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The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry (2013) https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/07/time-to-feel-old-inside-the-nes-on-its-30th-birthday/
The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016) https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02621
How a Hacker Proved Cops Used a Stingray to Find Him https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/03/cyrus-farivar-book-excerpt-stingray-218588
The physics of baking good pizza https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08790
Digicert Withdraws from the CA Security Council https://www.digicert.com/blog/notice-of-withdrawal-from-the-ca-security-council/
Timsort is a sorting algorithm that is efficient for real-world data https://hackernoon.com/timsort-the-fastest-sorting-algorithm-youve-never-heard-of-36b28417f399
Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface https://voice.mozilla.org/speak
Captain Beefheart Radar Station http://www.beefheart.com/
Banned from following a conference https://medium.com/@0ndras/banned-from-following-a-conference-e6a277d079ae
How to make MongoDB not suck for analytics https://www.scaleapi.com/blog/athena#asdf
Design case history: the Commodore 64 (1985) [pdf] https://spectrum.ieee.org/ns/pdfs/commodore64_mar1985.pdf
There was a time when search engines were a thing, and it seems they still are http://boston.conman.org/2018/06/30.1
C2rust vs. Corrode https://jamey.thesharps.us/2018/06/30/c2rust-vs-corrode/
Beenz, a digital currency before Bitcoin https://thehustle.co/beenz-pre-bitcoin-digital-currency
How to get kids to pay attention https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/21/621752789/a-lost-secret-how-to-get-kids-to-pay-attention
Study reports cell phones may be making us hypersocial, rather than antisocial https://neurosciencenews.com/social-interaction-addiction-8445/
Phantom traffic jams, and why lane expansion isn't really successful https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/traffic-talk-ford-vanderbilt-2018/
Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/06/malaysia-forced-labor-electronics/563873/?single_page=true
Thomas Bayes and the crisis in science https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/thomas-bayes-science-crisis/
We discovered three poisonous books in our university library https://theconversation.com/how-we-discovered-three-poisonous-books-in-our-university-library-98358
500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under CC https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/1/17521456/500px-marketplace-creative-commons-getty-images-visual-china-group-photography-open-access
Biology Student Discovers Plastic-Eating Bacteria https://greatlakesledger.com/2018/07/01/student-discovers-plastic-eating-bacteria-which-could-solve-global-pollution-crisis/
Introduction to Isopath https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/isopath-intro.html
Target, Walmart Automate More Store Tasks https://www.wsj.com/articles/target-walmart-automate-more-store-tasks-1530453600
Bringup is Hard [pdf] http://www.garbled.net/tmp/bringup.pdf
Google and Nasdaq Pursuing Nano-Second Precision in Network Time Protocol https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/technology/computer-networks-speed-nasdaq.html
Cryptocurrency is driving innovation in the financial sector https://www.theindy.us/crypto-success-is-driving-innovation-in-the-financial-sector/
Show HN: Google Drive as a file system https://github.com/harababurel/gcsf
Taiwan's Technology Secrets Come Under Assault from China https://www.wsj.com/articles/taiwans-technology-secrets-come-under-assault-from-china-1530468440
OpenBSD in Amsterdam: VMs on vmd(8) servers https://openbsd.amsterdam/
After the Fall: Ten Years After the Crash https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n13/john-lanchester/after-the-fall
A New Angle on L2 Regularization https://thomas-tanay.github.io/post--L2-regularization/
Are we stuck with cement? https://theoutline.com/post/5124/are-we-stuck-with-cement-environmental-impact
Tesla meets self-imposed deadline for Model 3, rolls out 5000 cars in a week https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/29/tesla-q2-production-and-delivery-numbers.html
Lost in Math http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10314
An Extremely Consequential Supreme Court Decision Slipped Under the Radar https://theintercept.com/2018/06/27/american-express-supreme-court-ruling/
Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nation's Largest Cities https://www.zillow.com/research/hourly-home-equity-earnings-19356/
1990, meet 2018: How far does 20MHz of Macintosh IIsi power go today? https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/07/classic-computing-joyride-cruising-through-modern-workloads-on-a-macintosh-iisi/
Search Lookaside Buffer: Efficient Caching for Index Data Structures [pdf] http://omega.uta.edu/~xxw4571/papers/slb.pdf
Why My 11-Year Old Stopped Coding Then Switched to Python https://hackernoon.com/why-my-11-year-old-stopped-coding-then-started-again-ccc259f2f1a5
Free online philosophy courses http://www.openculture.com/philosophy_free_courses
The rich world needs higher real wage growth https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/06/30/the-rich-world-needs-higher-real-wage-growth
American Gut: An Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research [pdf] http://msystems.asm.org/content/msys/3/3/e00031-18.full.pdf
How a Diablo expansion led to behind-the-scenes trouble https://www.polygon.com/features/2018/6/29/17517376/diablo-hellfire-expansion-behind-the-scenes-trouble?
Memristive crypto primitive for building highly secure functions (2015) https://www.nature.com/articles/srep12785
Who Really Found the Higgs Boson (2014) http://nautil.us/issue/43/heroes/who-really-found-the-higgs-boson-rp
Sprintly Shutting Down August 1st, 2018 https://support.sprint.ly/hc/en-us/articles/360005769833-Sprintly-Shutting-down-August-1st-2018
In Chile, border collies are sowing seeds, bringing life back to forests (2017) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chile-three-border-collies-are-planting-seeds-bringing-life-back-forests-destroyed-by-fire-1628737
A 1980s Quantum Link to a Modern-Day Mutiny http://paleotronic.com/2018/07/01/a-1980s-quantum-link-to-a-modern-day-mutiny/
Awesome macOS open source applications https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps
Solution: 'The Slippery Math of Causation' https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-causation-puzzle-solution-20180629/
The Flatness of U.S. States [pdf] http://www.disruptivegeo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/FlatMap_GeographicalReview_DobsonCampbell_2013Nov.pdf
SiFive to release source code to initialize HiFive Unleashed RISC-V board https://forums.sifive.com/t/ddr-controller-configuration-register-values-for-hifive-unleashed/1334/8
Flexport is hiring software engineers https://www.flexport.com/careers/department/engineering
MIT Study debunks notion large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care http://news.mit.edu/2018/value-late-life-health-care-spending-medicare-0628
SMS over IRC https://mndrix.blogspot.com/2018/06/sms-over-irc.html
A divisive Lotus 'clone' war (1987) https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/05/business/a-divisive-lotus-clone-war.html
A Pioneer in Solar Energy (2006) http://mariatelkes.blogspot.com/2006/03/pioneer-in-solar-energy.html
Why I use the IBM Model M keyboard that is older than me http://yeokhengmeng.com/2018/07/why-i-use-the-ibm-model-m-keyboard-that-is-older-than-me/
Zero Knowledge Taxation on Ethereum https://medium.com/qed-it/zero-knowledge-qed-it-sdk-b20a6526e0a6
C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2018/06/29/announcing-jmc-stepping-in-visual-studio/
Silicon Valley's Exclusive Salary Database https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valleys-exclusive-salary-database
An Impostor Cell Line Set Back Breast Cancer Research (2017) http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/04/the_impostor_cell_line_that_set_back_breast_cancer_research.html
Hi-tech dreamcatcher defeats sleep amnesia https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44371572
The lost standing stones of Devon are still hiding from archaeologists https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/the-lost-standing-stones-of-devon-are-still-hiding-from-archaeologists/
Show HN: Timestamp Microservice https://github.com/skywalker212/timestamp-microservice
Friedrich Nietzsche: The truth is terrible https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/friedrich-nietzsche-truth-terrible/
Show HN: A Lisp interpreter in C# 7 https://github.com/nukata/lisp-in-cs
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Physiology of Politics http://blogs.harvard.edu/mattschrage/2018/04/26/the-physiology-of-politics/
More States Opting to 'Robo-Grade' Student Essays by Computer https://www.npr.org/2018/06/30/624373367/more-states-opting-to-robo-grade-student-essays-by-computer
The scooter company that raised 400M in 4 months is what is wrong with SV http://www.businessinsider.com/birds-400-million-in-4-months-is-the-poster-child-for-silicon-valley-2018-6
Functional programming paradigms in modern JavaScript: Partial Application https://hackernoon.com/functional-programming-paradigms-in-modern-javascript-partial-application-fbd6c9c93a0d
Bill to End Patent Office Validity Challenges Introduced in House https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/bill-to-end-patent-office-validity-challenges-introduced-in-house
This Is Water – David Foster Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
Developers. Our last, best hope for ethics? https://www.infoq.com/articles/developers-tech-ethics
Show HN: Bookmarks manager – Fastbmk.com http://fastbmk.com/
How China censors the net: by making sure there's too much information https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/16/how-china-censors-internet-information
The Real Origins of the Religious Right: Segregation (2014) https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133?o=0
Could psychedelics transform mental health? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44575139
LTE flaw lets attackers hijack your browsing session and record websites visited https://www.xda-developers.com/lte-flaw-attackers-hijack-browsing-session/
Why We Should Say Yes to Drugs https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/andrew-sullivan-why-we-should-say-yes-to-drugs.html
Poop Is Raining from the Sky in Canada, and the Government Says It's Not Planes https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjbm3w/poo-raining-from-the-sky-in-canada-government-says-not-planes
Duality: an excerpt [pdf] http://nakamotofamilyfoundation.org/duality.pdf
Kevin MacDonald and the Elevation of Anti-Semitic Pseudoscience https://undark.org/article/kevin-macdonald-anti-semitism-psychology/
Does Column Width of 80 Make Sense in 2018? https://hackernoon.com/does-column-width-of-80-make-sense-in-2018-50c161fbdcf6
This Mutation Math Shows How Life Keeps on Evolving https://www.wired.com/story/this-mutation-math-shows-how-life-keeps-on-evolving
The controversy over child killing among Amazon tribes in Brazil https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/09/the-right-to-kill-brazil-infanticide/
Django Channels Tutorial https://www.tutorialdocs.com/tutorial/django-channels/introduction.html
Best advice to U.S. dairy farmers? 'Sell out as fast as you can' https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/best-advice-u-s-dairy-farmers-sell-out-fast-you-n887941?cid=eml_nbn_20180630
GitHub Developers Are Giving Microsoft a Chance https://www.wired.com/story/github-developers-are-giving-microsoft-a-chance
Can Elon Musk and Tesla Reinvent the Way Cars Are Made? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/30/business/tesla-factory-musk.html
GUN: a realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph database engine https://gun.eco
We may have answered the Fermi Paradox: We are alone in the universe https://qz.com/1314111/we-may-have-answered-the-fermi-paradox-we-are-alone-in-the-universe/
Rewards of Up to $500,000 Offered for OpenBSD Zero-Days (and other dist.) https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=153039317823190&w=2
StumbleUpon is Shutting Down https://twitter.com/StumbleUpon/status/1013188401481338882
"Find your passion" is bad advice, say Yale and Stanford psychologists https://qz.com/1314088/find-your-passion-is-bad-advice-say-yale-and-stanford-psychologists/
A Privacy Bomb Is About to Be Dropped on the California Economy and the Internet https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2018/06/a-privacy-bomb-is-about-to-be-dropped-on-the-california-economy-and-the-global-internet.htm#CA
Tesla produce 7000 cars in seven days https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1013519243030253570
Middle-aged entrepreneurs are more successful than young ones https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/why-middle-aged-entrepreneurs-are-better-than-young-ones/
Gentoo's GitHub Organization Was Hacked https://gentoo.org/news/2018/06/28/Github-gentoo-org-hacked.html
California passes landmark data privacy bill https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/28/landmark-california-privacy-bill-heads-to-governors-desk/
Comcast aware of nationwide outage impacting its internet, video and voice users https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/06/29/1730238/comcast-is-facing-a-nationwide-outage-users-say
The Ratio of Workers to Retirees Is Plunging Across Developed Economies http://thesoundingline.com/there-are-now-barely-two-workers-per-senior-in-most-developed-economies/


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COMMONWEALTH v. LOPEZ July 30, 2014 No. 13–P–750.
COMMONWEALTH v. TRAYLOR July 30, 2014 No. 11–P–1238.
COMMONWEALTH v. BRADSHAW July 29, 2014 No. 12–P–897.
PACIFIC INDEMNITY COMPANY v. LAMPRO July 24, 2014 No. 13–P–1510.
COMMONWEALTH v. FISHER July 22, 2014 No. 13–P–837.
USF INSURANCE COMPANY v. LANGLOIS July 22, 2014 No. 13–P–1387.
Jack GAMMELL, petitioner. July 15, 2014 No. 13–P–396.
RODRIGO RODRIGUEZ v. CITY OF SOMERVILLE July 1, 2014 No. 13–P–1422.

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Path of Exile: How to Play Atlas Better?
Are you a new player to experience the specific features of Atlas? But, you should bear in mind that the Atlas is incredibly complicated.
The Atlas is the endgame for Path of Exile. When you finish the story, around level 70, you gain access to 'maps,' which are new zones to run. These are all part of the Atlas, which is really just a large collection of maps that serve as a visual representation of the locations you are visiting.
All of the maps start at tier one, and progress all the way to tier 16. Each of the tier one maps start in the corner of the maps, and you'll move towards the center, gaining tiers and difficulty as you go. As you make your way through the Atlas, you will encounter all the enemies you fought throughout the story, as well as some new mobs. Same goes for bosses. There are 157 maps on the Atlas, and they're all packed to the brim with things that want to kill you.
Whenever you are in a map of any tier, mobs have a chance to drop maps instead of regular loot. These maps can be the same tier, one tier higher, or any tier lower than the one you're currently running.
In other words, if you're playing a tier 4 map, you have a chance of a tier 5, tier 4, tier 3, tier 2, or tier 1 map dropping. However, the possible map drops only include maps that are connected in some way to the pathways you currently have access to on your Atlas.
A map gets added to the list of possible map drops once you beat the boss and clear the level.
The monsters you kill on a map can only drop a map connected to the one you are already running. For example, Graveyard is a tier 1 map that is connected to Marshes, a tier 2 map. In order for me to find my first Marshes (tier 2) map, I have to find it while running Graveyard (tier 1), since the two maps are directly connected. Any mob in a Graveyard map can drop a Marshes map, allowing me to then run Marshes.
Don't worry about getting a bunch of copies of maps you've already cleared. You can sell three copies of a map to an NPC vendor in order to get a map that's one tier higher. In other words, if you can't find a Marshes map, sell three Graveyards for one.
As you advance, bosses can drop maps that are two tiers higher. However, you need to have actually unlocked the tier in between the current map and the map that's two tiers higher for this to be possible. There's no skipping over maps!
If you have completed a map and killed the boss, then it's permanently added to the list of maps you can find. So if you're running a tier four map, you can drop a different tier four map that you've completed, even though they aren't connected. This is great for building up a map pool, but it doesn't help you move forward on the Atlas.
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You can also try our Visitor's Center, they have a few tours as well. Or just park in Overlook Park, walk the grounds… view the Falls and walk from there, over the Falls and to the other side. It is a nice walk. We do it frequently because we live here and it inspires us.
And while you are walking… think of Paterson before industrialization, and after… find the rainbow!
This takes about 125 years to finish!


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Back-To-Back Jacks Power Tigers To 7-2 Win
By Sean Yuille Jun 8, 2010, 11:21pm EDT
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Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - Brennan Boesch hit a three-run homer during a six-run seventh inning, which lifted the Detroit Tigers to a 7-2 victory over the White Sox in the opener of a three-game series.
Carlos Guillen, who finished 3-for-5, added a homer and Ryan Raburn hit a two- run double during the inning, as the Tigers won for the fourth time in six games.
The sudden surge of offense bailed out Armando Galarraga, who made his first start since his near perfect game last Wednesday. Galarraga allowed seven hits -- one a two-run homer by Mark Kotsay -- and two walks in five innings.
Matt Thornton (2-3) allowed five runs during the seventh inning for the White Sox, who have dropped five of seven.
Big 7th Inning Propels Tigers To 7-2 Win Over White Sox
Preview: Armando Galarraga Returns To Mound Tonight Against White Sox


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Avatar: The Way of the Water
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Ryan Reynolds: Leak "100%" Led To Deadpool Movie, No Green Lantern Script When He Auditioned
By Jay Jayson - February 3, 2015 01:25 pm EST
Ryan Reynold's Deadpool movie seemed like it was stuck in production hell, but shortly after a leaked copy of test footage came online 20th Century Fox gave it the green light. Was the leak the only reason Deadpool finally got off the ground? "Exclusively the leaked test footage, 100 percent," Ryan Reynolds told Yahoo."
Ryan Reynolds, like most people, thought director Tim Miller might have leaked it, but after checking into it that doesn't seem to be the case. "The initial [leak] came from Fox they think — someone recorded the footage on their iPhone and then released it," Reynolds explained. "And then once that happened, somebody hacked into Blurred Studios and got the original footage in high-res and put it online."
No matter who leaked it, Reynolds is just happy that it finally leaked out. Even the people that were trying to make the film happen thought about leaking it themselves. "I was excited, because you can look back at an email chain from all of us, the core group involved in Deadpool, saying "We should leak this, f—-," like three years ago," he confessed. "Saying, "Hey, if this thing is going to stagnate, one of us should just say 'Whoops, I slipped it online by accident.'" And nobody seemed to want to nut up and do that, myself included. Someone did it for us, years later, when we all completely assumed it was dead in the water."
Now that Reynolds is dipping his toe back into superhero films, what has he learned since Green Lantern? "Well, script," he replied. "When we shot Green Lantern, nobody auditioning for the role of Green Lantern was given the opportunity to read the script, because the script didn't exist. I'm not complaining about it — it was an opportunity of a lifetime, and if I were to go back and retrace my steps, I would probably do everything the exact same way. But script, that's what's different on this one."
Deadpool arrives in theaters February 12, 2016.
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I am an undergraduate that will graduated soon in next year 2010. I am responsible and willing to learn new things especially computer technology. I starting to learn programming from the last 2 years. Now, i have 2 years of programming experience with capable to write application with the commonly use programming language like Java, C# and etc. From the internship course that currently taken, I have gain some knowledge about the RFID technology and some experience on working on the real working situation. Hence, I am keep improving myself in programming skill and soft-skill to prevent from being outdated.
I am using PHP language to write a web-based application when taking the internship course. The function of this web application is managing the database on the server.
Most of the courses assignments are using this language.
Tourist Spot Information Kiosk - past project that developed by using Netbean IDE with Java language and MS Access database. This project is an application that let the tourist to identify the tourist spot in Penang by using the kiosk machine. Has experience in developing the J2ME midlet programming in mobile phone.
- Learning consultation skill from recommendation of RFID technology to client.


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Q: How to make a Discord bot create a new VC when joining a specific VC I have a command which creates a voice channel with certain permissions and puts it under a category. Instead, I want the voice channel to be created when you join a specific voice channel called "Join to create" and you are moved to the new voice channel after it is created. I also want the new voice channel to automatically delete once everyone has left it.
I'm not quite sure how to do this so I'd really appreciate the help. Here is the code for the command:
  if (command === "createvc") {
    message.guild.channels.create(message.author.username + "'s Channel", {
    type: 'voice', parent: '703315964011479090',
      permissionOverwrites: [
        {
          id: message.guild.id, // everyone
          allow: ['CREATE_INSTANT_INVITE', 'VIEW_CHANNEL', 'CONNECT', 'SPEAK', 'STREAM', 'USE_VAD'],
          deny: ['MANAGE_CHANNELS', 'MANAGE_ROLES', 'MANAGE_WEBHOOKS', 'MUTE_MEMBERS', 'DEAFEN_MEMBERS', 'MOVE_MEMBERS', 'PRIORITY_SPEAKER']
        },
        {
          id: '705036984934203473', // Muted
          allow: ['CREATE_INSTANT_INVITE', 'VIEW_CHANNEL'],
          deny: ['CONNECT', 'SPEAK', 'STREAM', 'USE_VAD', 'MANAGE_CHANNELS', 'MANAGE_ROLES', 'MANAGE_WEBHOOKS', 'MUTE_MEMBERS', 'DEAFEN_MEMBERS', 'MOVE_MEMBERS', 'PRIORITY_SPEAKER']
        },
        {
          id: '705036553872998470', // Unverified
          deny: ['CREATE_INSTANT_INVITE', 'VIEW_CHANNEL', 'CONNECT', 'SPEAK', 'STREAM', 'USE_VAD', 'MANAGE_CHANNELS', 'MANAGE_ROLES', 'MANAGE_WEBHOOKS', 'MUTE_MEMBERS', 'DEAFEN_MEMBERS', 'MOVE_MEMBERS', 'PRIORITY_SPEAKER']
        },
      ],
    })
  }

Thank you in advance.

A: You can detect if someone joined the Join to Create channel using the voiceStateUpdate event and then creating a new voice channel using guild.channels.create() and then finally by moving the GuildMember(s) to that voice channel.
Your solution would be something like this:
client.on('voiceStateUpdate', (oldState, newState) => {
    if (newState.channel.name === 'Join to Create') { // You can also use `newState.channelID`
        newState.guild.channels.create("New Channel", {
            type: 'voice',
            parent: 'CATEGORY_ID'
        }).then(vc => {
            newState.setChannel(vc);
        })
    }
});

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Interview with Butch of Argus
Armed with an armada of heavy songs inspired by the old great ones of heavy metal, Argus are the kind of that prove that the roots of the genre haven't dried out and that there is still some ground left to explore if one decides to combine their taste for the old-school together with forward-thinking ambition. Just listen to some of their stuff if you haven't already and you'll understand what I mean. It's heavy, it's epic, and it's got pretty much everything else you'd want from a heavy/doom band.
I was lucky enough to get in contact with the bands' vocalist Butch and ask them a few quick questions about their recent European shows, their latest releases as well their perspective on the state of Heavy Metal today.
- First off, when did the band come together and how did the members end up connecting?
The band is we are known came together in 2006. Argus existed as a kind of groove/stoner metal band and those guys all knew each other from high school and the scene up in the Franklin, PA area. I met the band at a time when I was without a band and their singer was playing his last gig with them. I spoke to Kevin, our drummer, after their set and we hit it off and after a few phone calls I came out to audition and it grew from there. We dropped almost all of the old material and started building our music based around our love for Iron Maiden, Candlemass, Thin Lizzy, Slough Feg….stuff like that. Heavy, powerful, melodic and with great guitar harmonies, a tight and aggressive rhythm section and powerful vocals.
- For those out there who've yet to discover your band, how would you describe the music you play?
It's metal. I don't know what else to say really. We prefer not to be pigeonholed into some sub-genre. But we are heavy, melodic, epic at times, moody and have moments or shades of doom and little progressive minded flairs. I always throw out the description of Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy and Black Sabbath in a blender. It is simply high quality heavy metal.
- Last April marked your first appearance at Roadburn Fest, how did that go?
It was amazing. We were treated like rock stars by Walter and his staff. The sound and lighting was phenomenal. The Green Room was packed from the time we started until we hit our last note. It truly could not have gone any better. It is one of the highlights of my life and a true honor to play Roadburn. It's the most professional operation out there. Simply amazing.
- What were your impressions on European audiences?
We love European audiences. They are so passionate about their music. Their love for heavy metal. They sing, they cheer, clap…. They don't just stand there with their arms folded in front of them. If they like you they will show you. I love playing in the USA but Europe takes it to another level.
- How and when did you get hooked up with Cruz Del Sur Records?
I initially contacted Enrico around the time of our debut but, at that time, we were a new band and he preferred to not have such an unknown on the label yet. When it came time to do the second album we were in contact and with some help from Tom Phillips (While Heaven Wept) as well we came to an agreement for "Boldly Stride the Doomed".
- Who writes the lyrics in the band? What do the lyrics usually deal with? I've picked up some references to historical events, notably the Manhattan project and other war-related lyrics on your latest album.
I write the lyrics. They are mix of personal, historical or storytelling. Generally whatever strikes my mood. I've gone from adaptations of Poe and Lovecraft to historical stories such as the Endurance expedition to Antarctica in 1914 (By Endurance We Conquer) to personal issues like growing old (Wolves of Dusk), gaining strength through loss (From Darkness…Light), my children (Four Candles Burning). The next album will be almost exclusively personal and very dark. Trinity from "Beyond the Martyrs" was, indeed, about the Manhattan Project.
- Could you tell us a little more about the great cover artwork to your latest record "Beyond the Martyr"?
Brad Moore does our artwork and we basically gave him some very very rough ideas and let him run with it. He hasn't let us down yet. He does great work and is a good friend as well. Very talented dude.
- Earlier this year you also released a single titled "Death Hath No Conscience". Could you tell us a little more about this single and what it's about?
It was a song initially to be the start of our fourth album but we decided to do a 7" to coincide with our appearances at Roadburn and in Dublin. Lyrically the song was inspired by someone I loved very dearly who had been through a horrible stretch of tragedy in a short period of time…losing her mother, younger brother and her father who at the time was very ill and later also passed. I felt incredibly sad for her and her family and wondered why good people had to suffer so much when there are so many bad people in the world. I was angry at what the world was doing to her and her family. This song reflects the indiscriminate and cold and unfeeling nature of death. Death doesn't care what she leaves in her wake. So the title "Death Hath No Conscience" came to me and within two hours the lyric as you hear it was completed.
- Your music is deeply rooted within the foundations of old-school heavy and doom metal. What is your take on some of the emerging subgenres of metal music as well as the evolution of heavy metal music today?
I can hardly keep up with all the subgenres out there. We don't concern ourselves with that. I can tell you that from vets like Iron Maiden to young bands like Visigoth and in between there is a ton of great metal being recorded. I'd be here all day listing bands. Not every band is unique but many are passionate and more importantly writing great songs and that is the key – songwriting. If your songs are good no one really cares if you sound like someone they've heard before. If you out yourself into it, if you put yourself out there then it will come across in your music. The scene is healthy creatively for sure. It is hard for bands though – touring is expensive, labels are more concerned with sales than developing artists, and sales of physical product are way down… But metal is like the cockroach of the music world. You can't kill it. It can live through a nuclear holocaust.
- I've read that you are currently working on your upcoming fourth full-length effort. What can we expect from Argus with this upcoming release?
We have 4-5 songs in process of writing. With two new members in the band, Dave Watson on guitar and he is already setting himself up as an integral part of the writing team and Justin Campbell on bass who brings a ton to the table in terms of ideas for every aspect of the band. You can expect it to sound like Argus with the edges pushed out somewhat. We don't believe in stagnancy or repeating ourselves. This album will have some more somber moments. There is a song in process called "No Right to Grieve" that should end up being a real heartbreaker of a song. It will be a mix of stuff though from uptempo songs to doomy bits to moody passages and of course great harmony guitars. I don't think this next album will disappoint our fans in any way. I don't have a better feel for it yet because we're barely ¼ of the way into the process but I can tell it's going to be special. Lyrically I will be going more personal than I ever have and it's going to be emotional, sometimes dark, material.
- To close things off with our trademark question: could you name one of your favorite albums, movies and books?
Album…. Hmmm… let's go with Witch Cross "Fit for Fight"….I've been playing it a lot lately. Great playing, singing and the riffs on that album's back half rival bands like Mercyful Fate. Just such a great album that I've dug since I was a teenager.
Movie… The Wizard of Oz… I could watch it a million times and never be bored. Not the most "metal" pick I could have made but it is my favorite film since I was a kid.
Book… Nothin' to Lose: The Making of KISS (1972-1975)… Quite a revealing look at how KISS began and rose to fame and all the work that went into breaking them and turning them into stars.
Interview by Robin Ono
Thank you to Mark, to Brian and to the rest of the band for making this interview possible! Rock on guys!
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It's an ambitious goal: ending youth homelessness. Even more impressive, to try and do it in 100 days.
A coalition of county and city workers and nonprofits have joined forces for a 100-day challenge to tackle youth homelessness. After a few days of brainstorming, their goal is to house 700 young people in the next few months in King, Pierce and Spokane counties.
Organizations don't have specifics yet, but plan on releasing more progress updates in the coming month.
The Schultz Family Foundation and Raikes Foundation is providing approximately $250,000 to support the challenge.
Rapid Results Institute is running the workshop.
Zack Zibrosky, who is not involved with the challenge but was homeless on and off for three years, says advocates should focus on more than housing.
"What's the point of getting someone housing if they're just going to lose it in a year again and be back on the streets," Zibrosky said, explaining he became homeless after leaving his foster home.
"You kind of feel like you don't matter. That you're left to the last place that will take you and even that place doesn't want you, and then you end up on the streets," Zibrosky said.
He says plans should focus on individualizing services. Zibrosky said he turned his life around after a close friend stole the car he was living in, but not all homeless youth are the same.
"Once that happens, once you've fallen through these cracks, it's just really hard to do what I did: pick yourself up and say, 'I'm going to do this,'" Zibrosky said.
The 100-day challenge teams are still in the brainstorming stages, but by June organizations will post real-time information on the process they've made on youth homelessness by region.


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San Francisco vs. The Monster (aka Federal Regulation)
By Stephen McConnell on June 1, 2016
There is a lawyer we worked with at another firm who had a standard move, kind of the way that Jerry Seinfeld had a standard "move" – and, come to think of it, with a similar intention. ("The Move" shows up in "Fusilli Jerry," the 107th episode of Seinfeld.) In the face or fear of a hostile action against our client, this lawyer would file a declaratory judgment action in a friendly federal court. The concept, of course, was to seize the initiative and do some forum-shopping. Sometimes the action would be preemptive and sometimes it would be reactive. One would think that the timing would make a difference. But as today's case, Monster Beverage Corp., v. Herrera, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 9012 (9th Cir. May 17, 2016), demonstrates, that ain't necessarily so. We discussed the Monster case a couple of days after Labor Day in 2013, when Monster survived an attack on its preemptive preemption position. Here it is just a couple of days after Memorial Day in 2016, and the Ninth Circuit has ended the case on grounds of Younger abstention and the Anti-Injunction Act. That's a long passage of time. The judicial process, especially the appellate phase (doubly so in the Ninth Circuit), can take a while. What happened in the interim?
First, please enjoy this reminder of what the Monster case was about. The San Francisco City Attorney wrote a letter to Monster informing it of an investigation into whether Monster's marketing of its energy drinks was deceptive and bad in various other ways. Needless to say, the City Attorney's beef was really with the federal regulatory regime that already governed what Monster could and could not say about its products. But San Francisco has been known to try to conduct its own foreign policy, so why should federal regulations stand in the way of its persistent effort to impose a nanny-state on its benighted citizens? Monster filed a preemptive declaratory judgment action in C.D. Cal. (good idea to drag the San Francisco City Attorney down to SoCal), seeking to shut down the investigation because it was preempted by federal law. Then the San Francisco City Attorney filed a complaint in San Francisco Superior Court, which Monster removed to federal court on grounds of federal question (preemption again), which the federal court remanded after rejecting the preemption argument. For those of you keeping score at home, that means there was a federal case in Dodger-land and a state case in Giant-land.
The San Francisco (honestly, by this point we are tired of writing the city name out in full, but Boranian warned us that we'd be jeered if we abbreviated the city's name in any way) City Attorney, as is the case with all Bay Area denizens forced to contemplate anything south of Big Sur, must have seen the C.D. Cal. case as a vast annoyance. That was certainly the idea behind Monster's maneuver. Not surprisingly, then, the City Attorney filed a motion to dismiss the declaratory judgment action in C.D. Cal., arguing that the preemption argument stood no chance. The federal court denied that motion to dismiss. That is the ruling we applauded back in September 2013.
As happens on those rare occasions when we attend a Philadelphia Orchestra performance, we applauded a bit too soon.
The San Francisco City Attorney filed another motion to dismiss, this time based on Younger abstention and the Anti-Injunction Act. So here is the second reminder for you to enjoy, this time bringing you back to your third-year class in Federal Jurisdiction. Younger abstention (the name comes from the seminal case – it is not a reference to a newer, cuter form of abstention) requires federal courts to refrain from exercising jurisdiction that would interfere with an ongoing state judicial proceeding that implicates important state interests and that also provides an adequate opportunity to raise federal defenses. The Anti-Injunction Act (22 U.S.C. section 2283) forbids a court from staying proceedings in a state court except as authorized by Congress or where necessary in aid of its jurisdiction or to effectuate its judgments. The district court agreed with the San Francisco City Attorney that Monster's action ran afoul of Younger abstention and the Anti-Injunction Act, and therefore dismissed the case. The Ninth Circuit agreed with the district court and affirmed. Monster's preemptive master stroke ultimately comes to naught, and now Monster must face a silly enforcement action (that really does look preempted to our admittedly biased eyes) in what might be the ultimate pro-plaintiff jurisdiction.
The Ninth Circuit's ruling arrived in the form of a Memorandum Disposition, which judges and clerks fondly call a "memo dispo." Per 9th Cir. R. 36-3, a memo dispo has limited precedential effect. The use of nonprecedential dispositions is not without controversy (that is probably even truer with California state court decisions than federal decisions). If a disposition comes in the form of a nonprecedential memo because the issue is so simple and clear-cut based on existing precedent, and the idea is not to fill the Federal Reporters with a lot of repetitive mush, maybe the practice is okay. But when iffy rulings are being buried, then it is pernicious. When we clerked on the Ninth Circuit, our Judge tried to be conscientious about resorting to memo dispos. But not all judges viewed them the same way. One in particular (who happens to be on the panel for the Monster case), was such a fan of memo dispos that he liked to circulate them, rather than bench memos, prior to oral argument. The memo dispo would then be issued very shortly after argument, perhaps before the litigants had clapped their briefbags shut. That memo dispo-loving judge had one of the shortest backlogs on the court. The losing party would probably file a petition for rehearing, but good luck with that. [Except we remember one time when a loser in a memo dispo did manage to get the attention of then-Ninth Circuit Judge Kennedy. Judge Kennedy called our chambers and said he thought we got it wrong. After some case- and record- and soul-searching, the outcome was changed. Maybe you could criticize the court for mucking up the original result, but the process showed the court at its best – honest, diligent, and not too proud to admit a mistake. So whenever anyone complains to us regarding Justice Kennedy and his seeming determination always to be the swing-vote, or his interest in foreign law, or his new-agey prose about defining one's self against the "mystery of human life," our rejoinder is that he is a smart, humble, hard-working judge who is actually trying to get it right.]
Here's our take on the Monster memo dispo; we're not sure it is so clear cut. Younger abstention applies when state court proceedings were initiated before anything of substance took place in federal court. Here, Monster won the race. Shouldn't that count for something? Naturally we get from the court the usual stuff about California's "strong interest" in ensuring that consumer products comply with the state's crazily broad and vague unfair practice laws. The court also assures us that Monster's preemption and primary jurisdiction arguments can get a fair hearing in the San Francisco state court proceeding. Mmmmm. Has the Ninth Circuit read Conte?
The Ninth Circuit's analysis of the Anti-Injunction Act issue is even more cursory. The exceptions are "inapplicable." Why? Never you mind. It's all about comity, equity, and federalism, and for you even to ask the question puts you on the wrong side of those values – as well as Mom, apple-pie, and streamlined dockets. In any event, here's hoping that the San Fran City Attorney's case meets its own "dispo" reasonably soon. It is inevitable that the City Attorney's case reminds us of Nietzsche's aphorism: "When you go forth to fight monsters, take care that you do not yourself become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you."
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Save the Village: A Book Talk with Michele Herman
It's Theater Thursday! We Love The Cherry Lane Theatre's Mentor Project
By Lannyl Stephens
The Cherry Lane Theatre
How do we love thee? Let us count the ways! I was treated to my very first Off-Broadway show at The Cherry Lane Theatre as a child, and so it holds a very special place in my heart. It is a dream of a little place situated in a landmarked building on one of the most adorable blocks in our fair city. One could say that The Cherry Lane is truly the artistic heart of the Village.
The Cherry Lane Theatre in 1982
The Cherry Lane Theatre was the brainchild of poet, playwright, actress, and ultimate Villager Edna St. Vincent Millay, a woman who did indeed burn her candle at both ends. While most famous as a poet, Millay was originally a member of the Provincetown Players, the group which founded the Provincetown Playhouse. Millay moved away from that group in 1924 to form her own experimental theater at the Cherry Lane with a group of local artists. The space they chose was a former brewery and box factory building, which dated back to 1836. The plot of land had belonged to the Gomez family farm, and on that particular parcel stood a silo prior to it becoming a brewery.
Since its founding, The Cherry Lane has been home to some of America's most innovative movements in theater and theatrical literature. The Cherry Lane claims to be the space where "Off-Broadway" was born. Plays by some of the world's most distinguished writers have been born there. From F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Elmer Rice in the '20s to O'Neill, O'Casey, Odets, Auden, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, and William Saroyan in the '40s and '50s to Beckett, Albee, Pinter, Ionesco, and LeRoi Jones in the '60s to Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Joe Orton, and David Mamet in the '70s and '80s, the little theater has seen its fair share of pioneering, culture-shifting work.
Now, under the stewardship of Founding Artistic Director Angelina Fiordellisi, it serves as a vital lab for the development of new American works and a home for groundbreaking productions of both new and classic theater of the highest caliber. As New York's longest continuously running Off-Broadway theater, the Cherry Lane Theatre continues to define American drama, fostering fresh, daring, and relevant work.
Playwrights and playwrighting mentors of 2019 Photo by Monique Carboni
The Cherry Lane's marquee program is their Obie Award-winning Mentor Project. Each year they pair three early-career playwrights in season-long, one-on-one mentoring relationships with experienced dramatists. Mentors guide their fellows through an intensive developmental process consisting of readings and rehearsals while serving as a trusted source of career advice and professional support. The program culminates in fully-staged productions that remain critic-free to avoid commercial concerns that would inhibit the creative process.
Founding Artistic Directo Angelina Fiordellisi
The Mentor Project was established in 1998 by Ms. Fiordellisi, and was inspired by an important precursor in residence at Cherry Lane in the 60s: ALBARWILD, a collaboration between producers Richard Barr, Clinton Wilder, and playwright Edward Albee, who created production opportunities for such early-career playwrights as Sam Shepard, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), A.R. Gurney, and Jean-Claude van Itallie.
The 2019 Mentor Project heralds its 21st season, having nurtured the careers of 65 emerging artists to fuel the next generation of American playwrights. Past fellows include Rajiv Joseph (mentored by Theresa Rebeck in 2005), Katori Hall (mentored by Lynn Nottage in 2006), Sheila Callaghan (mentored by Michael Weller in 2006), Anne Washburn (mentored by Craig Lucas in 2000), Julia Cho (mentored by David Henry Hwang in 2002), Christopher Shinn (mentored by Charles Fuller in 1999) and Bathsheba Doran (mentored by Michael Weller in 2003).
To purchase tickets to see the productions that have grown out of this year's Mentor Project, please visit The Cherry Lane Theatre's website. The plays run from February 20th through April 13th. We'll see you there!


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Wakefield Exclusion Team
New Build at The Springfield Centre
The Wakefield PRU system is re-locating, re-configuring and expanding to accommodate the growing number on roll across Key Stages 2, 3 and 4
After many months of planning the whole process will begin week beginning 2nd July 2018 and will continue through until September 2019
The Key Stage 2/3 Provision
In September 2018 the main KS2/3 provision will be based on St Georges Road, Lupset WF2 8BB. It will continue to be named The Priory Centre, DFE number 1101 It will have a capacity for 42 young people.
Due to expanding numbers on roll the KS2/3 Priory Centre will oversee an offsite facility based in Castleford, the Castledene Centre, on Pontefract Road, Castleford WF10 4JE This centre will have 9 young people on roll in September 2018. Throughout the academic year 2018/19 this site will be further developed, both internally and externally, to create a provision with a capacity for 24 young people.
The Key Stage 4 Provision one year on
In September 2019 the main KS4 provision will be based on Pontefract Road, Crofton WF4 1LL. It will continue to be known as The Springfield Centre, DFE number 1100. In addition to the main hub, the KS4 Provision will also include 3 locality offsite learning centres catering for the more disengaged young people from each area:
2-4 George-a-Green Road, Lupset, WF2 8HN. The provision will cater for up to 24 young people from the Lupset, Ossett, Horbury and Outwood districts.
The Hilltop Centre
Kershaw Avenue. Airedale, WF10 3ES. The provision will cater for up to 16 young people from the Airedale and Castleford districts
Church Mount South Kirkby, WF9 3QS. The provision will cater for up to 16 young people from the South Kirkby, South Emsall and Upton districts.
Academic Year 2018/19 developments in Key Stage 4
Throughout the academic year 2018/19 significant building works will be completed at the Crofton site. This will result in the site having a capacity for 60 young people in September 2019. The site will consist of the original main building, a new 4 classroom annex together with a vocational building, housing Motor Vehicle and Construction courses.
Due to potential Health and Safety issues at the developing Crofton site throughout the academic year 2018/19, the site will be maintained with minimal young people on roll. The Springfield Centre will be a split-site centre for Year 11.
The SESKU Centre will be a split site with the Springfield Centre and cater for mainly Year 10 young people. This site will be developed to have up to 30 on roll.
Ofsted/HMI/Inspectorate
As with many other Local Authorities the Wakefield District has seen a significant increase in Key Stage 2, 3 and 4 young people being permanently excluded from their mainstream schools or academies. Working closely with Education and Inclusion, School Strategy and Performance and Schools Organisation the relocation process is the culmination of four years planning to accommodate the increase in numbers.
Due to unforeseen planning issues relating to Green Belt conservation, the relocation was confirmed to all staff, pupils and parents in early June 2018. This has created a delay to the programme of three months. Despite this delay the Wakefield PRU Senior Teams in collaboration with the Local Authority have decided to move immediately ready for a September 2018 start.
As a result of the relocation process, five out of the six learning centres across the Wakefield PRU system will operate throughout 2018/19 in a different way. Some will have a different remit at the start of academic year 2019/20. This transitional period has been planned for and will maintain the high standard of provision, progress and learning the SLT demand on a daily/weekly basis.
The Senior Management teams within the Wakefield PRUs envisage a busy year ahead, and whilst every effort has been made to reduce disruption across the whole of the Wakefield PRUs we may experience issues relating to pupil journeys and travel times. The re-location of the Wakefield PRUs is an exciting time for us and we look forward to the future with bigger and better provision, creating opportunities for our young people to progress into the next phases of their education, training or employment
Will Carpenter
Executive Head Teacher
Parent-Pack-November-2019


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Now August is over and September brings us into autumn, Brighton continues as if summer is still on.
If you missed the Big Screen on the beach, it is returning next year with its usual blend of old classics to most recent movies and at four quid a pop it is a great and cheap night out.
The Zip wire by the pier recently opened but at £15 pound a go I think it's a bit expensive. I spoke to one of their team and they are looking at discounts for locals. Let's hope they do. They have an option called "The Zip Drop." Basically it's a vertical drop from the zip tower to the beach floor and at £8.50 it's more reasonable. Also remember the i360 does give a half price discount for residents as long you bring a utility bill e.g. Council tax bill to prove it. So depending on what weather apps you look at, most are promising some decent temperatures throughout the month, maybe give it a go.
Throughout the next month or so there is still a lot going on, I will list some of those as well as upcoming gigs for the music fans. A lot of them are selling fast so have a look and book before they do.
Hundreds of cars and motorbikes travel along Madeira Drive against the clock. As it's Brighton, it will be a bit different than normal. Thousands turn up to this annual event so get there early.
3rd & 10th September Classical music in the Pavilion gardens…Free.
Bring a blanket, picnic and wine as you relax in the last weeks of sun on the lawns and listen to some classical and classic music in the stunning gardens facing the Pavilion.
9th September The Sussex Beacon Summer Fete….FREE.
Live entertainment, games, prizes, food stalls and cakes. It's a bit out of the centre but great for families.
23rd Sept The Colour Run Madeira Drive……FREE, again unless you want to enter the event.
Theme Health and Happiness and most of the runners are either sponsored for charities or groups or friends or families just doing it for fun.
Prices are £28 for solo runners, £26 for groups and a £10 for kids. Watching it is great also.
Runners get a white t-shirt and as then for the run are blasted with paint…in a nice way. There is also a foam zone….so it will be a great event.
Sept 6th, 13th and 20th Comedy Club at The Richmond pub….just before St Peters Church on the opposite corner.
A comedy stand up night with up and coming comedians on the circuit.
Trendy local and friendly pub, good beer and good music before and after the show.
Get there early as it gets very busy.
A motorcycle event where up to 5000 riders show off their skills and perform stunts to, yet again, a busy crowd.
There's "live" music, trade stands and some amazing bikes.
Now for the gigs coming up in the next month or so.
As stated earlier, they are selling very fast.
28th Rag 'n Bone Man.
So sorry, no Little Mix.
Hope some of these gigs and events are something you would like to see, and some are free.
Enjoy the last Rays of summer.


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This week in SHOP TALK, we continue to roll out content from our Shopping annual with a glimpse at the new Shepherd's store. Here's a glimpse of the original article by Kristin Braginetz.
The third location of Shepherd's is also the biggest. At 5,000 square feet, the space allowed owner Marlene Shepherd room to bring in home decor items such as ottomans and love seats. It also provides room for a range of styles: the store is laid out in vignettes, with each nook exuding a different vibe.
The Look: Dramatic, elegant, and eye-catching.
Perfect for: Ladies who lunch, world travellers, and any professional woman who wants to develop a sophisticated, confident style.
USP: Fashion shows, trunk sales, seminars … Shepherd's isn't just a store, it's a network of stylish ladies.
Shepherd's, 145 Trainyards Dr., 613-366-2171.
Get the full story — complete with more photos and quotes from Ms. Marlene herself — in the 2012/2013 edition of Shopping, available at Chapters locations, Brittons magazine stores, and other newsstands around town. Or order your copy online by clicking here.


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Porter, Sandra (2013) An exploration of the support needs of ambulance paramedics. PhD thesis, Victoria University.
The work of ambulance paramedics is usually physically and emotionally draining and can place significant amounts of pressure on the emergency service worker. The work they do can impact their social life, their family and ultimately, their health. The primary aim of this research was to explore the psychological and social coping strategies of ambulance paramedics, in dealing with the day to day aspects of their work in the context of their long term health and well-being. A secondary aim was to examine the use of current peer support programs and other referral services used by paramedics. This study was a qualitative exploration of the experiences of ambulance paramedics through interviewing. Qualitative research has allowed the researcher to capture the stories of individuals, in their own words. This study included nine novice paramedics (first year) and 12 longer term employed (five plus years) paramedics within Rural Ambulance Victoria. Participants were also recruited to reflect the gender ratio in the paramedic workforce.


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Home Energy Biofuels Microbial fuel cell, a.k.a. bio-batteries, take a step closer with new research
Microbial fuel cell, a.k.a. bio-batteries, take a step closer with new research
David Herron March 27, 2013 March 31, 2015 Biofuels
So-called bio-batteries or microbial fuel cells took a tiny step toward reality with the announcement of research at the University of East Anglia showing that proteins on the surface of bacteria can produce an electric current by simply touching a mineral surface. The result demonstrates that it is possible for bacteria to lie directly on the surface of a metal or mineral and transfer electrical charge through their cell membranes. According to the researchers, this effect can be used to build a biologically based battery but it also appears clear this work is a long way from fruition as working technology in mass production for use in cars.
Shewanella oneidensis bacteria. Credit: Alice Dohnalkova.
The research team created a synthetic version of Shewanella oneidensis using only those proteins the researchers believed would shuttle the electrons from inside the microbe to rock. They inserted the proteins into the lipid layer of the bacterial membrane. They then tested how well electrons flowed between an "electron donor" inside the bacteria, and metal-bearing minerals in the rock.
Lead researcher Dr Tom Clarke from UEA's school of Biological Sciences said: "We knew that bacteria can transfer electricity into metals and minerals, and that the interaction depends on special proteins on the surface of the bacteria. But it was not been clear whether these proteins do this directly or indirectly though an unknown mediator in the environment.
"Our research shows that these proteins can directly 'touch' the mineral surface and produce an electric current, meaning that is possible for the bacteria to lie on the surface of a metal or mineral and conduct electricity through their cell membranes.
"This is the first time that we have been able to actually look at how the components of a bacterial cell membrane are able to interact with different substances, and understand how differences in metal and mineral interactions can occur on the surface of a cell.
"These bacteria show great potential as microbial fuel cells, where electricity can be generated from the breakdown of domestic or agricultural waste products.
"Another possibility is to use these bacteria as miniature factories on the surface of an electrode, where chemicals reactions take place inside the cell using electrical power supplied by the electrode through these proteins."
The technology clearly is a long way from anything practical but sure is interesting basic scientific research. Most likely this line of research will lead to some sort of "battery" or "fuel cell" based on biological principles but using completely custom-designed materials.
http://phys.org/news/2013-03-breakthrough-bio-batteries.html
More information: 'Rapid electron exchange between surface-exposed bacterial cytochromes and Fe(III) minerals' by Thomas A Clarke, Gaye White, Julea N Butt, and David J Richardson (all UEA, UK), and Zhri Shi, Liang Shi, Zheming Wang, Alice C Dohnalkova, Matthew J Marshall, James K Fredrickson and John M Zachara (all PNNL, USA) is published by PNAS on Monday, March 25. (Will be available at www.pnas.org/lookup/doi/10.1073/pnas.1220074110 )
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Help Davie youth make a difference
Published 1:55 pm Wednesday, January 25, 2023
By Mike Barnhardt
By Sean Lane
SURF Board member
The Davie Community Foundation has had a substantial impact on our county. The organization has sponsored countless scholarships and grants which benefit members of our community.
The SURF Board Youth Grantmakers is an important part of the foundation. SURF wants to get off the ground running in 2023, and is asking for support through participation in the Popsicle 5K.
In unison with the goals of the foundation, the Students Understanding Real Futures Philanthropy Board, is given the task of helping the community through the sponsoring and awarding of youth-led grants.
The high schooler-run board strives to help the youth of Davie County.
Last year, a successful grant cycle, totaling $7,849, supported causes such as the Davie County Exceptional Children Department, The Dragonfly House, and the Davie High Band Program. But, as SURF Board members know best, grant money does not grow on trees. This is where the Popsicle 5K, the lifeblood of the grant-making process, comes into play.
The Popsickle 5K is easily the most important resource in acquiring money to support grants that are sure to make a difference. Whether you wish to support their cause or run competitively on a certified racecourse, registering to run in the race on Feb 25 would be a great way to give back to the community. The race through Rich Park has a registration fee of $25 until an increase in price to $30 on Jan. 31.
Along with this, the notorious Golden Surfboard is up for grabs. The school with the most race registrations who show up on race day will walk away with the trophy to take home to their school until the next race in 2024.
Register by googling "POPSICLE 5K Race Registration" and clicking on the RunSignUp website.
The board depends on the residents and students of Davie County, as well as those around the region, to participate in this event. Your registration will not only help the youth of Davie County through the sponsoring of youth-led grants, but it will also give the SURF Board members the opportunity and experience of awarding the acquired funds to worthy causes in the community.
Join all of us for the 12th Annual Popsickle 5K, and in the powerful words of the Davie Community Foundation, "Invest in our future now."
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PA Senate passes bills tied to report of grand jury that investigated child sex abuse by priests
By Ford Turner
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The dome of the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (Matt Rourke / AP)
The Pennsylvania Senate late Wednesday voted to start a process to amend the state constitution to allow for a 2-year window for survivors of child sex abuse to file civil suits against their abusers, regardless of when the abuse occurred.
On Thursday afternoon, the House followed up by giving final approval to a bill that would provide more time to file charges or civil lawsuits in cases of child sexual abuse.
The magnitude of the actions was apparent by the applause that broke out in the House after the vote on the bill sponsored by Berks County Democrat Rep. Mark Rozzi, an abuse survivor who has been pushing for laws to help victims since his 2012 election.
"He is my hero. He didn't even know it," said Rep. Margo Davidson, a Philadelphia Democrat who told the chamber that she, too, had been abused as a child. "And he is the hero of so many victims who have suffered."
The Rozzi bill and two others that change child sex abuse-related laws in the state now go to Gov. Tom Wolf, who has indicated he will sign them.
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The resolution to change the constitution, by law, must be approved again in the next legislative session. Then it must be approved by voters in a referendum.
All four measures are tied directly to recommendations in the 2018 report by a Pennsylvania grand jury that investigated child sex abuse by Catholic priests.
"This has been a long and trying process and we are finally at the finish line," Rozzi told the House. "Justice is coming."
On Wednesday night, many survivors of child sex abuse watched the Senate proceedings via live stream on home computers or in person in the Senate gallery.
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The grand jury report, which detailed sexual abuses by more than 300 Catholic priests in Pennsylvania, drew international attention and led to similar grand jury investigations in other states. The grand jury was led by the office of Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who late Wednesday issued a written statement that said the voices of survivors had been heard.
"These reforms are more than just statutory changes," Shapiro said. "They fundamentally change our justice system to better protect victims and hold abusers, and those who cover up abuse, accountable under the law."
The other two bills that cleared the Legislature would clarify state law concerning penalties for an ongoing failure to report continuing sexual abuse, and strengthen language that prevents confidentiality agreements from stopping a victim from talking to law enforcement.
"Pure unadulterated evil" is how Republican Sen. Wayne Langerholc, who represents Bedford and Cambria counties and part of Clearfield County, Wednesday night described the findings in the grand jury report.
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His district, he said, was "ground zero" for some of the worst abuse by priests. Speaking to victims of child sexual abuse, he said, "You have hurt in a way that no one can ever know."
The vote to approve the start of the constitutional amendment process was 42-6.
The rest of that process includes a repeat passage of the bill by both the House and Senate in the next legislative session, followed by the referendum. Depending on the timing of the votes, it could take as little as about 18 months, or more than three years.
Sen. Katie Muth, a Montgomery County Democrat, repeatedly pushed for an alternate route to opening up the two-year window for lawsuits. She also criticized the constitutional amendment bill for being limited to people who suffered abuse as children.
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Approving the bill, she said, would fall short of helping others who have suffered abuse. Muth identified herself as a rape victim and said "what age you were raped at" was not a factor in the level of your suffering.
Muth and others also favored opening the two-year window for civil lawsuits by the traditional legislative process of passing a law, rather than the lengthy constitutional amendment.
But Rozzi, who watched the Wednesday proceedings from the Senate gallery, had come to a bipartisan agreement with Republican legislative leaders earlier this year on how to approach the package, and the constitutional amendment approach was deemed the best route.
Among the victims who watched the Wednesday proceedings from home was Michael McDonnell, 51, of Bristol, Bucks County.
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He worried about the power of the Catholic church during the years before all the steps to amend the constitution are complete.
"We have to wait for the process to unfold and it is open to infection," he said.
Another abuse survivor, 49-year-old Shaun Dougherty, said passage of the bills was a "big step forward."
But he believed the victim community would have to work hard to make sure the Legislature took up the bill again during the 2021-2022 session, in order to continue movement toward the constitutional amendment.
"We have to make sure it comes back to the House and Senate again," he said.
McDonnell said that when he was 12 years old, he was sexually assaulted by two different priests in two different places.
Rozzi and the sponsor of the constitutional amendment bill — Republican Rep. Jim Gregory of Blair County, who also suffered abuse as a child — were given a round of applause on Wednesday night, led by Republican Majority Leader Jake Corman.
Morning Call reporter Ford Turner can be reached at 717-783-7305 or fturner@mcall.com
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If this world is all that there is, if we just die and that is the end of it all, then life is inher-ently futile. There is no transcendent purpose that gives meaning to creation. There is no right or wrong; everything just is, so there can be no lasting moral evaluation of it. Something that is wrong today might be right tomorrow and vice versa. No true judgments are possible; everything is relative, and if everything is relative, everything is meaningless. However, if there is a perfectly good Creator who defines the world and all that is in it, life is meaningful. The fleeting nature of life with all of its apparent absurdities will give way finally to eternity, when the plan of the Lord will be seen more fully, the meaning of apparent coincidences will be revealed, and all injustices will be rectified.
The key to understanding the book of Ecclesiastes is to recognize that the Preacher is making one very simple point—only God can make sense out of life. Today's passage indicates as much. In 3:16, the Preacher observes what we have all seen with our own eyes: in the very place where justice is supposed to be found, wickedness often reigns. Even in the best justice systems, criminals often go free because they are able to bribe an unjust judge. All too often, justice is bought and sold. Criminals escape justice and the innocent are punished. There is no better example of this than in the trial of Jesus. The false witnesses to His "crime" at His trial could not even agree with one another, but He was convicted anyway even though such testimony should have led the judges to throw His case out of court (Mark 14:53–65; see Deut. 17:6). Miscarriages of justice are inevitable in our fallen world.
Honest atheists see this reality and are driven either to suicidal despair because they realize that goodness cannot prevail, or to Friedrich Nietzsche's "will to power," whereby they seize whatever power they can and use it to their own advantage. Their reasoning is that we might as well do all we want before we cease to exist. Thankfully, there are precious few consistent atheists, and Ecclesiastes 3:17 explains why. The Preacher understands that despite the fact that justice is not always done on earth, a day is coming in which God will judge both the righteous and the wicked. Such knowledge is planted deep in the human heart and is a consequence of our being made in His image (Gen. 1:26–28). Even the most forthright unbelievers know that God will judge all, and generally speaking, this understanding keeps them from collapsing in despair or becoming tyrants.
For believers, the knowledge that there is a day of perfect judgment coming fills us with hope. We understand that on that day everything will be set right. Every injustice will be overturned, and people will receive their due. Believers will receive heaven because they are so closely united to Christ that His perfect obedience and its due reward is reckoned as theirs (2 Cor. 5:21). Unbelievers will be condemned for their sin, for they are not covered by Jesus' blood and righteousness.


Yes, I still weight 150 but I am having a wonderful day! I'm eating healthy! [I made quinoa for breakfast and sprinkled walnuts, frozen raspberries and a titch of cinnamon on top.] I exercised this morning while watching the Today Show. I did all my laundry. I showered, put on makeup and did my hair. I have cute clothes on. I finished my lesson and now I'm heading to Evanston to get good healthy food for the week. I have an apple and peanut butter for a snack.
I can only believe this wonderful phenomenon happened because I planned well. Planned ahead. I wanted to have a wonderful day. I did things I knew would feel good. I purposefully went way out of my way to mindfully choose well. I also mindfully recalled how miserable I felt the other day when I ate two cupcakes, two slices of pizza, eight ready-to-bake cookies [sorry hubster] chunks of cheese etc. etc. etc.
Yah, happiness is a choice. Health is a choice. I'm going to enjoy every single moment of getting it together today! Because I don't know when I'll ever be together enough to make mindful choices again, but I hope it's tomorrow! Surely I can put two good days end to end!
Oh, I almost forgot. I ALSO treated myself to a long hot bath and read two chapters in my Nicolas Sparks book! That was wonderful!


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11/10/04 - VETERANS DAY - 2004-11-10
November 11th is Veterans Day -- a time when Americans honor those who have served in the U.S. armed forces in peace and war.
In recent years, the U.S. and its allies have fought to help oppressed people in Kosovo, Somalia, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iraq. And in each of these cases, American military action has helped people of all religious faiths, including Muslims. Secretary of State Colin Powell says, "Afghanistan is a perfect example, where we had a most successful presidential election a couple of weeks ago, when a couple of years ago the place was totally under the Taleban and with al-Qaida running the place." President George W. Bush says Afghanistan's recent election demonstrates that the values for which America and its allies fight are universal:
"There is [an] attitude among some that certain people may never be free, they just don't long to be free or [are] incapable of running an election. And I disagree with that, and the Afghan people by going to the polls in the millions proved that this administration's faith in freedom to change people's habits is worthy."
Some fifteen-thousand U.S. troops are serving with their coalition allies to establish security in Afghanistan. More than one-hundred-thirty-thousand Americans are serving in Iraq. Their mission is to help Iraqis establish the security and stability necessary to support a transition to democracy and the rule of law.
Those who serve in the armed forces come from all sectors of American society. American Muslims are among the more than one-thousand Americans who have given their lives in Iraq. U.S Army Captain Humayun Khan was killed in June trying to prevent a suicide bomb attack in Baquba, Iraq. "Instead of running, he stood forward to [in front of] the oncoming taxi to prevent it from going inside [the American compound]," said his brother Shahrayar Khan. "Even being in Iraq, surrounded by mortal peril, I knew he would do the right thing, that he was there to protect and save lives," said Mr. Khan.
Veterans Day is a day on which Americans honor all those, like Captain Humayun Khan, who have made the ultimate sacrifice so their countrymen and others may live in freedom.
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Watch The Local Live: Celebrating the Class of 2019
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LMCTV "BEST OF" SPORTS RE-BROADCAST SCHEDULE BEGINS JUNE 14
MAMARONECK, New York (June 11, 2019) – LMCTV announces a twelve-week, 17-game re-broadcast schedule of games televised during the 2018-2019 academic year at both Mamaroneck and Rye Neck High Schools. The schedule consists of highlighted games, some of which went down to the final minutes — and final seconds — creating some of the most […]
Movies on the Sand: This Friday!
Friday, June 14 at Dusk! The Village of Mamaroneck Recreation department has partnered up with LMCTV to present an exciting series of outdoor Movies on the Sand at the Stephen E. Johnston Beach, in Mamaroneck's award-winning Harbor Island Park. These movies are all admission-free and family-friendly. Guests are encouraged to bring a blanket or lawn […]
Watch The Local Live: Celebrating Pride in Westchester
What's happening in your community? Watch last night's episode! Watch The Local Live tonight at 7:30 to see how Westchester has been celebrating Pride! We will also have The LOFT LGBT Community Center in White Plains and "Teen on the Scene"Ryan Barnes in our live round table segment! See you then!