots to tell fortunes. Besides, the parrots have been a major attraction for the visitors.


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Einstein the realist - Einstein's 'biggest blunder', his proposal that the universe is not static, was a step towards discovering dark matter.
It was recently discovered that the universe's expansion is accelerating, not slowing, as was previously thought. Light from distant exploding stars revealed that an unknown force (dubbed "dark energy") more than outweighs gravity on cosmological scales.
Unexpected by researchers, such a force had nevertheless been predicted in 1915 by a modification that Albert Einstein proposed to his own theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity. But he later dropped the modification, known as the "cosmological term", calling it the "biggest blunder" of his life.
So the headlines proclaim: "Einstein was right after all", as though scientists should be compared as one would clairvoyants: Who is distinguished from the common herd by knowing the unknowable - such as the outcome of experiments that have yet to be conceived, let alone conducted? Who, with hindsight, has prophesied correctly?
But science is not a competition between scientists; it is a contest of ideas - namely, explanations of what is out there in reality, how it behaves, and why. These explanations are initially tested not by experiment but by criteria of reason, logic, applicability, and uniqueness at solving the mysteries of nature that they address. Predictions are used to test only the tiny minority of explanations that survive these criteria.
The story of why Einstein proposed the cosmological term, why he dropped it, and why cosmologists today have reintroduced it illustrates this process. Einstein sought to avoid the implication of unmodified general relativity that the universe cannot be static - that it can expand (slowing down, against its own gravity), collapse, or be instantaneously at rest, but that it cannot hang unsupported.
This particular prediction cannot be tested (no observation could establish that the universe is at rest, even if it were), but it is impossible to change the equations of general relativity arbitrarily. They are tightly constrained by the explanatory substance of Einstein's theory, which holds that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, that light has the same speed for all observers, and so on.
The mystery of accelerating expansion
But Einstein realised that it is possible to add one particular term - the cosmological term - and adjust its magnitude to predict a static universe, without spoiling any other explanation. All other predictions based on the previous theory of gravity - that of Isaac Newton - that were testable at the time were good approximations to those of unmodified general relativity, with that single exception: Newton's space was an unmoving background against which objects move. There was no evidence yet, contradicting Newton's view - no mystery of expansion to explain. Moreover, anything beyond that traditional conception of space required a considerable conceptual leap, while the cosmological term made no measurable difference to other predictions. So Einstein added it.
Then, in 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding, consistently (within the observational accuracy of the day) with unmodified general relativity. So Einstein dropped the cosmological term. His doing so had nothing to do with Hubble being less blunder-prone; nor was Einstein deferring to Hubble's superior prophetic abilities. It was just that the problem that the term was intended to solve no longer existed.
The new observations did not refute the existence of a cosmological term. They merely made it a bad explanation. Then, in 1998, came those new observations of a universe whose expansion is accelerating. As a result, the cosmological term that has been "reinstated" to account for the new observations is not quite the one that Einstein proposed and retracted. It is larger, for it now has to explain not just why the universe isn't collapsing, but why its expansion is accelerating.
Einstein's remark about having "blundered" is as misleading as the idea that he is "right after all." The cosmological term is not something that should never have been proposed. Its introduction represented progress in understanding reality - as did its abandonment in light of Hubble's discovery and its reinstatement in revised form to account for the new observations.
Likewise, the mid-twentieth century "Bohr-Einstein debate" about quantum theory is often misinterpreted as a personal clash between wizards. So counter-intuitive are quantum theory's predictions that, under the leadership of one of its pioneers, Neils Bohr, a myth grew that there is no underlying reality that explains them.
Particles get from A to B without passing through the intervening space, where they have insufficient energy to exist; they briefly "borrow" the energy, because we are "uncertain" about what their energy is. Information gets from A to B without anything passing in between - what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance". And so on.
Abandonment of realism
What these paradoxical interpretations have in common is that they abandon realism, the doctrine that a physical world, existing in reality, accounts for all of our experience. Anti-realism remains popular and appears in various guises in textbooks and popular accounts of quantum theory. But Einstein insisted that physical phenomena have explanations in terms of what he called "elements of reality".
Fortunately, a minority of physicists, myself included, likewise side unequivocally with realism, by adopting Hugh Everett's multiple-universes interpretation of quantum theory. According to this view, no particles exist where they have insufficient energy to be; it is simply that in some universes they have more energy than average, and in others, less. All alleged "paradoxes" of quantum theory are similarly resolved.
So, while most accounts say that Bohr won the debate, my view is that Einstein, as usual, was seeking an explanation of reality, while his rivals were advocating nonsense. Everett's interpretation doesn't make Einstein a demigod. But it does make him right.
David Deutsch is a visiting professor of physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, and author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity.
A version of this article was first published on the Project Syndicate.
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Distiller's Friday Roundup – September 13th, 2019
It's the first Friday the 13th of 2019 and it's packed with news and new releases yet again. First, Wild Turkey is celebrating 65 years with Master Distiller Jimmy Russell. The Buddha of Bourbon is the longest-tenured active Master Distiller in the spirits industry. Next, Compass Box is introducing the Compass Box Myths & Legends Series. Made up of three new whiskies, it aims to challenge assumptions and biases in Scotch whisky. Flor de Caña is unveiling its oldest rum ever, and Maker's Mark is sharing news of its first nationally distributed limited-edition bourbon. Finally, Dewar's, Lux Row, Rabbit Hole and William Grant & Sons all are introducing new whiskeys. And if you're into whiskey tourism, don't miss the news from Bardstown Bourbon Company's new visitors center.
Jimmy Russell Celebrates 65 Years With Wild Turkey
This week, legendary Wild Turkey Master Distiller Jimmy Russell celebrated his 65th anniversary with the brand. Often referred to as the "Buddha of Bourbon," Russell has been with the brand since September 10th, 1954. While he oversaw the production of existing Wild Turkey brands, he also created Wild Turkey Rare Breed as well as Russell's Reserve with his son, Wild Turkey Master Distiller Eddie Russell.
Master Distiller Jimmy Russell // Photo Credit: Wild Turkey
Jimmy is a member of the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame and the Whiskey Hall of Fame. He is also the longest-tenured active Master Distiller in the spirits industry. Cheers to many more anniversaries for the great Jimmy Russell, from all of us here at Distiller!
Bardstown Bourbon Co. Opens New Immersive Visitors Center
In some fun news for the whiskey tourists out there, Bardstown Bourbon Co. has opened a brand new Visitors Center. The new experience features curated tours, cocktail creation classes, tastings and private event spaces.
Visitors can choose from a few different experience levels for their tours. "The Main Event" is a one hour tour through the facility. "Bardstown Bourbon Company's Best" is a 90 minute tour featuring cocktails, a personal tour from Master Distiller Steve Nally and sensory exercises. Visitors will be able to taste bourbon at various stages of aging and thieve whiskey straight from the barrels.
Bar at Bardstown Bourbon Co.'s New Visitors Center // Photo Credit: Bardstown Bourbon Co.
Bardstown's tours will showcase its experimental distilling process which uses over 40 mash bills for over 24 different contract distilling customers. If you'd like to book a tour you can do so online at bardstownbourbon.com.
New Permanent Portfolio Cognac Addition From Rémy Martin
Fine Champagne cognac house Rémy Martin is adding a new permanent product to its lineup. Rémy Martin Tercet, like all Fine Champagne cognacs, is made using grapes from the Grande and Petite Champagne regions. The name Tercet refers to the trio of experts that collaborated to create this spirit. Master Distiller Jean-Marie Bernard, winemaker Francis Nadeau and Cellar Master Baptiste Loiseau worked together to create the product, which uses a singular kind of eaux-de-vie originating from Nadeau's vineyards.
"At Rémy Martin we are free to experiment and create new blends, so when I found this unique eaux-de-vie I dared to explore what it could become," says Cellar Master Baptiste Loiseau. "Working in tandem with fellow experts and, more importantly, long-time friends Francis Nadeau and Jean-Marie Bernard to see the entire process through, our vision came to life as a novel Fine Champagne cognac, precisely to the standards of the Maison."
Rémy Martin Tercet is bottled at 42% ABV and will be released first in the United States in limited quantities starting in September 2019. The suggested price for each bottle is $110.
Rémy Martin Tercet // Photo Credit: Rémy Martin
Flor de Caña Releases Its Oldest Rum Ever
Named Flor de Caña V Generaciones, this rum celebrates Nicaraguan rum brand Flor de Caña's 130th anniversary in 2020. The name V Generaciones is meant to honor not only the thousands of workers that have been a part of the brand over those years, but also the five generations of family members behind the brand since 1890.
Flor de Caña V Generaciones is a limited edition 30 year rum that was aged in a single barrel since 1988. Each bottle features the signatures of the five generations behind Flor de Caña as well as a bottle cap made from volcanic rock.
The rum is available starting in September 2019 and is limited to only 411 bottles worldwide. Each bottle has a suggested price of $1,200.
Flor de Caña V Generaciones // Photo Credit: Flor de Caña Rum
Compass Box Myths & Legends Limited Edition Series
Compass Box has announced three new whiskies as part of a limited edition series entitled Myths & Legends. Each of the whiskies features unique blends intended to "challenge assumptions, biases and prejudices concerning Scotch".
Compass Box Myths & Legends I
The first expression in the Myths & Legends series is meant to highlight that single casks alone do not often represent the true style of whisky from a distillery. Instead, it is the blending of casks from a distillery that offer the true character. This whisky is comprised of two malt whiskies from the Balblair Distillery. The first is aged for 15-16 years in recharred American oak. The second is aged for 22 years in first fill bourbon barrels. Only 4,394 barrels are available worldwide. It is bottled at 46% ABV.
Compass Box Myths & Legends II
With the second expression in the lineup, Compass Box blended together malt whiskies from a single Speyside distillery. In this case that distillery is Glen Elgin. The idea behind this expression is to show that the process of whisky creation and maturation matter more than where the whisky comes from. All but one of the six malt whiskies used are aged in recharred American oak hogsheads for 16-22 years. The sixth was aged in refill sherry for 23 years. Only 4,446 bottles are available worldwide. It is also bottled at 46% ABV.
Compass Box Myths & Legends III
The third and final expression in the Myths & Legends range takes aim at the notion that famous single malt brands should never be used in blending. It takes some of the same parcels from Glen Elgin used in the second expression and adds peated malt whiskies from Highland Park and Caol Ila. The youngest whisky used in the blend aged for 15 years, while the oldest aged for 23 years. Only 4,564 bottles are available worldwide, and like the other two expressions it is bottled at 46% and is non-chill filtered.
Maker's Mark Releases Brand's First Nationally Available Limited-Edition Bourbon
While Maker's Mark has released plenty of limited-edition bourbons in the past, until now none were available nationally. Maker's Mark Wood Finishing Series 2019 RC6 is a cask strength bourbon finished using proprietary wood staves, known as Stave Profile RC6. These virgin American oak staves were seasoned for 18 months, then baked in a conventional oven. Next, ten staves were added to each fully-matured cask strength Maker's Mark barrel for additional aging. Only 255 barrels were produced. The proof on each bottle will range from 108.2 to 110.5. The bourbon will be available across Kentucky and at the distillery in September 2019, followed by a national release in October.
The release is the first limited edition release in the Maker's Mark Wood Finishing Series, joining Maker's 46 and Maker's Mark Private Select. Maker's plans to introduce more limited edition bourbons to the series over the next few years.
Maker's Mark Wood Finishing Series 2019 RC6 // Photo Credit: Maker's Mark
Dewar's Introduces Latest Whisky Release with Dewar's Caribbean Smooth
This week Dewar's unveiled its latest release, named Dewar's Caribbean Smooth. Is is made using up to 40 different single malts which aged for at least 8 years. The blend was finished in ex-Caribbean rum casks for an additional 6 months.
It is bottled at 40% ABV and has a suggested price of $21.99 per 750ml bottle.
Dewar's Caribbean Smooth
Lux Row Distillers Celebrates First Anniversary With New Bourbon
To commemorate the first anniversary of its distillery opening, Lux Row launched a new bourbon: Lux Row Distillers Double Barrel Bourbon 12 Year. This limited edition Kentucky straight bourbon is a blend of two hand-selected barrels by Head Distiller John Rempe. The high rye bourbon is bottled at a cask strength of 118.4 proof.
Only 6,000 bottles of this bourbon were created, and availability will be limited to Kentucky starting in September 2019.
Lux Row Distillers Double Barrel Bourbon 12 Year // Photo Credit: Lux Row Distillers
William Grant & Sons Brings Aerstone Whisky Brand to U.S.
In September 2018, William Grant & Sons introduced a new whisky brand called Aerstone to the UK. The brand's aim is to demystify whisky for beginners. With this goal in mind, the focus is placed on how maturation and malting affect flavor. Now a year later in September of 2019, the two Aerstone whisky expressions are coming to the United States.
Aerstone Sea Cask 10 Year
Aerstone Sea Cask 10 Year is a Speyside single malt that spent 10 years aging in warehouses located close to the sea on the Ayrshire coast of south west Scotland. It is bottled at 40% ABV and has a suggested price of $28.99.
Aerstone Land Cask 10 Year
Aerstone Land Cask 10 Year is a peated single malt that used highland peat in the malting process. This whisky aged further inland than the Sea Cask, though the actual location is not disclosed. Like its counterpart, Land Cask is bottled at 40% ABV and has a suggested price of $28.99.
Aerstone Sea Cask & Land Cask
Rabbit Hole Unveils New Bourbon
Back in June of 2019, Pernod Ricard announced that it was acquiring a majority stake in Kentucky-based Rabbit Hole Distillery. Now, Rabbit Hole has announced its fourth whiskey release, named Rabbit Hole "Heigold" Kentucky Straight Bourbon.
Heigold is a high-rye bourbon made with a mash bill of 70% corn, 5% malted barley and 25% malted rye imported from Germany. It is aged for just under 4 years in new toasted and charred American oak (char #3).
It is non-chill filtered and bottled at 47.5% ABV with a suggested price of $69.99 per 750ml bottle. The bourbon launches across the United States at bars and stores in late September 2019. The new release coincides with a repackaging and renaming of the other whiskeys in its portfolio. Boxergrail, Cavehill, and Dareringer are the new names for its rye, bourbon, and bourbon finished in PX sherry respectively. However, the juice in each remains the same in all three bottles.
Rabbit Hole "Heigold" Kentucky Straight Bourbon
Whether you're hunting for one of the Compass Box Myths & Legends or that latest Maker's Mark release, there's only one place to get the latest scoop.
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In the new story at CFNM.net, Alexander Doombar is fresh out of college and has managed to secure an interview at the immigration office. Although the position is only an unpaid internship it would greatly increase his chances of getting a proper job one day. He's very shy and nervous – the world of work is a new and scary place. His new boss takes advantage of this and decides to have fun with the new boy getting him to strip down to perv at his naked body.


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Delco prison guard busted for stealing cash…
Delco prison guard busted for stealing cash from inmate
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PUBLISHED: August 18, 2016 at 2:56 p.m. | UPDATED: August 19, 2021 at 2:33 a.m.
MEDIA >> A correctional officer at the county prison was arrested for stealing cash from an inmate, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan announced Thursday.
Daniel McEnhill III, 33, of Ridley Township, is charged with theft by unlawful taking or disposition.
The arrest capped investigations conducted by both Detective Lisa DeMartini of the Delaware County District Attorney Criminal Investigations Division (CID) Special Investigations Unit, and investigators from the George W. Hill Correctional Facility.
"The actions of Daniel McEnhill are a violation of the public's trust and undermine the credibility of the criminal justice process," Whelan said in a prepared release. "We commend authorities at the George W. Hill Facility for their swift action into the incident, which they brought to our attention for further investigation leading to a successful arrest by Detective DeMartini."
An internal investigation by the prison was launched June 3 into a grievance filed by prison inmate Christopher Channel. According to the inmate, he never received a receipt for his $108 cash that was taken by McEnhill during the intake process, the release states.
In response to the inmate's grievance, Investigator Donald Beese of the George W. Hill Correctional Facility along with other supervisors viewed video surveillance footage from the Intake Unit on May 16. In the video, McEnhill is seen counting the money he took from the inmate. He then places the cash into an envelope and puts it into his pants pocket while walking away from the desk, according to the video.
On June 16, McEnhill was interviewed by the investigators. At that time, he provided a written statement about his actions on May 16.
According to his statement, he located the $108 cash in the inmate's underwear, which he placed in an envelope and passed onto the second shift officers. After giving his statement, he was informed by investigators of the surveillance video that depicts his actions.
"If I did take it, it was a mistake. I did not do it intentionally," McEnhill then told investigators, according to the affidavit of probable cause for arrest, written by DeMartini. McEnhill then said the money might still be in his pocket and requested that his wife be called and asked if she found anything, or to look for the envelope.
McEnhill's wife was contacted and told investigators she looked through all the clothing and did not find an envelope or money.
DeMartini entered the investigation on June 29 and viewed the video and according to the D.A.'s release, "confirmed CO McEnhill took the $108 in cash from the inmate and placed into his pant pocket for his own keeping."
McEnhill was arraigned and bail was set to $10,000 unsecured. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 25 before Magisterial District Judge Wendy B. Roberts. It was not immediately known if McEnhill had retained an attorney.
According to online court records, Channel is awaiting trial on charges including possession of a prohibited firearm, firearms not to be carried without a license, disorderly conduct and related motor vehicle offenses. He was arrested May 16 by Lansdowne police and has been incarcerated at the county prison since that time. The date of the alleged offense is Jan. 21, 2016.
"Despite the fact that someone is incarcerated, they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. By not only taking away their freedom but their financial resources, is a grave injustice," said attorney Scott Kramer, who is representing Channel.


Spending time with good friends is priceless and I cherish every moment I get to spend with quality people eating quality food! Brunch the other day brought some good friends together not only for me but also for my boys...time with the ladies while the boys had a playdate always works in our favor! So a nice grain free quiche was in order. I've been making this quiche for years! This is a recipe that I morphed from one of my very very first "Gluten-Free Baking" books that my mother-in-law bought me over 15 years ago by Rebecca Reilly. Its still a go-to book for me especially around my kids birthdays. I realized when the ladies all asked me for the recipe that I had actually never blogged it so it is about time. The crust is from one of my other recipes, the Paleo Raspberry Streusel Bars minus the almond extract. I hope you try this one out this summer and enjoy!


This picture. When I saw it, I was completely undone. I sat in silence and quietly wept.
Mary, utterly exhausted and disheveled from the strenuous task of child birth.
Joseph, overwhelmed and in disbelief as he stares into the face of the seemingly impossible task of raising Heaven's child as his very own.
And Jesus, fully divine with resurrection power coursing through His veins, yet absolutely helpless and reliant on his earthly parents for His every need.
Painful screams of labor piercing the stillness of the night. The pungent stench of dirt and animals filling the air. Inescapable feelings of loneliness and inadequacy for fulfilling God's purpose. And the newborn cry of the Child King, Emmanuel, God with us, Who forever changed history.
The holy family was miraculously complete. Yet there was no fanfare, no celebration, no one to tend to the new mother or reassure the new father or care for the Christ child. Even those whom God had given a personal invitation to be a part of this extraordinary night turned the family away. Their journey had been long and their burden weighty, and after literally giving birth to God's will for their lives and to hope for all mankind, they were all alone, overcome by both wonder and uncertainty.
As I looked at this picture, my heart was wrought with many emotions, yet encouraged and wrapped in hope and peace.
First, God's will is often difficult, messy, intimidating, and overwhelming. It isn't often wrapped in neat packaging and tied with a brilliant bow. It isn't without challenges, set-backs, impossibilities or intense seasons of battle. There will be painful screaming in the middle of the night as His plan unfolds. The air may be nauseating and surroundings ill-fitted for a mighty work of God. There will be moments, and even seasons, of loneliness and inadequacy that dramatically overshadow the clarity of His purpose for my life. For as is visible at this first Christmas, darkness ambitiously chases light. Yet in the midst of it all, His hope still shines as brightly today as it did that night in Bethlehem. Believe in the God of impossibility to accomplish everything for which you've been created and set apart.
Next, there are divine opportunities for obedient response all around us. Oh, how my heart aches for those who chose to forfeit their personal invitation from God to witness His coming to earth through the birth of His Son! Perhaps they had a legitimate excuse for not getting involved that night. Or maybe they were afraid of stepping outside of their comfort zone and into the drama of someone else's life. Or they thought that their resources for meeting the family's needs were lacking, or, they just flat out chose to be selfish and unwilling to share them. It's possible they simply didn't want to be bothered with the responsibility and inconvenience of serving someone else. Whatever the reason, an opportunity to not only witness but be an active participant in a miraculous movement of God was missed, and I have to believe that their lives were tragically never the same. When we say "no", "not yet" or "not me" to a divine opportunity, I am neglecting my responsibility to play my appointed role in God's grand production – His will manifest on earth. No one can play my part for me, and to turn Him away not only leaves a void in the life of someone else, but it prevents my own spiritual growth and receipt of God's blessings. When a personal invitation is extended to me by the God of the universe, I must accept it.
Finally, I have permission to be human. When I see Mary and Joseph, I see two people living out pure, raw obedience with a visceral, human response. It's a beautiful portrait of real life lived in the presence of a real God. I have to wonder if gazing into the face of heaven laid in a dirty trough was glimpse enough of heaven to convince them to persevere; that their God was not only the almighty Great I AM of the past but also their personal Great I Am of the present and the future to come. And that amidst the questions and doubts and confusion, there was inexpressible joy and peace and comfort and hope and freedom found in simply being in the intimate presence of their God, tiny and helpless as He was. There was no pretense after having just delivered the Son of God; rather, Mary and Joseph allowed themselves to simply be - weary and worn out, abiding in His presence. What a gift I have been given to know God personally and to be known and accepted just as I am by a Savior Who was born through the merging of holiness and humanity. Instead of a palace abundant with amenities, God chose His Son to be born into humility and need. Like any gift, I have the choice of whether or not to receive it. This Christmas, I choose to receive the greatest gift – Jesus Christ.
As I once again reflect on the richness of this picture, my spirit is moved by a fresh revelation – that God Who needs nothing and Who could accomplish His will apart from Mary and Joseph, invited them in their imperfection to be a part of His plan of redemption. When God could have chosen royalty to bear and raise the Child King, He instead chose an ordinary man and woman to change the world through their willing obedience. Their burden became their blessing. Their pain their greatest purpose. Their fear the source of freedom. And their struggle the means to their salvation.
So this Christmas, I'm choosing to, like Mary and Joseph, be undone. And I encourage and challenge you as my own heart as been to see Christmas differently. To see not a picturesque nativity disconnected from your reality, but instead to see yourself in the stable in the presence of your Savior. Draw near to Him. Peek into the trough and look upon His face. Grasp the tiny hands that would one day raise the dead, heal the blind, and be stretched out on a cross. Recognize that while He is God, He is also human, just like you. Offer the Christ child your burdens and your pain, your fears and insecurities. And be encouraged that just like Mary and Joseph, God is calling you to respond to Him in obedience. To receive His personal invitation to be a part of a miraculous movement of God. To take a risk. To get involved. To sacrifice. To answer the call and go.
"Lord Jesus, I acknowledge that all of my human efforts have fallen short of everything You are. I recognize that I am a sinner, and You are my Savior. I believe that You were born to die for me, and that You rose from the grave to forgive my sins and transform me into a new person from the inside out. In You, I am now a new creation whom You have purposed to do great things. Jesus, come into my life, forgive my sins and save me, because I cannot save myself. I place my trust in You alone for my salvation, and I accept your gift of eternal life."
If you prayed this prayer, I want to know! There is no greater honor I could have than to celebrate your decision and walk this new life journey with you. And, I want to help connect you with other people who have made this decision and provide you with resources to help you grow in your new-found faith in Jesus Christ. Leave a comment with your email address, email me personally at heather@ovworship.com or send a Facebook message. I cannot wait to hear from you!
Enjoy these songs to help you celebrate the reason for Christmas - Jesus - and draw near to Him. Have a merry (and undone) Christmas!
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Opinion: The CERB does nothing for migrant workers
By Elise Hjalmarson/IHEID
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The aim of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) is to offer vital income support to those temporarily out of work as a result of COVID-19. More than 7.5 million payments have already been deposited and applications continue to rise.
Yet the CERB stops short of supporting all essential workers.
Migrant Workers Alliance for Change estimates there are 1.8 million migrants and undocumented people in Canada. Present in nearly every area of Canada's economy, from tech to construction, they are over-represented in sectors that provide essential services at low pay — sectors like agriculture, in which few Canadians choose to work.
Each year in Canada, some 60,000 migrant farm workers plant, prune and harvest fresh fruits and vegetables for domestic consumption and foreign export.
Others mind the young, elderly and ill in residences and care homes across the country. Many are employed to clean and sanitize our most private spaces.
According to the World Health Organization, migrants share common vulnerabilities that heighten their risk of infection. These include reduced access to health care, unsanitary working conditions and overcrowded housing. They are also frequent targets of racism, xenophobia and scapegoat rhetoric, forms of discrimination that worsen in times of crisis and to which Canada is not immune.
While not a cohesive group, together they make up some of Canada's most marginalized workers.
By excluding undocumented people and many migrants who don't have social insurance numbers, the CERB redraws notions of "essential work" along nationalist lines. This ignores the essential labour and needs of these critical members of Canadian society.
Out of work and stuck abroad
The CERB also leaves out many essential migrant workers affected by border closures, administrative delays and flight cancellations.
Perla G. Villegas is an organizer with Radical Action for Migrants in Agriculture, a migrant justice collective that I co-founded alongside Amy Cohen in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. In recent weeks, Villegas has spoken to countless workers — long-time participants in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program — whose visas have been delayed as a result of COVID-19.
Despite their temporary status, migrant farmworkers are "permanently temporary," returning to Canada each year for decades. Multiple members of a single family sometimes work on Canadian farms, increasing their family's dependence on the income they generate here.
"Imagine having worked 15 seasons, spending eight months of each year in Canada, and being ineligible for income assistance? They have come to Canada for so long that they don't have stable work in Mexico, so they don't have a regular income there. It's obvious that they have temporarily lost their jobs, but while they remain outside of the country, they can't apply."
While Canada is not alone in its exclusion of certain migrant populations from assistance during COVID-19, some countries are taking steps in the right direction.
Portugal has been hailed for temporarily granting citizenship rights to migrants and asylum seekers with residency applications underway, but this move does not include undocumented migrants. Initiatives in California to provide economic assistance to migrants also fall short, reaching just 150,000 of the state's two million undocumented people.
Upholding migrant rights through policy
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently paid homage to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on its 38th anniversary. "As our country confronts this pandemic, I'm especially grateful that Canadians have chosen to protect each other and care for one another," he said.
Such words ring hollow while essential migrant and undocumented workers are forsaken by federal policy.
The CERB provides many Canadians with the economic cushioning they will need to survive the difficult months to come. But its disregard for some of our marginalized workers — those integral to our food production and security, health-care and construction and cleaning industries — reveals just how little we value migrant workers.
In its recent news release appropriately entitled "COVID-19 does not discriminate; nor should our response," the United Nations Network on Migration urges that "migrants be included in measures that are being introduced to mitigate the economic downturn caused by COVID-19."
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures. As CERB programs are expanded, we must not minimize the labour and needs of migrant and undocumented workers.
Income support must be extended to everyone, regardless of immigration status. Anything less constitutes discriminatory policy and further marginalizes essential migrant and undocumented workers.
Elise Hjalmarson is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute — Institut de hautes etudes internationales et du developpement (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland. This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Via the Canadian Press.
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Trump says he took the Fifth Amendment in NY investigation
Donald Trump says he invoked the Fifth Amendment and wouldn't answer questions under oath in the long-running New York civil investigation into his business dealings.
Trump arrived at New York Attorney General Letitia James' offices Wednesday morning, but sat out a statement more than an hour later saying he declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution."
Anything he said during the deposition could have been used against him in a criminal case. While James' investigation is civil in nature, the Manhattan district attorney is running a parallel criminal probe.
The New York civil investigation, led by Attorney General Letitia James, involves allegations that Trump's company, the Trump Organization, misstated the value of prized assets like golf courses and skyscrapers, misleading lenders and tax authorities.
"In New York City tonight. Seeing racist NYS Attorney General tomorrow, for a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in US history!" Trump wrote on Truth Social, invoking his oft-repeated claims about James, who is Black, and the investigation.
"My great company, and myself, are being attacked from all sides," Trump added. "Banana Republic!"
Messages seeking comment were left with James' office and with Trump's lawyer.
Trump's testimony is happening at a critical point in James' investigation, midway through a pivotal week in his post-presidency.
In May, James' office said that it was nearing the end of its probe and that investigators had amassed substantial evidence that could support legal action, such as a lawsuit, against Trump, his company or both.
The Republican billionaire's deposition — a legal term for sworn testimony that's not given in court — is one of the few remaining missing pieces, the attorney general's office said.
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Two of Trump's adult children, Donald Jr. and Ivanka, testified in the investigation in recent days, two people familiar with the matter said. The people were not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity.
The Trumps' testimony had initially been planned for last month but was delayed after the July 14 death of the former president's ex-wife, Ivana Trump, the mother of Ivanka, Donald Jr. and another son, Eric Trump, who sat for a deposition in James' investigation in 2020.
On Friday, the Trump Organization and its longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, will be in court seeking dismissal of tax fraud charges brought against them last year in the Manhattan district attorney's parallel criminal probe.
James, a Democrat, has said in court filings that her office has uncovered "significant" evidence that Trump's company "used fraudulent or misleading asset valuations to obtain a host of economic benefits, including loans, insurance coverage, and tax deductions."
James alleges the Trump Organization exaggerated the value of its holdings to impress lenders or misstated what land was worth to slash its tax burden, pointing to annual financial statements given to banks to secure favorable loan terms and to financial magazines to justify Trump's place among the world's billionaires.
The company even exaggerated the size of Trump's Manhattan penthouse, saying it was nearly three times its actual size — a difference in value of about $200 million, James' office said.
Trump has denied the allegations, explaining that seeking the best valuations is a common practice in the real estate industry. He James' investigation is part of a politically motivated says "witch hunt" and that her office de ella is "doing everything within their corrupt discretion to interfere with my business relationships, and with the political process."
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"THERE IS NOT MARRIED!" Trump said in a February statement, after Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that James' office had "the clear right" to question Trump and other principals in his company.
While James has explored suing Trump or his company, the Manhattan district attorney's office has long pursued a parallel criminal investigation.
That probe had appeared to be progressing toward a possible criminal indictment, but slowed down after a new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, took office in January.
A grand jury that had been hearing evidence disbanded. The top prosecutor who had been handling the probe resigned after Bragg raised questions internally about the viability of the case.
Bragg has said his investigation is continuing, which means that Trump could invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and decline to answer questions from James' investigators.
According to the subpoena issued by James' office, Trump was to appear in person at the attorney general's office, located in a Manhattan office tower that has doubled as the fictional conglomerate Waystar Royco's headquarters on HBO's "Succession."
As vociferous as Trump has been in defending himself in written statements and on the rally stage, legal experts say the same strategy could backfire in a deposition setting because anything he says could potentially be used against him or his company in the criminal investigation. No former president has even been charged with a crime.
In fighting to block the subpoenas, lawyers for the Trumps argued New York authorities were using the civil investigation to obtain information for the criminal probe and that the depositions were a ploy to avoid calling them before a criminal grand jury, where state law requires they be given immunity.
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Last summer, spurred by evidence uncovered by James' office, Manhattan prosecutors filed charges against Weisselberg and the Trump Organization. Prosecutors said Weisselberg collected more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation.
Weisselberg and the company have pleaded not guilty.
Weisselberg and Eric Trump each invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 500 times when questioned by James' lawyers during separate depositions in 2020, according to court papers.
The former president could choose to do the same, but it's likely "he'll claim lack of knowledge on many questions," New York University law professor Stephen Gillers said.
That could be a successful strategy, since Trump is known as more of a "big-picture guy" Gillers said. "So he'll answer the big-picture questions and those answers will be general enough to keep him out of trouble, or so his lawyers will hope."
"On the other hand, his impetuosity makes him a lawyer's nightmare and his overconfidence may lead him astray. Whoever questions him will encourage that," the professor added.
Once her investigation wraps up, James could decide to bring a lawsuit and seek financial penalties against Trump or his company, or even a ban on them being involved in certain types of businesses.
Updated at 10:34 am on Aug. 10, 2022.
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Are you sure that it is really album artist and not just artist of some tracks on the albums?
I guess that for the two albums it is album artist, but for the 11 remaining it is just artist of some tracks of the albums, isn't it?
The missing albums show up when using the Artist node and the Album node but not the Album Artist node; the Artist & Album Artist node returns the same 2 of 13 albums (as per earlier example) in the substructure of the node but lists all 13 albums in the main window (along with the Artist-only listings, such as being on a Various Artists album).
The missing albums show up using Search; the missing albums are physically on the hard drive. Adding/rescanning and optimizing database does not fix. Why doesn't the Album Artist node reflect the same data that the others do?
Which would show the Album only under The Beatles Album Artist node, not the others like Ringo Starr.
However, Ringo's Artist listing will show all Beatles albums.
My point, however garbled, was that because I repeat Album Artist at the beginning of the Artist data entry box on the Basic Properties page & because the Artist node functions properly, Artist node recognizes and lists Albums by the Artist (as well as other albums the Artist appears on). The Album Artist node does not reliably recognize and list Albums by the Album Artist.
Try running File > Maintain Library with complete optimization checked.
So far I have found only a few Album Artists with problems but I have just begun to search for them. Don't know how extensive the problem is. Don't know of anything that could have caused this. Don't know when the problem started.
Try the Entire Library > Album Artist node (enable under File > Manage Collections).
The Album Artist nodes under Audio and under Entire Library show the same error.
I also have many files in a Video directory, in which I have not been able to discover any similar error...yet.


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American Humanist Association, Inc. v. Douglas County School District Re-1
AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION, INC., JANE ZOE, individually and as parent on behalf of a minor, Plaintiffs,
DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT RE-1, DOUGLAS COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, ELIZABETH CELANIA-FAGEN, in her official capacity as Superintendent of Douglas County School District, JOHN GUTIERREZ, in his official capacity as Principal of Cougar Run Elementary School, and JERRY GOINGS, in his official capacity as Principal of Highlands Ranch High School, Defendants.
R. Brooke Jackson United States District Judge
This action is before the Court on remand from the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals for the reasons set forth in American Humanist Association, Inc. v. Douglas County School District RE-1, 859 F.3d 1243 (10th Cir. 2017). The Court here addresses the parties' cross-motions for summary judgment.
This case, as it stands following the appellate decision, is brought by the American Humanist Association ("AHA") and one of its members whose pseudonym is "Jane Zoe." The AHA is a non-profit organization that promotes the "separation of church and state and the constitutional rights of humanists, atheists and other freethinkers." ECF No. 1 at 5. Ms. Zoe's two children attend Cougar Run Elementary School in Douglas County, Colorado. Plaintiffs claim that defendants promote a culture of promoting the Christian religion in the Douglas County School District.
The event that is the focus of the case vis-à-vis Ms. Zoe was a Guatemala mission trip in 2014. ECF No. 50 at 6-7. The mission trip was created by and for members of a district high school's chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes ("FCA"), a student club in which both students and teachers took part. ECF No. 58 at 13. The FCA planned the trip through an organization called Adventures in Missions ("AIM"), which plans Christian mission trips in both the United States and abroad. ECF No. 47 at 1. The stated goals of the mission trip were to "promote Christianity" and to "introduce [children] to the Bible." ECF No. 47-23 at 89. Fourteen high school students and two teachers participated in the trip.
Specifically as it relates to the Zoe children, in the spring semester of 2014, Cougar Run sixth-grade teacher Micki Benge volunteered to spearhead a supply drive to help fundraise for the mission trip. ECF No. 47 at 5. The supply drive was to last a week and take place during school hours. Id. As part of this effort, Ms. Benge printed flyers regarding the fundraiser which were sent home in students' "take home folders." This flyer stated that the supply drive was "Sponsored by Cougar Run 6th Graders partnering with the FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes)" and noted that "[t]his effort was born out of a desire for our 6th grade students to make real-world connections with their Latin American social studies curriculum." ECF No.1-59. Ms. Zoe's son received one of these flyers and brought it home. ECF No. 1 at 35.
In addition to the flyer, Ms. Zoe received an email from her son's preschool teacher, Camille Espinosa, encouraging participation in the supply drive. ECF No. 1-60. The email asked for supply donations for the trip and noted that "monetary donations are also welcome! Please make checks payable to Cougar Run Elementary." Id. The email also stated "we are partnering with HRHS on this effort-specifically the FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) organization" that "will be travelling to Guatemala over Spring Break to run camps for Guatemalan orphans." Id. Cougar Run Principal Gutierrez also emailed "Cougar Run families" informing them that Cougar Run had "partnered with [FCA]" and asked the families to donate money to the supply drive. ECF No. 1-19.
In response to an interrogatory, Ms. Zoe stated that her son "felt coerced into participating and contributing to this religious fundraiser." ECF No. 47-8 at 4 (response to Interrogatory 5). As non-Christians, the school's actions in promoting and endorsing a Christian organization . . . made us feel like outsiders and unwelcome in our own community." ECF No. 47-8. Id. Nevertheless, Ms. Zoe told her son that they would not be supporting the supply drive. In her deposition Ms. Zoe testified that her son was questioned and maltreated by his classmates for his beliefs underlying the reason he did not participate in the drive. ECF No. 58-2 at 10 (depo. p. 62).
In their Complaint plaintiffs asserted violations of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and the Equal Access Act. They sought declaratory relief, injunctive relief, nominal damages, attorney's fees and costs under the Establishment Clause and the Equal Access Act. ECF No. 1 at 44-45. However, the Tenth Circuit determined that Ms. Zoe has standing to pursue her claims only in part. She has standing to pursue a claim for violation of the Establishment Clause and to seek retrospective declaratory relief, nominal damages, and presumably, attorney's fees and costs. She does not have standing as to her claim under the Equal Access Act, and she does not have standing to seek prospective relief. American Humanist Association, 859 F.3d at 1253-55, 60-61. Plaintiffs seek summary judgment on the remaining claims. ECF No. 47. Defendants ask the Court to enter summary judgment dismissing the remaining claims. See ECF No. 50 at 20.
II. STANDARD OF REVIEW
The Court may grant summary judgment if "there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law." Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(a). The moving party has the burden to show that there is an absence of evidence to support the nonmoving party's case. Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 325 (1986). Here, both parties contend that the case may be resolved by a summary judgment.
III. ANALYSIS
A. Ms. Zoe's Establishment Clause Claim - Scope and Merits.
The Tenth Circuit left it to this Court to determine the scope and merits of Ms. Zoe's Establishment Clause claim. 859 F.3d at 1254 n.4.
1. Scope of Ms. Zoe's Claim.
Ms. Zoe asserts that the District engaged in a pattern or practice of promoting Christianity in violation of the Establishment Clause. ECF No. 1 at 40. I bear in mind the limits of what is before this Court at this time. The Tenth Circuit determined that Ms. Zoe does not have standing to seek prospective relief. Also, Ms. Zoe does not have standing to challenge activities at District charter schools (which her children do not attend or come into contact with) or a Belize mission trip organized by St. Andrew ...


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Alex Rigsby
Name: Alex Rigsby
Position: Goalie
Sport: Ice Hockey
Birthplace: Delafield, Wis.
Hometown: Delafield, Wis.
High School: High School: Arrowhead High School (Hartland, Wis.) '09
College: University of Wisconsin '14
Team/Club: Minnesota Whitecaps
Olympic Experience
Olympian (2018); Olympic medalist (1 gold)
PyeongChang 2018, gold
Most recent: 2017 – gold
Years of participation: 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
Medals: 4 (4 golds)
Gold – 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
Helped Badgers to NCAA Division I title in 2010-11 season
Personal: Daughter of Tim and Nancy Rigsby...Has two brothers, Zach and Chase...First female to be drafted into the USHL...First goalie to be named captain of Wisconsin Badgers women's hockey team...Hobbies include fishing, golfing, tennis, rollerblading and reading.
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Community Foundation Of Broward Awards $2 Million Mary Porter Legacy Fund Grants
Gustavo Firpo
The Y in the News2021
Representatives for YMCA of South Florida and Henderson Behavioral Health accept two $1 million grants from the Community Foundation of Broward. Shown left to right: Mark Russell, YMCA CFO; Sheryl Woods, YMCA President & CEO; Gabriel Ochoa, YMCA Vice President; Jay Anderson, YMCA Board Chair; Steven Ronik, Henderson CEO; and Katherine Koch, Henderson Board Chair.
The Community Foundation of Broward on "Giving Tuesday" awarded $2 million in new grants that will expand local mental health facilities and support the completion of a new YMCA and community center.
Henderson Behavioral Health's new crisis stabilization center and the L.A. Lee YMCA / Mizell Community Center are the latest recipients of the Community Foundation's Mary N. Porter Legacy Fund grants.
Mary N. Porter Legacy Fund grants support capital projects all across Broward that transform life in our community.
The Community Foundation's Board of Directors on Tuesday approved two new $1 million Mary N. Porter Legacy Fund grants that will:
Support the completion of Henderson Behavioral Health's new, state‐of‐the‐art 32,000-square-foot Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU) in order to accommodate the growing number of people in our community experiencing a mental health crisis. Henderson's growing campus in Fort Lauderdale enables more emergency walk-in service, expands the number of beds from 23 to 48 and includes a mobile crisis response unit and outpatient services.
Support the completion of the new L.A. Lee YMCA / Mizell Community Center in Fort Lauderdale. The new 64,500-square-foot facility will provide early childhood education programs, afterschool summer camps, teen programs including youth in government and intentional engagement with local law enforcement, 10,000 square feet for Broward College to provide certification programs that lead to jobs, careers and workforce development as well as a Black Box theatre for performing arts.
"For YMCA and Henderson, these grants will help them focus on programming and services and staffing and inspiration and not have to worry about raising money for a building," said Community Foundation of Broward President/CEO Jennifer O'Flannery Anderson, Ph.D. "It was a very special day. I think it speaks to the core of what we do and what we hope to do every day and I just love that it fell on Giving Tuesday."
Mary Porter
These grants are made possible because the endowed Mary N. Porter Legacy Fund at the Community Foundation provides a dedicated source of support for construction, renovations and other major capital projects that make life better for Broward residents.
Mary Porter wanted her philanthropy to support building efforts for crucial community programs, long after she was gone. After years of dedicated support for the community she loved, Mary left an estate gift that enabled the Community Foundation to become the only grantmaking organization in Broward with a dedicated source of support for capital projects.
Now on Mary's behalf, the Community Foundation finds exciting projects that make the greatest community impact and carry on Mary's name. Our expert team vets building proposals and collaborates with a special committee, that includes Board members, former Board members and community members who recommend the most impactful projects. After our Board approves a grant, our team follows up to make sure grant recipients make the best use of Mary's support.
For this new round of Mary Porter capital grants, our team spent seven months soliciting proposals, reviewing more than $14 million in funding requests, making site visits for a firsthand look at the top contenders and ultimately settling on two that would have the kind of powerful impact Mary sought for her community.
"The applications were so compelling," Community Foundation Board Chair James Donnelly said about the Henderson Behavioral Health and YMCA of South Florida building plans. "They will literally transform and affect our community for years to come."
Other community building projects supported by the Mary N. Porter Legacy Fund include:
Navy League – A new Sea Cadet Training Center will provide improved facilities to help shape a brighter future for Broward's youth.
Habitat for Humanity of Broward – Hardworking families are on the path to Economic Independence since moving into this new neighborhood of 77 affordably priced homes under construction in Pompano Beach. A neighborhood reading garden dedicated to Mary opened in January.
Arc Broward – Arc Broward's new commercial kitchen is complete. Arc's Culinary program – which helps people with special needs gain skills for employment – is helping launch new careers during this economic crisis and beyond.
Flamingo Gardens' New Learning Center – Will host field trips, classes, art exhibitions and other community events for visitors who flock to the botanical garden and wildlife sanctuary in Davie.
"All across Broward, you can find examples of Mary's commitment to building a better future for the community she loved," Jennifer O'Flannery Anderson said. "We are proud to be stewards of Mary's bold commitment to Broward, which is made stronger by the enduring power of endowment."
To learn how you can create a BOLD impact with an endowed charitable fund at the Community Foundation, contact Vice President of Philanthropic Services Nancy Thies at [email protected] or 954-761-9503.
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If you have been charged with a criminal offence, one of the most important decisions you will need to make is whether you should hire a criminal lawyer and, if so, which lawyer you should hire to help you with your case.
There are many advantages to hiring a lawyer to represent you in court. The most obvious advantage is that lawyers have extensive training and experience in dealing with the legal system and therefore we know how to navigate the laws and processes to ensure that you get the right outcome.
Unfortunately however many people choose to hire the wrong lawyer. For example, it is quite common for people to hire their local general practice lawyer who might also be their family lawyer, estate lawyer and so on. While they may be excellent lawyers, they simply could not have the same knowledge and experience of the criminal justice system as a dedicated criminal lawyer.
Criminal lawyers focus on just one area of law – criminal law. This provides them the opportunity to learn everything there is to know about criminal laws, possibles excused and defences, court procedures etc. This gives you the best chance possible of receiving the right outcome.
Which Criminal Lawyer Should You Hire?
Once you have made the decision to hire a criminal lawyer to represent you in court, your next decision is which criminal lawyer you should hire.
Your criminal lawyer should be easily contactable. Do they take urgent calls 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Do they take several days to respond to your emails? At Harper Finch Lawyers, we understand that going to court is a stressful experience so we make ourselves available 24/7 to assist you with your case.
Your criminal lawyer should keep you constantly updated. Criminal law can be confusing and it is easy to misunderstand important parts of your case if they are not properly explained to you. We speak to our clients in plain English and we are always happy to answer any questions our clients have, no matter how big or small their questions might be. We also keep our clients 'in the loop' so that they are aware of how their case is progressing.
Your criminal lawyer should charge reasonable fees. The last thing that you want in addition to the stress of going to court is stress from unreasonably high legal fees or unexpected legal bills. We almost always provide fixed quotes which provides our clients with peace of mind, knowing that they won't receive any surprise bills in the mail. We also charge fees that are fair and that take into account each of our clients' personal circumstances.
Finally, your criminal lawyer should be familiar with the courthouse you are appearing in. Harper Finch Lawyers are based in Brisbane, which means that we regularly appear in courts throughout South-East Queensland. However we appear in all courts throughout Queensland and in the past we have appeared in courthouses such as Cairns, Quilpie and Kingaroy. This exposure to different courthouses throughout Queensland gives us superior knowledge about the various magistrates and judges that appear in our courts.
If you have made the decision to hire a criminal lawyer, don't hesitate to contact Harper Finch Lawyers now. As one of Brisbane's leading criminal law firms, we will be able to help you navigate the criminal justice system to ensure that you get the best outcome possible, no matter what you have been charged with or which courthouse you are appearing in.


The London Marathon reminds us that if the vision is there, more importantly if belief in the vision is there, then even when the way ahead looks hard people will rise to the challenge.
As record numbers took part in the London Marathon yesterday, the stories which emerged ably demonstrated what can be achieved when the vision is there. From the oldest competitor in the race who took up marathon running at 61 and now at 90 has completed more than twenty marathons, to the youngest who turned 18 on the day; the tales of courage and personal endurance were inspiring.
But it was perhaps the mass of runners, the unsung heroes and heroines who were the most inspiring. These are the people who stepped out of the normal day to day to take up the running challenge. Some may not have even contemplated running as a sport until they were touched by personal tragedy and decided to do something momentous to raise funds and awareness for their chosen cause. Others may have jogged happily with a group for some time before deciding to take up the challenge and push themselves further than they had previously thought possible.
In 2014 more than £53m was raised by competitors and it is hoped that this figure will have been surpassed this year. But more than that, the London Marathon reminds us that if the vision is there, more importantly if belief in the vision is there, then even when the way ahead looks hard people will rise to the challenge.


Join us at First Colony Winery on Wednesday, May 25th at 6 pm for an intimate primer on wine tasting, and tasteful wine snobbery. Our Assistant Winemaker, Gavin, will be on hand pouring a selection of First Colony wines past, present, and yet-to-be-bottled. He will explain the fundamentals of evaluating fine wines on the basis of appearance, aromatics, acid-tannin structure, flavor characteristics, and common wine flaws. Most importantly, he'll arm you with a wine vocabulary so obtuse and pedantic as to make a Parisian sommelier blanch. And there will be snacks!
Tickets are $20 for Wine Club members, and $25 to the general public. Space is limited, reservations required. Please call First Colony at (434) 979-7105 to reserve your space.


Here's the latest holiday news on Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart for Twilight fans and everyone else who likes to keep up with the latest developments related to Kristen and Rob. This news report is based on information gathered from articles published on Dec. 26 and Dec 25 by Zee News, Ace Show Biz, Hollywood Hills, Gather, CelebDirtyLaundry.com, Topix, com, Q1073.com, Celebrity Pop, IbnLive and others.
Despite reports that Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart planned to spend Christmas together in Los Angeles, Dec. 26 reports by Zee News, Ace Show Biz, Hollywood Hills, and CelebDirtyLaundry.com indicate that Rob and Kristen spent their Christmas holiday thousands of miles apart.
On Christmas Eve Rob was spotted in a London pub by fans who were only too happy to Tweet that Rob was there enjoying drinks with his friends and send pictures of Rob to back it up. What was significant is that Kristen was nowhere in sight.
It appears that Rob and Kristen changed their holiday plans one last time. This new turn of events would be Holiday Plan # 4 for Kristen and Rob – or a return to Holiday Plan #2. See News: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart Change Their Christmas Plans Again.
When Rob was spotted at JFK airport with his guitar, most people assumed he was rushing back to Los Angeles to spend Christmas with Kristen, but obviously that was not the case. See News: Why Kristen Stewart Not Included in Robert Pattinson's Holiday Plans. Rob was on his way to London to spend Christmas with his family, after all.
How Kristen spent her Christmas holiday, no one seems to know, so it must have been fairly low key. As for whether or not Rob and Kristen will spend the New Year holiday together, we'll just have to wait and see.
Gather, Q1073.com and IbnLive, among others, are reporting that Robert Pattinson is one of the 25 men who made GQ magazine's list of 25 Most Stylish Men of 2012. While Rob didn't top the list, he did number among the top 10, coming in with a ranking of #6.
Robert Pattinson has become a quite a fashion and grooming icon for young men.
While Rob tends to be a baseball cap and T-shirt kind of guy during his off time, on the red carpet he's always impeccably groomed, cutting a fine figure in his designer suits. Gucci seems to be his designer of choice.
Rob recently appeared on the cover of "Italian Vogue," much to the delight of his many female fans. See Fashionably Fierce Robert Pattinson Featured on the Cover of Italian Vogue and Robert Pattinson Makes a Fierce Fashion Statement on the Cover of Italian Vogue.
Robert Pattinson has chopped off most of his locks and is sporting his buzz cut look again. The Dec. 26 Topix, com, and several other media outlets are reporting the news of Rob's new look. See Robert Pattinson News: Rob Practically Bald, Sporting a Buzz Cut Again A buzz cut is one of the many hairstyles Rob has worn in the past which have been an inspiration to other young men.
So far Rob has been alternating between knit caps and baseball caps to keep his head covered, but the close shaven sides could still be seen. Guess Rob's not ready yet to show his new hairstyle to his fans.
Looks like Rob nailed his Dior men's fragrance contract after all. The Dec. 26 OhNoTheyDidn't and Hollywood Hills were among a handful of celebrity gossip sites that picked up on the fact that Robert Pattinson's recent trip to New York was for the purpose of shooting a commercial for his Dior ad campaign.
As I pointed out at the time, it was significant that the Dior press office never denied that a fragrance endorsement deal with Rob was in the works. Something evidently sparked the rumors, and my guess was that Rob's deal was still in the negotiation stage.
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Amara Singapore is located in Singapore\'s Chinatown neighborhood, close to Thian Hock Keng Temple, Raffles Place, and Boat Quay. Nearby points of interest also include Raffles City and Esplanade Theatres.
Dining options at Amara Singapore include 7 restaurants. Room service is available 24 hours a day. The hotel serves Buffet breakfasts (surcharges apply). Recreational amenities include an outdoor pool and a health club. There is a full service health spa on site. This 4 star property has a business center and offers small meeting rooms. This Singapore property has event space consisting of conference/meeting rooms and a ballroom. For a surcharge, shuttle services include an area shuttle and a train station pick up service.
Guest parking is complimentary. Additional property amenities include a coffee shop/cafe and dry cleaning/laundry services.
380 air conditioned guestrooms at Amara Singapore feature minibars and laptop compatible safes. Bathrooms feature separate bathtubs and showers, designer toiletries, bathrobes, and slippers. Wired high speed Internet access is complimentary. In addition to desks and complimentary newspapers, guestrooms offer direct dial phones. 32 inch LCD televisions have cable channels. Rooms also include complimentary bottled water and hair dryers. Housekeeping is available daily.


Cook pasta according to package instructions and cool by running under cold water.
In large bowl, combine pasta and vegetables.
To prepare dressing: in measuring cup, add canola oil, sugar, vinegar, ketchup and paprika. Blend well. Pour over salad and mix well.
Refrigerate, allowing flavours to blend, until ready to serve.


Alexander Rybak will represent Norway at this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon with his song "That's How You Write A Song" — an upbeat, instructional and almost tongue-in-cheek guide from the famed singer and composer. After winning Norway's national selection Melodi Grand Prix in a landslide, the odds continue to shorten for Alexander. He's currently sitting within the top ten to take home the winner's trophy in Lisbon, according to the Eurovision Oddschecker.
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Is Nordstrom, Inc. (JWN) A Good Stock To Buy?
A whopping number of 13F filings filed with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been processed by Insider Monkey so that individual investors can look at the overall hedge fund sentiment towards the stocks included in their watchlists. These freshly-submitted public filings disclose money managers' equity positions as of the end of the three-month period that ended September 30, so let's proceed with the discussion of the hedge fund sentiment on Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE:JWN).
Is Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE:JWN) a healthy stock for your portfolio? Investors who are in the know are in a bullish mood. The number of long hedge fund positions rose by 4 in recent months. JWN was in 30 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of September. There were 26 hedge funds in our database with JWN positions at the end of the previous quarter. The level and the change in hedge fund popularity aren't the only variables you need to analyze to decipher hedge funds' perspectives. A stock may witness a boost in popularity but it may still be less popular than similarly priced stocks. That's why at the end of this article we will examine companies such as Domino's Pizza, Inc. (NYSE:DPZ), News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA), and AerCap Holdings N.V. (NYSE:AER) to gather more data points.
Now, let's take a look at the latest action encompassing Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE:JWN).
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2016, a total of 30 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, an increase of 15% from one quarter earlier. With the smart money's sentiment swirling, there exists a select group of noteworthy hedge fund managers who were boosting their holdings substantially (or already accumulated large positions).
According to publicly available hedge fund and institutional investor holdings data compiled by Insider Monkey, John W. Rogers's Ariel Investments has the biggest position in Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE:JWN), worth close to $58.7 million and corresponding to 0.7% of its total 13F portfolio. The second largest stake is held by Alyeska Investment Group, led by Anand Parekh, holding a $46.5 million position; the fund has 0.5% of its 13F portfolio invested in the stock. Remaining professional money managers that hold long positions comprise John Tompkins's Tyvor Capital, David Harding's Winton Capital Management and Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group.
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Gaddi's is a French haute cuisine restaurant situated in The Peninsula Hong Kong hotel.  It was opened in 1953 and named after a former general manager of The Peninsula, Leo Gaddi.  The current chef de cuisine is Albin Gobil.

Decor
The decor is meant to evoke old Hong Kong and the hotel's original 1928 neoclassical architecture.  It has a European dining room, with two six-foot crystal-and-silver chandeliers from Paris, Tai Ping carpets, and a Chinese coromandel screen dating from 1670.

It also created the first chef's table in Hong Kong where the Chef Table diners sit at a special table beside the Gaddi's kitchen viewing the dishes being prepared.

Food
The food is classically French but with inventive European influences.Online Frommer's review

Examples of past dishes include:
 Raw-marinated foie gras with toasted brioche
 Twice-cooked pork belly with mustard risotto
 Bitter herb salad and balsamico sauce
 Specially selected American Black Angus Sirloin baked in a rosemary and salt crust with pea puree
 Roquefort fritters and pan-fried rye bread with melted Camembert and oscietra caviar

There is a ten course tasting menu which lets the diners taste a sample of many of Gaddi's famous dishes.

The wine cellar is among the best and largest in Hong Kong, with a collection of rare vintages.

In a 2006 Independent feature on romantic dining, author Alexandra Antonioni wrote: "They don't make restaurants like this any more and everyone should dine at Gaddi's at least once in their lifetime. Nothing can touch it for glamour and sheer indulgence."

Recognitions
One Michelin star, <<Michelin Guide Hong Kong Macau 2021>>

2020 Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star restaurant

Pinor – China's Wine List of The Year Awards 2018

Wine Spectator 2020 – Best of Award of Excellence

Wine Luxe Magazine: Wine by The Glass Restaurant Awards Gold Medal 2020

Wine Luxe Magazine - Top 10 Wine Pairing Restaurant Awards 2020

References

French restaurants in Hong Kong
Restaurants established in 1953
1953 establishments in Hong Kong

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Founded in 2007, ACTS Recovery Homes in Austin, Texas, offers sober living for men and women in five gender-specific houses located in scenic residential neighborhoods. The homes provide clients an intimate ambience with a family-style environment, while staying clean and sober. The organization's name, ACTS is an acronym for Active Commitment to Sobriety, and dedication to the 12-steps is expected from all of their clients.
ACTS Recovery Homes offers four homes for men, and one for women, each accommodating approximately eight clients. While amenities vary, all of the houses include four bedrooms and two baths. Clients are paired in furnished rooms, which include twin beds and a dresser. The Aspen Street home for men includes bedrooms with oversized closets, hardwood and tiled floors and a kitchen with granite counters. Additionally, Aspen Street has a large grapefruit tree in the backyard, where residents can enjoy fresh grapefruit for breakfast. Smoking is permitted in the backyard of each house.
Amenities include free Wi-Fi, digital Cable TV, long distance telephone service, a house computer with high speed internet, paper products, laundry soap, laundry facilities, house cleaning supplies and coffee. Residents purchase their own groceries and prepare their own meals in fully equipped kitchens. Residents purchase their own groceries and prepare their own meals in fully equipped kitchens. Additionally, all residents must provide their own personal hygiene items. Each residence has a live-in house manager.
At ACTS Recovery Homes, an ideal resident works an honest 12-step program. All residents must attend 12-step meetings, work with a sponsor, perform household chores and be active in their recovery protocol. Being present at the house meeting every Thursday is mandatory.
During the first 30 days, clients must be working or attending school. Since all residents must be out of the house between 9 am and 5 pm daily, those who are not working or in school, must perform regularly scheduled volunteer work in the local community. Clients who are caught inside the house during those times are subject to performing extra household chores or staff securing volunteer work for them.
At ACTS Recovery Homes, clients are subject to random drug and alcohol screenings. Individuals testing positive are subject to immediate eviction. While guests are allowed, residents are responsible for their actions. Those who have guests visiting too frequently may have their visitation privileges taken away. The curfew is 11 pm Sundays through Thursdays, and midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.
The houses are strategically located near public transportation and a plethora of 12-step meetings.
While staff at ACTS Recovery Homes runs a tight ship, their main focus is to provide a clean, strict and safe sober living environment for residents new to recovery. While this type of structure probably won't appeal to everybody, clients seeking a 12-step sober living house in Austin, Texas might find that ACTS Recovery Homes will suit their needs to a tee.
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Bhopal : February 6, 2019 (Muslim Saleem): PR, Home and General Administration Ministers hold joint meeting of Employees Unions. Minister for General Administration Dr. Govind Singh, Minister for Home Shri Bala Bachchan and Minister for Public Relations Shri P.C. Sharma held discussions with the representatives of all Employees' Unions as regard to the welfare of employees in a joint meeting at Mantralaya today. Addressing the programme, Shri P.C. Sharma said that employees' honour is our religion. He told that all the employees' related 68 promises mentioned in the manifesto will be fulfilled within time limit.
Shri Sharma said that the state government is committed to work constantly in the welfare of employees and people of the state. He mentioned that the government led by the Chief Minister Shri Kamal Nath has fulfilled many promises of the manifesto within a month itself. Before the formation of the government, CM Shri Kamal Nath met the representatives of all the employees' unions, heard their demands and grievances and included them in the manifesto. Now all their demands will be fulfilled one by one. He further said that besides discharging his responsibilities as minister, he will always stand with the employees' unions, whenever they need his cooperation.
Minister for General Administration Dr. Govind Singh and Minister for Home Shri Bala Bachchan on behalf of the government also gave assurance for taking necessary steps in the welfare of the employees.


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Ontario lays out vaccination timeline for seniors
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Published February 24, 2021 at 6:04 pm
Ontario laid out a firmer timeline for administering COVID-19 vaccines to seniors Wednesday as advocates urged the federal government to come up with a national plan to inoculate Indigenous people in urban communities.
The plan laid out by the Ontario government would see residents aged 80 and older receive shots starting the third week of March, though officials stressed much depends on the province's supply of vaccines.
The head of the province's vaccination task force retired Gen. Rick Hiller, said those 75 and older should start getting immunized mid-April, and those 70 and older at the start of May. Ontarians 65 and over will be next in June, and those 60 and older will start getting shots the following month.
Bookings for vaccinations will be done online and through a service desk, which will become available on March 15, he said.
Meanwhile, the National Association of Friendship Centres called on Ottawa to co-ordinate a vaccine rollout for Indigenous people living in urban communities, as it is doing in collaboration with First Nations and Inuit governments for those on reserves.
The organization's executive director, Jocelyn Formsma, called on the federal government to consider doling out doses to clinics serving Indigenous people in urban areas, rather than waiting for the provinces to do it. She said more than 50 clinics run by her organization could administer the shots.
But Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said the distribution of vaccines to Indigenous people outside of reserves will be faster and more efficient if done through the provinces.
At the same time, active cases of the virus in First Nations communities are going down across Canada, the minister said. He reported 1,443 active cases on reserves as of Tuesday, adding vaccinations have begun in 440 Indigenous communities.
Ontario reported 1,054 cases of COVID-19 and nine more deaths related to the virus Wednesday. Quebec, the other province hardest-hit by the pandemic, logged 806 new infections and 17 more deaths.
Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press