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Lyrics Uncovered: Luke Bryan, 'Most People Are Good'
Cillea Houghton Published: February 13, 2018
"I believe" is repeated in Luke Bryan's"Most People Are Good" lyrics, and there's a reason for that.
Josh Kear, David Frasier and Ed Hill wrote "Most People Are Good" in 2016. It was born out of Kear's desperation to find a silver lining after the intensely negative 2016 presidential election. The songwriter says he's an optimist, and the song reflects this — he hopes it inspires hope in others, too.
"In trying to process all of this one day, I wrote down 'Most People Are Good' as a way of helping myself deal with my feelings about what was unfolding on the public stage. I carried it around for awhile, but I kept coming back to it as a way of making myself feel better," Kear tells Taste of Country. "I figured if it worked for me, maybe it would help someone else too."
When he pitched the idea to Frasier and Hill, they felt just as compelled to write a song built on a strong foundation. Though the "Most People Are Good" lyrics weren't written with Bryan in mind, the song almost felt like a calling when it was placed in his hands. Kear's publisher, Carla Wallace, played it for Bryan's producer, Jeff Stevens, and he knew it was a piece the superstar would be just as passionate about.
"I know Jeff fell in love with the song on the first listen and took it to Luke. My understanding is that Luke also believed in the song immediately and felt like it was his. Once I knew Luke had heard it and loved it, that made perfect sense to me," Kear explains. "It feels like it was meant to be his song. There's an authenticity to his delivery. I know he believes what he's singing. That's all you can ask for, especially on a song that says 'I believe' over and over."
"This is Luke's song. It's a down-home look at our modern world and hopefully an honest reflection of the best our world can be," he continues. "Luke has worked hard to build up a reputation with his fanbase as not only fun, but authentic. The fact that he connects to the things in this song tells me that he truly does believe in each of the things this song talks about."
"I believe most people are good / And most mama's ought to qualify for sainthood / I believe most Friday nights look better under neon or stadium lights / I believe you love who you love / Ain't nothing you should ever be ashamed of / I believe this world ain't half as bad as it looks / I believe most people are good," Bryan sings, giving a sentimental delivery of the "Most People Are Good" lyrics. The last line of the chorus was particularly impactful for Kear.
"I hope this song makes people think," the songwriter says. "I hope this song gives people hope. I think there's so much common ground between people and we are far more focused on what separates us these days. People need messages of love and connectivity more than they need messages of hate and separation. If this serves as one of those messages, than that can't help but be a good thing."
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One line that stands out, especially sandwiched between more conservative messages, is: "I believe you love who you love / Ain't nothing you should ever be ashamed of." It's an important lyric for someone of Bryan's level to deliver to his fanbase, because it's a direct statement of support for anyone who's felt degraded by society about who they love."
"That line moves me," Kear says. "Our society has placed shame on loving all sorts of people over the years — for religious, cultural, racial, sexual orientation, and ethnic reasons — just to name a few. It's unfortunate and it's unnecessary. I do believe our social consciousness is changing in this regard. This sentiment is not something new, but it's worth repeating until we all take it for granted. Love is love. We need more of it, not less."
"Most mama's oughta qualify for sainthood" also brings emotion when you hear it — even Bryan's mama wept into a paper towel when she heard it. Kear was inspired by his own wife and mother when writing that "Most People Are Good" lyric — he translated his strong admiration for them into influential words.
"I think being a mother is about the toughest job on the planet. I'll never know what it's like, so it's an outsiders view," he admits. "However, I have a crazy admiration for mothers. They give and give and give and while this outpouring of love has it's own rewards, it's a calling that will never be respected enough."
"Most People Are Good" continues to resonate with people, and that's all Kear had hoped for, for them and himself. "I needed this message. Truly needed it. I struggle with many of the headlines these days, and this sentiment makes me feel better about the world at large and remember that this is the core of what it's all about," he says. "Most people are just trying to get through each day, doing no harm, helping where they can and taking care of the people they love the most. I truly do believe most people are good. And that gives me hope."
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Q: Clients of replica WSUS aren't targetted to groups and appear in 'Unassigned Computers' I have two WSUS v3 servers, our company has a single domain AD that spans two sites, and each site has one WSUS server. The stub site's WSUS server is configured as a replica. Settings, groups, updates etc. all appear to propagate fine from the primary server to the replica. - For ease, I'll call the servers wsus-primary and wsus-replica.
I've used GPOs to configure all the settings, including client group targeting.
Groups have been configured on wsus-primary, and have replicated to wsus-replica.
On the wsus-primary console, all appears well with clients that connect directly to it, however all the clients from the remote site (that normally talk to wsus-replica) appear in the group 'Unassigned Computers', despite the group policy results wizard showing they are picking up the policy that sets the correct group name.
On wsus-replica, I can only see the clients from the remote office, and they also appear as 'Unassigned Computers'.
Clients at the stub office are configured to communicate with 'http://wsus-replica:80', clients at the main office are configured to communicate with 'http://wsus-primary:80' (both for detecting updates and statistics).
What am I doing wrong? How can I get the clients that talk to wsus-replica to appear in the correct groups? Any clues as to what I'm doing wrong, or where to start troubleshooting?
I've ran wuauclt.exe /detectnow more times than I care to mention, but they just don't want to budge into the correct group.
The WindowsUpdate.log file doesn't give any clues, but does show it is communicating fine with the server.
Other info:

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*wsus-primary is Win 2008 R2  - was previously Win 2003 R2, and showed the same problem then

*wsus-replica is Win 2003 R2

*clients are a mix of Win XP / Win 7 (mostly Win XP)

*wsus-replica has about 1Gb of files to download from wsus-primary - this wouldn't stop the groups updating, would it?

A: Check target options at the WSUS-replica server: wsus console - replica server - options - computers.
There is must be "Use GPO or registry", if you want to use group policy for targetting

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#23/23 Bowdoin College Downs Women's Basketball 83-59
Bowdoin College (15-3) 24 22 18 19 83
UMass Boston (8-12) 12 16 14 17 59
Pts: Lydia Caputi - 15
Reb: Abigail Kelly - 5
Ast: 3 Players (#02, #03, #22) - 3
Pts: 2 Players (#21, #34) - 12
Reb: TEAM - 7
Ast: Taje Burston - 5
BOSTON, Mass.—Five different Polar Bears finished in double-figures, to lead #23/23 Bowdoin College to an 83-59 non-conference win over UMass Boston women's basketball.
#23/23 Bowdoin College 83, UMass Boston 59
(UMass Boston 8-12)
(Bowdoin College 15-3)
Bowdoin led for the final 35 minutes of regulation and outscored UMass Boston in all four quarters.
Lydia Caputi led the Polar Bears with 15 points on 6-of-8 shooting. Taylor Choate tacked on 14 points, while Aly Silfen put up 10 points. Kate Kerrigan filled up the stat sheet with 12 points, five steals and three rebounds and Abigail Kelly tacked on 12 points, five rebounds and three assists.
For the Beacons, Raven Kelsey (Boston, Mass.) and Grace Geary (Falmouth, Mass.) paced the Beacons with 12 points apiece. Senior Taje Burston (Springfield, Mass.) recorded six points, five rebounds and five assists.
Off the bench, Ariana Rivera (Burlington, Mass.) finished with eight points and a team-high four steals in 20 minutes.
The Beacons managed to go back-and-forth with Bowdoin over the opening five minutes. Kelsey and Katie Mathieu (Coventry, Conn.) each hit go-ahead 3-pointers and UMass Boston held four separate leads.
Kelly put the visitors ahead for good at 5:25 with a 3-pointer (12-10) that sparked a 15-2 run to close out the first quarter. The Polar Bears hit three three-pointers and forced five Beacons turnovers during the final 5:25, to earn a 24-12 advantage after one stanza.
Bowdoin stretched their lead out to 18 points at half (46-28), behind seven points in the second quarter from Caputi.
UMass Boston controlled nearly the entire third quarter, only to see the Polar Bears close the quarter with a 7-0 flurry to stretch the lead to 22 points.
In the final stanza, Bowdoin outscored the Beacons 19-17, after pushing their lead out to as many as 26 midway through the quarter. Geary came alive in the fourth, as she scored 12-straight points for the Beacons late in the quarter.
UMass Boston outshot the Polar Bears from the field and from distance. The Beacons ended the night 46 percent (23-of-50) from the field and 6-of-15 (40 percent) from deep. Bowdoin shot 43.5 percent (30-of-69) from the field and 8-of-21 (38.1 percent) from distance.
The Polar Bears earned a 13-1 edge in offensive rebounds and a 13-0 advantage in second-chance points.
With the win, Bowdoin College improved to 2-0 all-time against the Beacons.
UMass Boston will take to the road to take on Rhode Island College on Saturday at 1 p.m. in a key Little East Conference contest.
Tue, 02/19 | Women's Basketball vs. Rhode Island College L, 66-44 (Final) RC | BX | V
Sat, 02/16 | Women's Basketball at Rhode Island College L, 63-52 (Final) RC | BX | V
Wed, 02/13 | Women's Basketball vs. UMass Dartmouth L, 60-59 (Final) RC | BX | V
Wed, 02/06 | Women's Basketball at Plymouth State University W, 65-53 (Final) RC | BX | V
Sat, 02/02 | Women's Basketball at University of Southern Maine W, 58-49 (Final) RC | BX | V

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Hi:-) I'm new here. Did anybody has an Erbium Laser on acne scars? I had it 4 days ago and now i'm sitting with brown thick skin and I start peel off awful:-). It was not painless, I felt like somebody put the needles in my face very fast After that I looked like very bad sunburnt, Very very bad. I didn't have all face done, but upper part of face and some spots on cheeks, one on nose. I have to put Vaseline or other ointments on face until it peels off. I had these ointments in my hair even:-) I cannot wait to look my new skin! My scars were shallow I Think, four was deeper form chickenpox. Doc. said that I need three Erbium , the next after 3 months and next after 3 follow months. Anybody of you has some experience with Erbium Laser on acne scars? If yes, please, write, I'd be greateful. If you want me to descibe my progress ( if will be....) I 'll be writing of course.
Hi Mrovkaa, I have'nt had Erbium Laser done but I have often thought about getting it done, I'm just too scared! I would love to hear how it goes for you so please keep us posted.
It's 5-th day after the treatment. New pink skin appeared, absolutely no swelling, but also no improvement... I don't know, maybe it's too early, doc said that collagen must have time to build, but I thought that I see some improvement when new skin will appear... I must admit that I am little dissapointed now... maybe I'm wrong because it's to early... I recalled now that doc said that i'll see the first results after two weeks - maybe that's the key. If somebody had Erbium on scars, please, write. I'll write about next days &results.
Thanks for your really detailed post. My sister got IPL laser treatment, although she does not have acne scars she had very bad red markings on her face and it took about 4-5 treatments before she saw results, she had one treatment a month. I have to say she looks good. Perhaps it takes time for results to be seen. Hope it's working out for you.
Hi:) I't 8-th day after and I think I start to see improvement:-) Scars are definitely soften. They seems to be smaller and shallower. Rest of my face is very smooth, no zits, no pimples, no spots.


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We have all at some point come across that one person who seems to know all the gossip about everyone in the office. While listening to it, you end up opening up and talking about your own life too. Before long you find out a few other people seem to know your business too! This person is usually quite friendly and uses this personality trait to his advantage to get information out of people. His friendliness can be mistaken for trust but be wary and do not fall for this trap because being friendly does not necessarily equate to being trustworthy. If he can talk about others to you there is always the chance he does the same to others about you!
Recognize the warning signs when you hear lines like "Did you notice how Mr. Jones was behaving with Sally?" or "Mary stays quite late in the office doesn't she?" These comments are said with a glint in the eye or a smile that indicates you do not know half of what really goes on in the office. From that point onwards the seeds of suspicion have been planted and you will never see Mr. Jones, Mary or Sally in quite the same light anymore. Next time you listen to such unfounded comments it's best to just ignore them or tell the person spreading them you are too busy and just don't have the time to listen. They will soon get the message and look elsewhere to spread rumors.
This is probably the gossip that employees find most interesting as it shows the boss at his most human. This gossip is mostly fuelled by those who claim to be a friend of the boss and have been introduced to some aspect of his private life. The culprit could be his assistant or his PA who gossip about it to friends in the office and the information finds its way to other employees. Words of advice to the boss would be to keep his private life private and to the PA or assistant would be to be professional and not repeat gossip as they could lose their job, future job credibility and their own reputation in this useless chain of events.
This is another scare-mongering tactic that some managers are guilty of when they give more information than they should while relaxing during a cigarette break. Information that should be kept private is made public and before long all the employees start wondering how long their jobs are going to last. Those employees working in the financial departments of a business should make it a point to keep their discussions limited to work situations and not reveal private company information to their colleagues. If there is some financial aspect of the company that is worrying them it should be discussed with a manager and not amongst themselves.
If the news of earnings of another employee is leaked out it could be the cause of unnecessary office gossip. It could raise questions like why should one employee earn more than someone else doing a similar job or why there are differences in rates being offered to employees. Though a pertinent question, this is a matter to bring up with management rather than creating friction between employees themselves. The payroll department should be strict in their work ethics and keep information private that could otherwise cause a lot of office problems for themselves and others.
She not only makes you a cup of tea but provides you with unwanted information about what she heard and also asks you if it is true. There is a familiarity in the attitude of the cleaner or tea lady which is generally excused and while making you a cup of tea she relays information about the other offices. Gradually this morning or evening visit brings you unwanted bits of information you would rather not hear about. The best way to put a stop to this is to put your head down and keep busy or even pretend to be busy. She will soon get the message and leave you in peace.
Do be careful when you send emails containing office gossip to another employee as it could end up in the in folders of every other employee including the one the email is about! Depending on email settings some emails can be sent to a department as a block. The best thing is to avoid putting anything on paper that could harm either your own reputation or someone else's. Like they say if in doubt leave it out!
If you do decide to attend the office party lay off the drink or you could end up repeating things you regret later. As the party atmosphere heats up so does the courage of the office gossips. Drinks loosen the tongue and before long snippets of office goings on are revealed. You could see the New Year looking for a new job. So at this Christmas party speak your mind but do mind what you speak and especially who you repeat it to.


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Thrill-Coma 2010: Best of the Meg
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jabish
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Re: Thrill-Coma 2010: Best of the Meg
« Reply #15 on: 23 August, 2018, 01:23:11 pm »
Well if there was ever going to be a last page of Dredd this would do. It had me in tatters when I read it first...
TordelBack
CALL-ME-KENNETH!
Thunder Chops is dragged off, gnashing...
In many ways that is the final page of Judge Dredd (and one of my favourite single pages, and central image, of any comic ever) - but it didn't need to be. The next episode, The Days After, set up a new world, with a humbled and broken Dredd and Justice Dept struggling to just keep going, to do what they can and to make amends.
It could have been a radically new direction, effectively watching the remaking of the Judge system in an even grimmer post-apoc environment than before, but it would also have represented the killing of Rebellion's golden goose, just as the movie seemed to be promising renewed popularity. Without a single enormously productive and creative writer (or cohesive team) to shape a new direction, everything just fell back into the old rut.
Wagner's sporadic post-Chaos strips are included in that, despite generally being excellent stories - does the cameras-in-the-walls scenario, or Block Judge, PJ Maybe and Dark Justice, or even Harvey, really continue the story that he left us at the end of DoC?
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Quote from: TordelBack on 23 August, 2018, 01:38:27 pm
...everything just fell back into the old rut.
Right down to Hershey jumping back into the CJ's chair, like nothing had ever happened...!
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broodblik
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As the meg is currently setup we might only get continuity issues when there is mega epics running in the prog. There was a stage when they tried the cross-over story line and people complained about it. The only story recently that I can recall started in the prog and continued in the meg was done by Mile Carroll. The Grindstone Cowboys (Prog 1973-1977, Meg 371-373) started in the prog and ended in the meg as well the story reclamation (Prog 1986-1990, Meg 374) story.
Colin YNWA
In many ways that is the final page of Judge Dredd (and one of my favourite single pages, and central image, of any comic ever) - but it didn't need to be....
It could have been a radically new direction, effectively watching the remaking of the Judge system in an even grimmer post-apoc environment than before, but it would also have represented the killing of Rebellion's golden goose, just as the movie seemed to be promising renewed popularity. Without a single enormously productive and creative writer (or cohesive team) to shape a new direction, everything just fell back into the old rut...
Yes all this really. Its such an astonishing image and could quite happily have been the end of Dredd.
As it is, while I wouldn't say current Dredd is 'in a rut' as that underplays what I think are some fantastic storylines in the same fantastic formula, it does feel a shame that a bolder world building line wasn't taken.
Quote from: broodblik on 23 August, 2018, 04:07:44 pm
There was a stage when they tried the cross-over story line and people complained about it. The only story recently that I can recall started in the prog and continued in the meg was done by Mike Carroll...
'More crossovers' is not really what Funt was advocating...
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 23 August, 2018, 05:20:20 pm
I was only trying to point out an alternative to keep a degree of continuity. I believe this will not be a popular choice. Personally I don't mind it since I am getting both
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Quote from: Funt Solo on 22 August, 2018, 05:20:32 pm
It's interesting. One feeling I get on my mass-read is that the Megazine has to play an odd game. It's the Judge Dredd Megazine, so nearly everything it does is set in the Dredd-verse. But then it can't really change Mega-City One: it's more like it's the poor cousin that only gets scraps from the table.
Over in 2000AD, for example, we had the Chaos Day arc, which decimated the entire city. In the Megazine at the same time: nothing happened. As the city burns (say, around, prog 1784), in Megazine 324 we get The Adjudicators, a joke story by Simon Spurrier about a justice department PR wing.
So, the Megazine has a problem. The MC-1 in 2000AD isn't the same MC-1 in the Megazine. With so much Dredd content, and so many writers with so many angles: it's just impossible to hold it together as a believable, consistent fiction.
I tend to agree. I have always considered the Meg as an accompaniment of the Prog and that if anything major was going to happen to Dredd or Mega City One it was going to happen in the Prog, not the Meg. So whilst I read it every month, it has never been "essential" Dredd.
It is though perfectly possible to have fantastic stories set in the Dredd-verse that don't need to impact on Dredd or MC1 continuity. Prime examples being Insurrection and Lawless, which I would argue are as good, of not better than anything in the Prog. But those two do benefit from brillant writing and art.
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Quote from: Magnetica on 23 August, 2018, 10:02:46 pm
It's interesting. One feeling I get on my mass-read is that the Megazine has to play an odd game. It's the Judge Dredd Megazine, so nearly everything it does is set in the Dredd-verse. But then it can't really change Mega-City One
I tend to agree. I have always considered the Meg as an accompaniment of the Prog and that if anything major was going to happen to Dredd or Mega City One it was going to happen in the Prog, not the Meg. So whilst I read it every month, it has never been "essential" Dredd
Even during the brief period when Wagner was only writing for the Megazine*, the one story he wrote that moved The Big Story forward was the very end of the final Mechanismo - and that was so it could dovetail into his taking up the reins at 2000ad once more with Wilderlands.
Next time Eamonn's interviewing Dave Bishop, he should ask whether it was explicit policy that only the 2000ad stories were allowed to kill characters off and change the status quo.**
* 1992-1994
** Unless Megazine stories were tying into 2000ad epics, like Volt eating a bullet during Doomsday
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Funt Solo
« Reply #24 on: 27 August, 2018, 04:51:15 am »
Judge Dredd: Great Executions
(2012: megs 325-327)
Script: Robbie Morrison
Art: Dave Taylor
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
A disturbing futuristic re-imagining of Great Expectations with beautifully evocative art. It's a complex, tragic morality tale about the danger of obsession.
There's a misogynistic streak to the main character: he forms a lifelong obsession with his first sexual partner even though she's always been remote and cold with him and shown not even the remotest interest in anything beyond an initial dalliance of her youth.
There's a sense that the story wants us to have a concrete reason to accept that perhaps she deserves her ultimate fate, and yet it seems a steep price for someone to pay for being self-serving.
Certainly, there are no heroes here: only a doomed romanticism.
fate amenable to change
« Reply #25 on: 23 September, 2018, 03:36:30 am »
Some of the best of the Meg from my catch-up read...
Script: Andy Diggle
Art: Jock
Letters: Clem Robins
Beautifully set in San Francisco, this is a movie-like action thriller fueled by fast-pacing and dynamic framing. It's a fish out of water tale, in which a comic shop worker accidentally finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a shadowy killer.
Jock's art is superb and the setting well researched - that's definitely San Fran we're seeing - although there's a clear British sensibility sneaking in with references to Axel Pressbutton and Zenith.
The narrative drive is frenetic and the puzzle-pieces come together fast enough to keep our interest without explaining everything. Ultimately, though, like many movies, this has a tricky third act and at one point it drives off the rails with a metaphysical (and terribly coincidentally located) endless corridor of somehow non-rotten severed body parts. The end is ultimately ambiguous but getting there is still a wild and worthwhile ride.
Anderson, Psi-Division: Stone Voices
Script: Alan Grant
Art: Boo Cook
Letters: Ellie De Ville
There's often been a sense that Anderson's judgement is flawed: as far back as her accidentally releasing the dark judges by transporting herself to Deadworld (progs 416-427, 1985) without bothering to tell anyone. The other narrative sometimes explored is that the emotional detriments of the job drive her to seek escape, as in Postcards From the Edge (M2.50-M2.60, 1994).
This tale brings both those threads to the fore as Anderson (beautifully rendered by Boo Cook) tries to solve a spate of grisly yet mysterious decapitations whilst being hamstrung by an administration that doesn't fully trust her.
Ultimately, Anderson wins out over the immediate threat but the suggestion during the denouement is that she may once again seek to leave the Justice Department.
Hondo City Justice: Revenge of the 47 Ronin
Pencils: Mike Collins
Inks: Cliff Robinson
Colours: Len O'Grady
Judge Inaba and Cadet Asahara investigate a supernatural threat to Hondo City that begins with a flashback to the ancient legend of the titular 47 ronin. The flashback sequences are beautifully framed and styled and give a sense of depth to the setting.
In classic runaway zombie style, each person killed by the resurrected ronin rises as a new threat and so the story becomes a race against time to stop them before their numbers grow too large. The early scenes of peace here foreshadow the later threat:
Ultimately, our heroes prevail, but we end on a cliffhanger that informs us that the ronin's puppet-master has a familial connection to Inaba, and for reasons unknown wishes her demise.
« Reply #26 on: 24 January, 2019, 04:19:58 am »
The best of the Megazine from 2013, in order of publication:
American Reaper [II]
Script: Pat Mills
Art: Fay Dalton, Clint Langley
Ostensibly a second series, this is narratively a continuation. Detective John Slaine is a Reaper: tasked with tracking identity thieves who are stealing young peoples' bodies to use as their own (a one-way switch of consciousness in which the "donor" is erased).
Slaine Reaper
It's sort of sits between gritty noir thriller and gaudy soap opera in terms of styling, and (like series one) causes marmite-like audience reactions with its photo-story style art. Whatever you think of that, you can't deny the level of commitment on offer here as you don't just get 79 pages of body-theft action (and gala dinners), but you also get world-building extras (ads & movie reviews) and even an entire spin-off strip (Reaper Files).
Insurrection III
Script: Dan Abnett
Art: Colin MacNeil
Letters: Simon Bowland
With two series behind it with a narrow focus this wisely expands our universe and becomes somewhat the story of a new character in a new insurrection. I don't want to spoil the plot any, just in case, but suffice to say it's grim, with the merest hint of hope.
I think the series does reach a natural conclusion here and whilst it would be great to see more of Abnett and MacNeil's galactic Justice Department, it's also wise to end strong. This is hands down the best space Judge stuff that's been done, with The Corps & Maelstrom (back in '94) being the main contenders (and to some extent having laid some groundwork).
The Streets of Dan Francisco
Script: Arthur Wyatt
Art: Paul Marshall
Colours: Chris Blythe
Letters: Elle De Ville
An intro like that deserves to be applauded: it's just madly beautiful. Post-Chaos Day Mega-City One turns out to be a great place for a redemptive tale about the media savvy ex Chief Judge. He stalks the ruins but is in turn stalked by gang violence that is in the ascendant. There's this brewing feeling that Judges have become far more vulnerable.
Dredd: Underbelly
Art: Henry Flint
Movie Dredd (the good one) in an action procedural that blends in some of the mutie themes presented in the comics that spawned the movie that spawned this comic. The only double whammy here is from bone-breaking action blended with the bleak realities of futuristic organized crime.
Check out the bravura framing of this double page raid:
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The best of the Megazine from October 2013 to July 2014, in order of publication:
(2013-2014: megs 340-345)
Script: Rob Williams
Art: D'Israeli
Lettering: HV Derci
Instead of a zombie apocalypse, here we get a superhero pandemic: everyone on the planet suddenly develops superpowers (with predictably disastrous results) - except for Michael Fisher, who's just too ordinary. Really, this is a story of hope for someone who can't even get a break in his fantasies: in the opening scene he's dreaming of dating Scarlet Johansson but gets put into the friend zone, and meekly accepts his lot.
As the world goes mad around him, he sets out on a quest to help his disjointed immediate family: but his value as the only immune human on the planet sets him up as a target for various powerful factions. It's a great tale with lots of bleak humor, dark characters and pathos.
D'Israeli does an amazing job of bringing it all to vibrant life: whether its talking bears, baseball collusi or presidents whose thought bubbles are visible to everyone around them.
DeMarco P.I. - The Whisper
Script: Michael Carroll
Art: Steve Yeowell
Lettering: Ellie De Ville
DeMarco last had her own series in 2002 scripted by Robbie Morrison. Here, Michael Carroll does a good job of creating a murder mystery for her to solve and wisely chooses neutral ground to do it. Instead of basing the adventure in Mega-City One, we get relocated to SovSec (in MC-2), where Mega-City citizens with Sov heritage have been relocated post Chaos Day in order that they didn't get lynched.
There's a bit of repetitiveness where we get DeMarco pushing the boundaries of acceptable behavior but getting let off because she's an ex-Judge. Lots of "I'll let this go this once, but try it again and it's the cubes", but then she keeps bending the rules and it doesn't result in any problems: shooting a guys leg off as part of an interrogation is perhaps the most egregious example.
Yeowell's art is at turns sublime and confusing (as a character with unique facial protrusions is tackled by a guy with ... unique facial protusions).
We don't get a neat resolution regarding the origins of the key antagonist, which is problematic in terms of understanding the potential threat. As with "Creep" (1993-94), it's a point of confusion for the reader to have magical villains whose power-limitations seem based on the whimsy of the author.
Anderson Psi-Division - Dead End
Art: Michael Dowling
Lettering: Simon Bowland
There's stupendous art (dynamic gun fights and panoramic cityscapes) from Michael Dowling in this mysterious tale as Judge Anderson (hard hit by the depressing and repetitive nature of her work) starts to contemplate suicide.
At around the mid-point we get a major reveal (her suicidal feelings are being planted in her mind) and the focus of the narrative naturally shifts.
This is some of the best Anderson in what seems like a good while: a long-form procedural in which the character seems to grow.
« Reply #28 on: 16 July, 2019, 11:56:11 pm »
The second half of 2014 stands out with four strong series running concurrently. In order of publication:
The Man from the Ministry
(megs 348-353)
Script: Gordon Rennie
Art: Kev Hopgood
I'm ignorant of the actual influences behind this story, but it seems filled with nostalgia for a very British kind of yarn. A bit like the setting for Ministry of Space (Ellis & Weston 2005), this is set in a Britain that developed more advanced space travel sometime after World War II.
The once well equipped E.T. department (tasked with defeating hostile flying saucers in near space) is in the present day poorly funded and chronically understaffed (at two) and deals with only sporadic outbreaks of dangerous xenomorphic life that makes it to the surface (hinting at Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Day of the Triffids).
But the past pays a visit and we're launched (also: literally) into a battle against the alien foe in which science, a stiff upper lip and derring do will out. The end leaves the way open for further adventures, and there are some threads dangled about potential alien allies.
Judge Dredd: Dead Zone
Script: John Wagner
Lettering: Annie Parkhouse
An adventure in two parts: in the first half Dredd solves a murder mystery set in a Chaos Day burial pit memorial centre out in the Cursed Earth. A downtrodden couple (Yodie and Belle) get caught up in the local brutalities and it's only the chance discovery of a hi-tech bracelet that allows them to escape: to Mega-City One.
That leads us to the second half (subtitled Invisible), where Yodie discovers that with great power comes great Judicial and criminal interest: and we find an answer to the puzzle of the origins of the bracelet. The resolution leaves some new players for Wagner to return to at a later date.
Something of a shaggy dog story, this holds together really well over six episodes, with layers that keep it from being just a run-of-the-mill procedural.
Lawless: Welcome to Badrock
Art: Phil Winslade
Dan Abnett's follow up to Insurrection takes us forwards five years after the battle against the Zhind on the planet of 43 Rega. Asides from that, this is nothing to do with Insurrection and everything to do with Colonial Marshal Metta Lawson: newly arrived in the remote township of Badrock and tasked with keeping the peace between the brewing hostility of various factions.
There's plenty of rope here for a long-running story: with (religious) Meks, Uplifts, muties, settlers, corporate goons and the local Abs to contend with (not to mention Lawson's somewhat mysterious predecessor).
In order to get around the surface, Lawson disdains a horse, finds a Lawmaster trike too limiting and eventually settles on a refurbished CATT (Combat All-Terrain Transport) that, along with her pulse rifle, give her a distinctive look and (coupled with her pragmatic attitude to peace-keeping) sets her clearly on the periphery of normal Justice Department protocol.
Dredd: Uprise
Art: Paul Davidson
Movie Dredd (Karl, not Sly) continues his paginated adventures in the Megazine with another episodic by Arthur Wyatt. This alternity Dredd is set in a Mega-City One where the Justice Department struggles to maintain order: even moreso in The Spit, where continuuing riots threaten to overwhelm the Judges and threaten a new upper crust* development.
There's a nod to Mechanismo with some robotic law enforcement and an interesting twist that sees corruption from unexpected sources.
*The origins of the phrase "upper crust" are well explained in Modern History TV's Food: How Healthy Was Medieval Food?, which also includes details on the importance of daily piss-tasting and securing your spices. That this is all co-presented by Rebellion's CEO, Jason Kingsley, is (medieval) gravy.
BPP
« Reply #29 on: 17 July, 2019, 09:44:06 am »
The page count of the meg went up when American Reaper was in it so 'it took up too many pages' arguments are a bit redundant.
Unless you just don't like it.
I enjoyed it a lot, it was silly but fun and amazing to look at.
Great strips mentioned in the article - wish Frazer could find a way to do more Lilly.
If I'd known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.
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A Taste of the '60s
by Lisa Fabrizio
What do modern war protesters want? In the Vietnam War era, they clearly favored the Communist way of life to our own — not for themselves, mind you, but for the millions we'd have freed had they and their media accomplices not forced a political end to what would have been a military victory.
Recently I wrote of the left's hypocritical claim of supporting the troops while decrying both their method and their mission. As if we needed further proof of the real aim of those using dead soldiers to protest our actions in the War on Terror, the Commies have officially checked in. Their goal, as always, is to work for the defeat of American interests.
Lenin's term, "useful idiots," was used during the Cold War to describe unwitting dupes of the Soviet Union and its Communist Party. During '60s, the American "peace movement," in its desire to aid the Party, prolonged the war by giving hope to the bedraggled North Vietnamese Army, causing further deaths of U.S. soldiers. Said former NVA Colonel Bui Tin:
Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.
Today, the political and economic theories of Lenin and Marx lie crushed beneath the ashes of millions of souls who perished under their tender ministration. Yet their American wing continues to thrive, promoting an ideology banished to the ash heap of history. Just as the NVA could not have defeated us on the battlefield, they know also that we will eventually crush al Qaeda and friends. And so comes another "peace movement."
As it did during Vietnam War, the far left couches its anti-Americanism in a raft of crocodile tears. It is now campaigning to discourage Hispanics from speaking to military recruiters so they won't end up as "cannon fodder." Even though the statistics show that the percentage of Hispanic military recruits is under-representative of Hispanic population of the country, this doesn't stop the radical left as it targets minorities for "help" to keep them despondent, dependent, and Democrats.
Of course it would never occur to these "military-supporting" leftists that Hispanics love this country just as much as other Americans and would lay down their lives to protect her. So while the left still cries that minorities are under-represented in nearly all walks of life, it thinks there are too many in the most crucial job of all; protecting the American people.
The leading organization behind this latest campaign is called Latinos for Peace, a gang of — surprise, surprise — '60s radicals. Chief among them is Rosalio Munoz, a member of the Communist Party USA and a contributor to its house organ, People's Weekly World.
CPUSA was funded by the Soviets from its founding in 1919 until the collapse of the USSR in the early '90s. One of its linked affiliates is United for Peace and Justice, a group headed by Fidel Castro aficionado and longtime Commie Leslie Cagan. UFPJ's member groups include all your favorite current "peace activists," including Cindy Sheehan's Code Pink pals and Moveon.org, who claim to "own" the Democratic Party.
So once again the circle is complete. Today's peace movement is a pathetic rehash of the same anti-Americanism that led to the deaths of millions after our ignoble abandonment of the people of Southeast Asia. And once again they are tied inexorably to the left wing of the Democratic Party.
The difference this time is that although these groups continue to wave the banner of a failed ideology, they are giving aid and comfort to a more insidious den of vipers; one that will not hesitate to slaughter even those who agree that the United States is indeed the great Satan.


He's a multi-billionaire, but Mark Zuckerberg has come under fire forhis less than hospitable patronage at some restaurants he's visitedduring his honeymoon.
He's a multi-billionaire, but Mark Zuckerberg has come under fire for his less than hospitable patronage at some restaurants he's visited during his honeymoon. He may be a big spender, but some Italian food service workers say he is certainly not a big tipper. In fact, he's not a tipper at all.
Zuckerberg has been traipsing through Italy with new bride Priscilla Chan, trying to fly below the radar as they see the country's tourist sites. However, that proved to be an impossible feat after a tourist spotted the starry-eyed couple gazing up at the Sistine Chapel, and tweeted a photo of them, exposing their honeymoon location to the world.
It didn't take long before their every move got picked up by the media, and now the couple is the center of attention for their lack of tipping at two restaurants.
Servers at Nonna Betta, a Roman Jewish restaurant in Rome, told Corriere della Sera newspaper that Zuckerberg and Chan spent 32 Euros (the equivalent of about 40 dollars) on a lunch of deep-friend artichokes, fried pumpkin flowers and stuffed ravioli, bottled water and tea. Zuckerberg paid the bill, but declined to leave any gratuity. And workers at the restaurant were quick to point out that it wasn't because he didn't enjoy the meal.
"I asked him 'how was it?' and he said 'very good'", the owner, who gave only his first name, Umberto, told the Italian newspaper. "I had gone up to him and said 'Are you ...?' and he said 'Yes'."
Zuckerberg and Chan also didn't leave a tip after a meal the night before at another Roman restaurant, Pierluigi.
Why is it that Zuckerberg and Chan aren't tipping their Italian servers? While tipping is not as common in Italy as it is in the United States, it is generally acceptable to leave between 5 and 10 percent. Perhaps Zuckerberg thought he was already paying for a tip through a servizio (service charge), which is often seen on restaurant checks in Italy. However, a photo of the bill from Nonna Betta, posted by The Telegraph, shows that a servizio was not included.
Maybe, with Facebook's IPO troubles, Zuckerberg's just trying to cut down on expenses?


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U2 & Lady Gaga duet
Written by myTuner on July 27, 2015 .
Last update on July 27, 2015.
Sunday U2's concert brought a special surprise for all the fans that were on Madison Square Garden.
Bono called "her Gaganess" to hop on stage to perform "Ordinary Love", the song written for Mandela "Long Walk to Freedom".
Sam Smith + Disclosure = OMEN
Gorillaz working on a new album
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Tag: top 3 MSPIFF films
APRIL Viewing Recap + Movie(s) of the Month
On May 1, 2016 May 2, 2016 By ruthIn Weekend/Monthly Recap25 Comments
Spring is in the air!! It's still relatively cool this weekend and the sun was being bashful yesterday so we spent some time at Minneapolis Museum of Art on Saturday during its Art in Bloom exhibition. It's so lovely to see cherry blossom tree bloomin' at the park across the street… it was a perfect Spring day!
So here are movies I saw this month:
New-to-me Movies
(click on image to read my reviews on those marked w/ an asterisk)
Meet the Patels*
The Jungle Book*
A Streetcar Named Desire*
Films watched at MSPIFF
My Internship in Canada*
Mr. Pig*
Beeba Boys*
Dragonfly*
A Copy Of My Mind*
The Fencer*
L'Attesa*
I ended up seeing only nine films at MSPIFF on the big screen. Alas, I didn't have time to watch any of the online screeners, but I hope to watch them later this month. If I had to pick three out of the ones I've seen at MSPIFF, it'd be The Fencer, Beeba Boys and Sing Street. So in total I watched 17 new-to-me movies which is quite a lot by my standards! I've reviewed pretty much ALL of the MSPIFF films except for Sing Street which I will do so next week!
Rewatches
Of course I'll always make time for Sam Riley, so I rewatched the WWII drama Suite Francaise with my girlfriends on movie night on the first week of April, and Control which is still as cool and heartbreaking as the first time I saw it. There's always time for period dramas too, of course, so I did manage to fit in the BBC miniseries of Sense & Sensibility after I saw the delightful Love & Friendship that's based on Jane Austen's epistolary novel. I also watched The Mummy, we weren't planning on it but saw it came across the screen as we're browsing Netflix and thought, what the heck. It was still pretty entertaining, though the whole time I was thinking about Brendan Fraser's dismal career trajectory. So apparently the reboot starring Tom Cruise is set for June 2017!
Suite Francaise (2015)
Sense & Sensibility (BBC) 2008
MOVIE(S) OF THE MONTH
I've watched quite a few music-related films lately, be that biopics or fiction, and I've enjoyed them quite a bit. It was tough to pick just one favorite this month given how many great indie films I've seen this past month. But I picked two that no doubt have awesome 80s-themed soundtracks as well as being immensely entertaining. So it's three for three for John Carney, as I've enjoyed all three of his feature films so far (the first two being Once and Begin Again). Nice to see Carney went back to his Irish roots with Sing Street.
As for Purple Rain, it was a bittersweet experience watching it. I can't believe I hadn't seen it before yesterday, but I certainly ended April movie watching with a bang. The live performances were really the reason to see this, but Prince were decent in the dramatic scenes too, plus it's a treat to see Minneapolis (esp First Avenue club) being featured prominently. Of course I teared up during the Purple Rain scene. Prince was absolutely phenomenal as one would expect, but that song was also very emotional in the context of the film (in which his character dedicated to his dad) and also emotional given the music icon's no longer with us.
Well that's my recap of April. What's YOUR favorite film of the month?
MAY Viewing Recap, Top 3 MSPIFF 2015 + Movie of the Month
On May 31, 2015 June 1, 2015 By ruthIn Weekend/Monthly Recap28 Comments
Well May turns out to be quite a busy movie watching month! Surprising since I only went to one press screening all month (Tomorrowland). I am looking forward to quite a few screenings in June: Spy (this Tuesday!), Inside Out, Jurassic World and Terminator Genisys. I REALLY want to see Me and Earl and the Dying Girl but that'll be three screenings back-to-back in a week so not sure I can fit that one in.
Posts You Might've Missed
Highlights from Wizard World 2015
Spotlight on Character Actors of Twilight Zone Series
Movie Roulette Blogathon
Music Break: Not Another Happy Ending
Rental Pick: Time Lapse
May Blind Spot Pick:
Breathless – À Bout de Souffle (1960)
New-to-me Movies:
The Rewrite
Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012)
Populaire (2012)
Violette (2013)
Pour Une Femme (2013)
Cheba Louisa (2013)
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
After seeing the stellar Mad Max: Fury Road, my hubby and I saw The Road Warrior (1981) this weekend and we loved it! I think I've seen it years ago when I was a wee kid but I could remember much of the plot so it felt like new to me. Clearly the Mad Max franchise is George Miller's magnum opus and even though it was made over 3 decades ago, it still has a certain timeless quality about it and the action set pieces are fantastic despite the limited budget compared to this latest one. I'd rank Road Warrior as high as Fury Road, though certainly the Furiosa story adds a great deal of emotional depth to the film. But hey, 25-year-old Mel Gibson was pretty damn hot in his prime 😉
Rewatches:
Not Another Happy Ending (2013)
Death Comes to Pemberley (2013)
[Belated] Top 3 Picks from MSPIFF 2015
It's a month late but I thought I'd still post my friend Josh's and my top 3 picks from MSPIFF as some of the films are now available to rent on VOD.
Josh's Top 3
3: The Secrets of War
A rushed ending notwithstanding, The Secrets of War is quite good. All three child actors are solid to excellent; the thematic and dramatic heft of the narrative carry the film; and the picture's sense of period is terrific. That there are some deeply moving moments interspersed throughout helps, as well.
2: The Keeping Room
Powered by strong performances from Brit Marling, Sam Worthington, and Muna Otaru, The Keeping Room fuses multiple genres well. At times, director Daniel Barber and writer Julia Hart make this dark civil war film suspenseful; at other times frightening; and at other times emotionally rife. Of course, it also helps that Barber's visual aesthetics are a feast for viewers' eyes.
1: The Connection
The Connection overcomes a predictable plot by depicting complex characters. It also capitalizes on a perfect ending that captures proper thematic heft at the same time it fittingly ends the characters' paths. Terrific performances from Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lelouche, and Celine Sallette make this a film worth seeing, as well.
Ruth's Top 3
3: El Critico
I enjoyed this one immensely! Being a film blogger, I definitely identified with the protagonist, and I totally share his scorn for most Hollywood rom-coms. Definitely worth your time when this movie is available to rent.
2: Clouds of Sils Maria
Seems tradition that I see a Juliette Binoche movie at MSPIFF and this is the best one yet! She came up with the premise of the film and director Olivier Assayas did a wonderful job penning the script and made the story come to life. Both miss Binoche and Kristen Stewart are tremendous here and the film work largely due to their performances.
1: Girlhood
I rewatched parts of this French drama now that it's on Netflix and I absolutely adore this film. Thanks to this film I discovered the lovely Karidja Touré in her mesmerizing acting debut. No doubt one of the best and emotionally-compelling coming-of-age film I've seen in some time.
Movie of the Month
I've been wanting to see What We Do in the Shadows ever since I saw the hilarious trailer months ago. Well this New Zealand mockumentary had me in stitches, it's as hysterical as I had hoped and then some. If you're a fan of vampire/werewolf movies, or just great comedies in general, I can't recommend this enough. It pokes fun of the classic horror genre, but in a way it's an homage to it at the same time. I sure wish they're making a sequel of this as I would watch it in a heartbeat!
So that's my May recap. What's YOUR fave movie(s) you saw this month?


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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Washington Case Law › Washington Supreme Court Decisions › 1966 › Western Pac. Ins. Co. v. Farmers Ins. Exchange
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Western Pac. Ins. Co. v. Farmers Ins. Exchange
69 Wn.2d 11 (1966)
416 P.2d 468
WESTERN PACIFIC INSURANCE COMPANY, Respondent, v. FARMERS INSURANCE EXCHANGE, Appellant.[*]
The Supreme Court of Washington, Department Two.
July 7, 1966.
Martin, Shorts & Bever, by Lloyd W. Bever, for appellant.
Ferguson & Burdell, by W. Wesselhoeft, for respondent.
HAMILTON, J.
This is a contest between two insurance companies to determine liability for claims arising out of an automobile accident. The plaintiff-respondent, Western Pacific Insurance Company, hereafter referred to as Western, settled and paid the claims and initiated this action seeking indemnification from defendant-appellant, Farmers Insurance Exchange, hereafter referred to as Farmers, which had refused a tender of the defense of the claims. It is stipulated that the amounts paid and the attorney fees incurred by Western were reasonable. The dispute revolves about whether Farmers is primarily liable under the terms of a liability policy issued to the owner of the subject vehicle.
The trial court found and concluded liability on the part of Farmers and entered judgment indemnifying Western for the amounts paid and the attorney fees incurred in settlement of the claims. From this determination Farmers appeals.
The background facts may be summarized as follows: In the early spring of 1960, one R.A. Hendrickson, a paint contractor, became interested in purchasing a second-hand pickup truck. He consulted his long time friend and neighbor, J.A. Formanek, an automobile repairman, who had performed some work upon a truck that was for sale. Formanek recommended the truck, although he informed *13 Hendrickson that it was in need of manifold, muffler, and tail pipe repairs. Hendrickson, armed with this information, negotiated for and purchased the truck. Thereafter, it was agreed between the two friends that Formanek would make the necessary repairs. Charges for the repairs were not discussed; however, it was understood by both that the work would be done as cheaply as possible, with second-hand parts and at the convenience of Formanek.
Farmers provided Hendrickson with standard public liability and property damage coverage on the truck, the policy containing a pro-rata clause.[1] Formanek carried his personal and business liability and property damage coverage with Western, the policy containing an excess coverage clause.[2]
On March 29, 1960, Formanek, as an accommodation to his friend and contrary to his usual business practice, personally picked up the truck at the Hendrickson home and drove it to his repair shop. This was with Hendrickson's knowledge and consent, it being understood by both men that Formanek's possession of the truck was for the purpose of locating second-hand parts and effecting the repairs. The truck remained at the repair shop until Friday, April 1, 1960, *14 when, after closing hours, Formanek first found the time to turn his attention to the work. Closing the shop, Formanek then took the truck to a wrecking yard to find and fit the necessary parts. After acquiring the parts and loading them into the truck, Formanek proceeded toward his home.[3] On the way, he deviated approximately 7 blocks from the most direct route for the purpose of purchasing some fish and chips for his family dinner. While on this detour and before obtaining the fish and chips, the brakes on the truck failed and he collided with another car, causing the injuries giving rise to the claims settled and paid by Western.
On appeal Farmers assigns error to the findings and conclusions of the trial court revolving about the issues of (a) whether Formanek had implied permission to utilize the truck in the manner he was using it at the time of the accident; (b) whether the truck was then being used in "the automobile business" as defined in an exclusionary clause of Farmers' policy; and (c) whether, in any event, Western was entitled to reimbursement of attorney fees expended in settling the claims.
We cannot agree with Farmers' contention that the trial court erred in finding and concluding that Formanek had implied permission to use the truck at the time and place of the accident.
[1] We have, in Wallin v. Knudtson, 46 Wn.2d 80, 278 P.2d 344 (1955), announced our acceptance of the immaterial or permissible deviation rule which permits a deviation beyond the letter, but within the spirit, of the express or implied permission to the use of an automobile given by the insured owner.
*15 The application of this rule is outlined in 12 Couch, Insurance § 45:474 (2d 1964), as follows:
Under this doctrine, if the use made by an employee or other bailee is not such a gross, substantial, or major violation, even though it may have amounted to a deviation, protection is still afforded to the bailee under the omnibus clause. Conversely, there is no omnibus coverage where there is a major or substantial departure or deviation or a gross violation of the original permission, purpose, or instructions relating to the use of the automobile. Thus, the fact that there is a deviation from the performance of the employee's duty for his own personal gain or benefit does not necessarily vitiate the permission to operate the auto, and avoid the coverage, nor does the fact that the permittee makes a more extended use of the vehicle than originally contemplated impair the efficacy of the consent where such use falls within the general scope of the use to which the consent was given. In applying this rule, the courts must determine in each instance taking into account the extent of deviation in actual distance or time, the purpose for which the vehicle was given, and other factors whether the deviation was "minor" or "material." Since the distinction between a minor and a major deviation is a matter of degree, no hardand-fast rules can be laid down as to what constitutes a "minor" deviation.
[2] And, as we pointed out in the Wallin case, supra, application of the rule renders it necessary to weigh the circumstances and conditions under which the insured owner gave permission for the use of his car, including the elements of purpose, place, distance, and time, and undertake therefrom to virtually read the mind of the insured to the extent, at least, of determining whether he would have prohibited the deviation had he been asked concerning it.
In the instant case, Hendrickson and Formanek were close friends. They lived in near proximity to one another and visited together frequently. They conferred relative to the condition of the pickup truck, the advisability of its purchase, and the prospect of its repair. It is undisputed that Formanek came into possession of the truck for repair purposes with the consent and permission of Hendrickson. The arrangements relative to the repair work were very informal. *16 It was understood that the work would be performed at the convenience of Formanek without specific time limit, and at minimal cost. Formanek drove the truck from Hendrickson's home to the repair shop with Hendrickson's knowledge and consent, and it was contemplated that Formanek would have to take the truck from his repair shop to find and fit second-hand parts. It would be fairly inferrable that Formanek would initiate the work after closing hours, which he did, and it would be reasonably foreseeable that he might drive the truck home from the wrecking yard after he found the necessary parts. Likewise, it would be reasonable to anticipate that he might detour a short distance from the most direct route home to pick up food or groceries for his evening meal.
Under these circumstances, we agree with the trial court that it can be readily inferred that Hendrickson would not have prohibited the deviation had he been asked concerning it.
The trial court correctly found and concluded that the deviation was a minor one within the contemplation of the immaterial or permissible deviation rule.
The cases of Yurick v. McElroy, 32 Wn.2d 511, 202 P.2d 464 (1949) and McKee v. Garrison, 37 Wn.2d 37, 221 P.2d 514 (1950), relied upon by Farmers, are distinguishable. In the Yurick case, supra, the deviation was a gross or material one. In the McKee case, supra, original permission to possess and drive the automobile involved was lacking.
By its second contention, Farmers asserts the trial court erred in failing to find and conclude that, at the time of the accident, the truck was being used in the automobile business. In this respect, the pertinent policy contained the following exclusionary clause and accompanying definition:
Additional Definitions Under Part I: .... (4) Automobile Business. "Automobile business" means the business of selling, repairing, servicing, storing or parking automobiles, their parts or equipment. .... THIS POLICY DOES NOT APPLY UNDER PART I: .... *17 6. while the described automobile is being used in the automobile business, but this exclusion does not apply to the named insured or his relatives; .... Exhibit No. 4.
[3] We have construed identical exclusionary clauses in the cases of McCree v. Jenning, 55 Wn.2d 725, 349 P.2d 1071 (1960) and Northwestern Mut. Ins. Co. v. Great Am. Ins. Co., 66 Wn.2d 762, 404 P.2d 995 (1965). In both cases we have pointed out that the word "used" in the pertinent clause relates to a use of the automobile by the repair or service man for his business purposes, as distinguished from his use of it in the course of repairing or servicing it. We are not prepared at this time to erase this distinction.
Accordingly, we conclude, as did the trial court, that Formanek's use of the truck at the time of the accident does not fall within the exclusionary clause.
Farmers' final challenge relates to the action of the trial court in awarding indemnification for attorney fees and costs expended by Western in settling the third-party claims for relief arising from the accident. This contention, so far as the issues raised on this appeal are concerned, brings into consideration the relative potential coverages and obligations of Western and Farmers growing out of the accident.
[4] It will be recalled that Western insured Formanek, the nonowner driver of the truck, with a policy containing an "excessive insurance" clause, and that Farmers insured Hendrickson, the owner of the truck, with a policy containing a "pro-rata" clause. As between Western and Farmers, then, by virtue of the respective clauses, Farmers' policy, so far as covering a permissive and included use of the truck, would be considered the primary policy and Western's the secondary policy for subrogation, contribution, or apportionment purposes. 7 Am.Jur.2d Automobile Insurance § 202 (1963); 8 Appleman, Insurance Law & Practice § 4914 (1942); 31 A.L.R.2d 1324; 76 A.L.R.2d 505.
Formanek, Western's insured, however, was the driver of the truck at the time of the accident, and it was against him that the claims were lodged and suit thereon commenced. No claims were lodged or pursued against Hendrickson, Farmers' insured. The claims against Formanek were in *18 substantial sums, one being in the amount of $63,700. The claims were settled, after suit and during trial, for an amount less than the limits of the policy issued by Farmers. Western was thereby relieved of collectible coverage if Formanek's use of the truck was a permissive and included use within the terms of Farmers' policy.
Under the terms of its policy, Western had a direct contractual duty to defend its insured, Formanek, regardless of the existence of other insurance. See, generally, Clow v. National Indem. Co., 54 Wn.2d 198, 339 P.2d 82 (1959). Western also had an interest in protecting itself against potential "excess" liability. Western accepted its obligations and acted accordingly.
[5] On the other hand, Farmers, in carrying the policy on the truck, with potential coverage extended to nonowner drivers under the omnibus clause, had a clearly recognizable contractual concern with the defense of Formanek. Indisputably, Farmers had a direct contractual obligation to represent and defend the interests of Hendrickson, its insured, should he be drawn into or become involved with claims arising out of the accident. And these obligations were outstanding regardless of the existence of other insurance. Farmers could not, therefore, stand aloof from the pending lawsuit upon the basis of a unilateral determination that the provisions and exclusions of its policy might relieve it of any liability, and thus escape responsibility for the expenses of the defense of Formanek when liability ultimately came home to roost. When liability was in fact established, upon and within the limits of its policy, Farmers became the primary insurer and Western the secondary insurer. As the primary insurer, Farmers became liable for the costs of the defense. Fireman's Fund Indem. Co. v. Freeport Ins. Co., 30 Ill. App.2d 69, 173 N.E.2d 543 (1961); Maryland Cas. Co. v. Marquette Cas. Co., 143 So. 2d 249 (La. App. 1962).
The trial court did not err in indemnifying Western.
The judgment is affirmed.
ROSELLINI, C.J., DONWORTH and WEAVER, JJ., and BARNETT, J. Pro Tem., concur.
[*] Reported in 416 P.2d 468.
[1] "(17) OTHER INSURANCE
"Coverages A, B, E, F, G and H
"Under Coverages A, B, E and F, the Exchange shall not be liable for a greater proportion of any loss than the applicable limit of liability stated in the declarations bears to the total applicable limit of all collectible insurance against such loss." Exhibit No. 4.
[2] "10. Other Insurance. If at the time of an occurrence there is any other insurance available to the insured (in this or any other carrier) there shall be no insurance afforded hereunder as respects such occurrence except that if the applicable limit of liability of this policy is in excess of the applicable limit provided by the other insurance available to the insured this policy shall afford excess insurance over and above such other insurance in an amount sufficient to afford the insured a combined limit of liability equal to the applicable limit of liability afforded by this policy. It is further provided that with respect to loss arising out of the operation, maintenance or use of any nonowned automobile the applicable insurance afforded by this policy shall be excess over and above such other available insurance. Insurance under this policy shall not be construed to be concurrent or contributing with any other insurance which is available to the insured." Exhibit No. 2.
[3] The trial court made no finding as to the reason Formanek was taking the truck home, and the evidence concerning this facet of the case is in dispute. Formanek testified he was taking it home for safekeeping over the week end, there being some danger of pilferage in the repair shop area. Hendrickson and his wife testified that Formanek told them he was going to return to the shop after dinner and complete the repair work. Formanek stated he could not remember telling the Hendricksons this.
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Discover Vienna from a different perspective!
With a bicycle you are fast on the roat but still slow enough to enjoy Vienna's sights. Vienna has around 1,200 km of cycle paths, cycling trails and cycle routes.
We have compiled a few tips for your cycling tour through Vienna.
The Ringstraße is one of the main sights of the city with many historic buildings.
This bicycle path takes you across the old town of Vienna - from Schottentor to the state opera.
The Danube Canal is an arm of the Danube, which branches off from the main stream at the Nußdorfer floodgate, flows past the City and flows back to the Danube near the Albaner harbor.
From the Danube Canal to the Vienna River you will drive along the Gürtel.
This route connects the west of the city with the center. From the Ringstrasse over the Naschmakrt, past Schönbrunn Palace, this bicycle route leads you along the Vienna river to the Lainzer Tiergarten.
You can explore Vienna along the Danube via the Danube Island from the city boundaries in the north to the east.
You can transport your bicycle free of charge from Monday to Friday between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm, as well as from 6:30 pm. On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays bicycles can be transported all day.
In tramway and bus only foldable bicycles can be transported.
In ÖBB local train services (S-Bahn, regional train), bicycles can be taken without reservation in the wagons which are marked with a bicycle symbol.
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MTP ACT, 1971
The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971
(Act No. 34 of 1971)
(10th August 1971)
An Act to provide for the termination of certain pregnancies by registered Medical Practitioners and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows :-
1. Short title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions-In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires
(a) Guardian means a person having the care of the person of a minor or a lunatic;
(b) Lunatic has the meaning assigned to it in section 3 of the Indian Lunatic Act, 1912 ( 4 of 1912);
(c) Minor means a person who, under the provisions of the Indian Majority Act, 1875 ( 9 of 1875), is to be deemed not to have attained his majority;
(d) Registered medical practitioner means a medical practitioner who possesses any recognized medical qualification as defined in clause (h) of section 2 of the Indian
Medical Council Act, 1956, (102 of 1956), whose name has been entered in a State Medical Register and who has such experience or training in gynaecology and obstetrics as may be prescribed by rules made under this Act.
3. When pregnancies may be terminated by registered medical practitioners
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), a registered medical practitioner shall not be guilty of any offence under that Code orunder any other law for the time being in force, if any pregnancy is terminated byhim in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section(4),a pregnancy may be terminated by a registered medical practitioner, -
(a) Where the length of the pregnancy does not exceed twelve weeks if such medical practitioner is, or
(b) Where the length of the pregnancy exceeds twelve weeks but does not exceed twenty weeks, if not less than two registered medical practitioner are,of opinion, formed in good faith, that -
(i) The continuance of the pregnancy would involve a risk to the life of the pregnant woman or of grave injury to her physical or mental health; or
(ii) There is a substantial risk that if the child were born, it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities to be seriously handicapped.
Explanation 1- Where any pregnancy is alleged by the pregnant woman to have been caused by rape, the anguish caused by such pregnancy shall be presumed to constitute a grave injury to the mental health of the pregnant woman.
Explanation 2- Where any pregnancy occurs as a result of failure of any device or method used by any married woman or her husband for the purpose of limiting the number of children, the anguish caused by such unwanted pregnancy may be resumed to constitute a grave injury to the mental health of the pregnant woman.
(3) In determining whether the continuance of a pregnancy would involve such risk of injury to the health as is mentioned in sub-section(2)account may be taken of the pregnant womens actual or reasonable foreseeable environment.
(4) (a) No pregnancy of a woman, who has not attained the age of eighteen years, or, who, having attained the age of eighteen years, is a lunatic, shall be terminated except with the consent in writing of her guardian.
(b) Save as otherwise provided in clause (a), No pregnancy shall be terminated except with the consent of the pregnant woman.
4. Place where pregnancy may be terminated -
No termination of pregnancy shall be made in accordance with this Act at any place other than -
(a) A hospital established or maintained by Government, or
(b) A place for the time being approved for the purpose of this Act by Government.
5. Sections 3 and 4 when not to apply -
(1)The provisions of section 4, and so much of the provisions of sub-section(2)of section 3 as relate to the length of the pregnancy and the opinion of not less than two registered medical practitioners, shall not apply to the termination of a pregnancy by a registered medical practitioner in a case where he is of opinion, formed in good faith, that determination of such pregnancy is immediately necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman.
(2)Notwithstanding anything contained in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), the termination of a pregnancy by a person who is not a registered medical practitioners hall be an offence punishable under that Code, and that Code shall, to this extent, stand modified.
Explanation-For the purposes of this section, so much of the provisions of clause (d) of section(2)as relate to the possession, by a registered medical practitioner, of experience or training in gynaecology and obstetrics shall not apply.
6. Power to make rules -
(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the provisions of this Act.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely -
(a) The experience or training, or both, which is registered medical practitioner shall have if he intends to terminate any pregnancy under this Act and
(b) Such other matters as are required to be or may be, provided by rules made under this Act.
(3) Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laidor the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rules hall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.
7. Power to make regulations -
(1) The State Government may, by regulations-
(a) Require any such opinion as is referred to in sub-section (2) of section 3 to be certified by a registered medical practitioner or practitioners concerned, in such form and at such time as may be specified in such regulations, and the preservation or disposal of such certificates ;
(b) Require any registered medical practitioner, who terminates a pregnancy, to give intimation of such termination and such other information relating to the termination as may be specified in such regulations ;
(c) Prohibit the disclosure, except to such purposes as may be specified in such regulations, of intimations given or information furnished in pursuance of such regulations.
(2) The intimation given and the information furnished in pursuance of regulations made by virtue of clause (b) of sub-section (1) shall be given or furnished, as the case may be, to the Chief Medical Officer of the State.
(3) Any person who willfully contravenes or willfully fails to comply with the requirements of any regulation made under sub-section (1) shall be liable to be punished with fine,which may extend to one thousand rupees.
8. Protection of action taken in good faith -
No suit or legal proceedings shall lie against any registered medical practitioner for any damage caused or likely to be caused by anything, which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act.


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Sheffield Eagles had to dig deep to conquer York City Knights 24-16 at Bootham Crescent.
Ben Hellewell notched a second half brace on debut as the newly formed dual-registration partnership with London Broncos reaped its rewards from the off.
Ryan Millar had opened the scoring in the first half before Liam Salter's converted score gave the hosts a two-point advantage at the break.
Hellewell's double-salvo, which followed a James Glover try, was enough to hand a gritty triumph to the Steel City club.
Hellewell and fellow Bronco Sadiq Adebiyi made their first appearances for the club, replacing the suspended Blake Broadbent and injured Jason Crookes.
Nothing could separate the sides for the opening quarter as defences were very much on top.
A Millar error from a high bomb was as close as York got to the try-line during that period, the following set saw the Knights held up over the whitewash.
The deadlock was broken on 26 minutes as Millar found room in the corner and dotted down. Pat Walker couldn't convert.
As the clock ticked down to the interval, York responded through Liam Salter who benefited from a swift Conor McGrath offload. Connor Robinson was on hand to give York their first, and only, lead of the contest.
After a half containing few errors, the opening ten minutes of the second stanza was a complete contrast.
Neither side could keep hold of possession and it was slowly turning into a scrappy encounter.
However, it was the Eagles who managed to get their act together first and Anthony Thackeray's kick to the corner was gathered by James Glover who spun out of a tackle to score. Walker added the extras for a 6-10 lead on the hour.
Hellewell was soon celebrating his first try of the afternoon as he glided through a gap in the Knights' rearguard. Walker again converting.
Nervy times faced the Eagles though when Will Jubb scrambled over from dummy-half with seven minutes to go. Robinson converted to cut the gap to 12-16.
Walker's kick-off bounced out of play and a penalty later saw the kicking tee come back out for the stand-off. He knocked over the two points.
Just as you thought the Eagles may have been able to relax, York got the ball back from the kick-off and also won a penalty soon after.
Halifax loanee McGrath touched down in the corner and Robinson had a chance to level the scores. Fortunately for the visitors, the half-back was off target and Mark Aston's men had a two-point lead to defend.
But in the three minutes that remained, York never touched the ball again as Walker's dazzling kick-off bounced back to the Eagles players, who took full advantage.
Thackeray played a wonder pass to the onrushing Hellewell and the Scottish international wasn't going to be stopped. Walker converted to put Sheffield two scores ahead once again and ultimately sealed the win.


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Students earn 13 credits while in residence in Washington, D.C. Students extern 448 hours over the semester and attend class twice a week. Placements include a wide range of offerings, including federal, state and local government agencies, private non-profits and judicial chambers. Placements provide an opportunity for substantive legal work under a lawyer's supervision with regular feedback and mentorship.
Students are responsible to find their own housing.
Increased financial aid is available for those participating in the D.C. Semester in Practice program.
Classes are held at the University of California Washington Center near Dupont Circle at 1608 Rhode Island, Ave., NW, Washington, D.C., 20036.
Lawyering in the Nation's Capital A 3 credit seminar designed to explore the role of the Washington lawyer. Through readings and guest lecturers, you will learn about the process of federal law and policy-making. We also will also investigate the unique role Washington lawyers in play in affecting, making and changing federal law and policy.
D.C. Externship Clinic: A 10-credit course, consisting of a 2-hour weekly seminar focusing on professionalism, career development and the various roles of Washington lawyers and 8 credits for work at the placement. Students receive a grade for one-half of these credits and receive a pass-fail designation for the other half.
Students must submit an application form, statement of interest, and résumé to Jessica Heywood by NOON on February 28, 2019.
Placements include a wide range of offerings, including federal, state and local government agencies, private non-profits and judicial chambers. Because students receive academic credit, they may not receive monetary compensation. Placements provide an opportunity for substantive legal work under a lawyer's supervision with regular feedback and mentorship.
Rising 2Ls and 3Ls are eligible to apply. Applications for Spring 2019 are due September 26, 2018 (noon) and must include your résumé, statement of interest and application form.


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Space Invaders Infinity Gene Review: An Arcade Classic Rebooted
No game stirs childhood memories for me as much as Space Invaders. Having wasted many hours during the late 70s pouring coins into the Space Invaders machine in the fast food place down the road, I would go to sleep with pixellated aliens marching relentlessly across my vision.
The original Space Invaders has inspired hundreds of similar arcade games over the years (not to mention Human Space Invaders!). The original Space Invaders publishers, TAITO, have released a couple of versions for the iPhone: Space Invaders (a clone of the original) and the marvellous Space Invaders Infinity Gene.
Space Invaders reloaded
This game isn't just Space Invaders with a few extra bells and whistles – it's a complete rethink of the game. Putting aside the fact that it's based on one of the classic arcade games of all time, Space Invaders Infinity Gene is one of the best arcade shooters on the iPhone that I've ever played.
The game starts much like the original game, but quickly evolves into a much more fast-paced affair, with all sorts of baddies zooming over the screen. You also get to move your ship up and down as well as the usual left and right (now there's progress!). It can get quite hectic at times, but fortunately you can move the ship by touching anywhere on the screen, so your finger doesn't get in the way. You don't have to worry about shooting either, as the ship auto-fires constantly.
Each level features the old "flying saucers across the top" from the original Space Invaders; however rather than giving you extra points, these drop power-ups when you shoot them. Power-ups increase the strength of your ship's firepower – very useful near the end of a level (especially as many levels feature bosses at the end).
Different each time you play it
What makes Space Invaders Infinity Gene so good is that it's constantly changing as you play it, and it has a near-infinite variety of levels (hence the name). As you score points your gene counter increases; once it reaches a certain level the game "evolves", unlocking new weapons, features, and bonus levels.
You can customise the game once it's "evolved" sufficiently. For example you can increase the number of stock (reserve ships) per game (though anything other than the default of 3 voids your high score), as well as choose easy, normal and hard difficulty levels.
As if all that weren't enough, there's the glorious "Music" mode. Pick a track from your iPhone's music library and the game makes up a level based on that track, which you play while listening to the song. Each track produces a different level (though the level is the same each time you play that track). This great idea adds a huge amount of re-playability to the game. The number of levels is limited only by the number of songs in your iPhone!
If I had to criticise this game, I'd say that it's hard to work out which blobs will hurt you and which won't (as well as what you can shoot and what you can't). You do learn after a bit of practice though. As a general rule, I've found that if it's solid it'll kill you; if it's hollow it won't!
The game also seems memory-hungry and suggests rebooting the phone every other time I launch it (although I haven't actually had to reboot yet).
Space Invaders Infinity Gene is a superb rethink of the original Space Invaders game. The designers have obviously thought hard about how to take the original, repetitive game to the other extreme by making something that feels "new" each time you play it.
A definite evolution. Get it now!
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Standing water may have ruined some pastures.
Lack of adequate forage could force animals to eat poisonous plants which are abundant in some parts of the country.
Remove fallen wild cherry limbs from pastures to prevent livestock poisoning.
Before restocking flooded pastures, remove debris, especially along fence lines and in corners. Livestock could be injured from pieces of barbed wire, sharp metal and trash.
Inspect feeds such as corn, wheat and hay.
Damaged grains and moldy hay may cause digestive disturbances.
Horses, sheep, poultry, swine and cattle are affected most severely (in that order) by damaged feed.
Do not force livestock to eat silage that has been flooded, even though its appearance may be unchanged.
Do not feed any feed or forage that may have been contaminated by chemicals or pesticides.
Where large numbers of animals assemble, watch for any sign of infectious diseases such as pneumonia, foot rot or leptospirosis.
These diseases are more likely to occur where cattle are crowded on wet ground and where horn flies and houseflies are abundant.
If possible, an experienced stockman under the supervision of a veterinarian should handle and feed the animals.
Promptly report any sign of disease to the nearest veterinarian or County Extension Agent.
Contact a veterinarian about vaccinating animals for immunity from flood-related diseases such as anthrax, lepto, blackleg and swine erysipelas.


Nigerian recording artiste and songwriter, Kayode Joules Oguntayo, popularly known as JoulesDaKid is back again with another spanking tune that will 'shut up' your speakers and headsets and leave you gasping for more.
For a while now, Fresh L of the DRB-Lasgidi trio and 111 Records signee- JoulesDaKid have been teasing fans about a possible collabo between the duo. And finally it's here! The joint rap project is titled Double Trouble. And as the name implies, they released a high energy trap song titled "Shut Up" full of slick lyrics, dope beats and energetic vibes. If you are feeling dull at the moment, a first listen of 'Shut Up' will have you hyped and nodding your head to the spanking joint in no time.
Their lyrical skills are put on full display over Makblaze's production and we can already tell it's going to be one heavy body of work we won't be resisting for a long time to come.
Joules DaKid shot into limelight after the release of his mixtape "JoulesDaKid – LazyGNius" (2010) and single, "Aunty Dupe" (2012). "Aunty Dupe" peaked at number 5 on the Nigerian airplay charts, which later saw him release "Young Joulsey" and "Mo Bet" two singles off his 2016 EP "Home Coming".
Click below to download this latest scorcher from the talented Nigerian rapper, and be sure to share your opinions in the comments section below.


In Spring 2012, Swiss North American Properties, Inc. sold the last of its significant assets acquired from Reichhold, Inc. as part of a real property and environmental liability transfer transaction spanning 2006 through the present.
Rich advised SNAP in connection with environmental remediations to achieve "no further action" (or equivalent) determinations in the various States, as well as in Mexico and Europe, and provided general counseling and representation to SNAP regarding entity governance and dispute resolution, including selection of counsel and advisors with specialized or local expertise.
The Windels Marx team included Andrew Craig (Partner, Madison) for interaction with state environmental regulators and negotiation and execution of agreements by which the properties were transferred to new owners for renewed industrial development, and Jeremy Weiss (Associate, Madison) who provided legal research and analysis.


Some of our readers might remember the Polyes Q1 SLA 3D Printing Pen match we featured here on Geeky Gadgets back in October of this year.
If you have been patiently waiting to be able to get your hands on one of the unique and very innovative Polyes Q1 SLA 3D Printing Pens. You will be pleased to know that it will soon be launching via the Kickstarter crowdfunding website before the holiday season.
The Polyes Q1 SLA 3D Printing Pen has been specifically designed to require no heat to create SLA 3D printed objects and doesn't require any software to be used. The 3D printing pen is powered by batteries and is capable of generating around one hour of printing from a fully charged set.
The 3D printing pen can be used with a variety of multicoloured resins and no odours or harmful fumes are emitted from the pens while in use. Apparently the resin is so cool on extrusion that the company says it is even safe to draw designs onto skin.
Once the Kickstarter crowd funding campaign is live Future Make will be offering the first 100 backers a special early bird price of just $59 with three resins, providing a considerable reduction on the final retail price of $119 when the Kickstarter campaign finishes.
For more information on the new Polyes Q1 SLA 3D Printing Pen and its features watch the video below or jump over to the Future Make website for full specifications.


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Rudy Giuliani Has Tested Positive for the Coronavirus
He claimed he'd been been taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off the virus.
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Rudy Giuliani has become the latest member of Donald Trump's inner circle to test positive for the coronavirus, according to this presidential tweet:
.@RudyGiuliani, by far the greatest mayor in the history of NYC, and who has been working tirelessly exposing the most corrupt election (by far!) in the history of the USA, has tested positive for the China Virus. Get better soon Rudy, we will carry on!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2020
Giuliani, who has been leading the president's legal challenges to President-elect Joe Biden's election win, has been diagnosed with COVID-19 a little more than two weeks after his son, a special assistant to the president. Last month, the former New York City mayor, who is 76, claimed he had been been taking the ineffective therapeutic hydroxychloroquine to ward off the virus.
Like many in Trump's orbit, Giuliani has maintained a laissez-faire attitude towards the virus since the start of the pandemic. He critiqued Biden for wearing a mask even after Trump was hospitalized with the virus. "People don't die of this disease anymore," Giuliani said in October. So far, the coronavirus has claimed more than 272,000 American lives.
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One user said he found the feature after opening a new tab only to be "greeted by my earlier online banking and webmail sessions complete with account numbers, balances, subject lines etc.
"This content is behind a secure login for a reason," the user said.
In response to queries on the matter, Mozilla said the behavior was undesirable and promised a patch. In the meantime, the browser and email client firm points privacy-conscious users toward various workarounds.
The new tab thumbnails focus on users' browsing history. All information is within the browser and the user can delete it at any time. Users can also switch back to using blank new tab screens by clicking the square icon in the top right corner of the browser. That will change the default preference to show a blank page, rather than the most visited websites when a new tab opens.
Users who share their computer or use Firefox on a public computer should follow best practices for protecting their privacy by utilizing the built-in privacy tools in Firefox, such as Private Browsing Mode.
Firefox 13 released June 5, adding new features including updated new tab and home tab pages. The updated new tab page feature is like the Speed Dial feature already present in other browsers and displays cached copies of a user's most visited websites.


A cyclist has "drawn" an 88-mile (141km) virtual snowman across London.
Anthony Hoyte, from Cheltenham, spent 10 hours cycling the streets of the city, using the exercise and route sharing app Strava to "draw" the giant festive artwork.
The cyclist has created several virtual doodles including Fowl Play in Bristol, which took first prize in the city's Strava art competition in September.
The 49-year-old started creating his vast doodles about three years ago by plotting drawings on a map and using the Strava app to track his ride.
Since then he has created a "not very good" dog in Cheltenham, an elaborate virtual face on the roads of Cardiff and a pair of elephants in Birmingham.
"Ideally you need a place with a high concentration of roads," he said.
His vast snowman was created on paper last year but he was unable to cycle the route after he came "down with the lurgy".
"It took 10 hours, I spent the whole day doing it and did it all in one go," he said.
Along with a flock of birds which "leapt out" of the map at Mr Hoyte, he has also created an intricate head with a full head of hair in Cardiff.
"Lots of people said it looked like Bruce Forsythe or Steve Wright in the Afternoon," he said.