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5 U.S. Cities Leading the Way with Wheelchair-Accessible Travel
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The United States offers a wide range of travel opportunities for both residents and tourists. For most of us that means getting in a car, bus or train and heading out. For people living with a disability, spontaneous travel is much more difficult: going to a new place requires substantial planning, research and advanced booking. While the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) mandates accessible transit for all passengers, some cities are doing better than others at implementing these services. Here are five U.S. cities putting the needs of paratransit travellers at the top of their priority list.
1. Seattle, WA
First on the list is Seattle, a city known for its transit evolution. When it comes to accessible travel, Seattle is not being left behind: to help travellers in wheelchairs avoid the city's many hills, visitor can use AccessMap to plot out steep inclines and other accessibility barriers. When hills can't be avoided, Seattle's bus, train, ferry and water taxi systems are fully accessible. And for visitors looking for entertainment, the city has ensured that all major attractions are in compliance with ADA standards.
2. Washington, D.C.
It's not surprising that the nation's capital—and the place where the Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted—is highly rated when it comes to accessible travel. D.C.'s Metrorail system is the best way to travel for those with mobility issues: all 91 stations are fully accessible with elevators and priority seating, and buses in the Metrobus system are also wheelchair-friendly. The result? Travellers in Washington should be able to get where they need to go without encountering undue hurdles.
3. Orlando, FL
Orlando, Florida is home to many attractions, but the most famous is likely the Walt Disney World theme park. While it is a private entity, the park itself has prioritized the experiences of people living with disabilities, and cities and transit providers should take note. A full list of attractions, organized by accessibility rating, is available on the park's website, and Disney has provided accessible transit options between rides within the grounds. Guests also have the option to rent wheelchairs or scooters from various locations once they arrive. Other attractions in the city—including Universal Studios—have followed Disney's example and made information and support available for guests with disabilities, while Orlando features a variety of wheelchair-accessible hotels and exhibits. With a bit of planning, Orlando can truly offer a magical experience to all visitors.
4. Denver, CO
For travellers living with disabilities, getting access to the outdoors is often a challenge. Not so in Denver, where the city boasts ample options for those who want to get outside. Within the city, all buses and rail vehicles are entirely accessible to wheelchairs and other mobility aids, and bus and rail operators are specially trained to assist travellers with disabilities in boarding and exiting vehicles.
5. San Francisco, CA
Another city known for being accessible is San Francisco. Despite its notorious topography, a robust and accessible transit system means travellers living with disabilities should have little trouble getting around. The city's network of trains, buses and even several of their streetcar lines are wheelchair-accessible, and visitors can prepare for their trip with this handy guide to getting around. For travellers hoping to soak up some sun, the San Francisco Bay Area has numerous accessible beaches, some of which rent out beach wheelchairs.
U.S. cities have much to offer passengers living with disabilities, and one of the key components of the most successful cities is a universally-accessible transit system. Yet even with the ADA mandates in place, there is still work to be done to ensure equal opportunities for all visitors as cities continue to evolve. Through training, well-designed vehicles and clear communication, transit agencies should monitor their systems and service offerings to ensure that travel experiences are accessible for all passengers, whether local or guest.
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Q: How to get the Config Blob Uri parameter from restored VHD from Azure Recovery Services Vault in Powershell? Currently, I am working in a Powershell to restore the VHD file from a Virtual Machine which is being backed up by Azure Recovery Services Vault.
That being said, my difficulty is how do I get the Config Blob Uri parameter after restoring the VHD using Powershell? Even using Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupJobDetails -Job $restoreJob I don't see any option that provides this information.
As you can see in the image below, the Azure Portal shows the Config Blob Uri parameter

Once the Powershell completes the restore, then I'd like to retrieve the Config Blob Uri to perform a VM creation based on that specific VHD file, however, without such information, I have to get it manually.
Is there any possibility to get it directly from Powershell?

A: #get restore job detail
$details = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupJobDetails -Job $restorejob
#restored disk properties
$properties = $details.properties
$storageAccountName = $properties["Target Storage Account Name"]
$containerName = $properties["Config Blob Container Name"]
$blobName = $properties["Config Blob Name"]
#Set the Azure storage context and restore the JSON configuration file
Set-AzureRmCurrentStorageAccount -Name $storageAccountName -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName
$destination_path = "C:\temp\vmconfig.json"
Get-AzureStorageBlobContent -Container $containerName -Blob $blobName -Destination $destination_path
$obj = ((Get-Content -Path $destination_path -Raw -Encoding Unicode)).TrimEnd([char]0x00) | ConvertFrom-Json

This will download config json file to $destination_path and you can reference your that file when building your VM.
More details at: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-vms-automation#restore-an-azure-vm
Also, if you know your Storage Account Name, you can retrieve config uri from there:
$storageAccountName = (Get-AzureRmStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName).StorageAccountName
Set-AzureRmCurrentStorageAccount -Name $storageAccountName -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName
$storageContainerName = (Get-AzureStorageContainer).Name
$configBlob = Get-AzureStorageBlob -Container $storageContainerName  | where {$_.Name -match "json"}
$configName = $configBlob.Name
$configURI = "https://$storageAccountname.blob.core.windows.net/$storageContainerName/$configName"

Hope this helps.

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Each kind of program offers unique benefits and different payment plans. However, as long as a federal employee chooses an approved plan, the government will pay as much as 75 percent of the plan's premium. Benefits could include, but are not limited to: dental coverage, preventive care, prescription drugs, and emergency care.
Preventive services, which cover health care measures aimed at averting illness.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016: The polls nearly all showed it to be all over but the celebrating—done, in the bag, a cinch. The pundits from nearly all the mainstream media were claiming, not only victory, but a grand slam victory. Trump would be buried, banished and forgotten. Hillary would be the next president.
But as election results streamed in, something began to emerge. State after state was going for Trump. But, not to fear, this can't possibly be; the trend will turn as more states come in. But, it wasn't to be. To nearly everyone's total shock and surprise (including most Trumpers), Trump was declared the winner with a comfortable margin of electoral votes.
Pundits, preachers and peons tried to second guess what happened. What happened was that God intervened in the affairs of men as He has many times, according to the scriptures (and Ben Franklin).
Could it be that God is not through with America in spite of our great sin? Our great nation was founded on Godly principles, destined to be a leader and an example to the world, and a friend of the Jews from the beginning. And, in spite of the great depths of sin to which our nation has sunk, there is still a remnant of churches and believers who believe and teach the truths of God's word.
Looking back at that critical election of 2008, you may recall that Barack Obama unabashedly stated that, "I will fundamentally change America." Nobody bothered to ask him what he meant, but we soon learned as his agenda unfolded.
By the end of his second term in 2016, he had accomplished a great deal of his agenda, and most of it for the worse. Gay rights were expanded, abortion was expanded, gay marriage was legalized, Christian rights were assaulted, the military was depleted, America's sovereignty diminished, the national debt skyrocketed and the economy slowed to a crawl. And that is just the short list.
Obama also poked Israel in the eye at every opportunity while proclaiming us to be their friend. He informed enemies of Israel's planned military strikes. He even tried to interfere with their elections in order to get rid of PM Netanyahu. Remember God's promise to his chosen people in Gen 12:3. "I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you." And this has proven true down through the centuries.
And Hillary was waiting in the wings to continue to engineer this downward plunge. I shudder to think where we would be if she had been elected, and I thank God that He is in control.
But amazingly, God raises up men and women for the time and task at hand—sometimes to punish, sometimes to deliver. Nebuchadnezzar, Jer. 43:10; Cyrus, Is. 44:28 (180 yrs. before he was born); Jehu, 2 Kings 9-10 who "drained the swamp in Israel (Northern Kingdom); Deborah and Esther just to name a few.
Like Trump or not (and he does have more than his share of irritating faults), it would seem that God placed him here "for such a time as this," as Mordecai said to Esther (Esther 4:14). He also added that, if she didn't speak up, God would provide someone else to deliver his people. What a man of faith!
Some have likened Trump to Jehu in 2 Kings 9-12. He was not of the royal line; he was an outsider; he was not a politician; he was bold and brash (2 Kings 9:20); he killed King Jehoram (Ahab's grandson); Jezebel, Ahab's 70 sons, the prophets of Baal, and destroyed their altars. In other words, he "drained the swamp." He also made an alliance with a man of God (2 Kings 10:15) as Trump did by making Mike Pence (an openly avowed Christian) his vice president.
So, what are the implications for our time? It would appear that God has given America a reprieve—another chance—a window of opportunity to repent and turn to him—a revival. We had a short revival after 9/11/01, but it was not very deep and didn't last long.
What will we do with this opportunity? Will we take advantage of it or continue serving the gods of materialism and pleasure and having a lukewarm religion?


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Mix all dry ingredients lightly together before stirring in the boiling water and oil. Then, divide into two or three parts. Spread the 'dough' onto one oven tray covered with baking paper; roll it thin by placing an additional sheet of baking paper on top - you'll find that rolling as thin as possible without too much effort works well!
Roast/toast at 180 degrees C for around 30 minutes, or until golden brown. When just out of the oven, sprinkle with a little salt and pepper. An alternative lighter colour is achieved if preferred at 160 degrees C for 40 minutes.
Cool and keep dry; they will stay crisp for several weeks. Enjoy with smoked salmon, cheese or whatever you fancy!
Note: For extra crispiness, reduce to 140C and cook for an extra 20 minutes.
One 25 gm cracker (fairly large) has 2 net carbs or just 1, if you don't add in the quinoa flakes.
Yes: a word on digestion. In small quantities, you should have no problems but some people (particularly those used to a diet rich in processed foods and breads), may well experience rumbling tummies and even minor discomfort.
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Where Is Shenzhen China On Map?
Shenzhen, one of the major cities in the Chinese province of Guangdong, is located directly north of Hong Kong and is part of a massive metropolitan region with a total population of more than 10 million people and an urban area of around 790 square miles.
What does Shenzhen mean?
It is a significant metropolis in Guangdong Province, China, and one of the country's four largest and wealthiest cities. Shenzhen is also known as ″the Pearl of the Orient.″
What is the population of Shenzhen?
Shenzhen has a population density of 6,889 individuals per square kilometer of land area, which is spread throughout a total area of 1,992 km2. However, certain estimates based on cellphone and rubbish collection statistics suggest that there may be more over 20 million people living within Shenzhen's limits, according to some sources.
Is Shenzhen in Hong Kong or China?
Shenzhen is a Chinese city in the south-central Guangdong sheng (province) in southeastern China, and it is the largest city in the province. It is located just north of Hong Kong on the coast of the South China Sea, along with the rest of the country.
What's Shenzhen famous for?
The city serves as a link between Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland, and it is one of the largest and most populous cities in the region of southeast China. It is most renowned for its shopping and entertainment opportunities, which are facilitated by its enormous retail malls and several family-friendly amusement parks.
Why is Shenzhen important to China?
It was designated as one of China's first Special Economic Zones in 1979, and it quickly became a magnet for rising numbers of people looking for work, eventually contributing to overpopulation. The city of Shenzhen is a garden city, despite its large population. It was the first Chinese city to get the title of Nations in Bloom, which it received in 2000.
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Why is Shenzhen so rich?
That prosperity is mostly the result of good fortune. Shenzhen was designated as China's first ″special economic zone″ in 1980, marking the country's first foray into the world of capitalism. Villages with names like Huanggang and Futian are actually situated on some of the most valuable real estate anywhere in the world, according to current market conditions.
How long does it take to ship from Shenzhen China to USA?
It is mostly due to good fortune that we have accumulated this money. Shenzhen was designated as China's first ″special economic zone″ in 1980, marking the country's first foray into capitalism. Villages with names like Huanggang and Futian are actually situated on some of the most valuable real estate anywhere in the world, which is why they are so popular.
Do they speak English in Shenzhen?
Despite the fact that Shenzhen is located in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where the indigenous dialect is Cantonese, Mandarin is the official language spoken throughout the city. This is true throughout the entirety of Mainland China.
Are there beaches in Shenzhen?
There are around 23 beaches in the vicinity of Shenzhen, including Dameisha Beach, Xiaomeisha Beach, Xiasha Beach, Xiyong Beach, Xichong, Dongchong, Dashenwan, Yangmeikeng, Shuitousha, Guanhu, and others.Dameisha Beach is the most popular of them.The beaches of Dameisha, Xiaomeisha, and Xiasha are the most popular among the residents, owing to the fact that they were developed early in the tourism industry.
Do they speak Cantonese in Shenzhen?
Mandarin is the mother dialect of the Chinese language, and it is spoken in most provinces of China, including Shenzhen, as well as in Hong Kong and Macau. Cantonese, on the other hand, is the dialect of the Guangdong Province, and because the people of Shenzhen grow up speaking Cantonese, the language is widely spoken across the province.
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Which is the richest province in China?
The following is a list of Chinese administrative divisions ordered by disposable income per capita.
2014 Rank
Disposable Income per capita USD$
1 Shanghai 7,483
2 Beijing 7,242
3 Zhejiang 5,316
4 Tianjin 4,694
Is Shenzhen A global city?
Following the demise of the 'Greater Hong Kong' narrative that was prevalent in the 1990s, Shenzhen is now acknowledged as an emerging global metropolis in its own right, according to the World Bank.
Is Shenzhen the most advanced city in the world?
Globalization and World Cities Research Network has classified Shenzhen as an Alpha- (global first-tier) city for the year 2020, and it is also listed as the world's eighth most competitive and largest financial hub, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
Is Shenzhen A SEZ?
The Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (Chinese: ), which was founded in May 1980, was one of the earliest special economic zones in China and is still operating today.
How many billionaires are there in Shenzhen?
Shenzhen China 68
Shanghai China 64
London United Kingdom 63
Mumbai India 50
Where is Guangdong China on the map?
Guangdong Province 广东省
From top to bottom, left to right: Canton Tower in Guangzhou, Shenzhen Bay, Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, Views of Mount Danxia
Map showing the location of Guangdong Province
Coordinates: 23°24′N 113°30′ECoordinates: 23°24′N 113°30′E
Is Hong Kong part of China?
Hong Kong is a Chinese special administrative area that is considered to be a ″inalienable component″ of the nation. As a result of its unique administrative status, Hong Kong is allowed to exert a high degree of autonomy and enjoy executive, legislative, and independent judicial authority, among other privileges.
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Do you want to improve in a certain area? Well, Peter Bregman, writing for HBR, says that if you want to get better, you have to ask yourself these two questions.
Question One: "Do you want to do better?"
Question Two: "Are you willing to feel the discomfort of putting in more effort and trying new things that will feel weird and different and won't work right away?"
Bergman writes, "I believe — and my experience coaching hundreds of leaders in hundreds of different circumstances proves — that anyone can get better at anything. But in order to get better — and in order to be coached productively — you need to honestly answer "yes" to both those questions."
What do you want to improve?
If you keep doing what you are doing, nothing will change. What discomfort might you feel while trying to improve?
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UCC issues East Africa famine appeal
by Carol Fouke-Mpoyo	| published on May 12, 2017
Famine has officially been declared in South Sudan and looms in Somalia, Nigeria, and Yemen. The United Church of Christ has issued an appeal for $50,000 for East Africa famine relief. It also is urging observance of the World Council of Churches' Global Day of Prayer to End Famine on May 21, and advocacy with the U.S. government to release emergency funding to avert catastrophe in these four countries.
Famine has officially been declared in South Sudan and, for the first time in recent history, there is a very real possibility of four famines – in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen – breaking out all at once. The United Church of Christ has issued an appeal for $50,000 for East Africa famine relief. It also is urging observance of the World Council of Churches' Global Day of Prayer to End Famine on May 21, and advocacy with the U.S. government to release emergency funding to avert catastrophe in these four countries. Click here for full information and resources.
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6 and out. If you hit the ball over the fence, you're out!
Under no circumstances can you get out first ball, unless it's 6 and out.
Boundaries are the fence line. Hit the boundary on the full for a 6.
In the case that there's not enough players for a wicketkeeper, an automatic wicketkeeper will takeover. The auto-wicketkeeper will always catch any edges!
All trees are considered fielders. Hit them on the full and you're out!
One hand, one bounce. After a ball bounces off an object or the ground, a fielder may catch the ball with one hand.
Tippity Run. Players must run if the ball is hit, regardless of how hot it is!
Younger players and first-time players are allowed a second chance after getting dismissed, unless they're playing too well, then their second chance will be revoked.
You can't bowl too quickly. If you continue to bowl too quickly after being warned, you must bowl spin from then on.
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When running between wickets, a batsman is still considered out of their crease until they scream, "safe"!
You shouldn't take backyard cricket too seriously. Whether it's in the field, bowling or batting, have a laugh and enjoy yourself—no tears allowed.
Regardless of how you're given out, you should always argue your wicket.
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Bouncers are normally considered off limits unless the batsman is taking the game too seriously.
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That Was Awesome! Writers on Writing
Thirty Years On: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman and the Legacy of Mortality
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The best thing Sturm Brightblade ever did was die.
I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten. I was, without a sliver of a doubt, a no good, lazy slacker of a child, and after I discovered literature, I was totally and utterly a no good, lazy slacker of a child who read books. A lot of books, good and bad, but my favourite—the books I read and reread in my teens—were by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Specifically, I had a deep and complete love for the Dragonlance Chronicles. First published in 1984 when I was nothing more than sticks of bone at seven, Dragons of Autumn Twilight began what would be one of the icons of my grunge stained disenchanted childhood. I know it all, back and front, left and right and, thirty years after the first book began the series, I still remember the scenes at the end of Dragons of Winter Night, where Sturm Brightblade slowly and surely, walked to the top of a tower to fight a dragon with little more than the sword his father left him.
He died, of course.
In Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Weis and Hickman presented him as the noble knight, living his life to a code referred to as the Oath and the Measure. It was, as you would suspect, fairly standard fair: don't lie, don't back down, try to rescue a woman if she looks vaguely in distress. For all that I love Weis and Hickman's Chronicles, I will not claim to be immune to their faults as an adult. In their first book, Weis and Hickman did not stray far from the tropes of fantasy and role playing, and you could almost hear the book being read in a gaming sessions, somewhere between Missouri and Utah, wherever the TSR office at the time was kept. At thirty-six and twenty-eight, Weis and Hickman had not intended to become the authors of the series, but had rather been responsible for mapping the project out and managing the author who would write it. They would take control of it because of their own desire—and perhaps ambitions, as well—but it would not be until their second trilogy, Legends, that they would begin to find their feet properly in novels. But for all that, they still managed to make one irritating character out of Sturm Brightblade and his Oath and Measure.
But then, in Dragons of Winter Night, Weis and Hickman stripped him of his knighthood, revealing him as a man who clung to an ideal that was long gone, to a family history that was more a weight than a blessing—
And then he walked up into that tower, to die.
Characters die, all the time. At times, they die amongst a reader's tears, and at others, amongst the applause, and some, still, in quiet satisfaction. Yet, the death of Sturm Brightblade was the first violent death of a character in a book I can remember. In his final moments, it made Sturm likeable. It was the last breath, desperate attempt to help your friends by the sacrifice of your life and, in that one moment, Sturm Brightblade did the best thing his character could possibly do: he died. He left a legacy within the book that, realising that it was not the act of his death that gave it such strength, but rather his mortality, Weis and Hickman let the legacy of his physical failure and demise settle into their world and their writing.
Over the remaining books, the characters who appeared in Dragons of Autumn Twilight would all touch their own mortality. Flint, Tasslehoff, Raistlin, Cameron, Tanis, Goldmoon and Riverwind—each of them would die, though in Riverwind's case, it would be at the hands of a different author, a violation that felt somehow worse than the event itself when I was young. Indeed, perhaps it was this lack of control over their own characters that also dictated Weis and Hickman's actions. But if that played a roll or not, Weis and Hickman, through sword, age, heroism, kindness, and cruelty led each character to their own mortality. For the last surviving member of the cast, Laurana, Weis and Hickman even return to Sturm's death, crafting a demise that mirrored Sturm's at the end the second book in the War of the Souls trilogy.
Thirty years after the initial publication of Dragons of Autumn Twilight, I can honestly say that Weis and Hickman have go on to write better books in terms of simple craft. The Death Gate Cycle was probably my favourite and, I believe, their best. But the Rose and the Prophet trilogy always felt to me as if it slid under the radar of a lot of people. The Darksword trilogy was always a favourite of other people, though it fell behind the other two for me. There would be a few proper missteps in their career, though. The Sovereign Stone Trilogy was a misfire, oh yes, but it was not the disaster that two Starshield novels were. Nor was the return to the series that made their name always excellent. Despite a fine finale in Dragons of Summer Flame, they returned for a tired War of the Souls trilogy, and a series called the Lost Chronicles, which I suspect, only for die-hards like myself were up for.
Weis and Hickman would write solo novels and novels with other authors, as well. Weis turned first to a science fiction series for her solo start. The Star of the Guardians was four books and I devoured each as they were released. With her now ex-husband, Don Perrin, Weis would write a trilogy in the same world called Mag Force Seven, which featured a cyborg, a transsexual, and gay poisoner with a stable drug habit. Loosely referencing the Magnificent Seven (Xris, the main character, was pronounced Chris, and his appearance to Yul Brunner did not go unnoticed by myself) it wasn't as good as the originals it spun out of, but I loved it regardless, as I always would such a series. She would write the Dragonvarld Trilogy later, and it is a smooth and sleek trilogy from start to finish that shows her steady hand throughout. Most recently, Weis has been writing a trilogy called the Dragon Brigade with Robert Krammes.
I never quite gelled with Hickman as much on his solo projects, sadly. For me, his prose was never as accomplished or developed as Weis', but I admired the social awareness by which he undertook to address AIDs fears in the mid nineties in the Immortals. He would eventually take to co-writing with his wife, Laura Hickman, and they would produce the Bronze Canticle Trilogy and the Annals of Drakis, and they have just begun a new series with The Eventide, which you can sample here on Tor, if you'd like.
Sadly, Weis and Hickman's collaborations appear to have stalled somewhere around the fourth book of the Dragonships of Vindras. Originally planned to be six books, then cut to four, there has been little news of it in the last few years, though I do wait for it to be published, as I await for their next project. At thirty years in the game of fantasy fiction, they are old hands, and those original books of my youth, no matter their faults to my adult gaze, still resonate strongly in my memories with characters whose mortality was never once forgotten.
Ben Peek lives in Sydney, Australia with books, a cat, and a photographer named Nik. He has written several books and contributed to many, many anthologies. His first novel in the Children trilogy, The Godless, publishes August 19 from Tor Books in the US and Thomas Dunne in the UK.
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Q: Will my lawn be safe for my pet chickens at the same time it's safe for dogs or cats, after I've had it treated?
No, even if the lawn treatment may be safe for dogs and cats, it won't necessarily be safe for your pet chickens. Remember, dogs and cats are not foraging the lawn like your chickens are. Even if they nibble on a piece of grass, your lawn is just not going to be a large part of your dogs' or cats' diet!
If you're doing a pelleted treatment, your chickens may be foraging those pellets out of there! And if it's a sprayed treatment, they could be eating whatever has been sprayed on. Sometimes lawn treatments include things like weed-specific herbicides, pesticides, pre-emergents and more. You don't want your chickens eating that stuff, and you don't want them passing it along to you in their eggs.
Here's the thing: Your chickens will scratch your lawn up, wallow holes to dust bathe, and poop their own fertilizer out onto your lawn.
They'll eat weeds--hooray! And then they'll spread weed seeds around in their droppings. If you have chickens, you are just not going to have a manicured, perfect lawn. Not even if you could apply all your treatments.
But is that really what you want to do?
Instead, consider weeding the lawn with old-fashioned elbow grease. Or enjoy the dandelions and violets and clover, which provide food for bees.
There are worse things, after all. You COULD be living in a town that doesn't allow chickens, and that would be a real nightmare!
Are there any plants that are poisonous to chickens that I should eliminate from my yard?
Can I add fall leaves to the run?
Can I feed my chickens garden clippings?
Can I keep ducks, turkeys or other types of fowl with my chickens?
Can I spread grass clippings in the chicken run?
Can't I just mix my own chicken feed at home?
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Will chickens help eat ticks and mosquitoes in my yard?
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ART MARKET VS. PREDATOR
The art market's new volatility is making fortunes and destroying artists. Richard Davies met Stefan Simchowitz, the dealer accused of creating the turmoil and the most hated man in the business
by Richard Davies
Soon after finishing art school in 2011 Lucien Smith, an American artist, started to get rave reviews. By February 2014 there was such a buzz that when "Feet in the Water" came up for sale Phillips, an auction house, thought it would sell for £40,000-60,000 ($63,000-95,000). Instead it went for £194,500. Two days later another painting with a £60,000 upper estimate sold at Sotheby's for £224,500. By March Christie's had re-evaluated Smith's prices: "Love Story, a Woman Under the Influence", now had a top-end estimate of $150,000. The painting sold for $233,000. Smith was on fire.
Two years on things are different. On June 28th, "TBT", a work from a series of "rain paintings" – abstracts gesturing towards precipitation – that were selling for close to $90,000 (then around £56,000) in New York in 2014, went for a little over £30,000 in London, a drop of almost 45%. But this was a good result. Smith's paintings now tend to be estimated at £10,000-15,000 ($12,350-18,500), and go at the lower end.
Smith is not the only young artist whose work has been subject to this sort of volatility. In 2012 the prices of work by a group of painters, mostly men under the age of 35, started to rocket. By 2014, they were superstars: paintings by David Ostrowski, Parker Ito, Dan Rees, Jacob Kassay and Hugh Scott-Douglas reached prices of between $100,000 and $245,000. In 2016 none hit six figures, with most pieces selling for under $30,000.
Many in the art world are worried about bubbles. The market, they say, is becoming too fast, and too short term. They have reason to fret. The price swings for these artists – rises and falls of 500% or more in less than two years – make this market more volatile than even the most turbulent financial ones. Mini-crashes are becoming more common. They risk doing both financial and creative damage to the art world – financial, because it could put off serious, long-term investors; creative, because artists burn out before they really get started.
The blame for this is directed at a new breed of art dealer, known as "flippers". In contrast to a traditional dealer, who may stay with an artist for a lifetime and keeps tight control over who buys his work, flippers buy low and sell high to anybody who will buy. They treat art as though it were a financial instrument.
The man accused of leading the charge is Stefan Simchowitz. He was the first buyer of a Lucien Smith rain painting, snapped up early works by Parker Ito for less than $750 and was an early champion of Oscar Murillo, a current superstar.
If Simchowitz's nose for success is impressive, so is the hatred he inspires. He has been likened to Michael Milken, an inventor of junk bonds and convicted fraudster; he has been called a Sith Lord and Satan. The complaint is that he is a short-termist, prioritising quick profits over sustainable sales. He is accused of buying too greedily: cornering the market early by snapping up much of a young artist's catalogue (he bought lots of work by Murillo early and cheap) before flipping the work to collectors who are themselves seeking profit rather than good art.
Simchowitz has been a Hollywood producer (his films include "Requiem for a Dream") and has started and sold a tech company (MediaVast, a photography site, was bought by Getty Images for around $200m in 2007). He studied economics at Stanford, lives in Los Angeles and his partner is an ex-model. His clients include the young and famous, such as Orlando Bloom and Sean Parker. A South African by origin – he was born in Johannesburg and moved to America as a boy – Simchowitz is as Californian as they come.
He does not try to fit in. The standard art-world look is three parts Mayfair financier, one part literary agent: close-cut blue suit, crisp white shirt, brogues or moccasins, horn-rimmed spectacles for a hint of bookishness. When Simchowitz wears a suit it has a French-smock-style jacket; his camera is always around his neck, a lopsided beanie hat on his head. At a Christie's evening auction where I saw him in action, he wore a long grey cardigan, half-mast harem pants, and far-from-fresh running shoes that started life orange. He wants to stand out, and he does.
The criticisms of him, he maintains, are "bullshit – not an exaggeration of what I do but a complete misunderstanding of what I do". As he talks – quickly on the phone, and even faster in person – his world view pours out. It is clear, clever and controversial. To understand both the failings of the art market and how he wants to change it, he says it is helpful to look at the writings of his two favourite economists.
The first problem, he says, is elucidated in "Four Quadrants of Stupidity", an essay by Carlo Cipolla. "Stupidity", for Cipolla, has nothing to do with education: it is about the effect you have on yourself and others. People who make both themselves and others better off Cipolla calls "intelligent". Those who enrich themselves by impoverishing others are "bandits"; people who endure losses to help others profit are "helpless". There is logic to all of these forms of behaviour, Cipolla argues. But the final group is the biggest, and makes no sense: most people make both themselves and others worse off. They are plain "stupid".
Portrait of the artist as the coming man Lucien Smith at his home in Claverack, New York, in 2012
The essay is obscure and wacky. But the basic idea, and a problem Simchowitz often returns to, is one that does have strong currency. Economies can end up in lose-lose situations when people take decisions that are bad for themselves and for the group as a whole. Herd behaviour – mimicking others' actions – is a good example. In the "paradox of saving", collective thrift means that shops are starved of spending and a recession ensues, which hurts everyone. Simchowitz thinks the art world is like this: filled with bandit insiders who gain at others' expense, or stupid copycats who believe that price and value are the same thing.
Simchowitz says he wants to make the art world more "intelligent". His plan is based on his second big influence, the notion of "creative destruction" set out in Joseph Schumpeter's book "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy". The idea is that true capitalist competition is much more radical than charging lower prices or providing a better service. It is about completely changing the way things are done – setting up new types of firm that revolutionise the way industries operate. Simchowitz dislikes the art-world hierarchy, which he thinks excludes people from buying art; he would like to dislodge it and make art easier to see and buy. In doing this he positions himself as the art market's version of Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber – the disruptor of a staid, closed and uncompetitive industry.
Over the past 30 years art has become an important asset class, outpacing other so-called "alternative" investments like fine wine or classic cars. Total sales were worth $64bn in 2015 according to a recent report by Clare McAndrew, an art economist. This makes the art economy bigger than Luxembourg's. While China has emerged as an important player, two-thirds of all sales take place in Britain and America.
In the past, the art market has tended to shift slowly. In the 1980s impressionist and post-impressionist painting dominated, with sales of work by Cézanne, Monet and Van Gogh leading the way. Modern art, roughly defined as work by those born between 1875 and 1910 (Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti, for example) started to become more popular, but it wasn't until after the turn of the century that it took the top slot.
Things changed after the 2008 crash. At first, all types of art bounced back strongly. But in 2011 the markets for old masters, impressionist and modern art all stagnated, while contemporary work – by artists born after 1910 – shot past its pre-crisis peak. In 2015 sales of work by the three artists – Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol and Cy Twombly – who top the contemporary list were worth around $1bn at auction alone. By 2015 the contemporary-art market was 340% its 2009 size, accounting for close to 50% of industry revenues.
The rise of contemporary art has created new opportunities. A collector will rarely get a Warhol or Bacon for a bargain: the long-term value of these pieces is known, and is already priced in. But according to McAndrew, 90% of contemporary-art auction sales are for artwork under $50,000, with 45% under $5,000. It is here that tomorrow's stars are to be found – and "flippers" can make a killing.
The flippers' technique is what economists call "arbitrage" – spotting and exploiting large price discrepancies between markets. These arise because art is bought and sold in three distinct ways.
New work is sold by the main gallery that represents an artist. This is the "primary" market. Some sales happen at the gallery; around a third happen at art fairs like Frieze or Art Basel. Prices are rarely displayed, but you can ask for a list. These agents do more than display and sell work: they store and conserve paintings and manage loans to public galleries and museums. They research the market, publish books and handle journalists. They also try to control who buys – a museum (very good), a long-term collector (good) or a flipper (bad). For these services a gallerist takes a big slice of an artist's primary-market sales, 50% being the norm. Gallerists deal too, but their main function is as long-term supporters of their artist's career.
After its first sale an artwork can be traded on the "secondary" or private market. This is a murky and opaque place. Buyers and sellers rarely trade directly, but via a web of intermediaries. For a significant piece of work there can be three or four links in the chain, says Heather Flow, a New York-based art adviser. This is because information is scarce. There is no public register of who owns each piece of art, and where sales are driven by death, debt or divorce, discretion is valued, so finding a painting for a client can be hard. Gallerists deal in this market too, buying, selling and acting as middle-men. Here the commissions are lower, at around 5-10%, with each person in the chain taking a slice.
The final option – buying and selling at auction – is the polar opposite of the private market. Auctions are public and transparent. Everything that is up for sale is put on display, and heavily advertised ahead of time. Detailed lists of results are published soon after each auction, and put on the internet where anyone can access them. All this free information means auctions are the art economy's focal point. Dealers call them the industry's thermometer, benchmark and beacon.
Auctions used to be dull affairs, mostly attended by dealers. Now they can be high drama. The room is packed with oligarchs, their bejewelled wives, hangers-on, photographers and journalists. Conversation bubbles, prices rise fast, bidders – often going for just one piece – have little time to think. A sudden surge in a price will elicit cheers from the crowd.
The big names of the art world mostly operate in two or all of these markets. The business's most respected figure is probably Iwan Wirth. He and his wife Manuela Hauser were jointly ranked 1st in ArtReview's list of art-world power and influence in 2015. He is primarily a gallerist, who is also an active dealer in the secondary market, buying and selling works of artists he represents, and those he does not. The profits he makes as an intermediary allow him to fund challenging and risky work. The two roles he plays are symbiotic: the dealer is cross-subsidising the gallerist.
Art-world influence Iwan Wirth in the frame
Wirth, who has galleries in Zurich, London and New York but is based in Somerset in the west of England, has a reputation for supporting ambitious and (initially) uncommercial artists, such as Martin Creed, who won the Turner prize in 2001. He is credited with raising interest in Louise Bourgeois, whose eight-legged spider-like structure filled the Tate Modern's turbine hall when it opened in 2000.
Simchowitz occupies the opposite end of the respectability scale. He does not own a gallery and represents just one artist in the primary market. The vast majority of his activity takes place, and profits are made, in the secondary and auction markets. He is not just the most talked-about player in the art market these days, but also one of the most active. At a recent London auction he was upfront alongside the powerful Nahmad family, outbidding them in a £2.6m purchase of Jean Dubuffet's "The Rural Life" – just one of a large number of pictures he bought.
He also scours small galleries and degree shows for new talent. He was an early investor in Oscar Murillo, buying more than 60 paintings – half for himself, half for clients – often for less than $5,000, since 2011. Today, Murillo is an art-world darling. Represented by David Zwirner, one of the most powerful gallerists, his paintings sell for $200,000 or more. Simchowitz's early investments in art by Sterling Ruby and Tauba Auerbach (both now sell for $500,000 or more) will have done even better.
Simchowitz holds on to some of what he buys. His personal collection runs to over 1,000 artworks and he tends to display as much as possible. A dealer describes being astonished by the quantity of art on the walls in a New York townhouse he had been renting. But his mission is to sell, and his method is novel.
Gallerists tend to talk about "placing" rather than selling pieces. Customers are selected according to their behaviour and their status. The collectors with a reputation for holding on to art are favoured. Those that sit on boards of museums are the most cherished. The idea is to put the work in the hands of someone whose ownership increases the value of the art. These are not Simchowitz's target customers. "They don't care about art. They care more about what table they get at the museum, whether they get Table 1 or Table 2, since this defines their importance in the social structure in which they envelop themselves."
Once Simchowitz owns an artist's work, he promotes it hard on Facebook and Instagram. For interested buyers, he is easy to get hold of (his website lists his personal email and phone number). A recent operation at ICM Partners, a Los Angeles talent agency, illustrates his determination to open up the market. He was initially commissioned to buy a few works of art for Ted Chervin, one of the senior partners. Instead, he persuaded Chervin to let him take over the walls of the whole company, installing 400 paintings by 90 artists. This makeshift gallery, which he called Museum 2.0, led to sales not just to senior partners, but to junior ones too. Some of the youngest assistants got great art on their walls, and have asked Simchowitz about collecting. All this should "expand the gene pool" and broaden access to culture, he says.
Simchowitz's boast is that he is bringing new people and money into the market. He has no truck with the way galleries discriminate between customers. "Someone that buys and holds art is seen as a good collector, and influential. Look at the lists of influential collectors: they are just billionaires who will never need to sell. Meanwhile the collector who stretches to buy art and later needs to sell to fund his kids' education is seen as a bad collector. It is extremely alienating to anyone that is outside the system."
His critics complain that he is attracting not long-term investors but flippers like himself – short-termists who are prepared to dump art at bargain prices, often using the losses thus incurred to reduce their tax bill on other profit-making investments. The rise of online auction sites such as Paddle8, where the world can watch unwanted art being offloaded, sharpens critics' concerns about what the likes of Simchowitz are doing to the market – and to art.
Rising star Oscar Murillo shows off his work
David Ostrowski, like Lucien Smith, was a star in 2014.Vice called him the "golden boy" of abstract painting. He was hanging out with Heidi Klum. Everybody wanted him at their parties. His auction prices were, on average, more than twice his primary-market prices, according to ArtTactic, a consultancy. The same happened to other young painters' work.
The upside of this price gap is that it provides evidence that a gallerist knows what he is doing. Trusted clients are pleased to see that the work they bought in the primary market has appreciated in value. The downside is that a gallery's grip starts to slip: whereas galleries control the primary market and can influence the secondary one, auctions are a free-for-all.
When the opportunity arises to buy a work, sell it immediately at auction and make a profit, trust evaporates. So gallerists, who know the risks of fast-rising prices, conduct background checks worthy of the security services, digging into a client's history, network and record for buying and selling. Anyone suspected of flipping is put on a blacklist. In response, dealers like Simchowitz use intermediaries to buy art. It is so hard to tell what is going on that some London galleries are wary of selling to anyone based in Los Angeles.
A sudden price surge may affect not just the market but also the goods. It is hard to look through Lucien Smith's catalogue and conclude that early financial success has not influenced his work. He has produced 600 pieces since 2010 – more than two a week. There are hundreds of the once-popular rain paintings.
Higher prices tend to raise an artist's output; at the same time, gallerists sitting on a pile of paintings may be tempted to cash in too. As all parties – collectors, flippers, artists and gallerists – move in the same direction, more art comes to market.
Rocketing prices bring greater scrutiny. Art-world coverage of Smith, Ostrowski, Rees and Kassay started to sour. At first, it was gentle jibes: calling their technique "MFA Abstraction" (a reference to the Master in Fine Art degree, and a dig at their age) or "Crapstraction". But the high prices of early 2014 turned up the heat. In April, Walter Robinson, an artist and art critic, described the work as "Zombie Formalism". The name stuck.
Once the movement had a name, critical bile poured out. Some accused the Zombie Formalists of mimicry: one critic took photographs of rows of paintings to show how similar they were. Others claimed they used processes in place of ideas: Smith sprays pigment with a fire extinguisher; Kassay silver-plates canvases; Rees uses Artex (decorators' material) in place of paint. Worst of all was the accusation that the work was made to be smartphone-friendly – that the Zombie Formalists were pumping out large (but not too large) portrait-shaped paintings that looked good on Instagram to please interior designers and their hedge-fund clients.
And so the crash came. According to Artnet, an art-market website, of five paintings by Kassay recently consigned to auction, one sold for $25,000 and four failed to sell. In November 2013, one of his pieces went for $317,000. Ostrowski's high-water mark was in July 2014, when a work sold for $293,000. In October 2016, a work estimated at $20,000-30,000 sold at auction for $18,750. His primary market prices are about twice that. The reversal of the gap between gallery and auction prices means that many collectors will be sitting on a loss – something which can damage an artist's reputation irreparably.
Busts always hurt, but they are particularly bad for young artists. The case to fear is that of Anselm Reyle, now in his mid-40s. Ten years ago he seemed unstoppable. He was selling for over $500,000 and getting rave reviews. He was backed by Larry Gagosian, the biggest dealer. But his collectors were burned in the 2008 crash, and he has not bounced back.
A quick turnover Stefan Simchowitz holding test prints of works by Petra Cortright
The art market, says Wirth, is like salmon fishing. A good fisherman knows the technique for catching a salmon – the right line and fly for the conditions on the river on that day. Yet since salmon do not actually feed in rivers, but in the sea, no one really knows why they bite at the fly. Similarly, says Wirth, people don't need art in the way they need food. But sometimes – inexplicably, unpredictably – they want it.
For gallerists like Wirth, patience is key to success. Even exceptional fishermen can have days without a bite. The market often gets things wrong: it sets young artists on fire and watches them burn out while ignoring other, better work. That's increasingly true as volatility rises. All the more important, then, that gallerists hold their nerve, stick with artists they believe in and cultivate long-term relationships with collectors.
For Simchowitz, this way of operating is elite, unhealthy – and in retreat. In part thanks to his efforts, he believes, the market is opening up. More players and more trading mean prices are increasingly fluid. Volatility is helping create a "healthy ecosystem" and undermining the pernicious notion that "things are relevant only when they are expensive".
In this sense, the vagaries of today's art market contain a lesson that everybody, including economists, should learn – that price and value are different things. Bad art can make a pile; good art can fail to sell. Volatile prices can reward people richly in the short term, and destroy them in the long run. For Iwan Wirth volatility is something to manage. For Stefan Simchowitz it is something to embrace.
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IMAGES: MICHAEL SCHWARTZ, CONTOUR BY GETTY, EYEVINE, GETTY, STEFAN SIMCHOWITZ


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Rally Planned To Support Baby Jane Doe
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-934452
Tyler Graham was charged by City Police on Tuesday with raping the toddler.
Police said the child's mother had taken her daughter to the family doctor for help with what appeared a case of diaper rash. The pediatrician, however, examined the child and referred her to a gynecologist. The mother took her daughter to a local hospital, and personnel there notified police of the suspected sexual abuse.
This Saturday at noon, local organizers, including Anonymous have organized a rally in support of this, and all victims of sexual assault.
The rally will be held at the Hancock County Courthouse in New Cumberland, WV. Victim's advocates, concerned citizens, and Anonymous are expected to speak.
Weirton, WV is just a ten minute drive from Steubenville, OH, where a trial is set to begin on March 13th for two teenagers, accused of raping a young girl, coincidentally from Weirton.
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Saturday March 2
Announcing #Opinnocence
West Virginia Man Gave A STD to a Toddler
Ask yourself these questions-
Why would Anonymous step in? Why is this sleezebag out on bail after giving a 2 year old an STD? What's so attractive about a two-year old?
I think as disgusted as people were with what happened in Steubenville, more people are disgusted with what's going on now in West Virginia.
#opinnocence was started.Below is the press release
WHY WAS AN ALLEGED TODDLER RAPIST ALLOWED TO POST BAIL?!? March 2, 2013 @ Hancock County Courthouse, New Cumberland, WV 26047 – 12:00pm-3:00pm. Organized by Anonymous and concerned citizens of the community.
This will be a peaceful protest/vigil to support the victim and her family, and to ask the authorities why Tyler Graham was allowed to post $50,000 bail for such a heinous accusation.
As members of the the human race we find this intolerable and unacceptable. This has angered the hive. It is of utmost importance that this crime allegedly committed by Tyler Graham, and any possible accomplices is prosecuted to the full extent of the law. We want it to be known that protesters, including those who remain Anonymous will not be arriving to cause a disturbance, we are simply there to be a voice for the little Jane Doe that cannot speak for herself, and according to reports is terrified to speak of the incident to the authorities.
Secondly, we are there to support all persons who face abuse, whether it be physical, emotional, or sexual, online or in "real life." In a civilized society, this cannot be allowed to stand.
Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, we will stand united as a voice for all Jane and John Does, who have faced unspeakable pain, and may be unable to speak for themselves. You deserve justice.
The theme of this protest will be "QUESTIONS." While it is not required, we suggest that attendees bring a sign with a simple, large question mark. We want to know WHY? WHY was Tyler Graham allowed to post bail for such a heinous accusation? WHY in a civilized country, is rape culture not only allowed to exist, but to THRIVE? WHY aren't we doing more to teach our children that this type of behavior is NOT OKAY?
If necessary, the protests will continue, as they have in the neighboring community of Steubenville, Ohio. Sexual assault has turned a spotlight onto this part of the country.
While the majority of citizens in the region have been thankful for our work, some have felt that this attention has been a plague. The plague is the lack of humanity shown by a small group of "people." We are the antibiotic to this plague.
#opInnocence engaged.
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True expertise can only be attained through hands-on lab practice. Once you have gained a solid foundation of the CCIE Routing and Switching related topics covered in Lessons on Demand, you are ready to perform Routing and Switching Workbook exercise labs. Each lab scenario will challenge you to consider the full range of configuration options for specific technologies and application.


"Yes i think i remember seeing the program some years back! I'm not bad thanks, hope your well to. Just promoting my animation at the moment Newspaper Adverts etc!! :)"
"Thanks Ian. It's from a children's series I produced for Channel 5 many years ago - I think they still broadcast it every once in a while. :) Hope you're well. James"
"Hey Roos - I'm in the UK (but not Bristol unfortunately). Will it be on YouTube at any point? BW James www.kerruptanimation.co.uk"
"I have to say that's pretty amazeballs! ...really impressive. Great work. :) James"
"A promotional video I did a a couple years ago. It was made in just under 2 weeks and involved an AWFUL lot of clay! ...lots of mould-making, freezing and clean-up too! Feel free to offer opinions."
"It's beautiful! - you're obviously very skilled. PS - btw ...I loved Mary and Max - it's a stop-motion classic. James Kerrupt Stop-Motion Animation"
"Hi Lottie, I've been using AnimtorHD for a few years and it's always worked really well. However, I'm wondering if the Trail version allows for the use of DSLR's (...maybe just webcams or compact cameras?). I know Gregor…"
"Hi Michael, I'm a pro animator based in the UK and have the 'Crackin' Animation' book. If I recall the book is quite old now and I suspect some of the materials they suggest using in the book have been super-seeded by better…"
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The Scottish Football Blog: Who Do You Think You Are?
"The way I understand it, the home associations have an agreement," said Levein. "I'll tell you how I know. I tried to get Shola Ameobi at Newcastle a while back [to play for Scotland], because he has not played for England but has lived in the UK and has a British passport, so I thought he might be able to play for Scotland. But we had changed the rules."
Levein described the rule as "more than a gentlemen's agreement", adding: "Maybe England are thinking of challenging it but it only came in a year ago.
"I just used Ameobi as an example because he was somebody who had a British passport but it fell down because he didn't have the educational qualification. I understand that it's a newsworthy story but I don't want to go into enormous detail about Arteta. All I'm saying to you is, the way I understand it, they can't cap him."
My own view is quite simple. Arteta shouldn't be playing for England, Ameobi shouldn't be playing for Scotland.
I actually agree with some of the recent changes in the eligibility rules, especially those regarding education.
It seems to me they reflect a changing society. And I'm an old, liberal romantic. I'm convinced that, say, an Afghan-born Glasgow educated twenty year old pulling on the Scotland strip would do a lot to promote our understanding of immigration, asylum and a multi-cultural society.
In Ameobi's case I'd argue that living in England since the age of five makes him eligible for England not Scotland.
But Arteta's is a very different case. He arrived in Glasgow to earn a lot of money, he wasn't escaping from the persecution of Barcelona's reserves.
Since moving to Everton I've been blissfully unaware of his reinvention as a son of John Bull. If I moved to the United States for five years to earn a million dollars a year (very much open to offers, by the way) I'd not be worshipping the Stars and Stripes, I'd be a product of a global economy. That shouldn't be what international football is about.
"From my point of view, my job isn't to decide who is Scottish, it's to win football matches. Take away the rest of it and keep my mind on that one thing, and I would be happy to play anybody.
"I mean, it depends what you think about the current grandparent rule. A lot of guys I played with for Scotland were effectively English. So what's the difference?"
What is the difference? Maybe when all is said and done the difference is purely emotional. As fans we want to have some link to our national team. That can be difficult when you need an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? to work out why your goalkeeper has been picked. It might be impossible when your star midfielder is, by every measure, Spanish.
"My job isn't to decide who is Scottish." Well, enquiring about Ameobi would suggest that Levein does sort of see that as his role.
The rules, as they are, are messy and "gentleman's agreements" are probably not the best way to run international football. The status of the international game is falling. But a kind of international transfer market is not the best way to halt the decline. It might be the best way to ensure that decline is irreversible.
A simple solution, one that wouldn't solve every case but would be an obstacle to what I can see being a football equivalent of a land grab for the best available talent, would be to say that any age-group caps over the age of 18 dictate that you can only play for that country.
OK, so some footballers aren't the brightest. But if you don't know what nationality you are by the age of 18 then there's something massively wrong.
The starkest conclusion is depressing. Levein has looked at the talent pool and decided that forty year old defenders and Nigerian-born English attackers are his best options for success.
Aye, we're doomed right enough.


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Azra Basic's 14 year sentence for war crimes confirmed
NEWS Author:FENA, N1 Sarajevo31.05.2018 17:03
Source: Tužilaštvo BiH
The Appellate Panel of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed the first instance verdict against Azra Basic, a former member of the Croat Defence Council, which sentenced her to 14 years in prison because of the crimes against civilians and the prisoners of war, committed in 1992 in the Derventa area, northern Bosnia.
Azra Basic's attorney appealed against the verdict of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the appeal was dismissed as unfounded, rendering the verdict effective.
The defence sought the acquittal of the accused, while the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina requested that the Appellate Panel rejects the appeal of the defence.
Basic was declared guilty of taking part in the murder, torture and inhumane treatment of civilians of Serb nationality in the area of the village Polje, Derventa Municipality, in the period from April to May 1992.
Based on the witness testimony, the First Instance Panel determined that the accused ordered the imprisoned civilians to strip naked to their waste and take their shues off, to eat Yugoslav money, to walk barefoot on broken glass and lick blood of a dead body.
The verdict declared Basic guilty of inflicting intense physical and psychological pain to its victims.
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Harry Potter's Hermoine Granger is all grown up in this retro Saturday Night Live sketch.
Saturday Night Live has brought us so many hilarious moments over the years and Hermoine Growth Spurt is no different. The sketch first aired in May of 2004; a simpler, easier time. In 2004, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers were still on SNL, Lindsay Lohan was still popular, and the third Harry Potter movie was about to release. How could SNL not take advantage of this perfect storm?
Host Lindsay Lohan used her um, assets, to make fun of Emma Watson's inevitable growth spurt. With 5 (at the time, only 4) more films ahead of the young cast, Watson's Hermione was sure to go through physical changes. In the Saturday Night Live sketch, Hermoine returns from summer vacation looking a little more grown up.


英文摘要 The thesis is mainly the application of techniques of polarized light scattering measurement to analyze the metal surface roughness to replace the traditional contact measurement, which can improve the speed and accuracy of the roughness measurement. The system we design for the thesis is non-contact measurement; therefore, it will not hurt the surface. Furthermore, it has advantages of high convenience, low prices of equipment, and so on. The measurement system uses a high collimated green laser irradiation on the metal surface. It measures the surface roughness scattering light distribution by the CCD camera. With calculations of the grayscale images measured by different angles, we will be able to learn about the relationship between scattered light and surface roughness. In this thesis, we conduct the experiment by using six standard specimens of metal surface roughness, the roughness (Ra) of which are respectively 0.05 μm, 0.1 μm, 0.2 μm, 0.4 μm, 0.8 μm, and 1.6 μm. We use a computer program to analyze the distribution of light intensity, which are calculated by different polarized light sources. The result shows great correlation with the metal surface roughness Ra, and then we compare the result with the images measured by metallurgical microscope. In addition, in order to understand the situation of the whole scattering light field, in this paper we also use FDTD method to simulate scattering light fields of metal surface roughness. As a result, the non-contact surveying instrument of surface scattering light that we construct for the thesis is able to measure and assess the roughness of surface of precision machinery and optical components.
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All enquiries should be addressed to enquiries@williamsart.co.uk or ring Chris Williams 07525 269804
Some charcoal drawings and oil paintings are on display at the Oak Bistro in Cambridge.
To read more about the Robert Juett project and for details of this summer's Open Studios programme, click the logo.
Nicholas and Chris will be invigilating during the first two weekends in July at the Oak Bistro, 11am to 6pm.
For directions to the Oak Bistro, click here
The paintings currently on display at the Oak Bistro, Cambridge, represent the start of a substantial new body of work based around two 17th century voyages of discovery to North America: Captain Henry Hudson (of Hudson River fame) accompanied by a literate sailor, Robert Juett. Commissioned by the Dutch East India Company, the purpose of the voyages was to seek a north-west trade passage.
The artist Nicholas Juett discovered the existence of The Journal of Robert Juett and became interested in the story with its links to his namesake. He has spent several years researching the events and background of this astonishing early exploration.
These paintings and charcoals reflect his fascination with it.
Robert Juett was First Mate on two voyages, first on the Half Moon (1609) and then the Discovery (1611). He kept a remarkable journal during the first of these voyages. It vividly describes the sighting of the first native American Indians in Manhattan and subsequent interaction and skirmishes. The second voyage ended in mutiny and the casting adrift of Hudson, his son and others in a small boat floating on ice in the straits between Greenland and Canada. Hudson's own records were subsequently lost and the only records of the disastrous 1611 voyage are limited notes held with London's Star-Chamber court records. The remaining crew were tried for mutiny, sentenced and disappeared.
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Oil on linen, 107 x 157cm
Intro price: £2,900 each (£6,000)*
Charcoal on paper, 93 x 112cm
Intro price: £595 each (£1,000)*
Draft-Work
Mixed media on scrap paper, assorted sizes
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Cam Embark
Oil on linen, approx 90cm square
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On this page, the artist gets intimate with the ships of the era – and the Half Moon in particular – using the river Cam as a palette to gently immerse into the subject.
Two Juetts
The Two Juetts series of paintings and drawings are divided into groups. Shown below are examples from each of the narrative sections of the First Phase. Many are available to purchase and commissions are undertaken: all enquiries should be addressed to enquiries@williamsart.co.uk or ring Chris Williams 07525 269804
This section, covering the final stages of the voyage, will be published at a later date


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'I'm still not calm': Neighbors unsettled after Philly police shooting
Children from the Precious Babies daycare are evacuated on SEPTA buses from the scene of a mass shooting and standoff with police. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
(Philadelphia) — Hours after Wednesday's marathon standoff on North 15th Street, Phillip Greene sat silently on his living room couch, exhausted but unable to settle his mind.
An emotional cocktail swirled inside. He felt lucky that he reached his front door just as the first shots rang out around the corner. But he was also angry and inexplicably numb.
"I'm not a violent person, so being that close to bearing witness to some heavy violence, that didn't sit well with me," said Greene late Thursday morning, a couple hours of fitful sleep under his belt.
"I'm still not calm."
Greene's neighbors are equally shaken by the shootout, which sent six police officers to the hospital. Gun violence is not uncommon in this section of North Philadelphia, but many said Wednesday's shootout was unparalleled.
The crush of squad cars that swarmed the area, the armed cops who charged down quiet residential blocks, the teargas that pushed Maurice Hill to surrender nearly eight hours after he began firing at police with a semi-automatic rifle.
"It was scary as hell. It was like something out of a movie," said a longtime resident on Carlisle Street, who declined to give her name.
As she braided her daughter's hair from a chair on the sidewalk, she said Wednesday's shootout was particularly frightening because of how little police communicated with residents on her street.
The block was cordoned off, but she said officers never told neighbors why or whether they should stay in their homes. The result: almost none of them did.
"We didn't get the memo at all. They didn't make us feel safe at all," she said.
Children from the Precious Babies daycare are evacuated after a mass shooting in North Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
A short walk away on North Broad Street, Lakisha Wilson was breathing easier. For hours on Wednesday, she was trapped inside Shake, Rattle and Roll Learning Center with staffers, two dozen toddlers and several parents who came to the daycare to shelter-in-place with their children.
Hill began shooting around 4:30 p.m. Police escorted everyone out of the daycare around 8 p.m.
"I was very worried," said Wilson, a supervisor at the center. "It was kind of hard keeping a straight face because you don't know what's going on in the area."
Still, Wilson said she wasn't afraid to return to work on Thursday.
"You have to worry about your life everyday. There's no telling what's gonna happen when you walk out your door," she said.
Hill, 36, has not yet been charged. At a news conference Thursday afternoon, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Hill could be charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault, as well as drug and gun offenses.
WHYY is the leading public media station serving the Philadelphia region, including Delaware, South Jersey and Pennsylvania. This story originally appeared on WHYY.org.


Bio-war drama directed by Mel Gibson which is based on the true story about US Army medic Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield) was drafted into World War II. Raised a Seventh-day Adventist, he refused to kill or carry a weapon and, as such, became stationed as a medic.
In Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, Doss saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the first conscientious objector awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Colonel Stelzer: What the hell is your delay, Captain?
Captain Glover: We're waiting, sir.
Colonel Stelzer: Waiting for what!
Colonel Stelzer: Who the hell is Private Doss?
Desmond T. Doss: [to Dorothy] I always dreamed about being a doctor, but I'm getting out of school. I can't stay here while all of them go fight for me.
Tom Doss: Did you figure this war is just going to fit in with your ideas?
Desmond T. Doss: While everybody is taking life I'm going to be saving it, and that's going to be my way to serve.
Sergeant Howell: This is a personal gift from the United States government designed to bring death to the enemy.
Desmond T. Doss: I'm sorry, sergeant, I can't touch a gun.
Captain Glover: You don't kill?
Desmond T. Doss: No, sir.
Captain Glover: You know, quite a bit of killing does occur in war.
Sergeant Howell: Private Doss does not believe in violence. Do not look to him to save you on the battlefield.
Smitty Ryker: [to Doss] I don't think this is a question of religion, I think this is cowardice.
Dorothy Schutte: [to Doss] I fell in love with you because I thought you were unlike anyone else.
Dorothy Schutte: They're saying you could go to prison.
Desmond T. Doss: I don't know how I'm going to live with myself if I don't stay true to what I believe.
Dorothy Schutte: [to Doss] You better come home to me.
Desmond T. Doss: With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it don't seem like such a bad thing to me to want to put a little bit of it back together.
Army Judge: Private Doss, you are free to run into the hellfire of battle without a single weapon to protect yourself.
Desmond T. Doss: I'm going to get you home!
Soldier: [to Glover] There's something you got to see.
Captain Glover: Who did this?
Captain Glover: [to Doss] We have to go back out tomorrow. The men aren't going to go up there without you.
Captain Glover: Most of these men don't believe the same way you do, but they believe so much in how much you believe.
Desmond T. Doss: You'll have to trust me.
Desmond T. Doss: Please Lord, help me get one more. Help me get one more.
This movie for sure gives Andrew Garfield a chance to steal our hearts. He's amazing throughout the movie and has with this movie established himself as a promising actor with commendable talent. The movie is a piece looking into the war and how one person can make a difference in the critical times like war. It starts with a cute Andrew contemplating the horrors of violence and how Desmond builds his values of non-violence for his fellow human beings. The movie has a good touch of humor and the innocence of Desmond very well brought out by Andrew. Andrew has a subtle personality, which has given Desmond's character a totally different dimension.
Andrew Garfield very well fits into the character and does fulfill the character in a way no other actor could have. The movie on its mid-way drifts away a bit, well but we can say – Mel Gibson, a job well done. Vince Vaughn (Sergeant Howell) was amazing with his humor and his acting has very well complimented everybody else's efforts at putting in their best. How can Sam Worthington (Capt. Glover) be forgotten, he has always entertained us with amazing movies that will always be liked. Sam is good, adding another facet of excellence in acting.
Andrew carries the movie very well; his boyish charm makes us keep liking him throughout the movie. He has proved that he can play characters like Desmond Doss with amazing adeptness, just not to mention his talent was misused in Spider-Man. He was always made for characters like Desmond Doss, where he can display his ability as an actor and grow as an actor who can do justice to real life or more humanly characters. By playing Desmond Doss, he has proved that he can play characters like Desmond in a better way than super hero kinds. I personally have always liked Andrew and wanted him seen in more complex and challenging roles.
With Hacksaw Ridge, Andrew has come up to my expectations. We all like him for that and will always enjoy watching his movies. In this movie he has given us a chance to look at him with a different view point. Hacksaw Ridge has given him a chance to substantiate himself as an actor who can embrace characters that are more challenging and diverse in nature. He should keep looking at roles like these and sure will get to a point where he will be called an actor who plays diverse characters.
The movie for sure is an award winner, but much more is Andrew deserving an award. He has exhibited an aptitude worthy of being recognized and should be given what he deserves. I am sure that in future, he will continue to give us entertaining movies worthy of praise. With Hacksaw Ridge, he has gained a different level which will be looked upon with admiration.
Overall, the movie is amazing but I don't know if worth an Oscar. Andrew Garfield has crawled into our minds and will always be looked forward to giving us performances filled with strength and power.