This is part three to my open letter and last one. The first letter was an overview of your sixteen years as a student, the second one a ride down memory lane starting with elementary school and ending with college, and now this one is about how it all started… the first seed that was planted and how it grew over the years into this steady and strong foundation you begin your next chapter with, your career.
Every parent wants the best for their child/ren. Every parent dreams their kid/s will become incredibly successful, tackle hurdles and reach peaks, do better than they ever did. Have a better life than they ever had.
My dream for you was to finish college. Find a field that would excite you, something to be passionate about, and love getting up every morning for it. Something that would put money in your pocket to live a comfortable life and fulfill whatever dreams you have. Provide you with means to support a family when time comes. For as long as I remember I thought you'd become a … doctor or architect (I know, completely different fields but, that's how I saw you). Your caring nature, your love of people and the attention to detail in everything you built with lego made me believe that's where you'll end up, in the medical field or constructions. How wrong I was!
Sometime in middle school your essay on "Why is putting all your eggs in one basket a bad idea" won an award and there would be some sort of ceremony at school. It was also about the same time you began playing Gaia, the only online game we allowed you to be on (30 minutes a day if you did your chores, remember?). You were making millions and enjoyed buying/selling your goods. Later on, in high school, you took a business class, ending up qualifying for state in D.E.C.A. competition. When time came for you to decide which college to apply for, you wanted W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
I don't think there are enough words to tell you how proud I am of you. How my heart just melts at the sight of you and bursts open looking at who you became. I always knew you have potential and I never doubted you. I have no regrets about what we did while you were in school. How we pushed you to study and to get better grades. How we checked your homework, and how we kept a vigilant eye over your education, your friends and your behavior. Because the results are shown here and now, with you finding your calling.
I have no idea what the future holds or where life will take you. How many roadblocks will be thrown your way. How many struggles you'll fight. But what I do know is that I have no worries that you will thrive and you will be just fine. Your tool box is filled with everything Dad and I tried to instill in you, morals and values, every tool you'll need to succeed.
Have a smooth sailing, Patrick!
Tessa opened her eyes and came up on one elbow. Both Chiara and Alessandro rushed to her bed.
Tessa didn't respond. She stared at the covers, clutching them to her chest, eyebrows pushed together and chin trembling.
Alessandro sat on her bed and lifted his palm to caress her cheek. She flinched and jerked away. His palm froze in the air then dropped in his lap.
Chiara looked back and forth between Alessandro and Tessa and opened her mouth to say something. The door opened and dr. Ivan and two nurses came in.
About ten minutes after dr. Ivan left, a nurse brought a tray with food. Tessa didn't touch it. Her stomach growled, but she refused to eat.
"Tessa, honey, I know you hurt, but life doesn't stop here," Chiara pleaded.
"Go away, both of you," Tessa said.
Alessandro stepped back as if her words burned him.
"I have you." Chiara held on her sister's skeletal body. She shifted Tessa so she could support her elbow and grip the bed's edge with the other hand. She walked a few wobbly and slow steps but she tired quickly. She sat, her breath worn-out.
"That's enough, now go," Tessa said. With trembling hands she crawled back in and bed pulled the bed sheets.
Tessa sat, snapped the yogurt and the spoon away and said, "I can feed myself, I'm not a baby." She ate half of the cup. "Happy now?" She pretended not to see the pain on Chiara's face. She pretended not to see Alessandro standing by the window, shoulders hunched.
She just wanted them gone. She wanted to be left alone. With no one around to comfort or care about her. Bad people like her didn't deserve to be loved and happy. Criminals like her didn't deserve to live.
He scarred her body. He wounded her soul. He should've killed her.
She'd welcome death over the pain.


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Tariff uncertainty weighs on business
Reagan Haynes
Tariffs could cause the cost of aluminum, which is used to make fishing boats like this one, to rise sharply
At the beginning of the week the Trump administration said it would suspend tariffs on China, only to reverse course once again on Tuesday with the announcement that it would move forward on steel and aluminum tariffs on China.
"It's hard to comment because things change every day," National Marine Manufacturers Association president Thom Dammrich told Trade Only Today. "What business loves is certainty from our government and we're not getting it, at least in the realm of trade."
A rise in U.S. prices has come ahead of the June 1 deadline for many major exporting countries to negotiate deals that would at least partially exempt them from the Trump administration's decision to impose steel import tariffs of 25 percent, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The price of American steel has now risen to its highest since a China-led demand boom a decade ago — it has surged nearly 40 percent this year.
This week, the benchmark U.S. Midwest price for hot-rolled coil broke above $890 a short ton for the first time since October 2008. It is now almost 50 percent above equivalent benchmarks in Europe and China, the newspaper reported, attributing the information to S&P Global Platts data.
Though steel prices don't typically have large effects on the marine industry, aluminum prices do.
Aluminum boatbuilders employ 22,000 workers. There are 111,000 powerboats sold each year, accounting for $3 billion in sales, the NMMA says.
The NMMA cautioned the marine industry not to become complacent after President Trump's announcement Monday.
"There is still tremendous uncertainty surrounding U.S. trade policy, which means we need to keep our heads down and continue to push our industry's position," said NMMA government and legal affairs senior vice president Nicole Vasilaros in a statement.
"We must continue to fight multiple threats in the current trade climate — an antidumping and countervailing duty investigation on Chinese aluminum sheet, Section 232 tariff on all aluminum and steel imports, Section 301 on marine engines and components, and the ongoing renegotiation of NAFTA," said Vasilaros.
Those are in addition to the previously-announced countervailing tariffs.

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Posts Tagged 'Doctor Strange'
* Deadline extended: Special Issue: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Narrative, Characters, Media, and Event.
* CFP: Speculative Vegetation: Plants in Science Fiction.
* After humanity spent thousands of years improving our tactics, computers tell us that humans are completely wrong. I would go as far as to say not a single human has touched the edge of the truth of Go.
* The banality of evil in Baltimore.
* "Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles." Every revelation in this story is stunning. Trump leans on 'fake news' line to combat reports of West Wing dysfunction. Donald Trump says all negative polls about him are fake news. Check out this fake news about voter fraud. Yemen Withdraws Permission for U.S. Antiterror Ground Missions. Milwaukee passes resolution opposing Trump travel ban. White House rattled by McCarthy's spoof of Spicer. White House Denies Report That Bannon Had to Be Reminded He Wasn't President Amidst Travel-Ban Chaos. Probably best to put this in writing ahead of time. The simple fact is that Trump has never had real friends in the sense you or I think of the term. Never Believe the Republicans' B.S. Ever Again. How Each Senator Voted on Trump's Cabinet and Administration Nominees. Five Theses on Trump. To Stephen Miller, Duke University Class of 2007.
* Elsewhere in Duke News! Bernie and the Duke Grad Student Unionization Movement.
Last night, Meryl Streep played Donald Trump and sang Cole Porter on the @PublicTheaterNY's Delacorte stage. pic.twitter.com/Pgv19HooQm
— Darren Johnston (@DarrenEdward) June 7, 2016
* Apparently those who support income redistribution through aggressive top marginal taxation are still willing to accept union busting and poor parent shaming before considering direct infusions of cash. No matter how lofty their rhetoric, there is an intuitive desire within mainstream American liberalism to believe that the trouble in education is not so obvious as poor people not having enough money to do well—but rather, that poor parents are to blame for not being enough like middle class ones. DeVos Was Inevitable. Democrats reject her, but they helped pave the road to education nominee DeVos.
[whispers] nice white liberals getting super-invested in their children's educations was actually how we got in this mess in the first place
* ok she won me over
* The 10 US colleges that stand to lose the most from Trump's immigration ban. American Universities Must Take a Stand.
* The Nervous Civil Servant's Guide to Defying an Illegal Order.
* American democracy isn't.
* Meet Antifa, the Most Reasonable People in America.
* The Wisdom of Science Fiction in the Age of Trump.
* "All the pieces of the neo-Nazi solution to climate change already exist."
* Dakota Access Pipeline Is Back On, Skipping Environmental Review.
* The New Yorker celebrates the great Mo Willems.
* Much has been written about the toxicity of internet "call out" culture over the past five years. But less has been said about the prevalence of efforts to fire people, one of that culture's creepiest and most authoritarian features.
* Doctor Strange Has Now Made More Money At Box Office Than Man Of Steel. DC is really bad at this.
* Liberalism looks and feels like a waiting period that may never end. A primary purpose of this tactic is to allow policymakers and elites to announce their intention to do something about a problem while hoping the problem goes away on its own as public attention dies down or as they move on with their careers.
* Keep Mars Red.
* We Asked Sci-Fi Writers About The Future Of Climate Change.
* Within a decade, according to a 99-page white paper released today, Uber will have a network—to be called "Elevate"—of on-demand, fully electric aircraft that take off and land vertically. Instead of slogging down the 101, you and a few other flyers will get from San Francisco to Silicon Valley in about 15 minutes—for the price of private ride on the ground with UberX. Theoretically.
* The Singularity has already happened.
* 150 Years to Alpha Centauri. But it's no place to raise your kids.
* Make stamp-collecting great again.
* Know your alignments.
* Teaching is not longer a middle class job. College professor isn't either, pretty much anywhere but a town like Milwaukee.
* The Arc of History Is Long But Republicans Are Moving To Scrap Rules That Limit Overdraft Fees.
* The Resistance.
* A clever study showing how protests impact election outcomes, using rain.
* A general strike could transform American politics. But we're nowhere near being able to call one.
* Capitalism is struggling to reproduce the misery and terror required for worker compliance.
* Even baseball hates baseball.
* Donald Trump Had A Superior Electoral College Strategy.
"Chill out, our institutions have survived hundreds of years, they'll contain Trump" is the new "Trump can't win."
— Brandt (@UrbanAchievr) February 5, 2017
* I don't think there's been a better postmortem on the election, and what it means for the coming decades, than this by Mike Davis: The Great God Trump and the White Working Class.
In addition, as Brookings researchers have recently shown, since 2000 a paradoxical core-periphery dynamic has emerged within the political system. Republicans have increased their national electoral clout yet have steadily lost strength in the economic-powerhouse metropolitan counties. "The less-than-500 counties that Hillary Clinton carried nationwide encompassed a massive 64 percent of America's economic activity as measured by total output in 2015. By contrast, the more-than-2,600 counties that Donald Trump won generated just 36 percent of the country's output — just a little more than one-third of the nation's economic activity."
* Trump believes his base desires cruelty above all else. Here is today's case study.
* "Uncle Biden" has done a lot to mask the fact that the real Joe Biden fought desegregation, wrote the 1994 crime bill, and appeared to side with Clarence Thomas over Anita Hill during Thomas's confirmation hearings. The hyper-competent "Texts From Hillary" made it more difficult for the real Clinton to rebut charges of shadiness and corruption, and also served to mask over the fact that she had never won a closely fought election. Liberal Fan Fiction.
* When Details in a Story Can Put People at Risk.
* Creeping Trumpism.
* He speaks for us all: "Man found stuck in waist-deep mud has no idea how he got there, officials say."
* The best news anybody's gotten since 1997.
* What it's like to lose your short-term memory.
* Ubiquitous surveillance watch.
* A Crack in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Grew 17 Miles in the Last Two Months. Oh, well, that explains everything, doesn't it.
* Rick and Morty and Bojack and existentialism.
* Yes Weekly interviews the great Fred Chappell.
* What a horrible night to have a curse.
* And this is a really good start, but I'm sure we can find a way to do worse.
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* Permanent addition to the sidebar: Resources for planning a trip to the Octavia E. Butler Archives at the Huntington. Send me anything I've missed!
* CFPs I have going: Women and Science Fiction Media (SFFTV Special Issue). Buffy at 20 (April conference at Marquette).
* My friend and colleague Dan Hassler-Forest has been composing a Trump Film Studies Syllabus: 1, 2, 3, 4.
* Political Economy of Fascism Syllabus.
* So you think you elected an autocrat.
old and busted: am I stupid for using Twitter when it gets people fired a lot
new hotness: I think my Twitter probably won't get me jailed
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) November 20, 2016
make art that Trump would demand an apology for
— JuanPa (@jpbrammer) November 19, 2016
* Dr. Strange and the Trump Presidency.
* Trump poised to violate Constitution his first day in office. Not even the same scandal: Donald Trump Pauses Transition Work to Meet with Indian Business Partners.
hottest take incoming: the only institution with even theoretical leverage for taking down Trump, aside from maybe NY AG, is the FBI
aftershock hot take, guess which institution the Democrats despise now and have spent the last month demonizing
* Electoral College fan fiction getting good now.
* This seems fine. Disabled People Will Die Under Trump. Trumpwatch. Trump's big infrastructure plan? It's a trap. Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi Have a Plan to Make President Trump Popular. @EveryTrumpDonor. Trump vs. neoliberalism, #whoeverwinswelose. Racism with No Racists. Garbage In, Garbage Out. The Man in the High Castle. After Trump. Being Mike Pence.
also all corporations are Wolfram and Hart and the DNC is the Watchers Council
Slayers don't exist https://t.co/Y19xhnyDsp
* It can't happen here. It probably can't happen here. It probably won't happen here. Okay but that was a long time ago. George Takei.
* Successful propaganda, O'Shaughnessy argues, does not traffic in outright falsehoods, but trades on half-truths and innuendos and depends on "people's ability to perform a great deal of selective perception, and to edit out the unpleasant." So propaganda is bullshit — in the philosophical sense.
Are we really going to live through another 8 years where a fluke event no one saw coming becomes proof that They are always 10 steps ahead?
counterpoint: he is just constantly evil and constantly stupid https://t.co/uRWRqLOhuV
People are buying into this 'Trump's twitter is a clever ruse' thing because the reality- Trump is an unhinged idiot- is way more terrifying
— Nick Spencer (@nickspencer) November 20, 2016
* Don't normalize this. Don't ever, ever normalize this.
* We'll be talking about this question for a long time, whether we like it or not: The End of Identity Liberalism. Why Social Media Is Terrible for Multiethnic Democracies. And yet: Blame Trump's Victory on College-Educated Whites, Not the Working Class.
* Close Reading Hamilton: "What'd I Miss?" I only did two days on Hamilton in my class this time around and wound up focusing a lot on these two songs myself.
* Obviously I'm still a Kanye supporter but he's going to have to find a way to right the ship before the 2020 debates begin next fall.
* Abolish Chuck Schumer. Abolish the Presidency.
Schumer running the Democrats now is like if Grand Moff Tarkin were the hero of Star Wars.
"I don't always see eye to eye with His Excellence but I hope we can work together on improving hyperspace infrastructure in the Outer Rim."
* More than 100 campus leaders urge Trump to take more forceful stand against "harassment, hate and acts of violence." Campuses Confront Hostile Acts Against Minorities After Donald Trump's Election. Wesleyan declared sanctuary campus.
* It doesn't matter how effective a deterrent it is — it's cruel and unusual and we need to act.
* Only the superrich can save us… oh forget it.
* Meet the Professor Who's Trying to Help You Steer Clear of Clickbait.
* Michigan fights court order to give Flint residents bottled water.
* Keep an eye on North Carolina.
* A Brief History of Fascism in the Pacific Northwest.
* When a Sibling Goes to Prison.
* The Limits of Gossip: Informal system of warning colleagues about senior scholars who engage in inappropriate behavior doesn't really protect anyone, study finds.
* The Alphabet That Will Save a People From Disappearing.
* A Mere 12,000 US Schools Are Within a Mile of a Hazardous Chemical Facility.
* Science proves the rich really are different.
* The four types of writing.
* We might be done with climate change, but climate change is not done with us.
* It's official: NASA's peer-reviewed EM Drive paper has finally been published.
* The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice.
* What Was the Nerd?
Though sports culture continues to be a domain of intense patriarchal production and violence — rape jokes are just locker room talk, after all — these days jocks in the news are just as likely to be taking a knee against American racism in the image of Colin Kaepernick. The nerds, on the other hand, are shit-posting for a new American Reich. The nerd/jock distinction has always been a myth designed to hide social conflict and culturally re-center white male subjectivity. Now that the nerds have fully arrived, their revenge looks uglier than anything the jocks ever dreamed.
* And because you demanded it…
So never mind the darkness
We still can find a way
'Cause nothin' lasts forever
Even cold November rain https://t.co/FeZpsO7BA8
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I Have (Not a Joke) 300 Tabs Open and This Afternoon I Am Closing Them All: Election Night Links!
Seriously, can you even imagine how aggressively evil the GOP nominee will have to be in order to get people fired up about Clinton?
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 19, 2014
I've been so ridiculously busy I haven't been able to tend to my open tabs at all. There's over 300 — and I'm not leaving this room until I've closed them all. Let's go!
* Really, I've been so busy I haven't even been able to shamelessly self-promote: I missed announcing my trip to Atlanta for SLSA 2016 and my presentations on "Literary Studies after Blackfish" and the upcoming almost-almost-done issue of Paradoxa on "Global Weirding," as well as my New Inquiry review of the (fantastic) end to Liu Cixin's (fantastic) Three-Body trilogy. My new essay on "Geriatric Zombies" from The Walking Med was namechecked as part of a larger zombie news report in the Seattle Times. Most importantly I haven't been able to hype my Octavia Butler book, which is printed and apparently shipping. I've even held one in my hands!
* Meanwhile, here's my guess for tonight's final results, just to get it out of the way: 340-198.
* CFP: Letters to Octavia Butler. CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel. CFP: English Studies in Ruins? CFP: The World of Harry Potter.
* A new issue of the Eaton Journal in Archival Research in Science Fiction is out, including a piece from Larisa Mikhaylova on Star Trek fandom in Russia.
* French town upholds law against UFOs.
* Invisible Planets / Invisible Frameworks — Assembling an Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF. I've been reading the Invisible Planets collection and it's great.
* Why we should lower the voting age in America.
* Žižek on the lesser evil. Jameson on fascism, but not yet. Study Confirms Network Evening Newscasts Have Abandoned Policy Coverage For 2016 Campaign. Americans, Politics, and Social Media. Stop Calling the United States a Banana Republic. Yes, Trump Really Is Saying 'Big League,' Not 'Bigly,' Linguists Say. The 282 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List. No, "we" are not collectively responsible for anything. Journey to the Center of the Alt-Right. Ivanka is the real threat. A Reading Guide for Those in Despair About American Politics. And did someone order a Constitutional crisis with a 4-4 Supreme Court?
* What Happens if You Vote and Die Before Election Day? Too late for all of us, alas.
* In contrast to the Fordist society observed by Gramsci, power now seeks to circumvent the public sphere, in order to avoid the constraints of critical reason. Increasingly, it is non-representational codes—of software, finance, human biology—that mediate between past, present and future, allowing society to cohere. Where, for example, employee engagement cannot be achieved via cultural or psychological means, increasingly business is looking to solutions such as wearable technology, that treat the worker as an item of fixed capital to be monitored physically, rather than human capital to be employed. The key human characteristics are those that are repeated in a quasi-mechanical fashion: footsteps, nightly sleep, respiration, heartbeat. These metronomic qualities of life come to represent each passing moment as yet another one of the same. The New Neoliberalism.
* "We are all Thomas More's children": 500 years of Utopia. And at LARB.
* It isn't every day that a street criminal—a high-school dropout with two felony convictions—is accused of stealing a centuries-old violin worth as much as $6 million. But nothing about the heist of the Lipinski Stradivarius, which galvanized the music world last winter, was normal, or even logical.
* How America Outlawed Adolescence. The Cognitive Benefits of Being a Man-Child.
* Inside the NSA's For-Sale Spy Town. The Indiana Town That Modernism Built.
* Where Ph.D.s Work. IPFW Community Shocked by Restructuring Recommendations. Last month's strike at Harvard. And its results. A City Clerk Opposed an Early-Voting Site at UW–Green Bay Because 'Students Lean More Toward the Democrats.' Saudi college student in Wisconsin dies after assault. Johns Hopkins threatens to close its interdisciplinary Humanities Center, sparking outcry from students and faculty members. San Diego State University tuition, 1959. How State Budget Cuts Affect Your Education.
* Cornell looks for ways to cut time professors spend on administrative requirements, as opposed to teaching and research.
* The Heterodox Academy Guide to Colleges rates America's top 150 universities (as listed by US News and World Reports) and will soon rate the Top 50 Liberal Arts Schools according to their commitment to viewpoint diversity.
* The American Association of University Professors has launched an investigation focused on the dismissal of Nathanial Bork, who had taught philosophy courses at the college for six years before he was dismissed. The AAUP says that his dismissal raises concerns both because of the issues he raises about rigor and also because he was fired shortly after he complained about the situation to the Higher Learning Commission, the college's accreditor. Further, Bork was active in efforts to improve the working conditions of adjuncts at the college.
* A More Accurate World Map Wins Prestigious Japanese Design Award. Love this.
* Borges and maps.
* "University Paid for Bigfoot Expedition."
* Dig this Beatnik glossary.
* Starship Troopers coming back just as documentary footage of 2016. A darker, grittier Muppet Babies, for a tragic time.
* Quentin Tarantino still insists he's going to stop at 10 movies.
* Playing with History: What Sid Meier's Video Game Empire Got Right and Wrong About 'Civilization.'
* "Capitalism Broke Earth, Let's Protect Mars."
* Inside Magic Leap, The Secretive $4.5 Billion Startup Changing Computing Forever.
* The video for Soul Asylum's 1993 smash hit featured real missing kids. Some eventually came home; some never did.
* Her toddler suddenly paralyzed, mother tries to solve a vexing medical mystery. Football Alters the Brains of Kids as Young as 8. Why treating diabetes keeps getting more expensive. The Other Sister: Returning Home to Care for an Autistic Sibling.
* Inmates Explain How They'd Run Prisons.
* If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women.
* Zork in your browser.
* Russia Reveals 'Satan 2' Nuclear Missile Capable of Destroying Texas in One Blow. Bathroom air freshener causes emergency response at nuclear site.
* Why can't the Star Trek timeline advance?
* The end of butterflies.
* The Venom From This Snake Will Make Your Life a Living Hell.
* Inside The Strange, Paranoid World Of Julian Assange.
* Ruin chic.
* Why Did This Guy Collect 500 Screenshots of Soda Machines in Video Games? Because He's a Genius. And elsewhere on the Jacob Brogan science beat: Everyone Poops. Some Animals Eat It. Why?
* Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, Thumb U.N. won't intervene.
* Now Is The Perfect Time For The Indians To Quietly Abandon Chief Wahoo.
* Deep time's uncanny future is full of ghostly human traces. How the Concept of Deep Time Is Changing.
* The Average American Melts 645 Square Feet of Arctic Ice Every Year.
* In rural North Dakota, a small county and an insular religious sect are caught in a stand-off over a decaying piece of America's atomic history: The Pyramid at the End of the World.
* Penn State Fined Record $2.4 Million in Jerry Sandusky Case.
* Dibs on the screenplay: Yellowstone's "Zone of Death." And I'll take this one too: The Canadian Military Is Investigating a Mysterious Noise In the Arctic.
* How Doctor Strange went from being a racist Asian caricature to a magical white savior.
* A new favorite poem:
here's a sweet short poem by Tom French, who I'll be reading with this Sun., 1pm @IrishArtsCenter – y'all should come pic.twitter.com/VN2Yofc1yp
— Jana Prikryl (@janaprikryl) November 3, 2016
* Animal minds: the new anthropomorphism.
* You weren't educated, you were trained.
* Twenty-first century Victorians.
* Remembering Tom Hayden.
* How We Tell Campus Rape Stories After Rolling Stone.
* Native lives matter. Tribe vows to fight North Dakota pipeline through winter. The world watches. A Standing Rock Syllabus.
* Superheroes and sadness. Pixar and sadness.
* Presenting The Black Mirror Expanded Universe.
* Wildlife numbers more than halve since 1970s in mass extinction. Inside the Frozen Zoo That Could Bring Extinct Animals Back to Life.
* The secret history of Teaching with Calvin & Hobbes.
* A bad idea, but fine: The Adventures of Young Dumbledore.
* Kardashev Type III Societies (Apparently) Do Not Exist.
* And frankly you had me at LEGO, but I like the rest too: LEGO's New Line of Female Superheroes Is the Toy We Deserve.
quick why was it important than Obama beat Hillary Clinton again
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No One Ever Expects Wednesday Links
* Nearly one-third of public college presidents serve on corporate boards. Most of those companies exist in far-flung industries, and the issues at play are different: Why should college presidents involve themselves with shipping, with search engines, with banking?
* Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more.
* President of Ireland Affirms Value of the Humanities. Ireland, you're not so bad yourself!
* Management Bloat at UC.
* Against gainful employment.
* Reprints and British Comics.
* This crazy space-age Satellite Hotel could've put Milwaukee on the map.
* "I am on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones."
* Cincinnatus watch: Paul Ryan just said he would not accept the GOP presidential nomination at the convention.
* The First Year of Teaching Can Feel Like a Fraternity Hazing.
* Liberalism and fracking.
* Guns on campus; adjuncts hardest hit.
* 4 big questions about the race to Mars. Under Obama, NASA finds itself in a familiar place: Big goals but inadequate funds.
* Stephen Hawking's Starshot.
* Ladies and gentlemen, Doctor Strange. Some commentary.
* LARoB reviews The New Mutants : Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics.
* Music to my ears: Why Story of Your Life May Be the Year's Breakout Sci-fi Movie.
* Torchwood is back!
* Television without Pity is coming back!
* Homestuck is over!
* A list of games that Buddha would not play.
* Bloc by Bloc: A cooperative board game of revolutionary strategy, hidden agendas & 21st century urban rebellion.
* The sheep look up: Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048.
* Perpetual Present: The Strange Case of the Woman Who Can't Remember Her Past—Or Imagine Her Future.
* Any sufficiently advanced non-Newtonian fluid pool is indistinguishable from magic.
* The Guardian read the comments.
* Navy Officer Rescued 3 From Remote Pacific Island After Seeing Sign For Help.
This photo provided by U.S. Navy released April 7, 2016 shows two men waving life jackets and look on as a U.S. Navy P-8A maritime surveillance aircraft discovers them on the uninhabited island of Fanadik. The three men were back to safety on Thursday, April 7, 2016, three days after going missing. (U.S. Navy/Ensign John Knight via AP)
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* Local police involved in 400 killings per year.
* What I Did After Police Killed My Son: Ten years later, we in Wisconsin passed the nation's first law calling for outside reviews.
* Police in Ferguson, Missouri, once charged a man with destruction of property for bleeding on their uniforms while four of them allegedly beat him. But cops agree: cops haven't used excessive force in Ferguson. 40 FBI agents are in Ferguson to investigate the shooting of Michael Brown, and they already know who did it. 'Let's Be Cops,' cop movies, and the shooting in Ferguson. Reparations for Ferguson. John Oliver: Let's take their fucking toys back. A movement grows in Ferguson. Ferguson and white unflight. Michael Brown's autopsy suggests he had his hands up. An upside flag indicates distress. More links from Crooked Timber.
* Man Dies After Bloody, 10-Minute Beating From LAPD Officers. Texas Incarcerates Mentally Disabled Man for 34 Years without Trial.
* Rioting Mainly for Fun and Profit: The Neoconservative Origins of Our Police Problem. The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson. For blacks, the "war on terror" hasn't come home. It's always been here. Mapping the Spread of the Military's Surplus Gear. A Militarized Police, a Less Violent Public. Even the liberal Kevin Drum agrees: We Created a Policing Monster By Mistake. "By mistake." So close.
* Meanwhile: Detroit police chief James Craig – nicknamed "Hollywood" for his years spent in the LAPD and his seeming love of being in front of the camera – has repeatedly called on "good" and "law-abiding" Detroiters to arm themselves against criminals in the city.
* Law professor Robert A. Ferguson's critique of the U.S. prison system misses the point that its purpose is not rehabilitation but civic death.
* Poor, Non-Working Black and Latino Men Are Nearly Non-Existent.
* A quarter century later, the median white wealth had jumped to $265,000, while median black wealth was just $28,500. The racial wealth gap among working-age families, in other words, is a stunning $236,500, and there is every reason to believe that figure has widened in the five years since
* A brash tech entrepreneur thinks he can reinvent higher education by leeching free content from real schools. Sounds legit!
* Change we can believe in? CBS, Produce a new Star Trek Series Featuring Wil Wheaton as the Lead role/Captain of a federation Vessel. Any true fan would know that Wesley quit Starfleet to pursue his destiny with the Traveler, but perhaps I've said too much.
* Coming soon to the Smithsonian Galleries: Fantastic Worlds: Science and Fiction, 1780-1910.
* Yahoo really wants you to think Donald Glover is in the next season of Community. That "I am serious. I am Yahoo Serious." tag is pretty gold, though.
* And while I'm on the subject: I know it's not for everyone, but if you ask me this may have been the most quintessential Harmontown of all time: melancholy, silly, ranty, with some great improv D&D. Give it a listen if you like Dan Harmon.
* The twenty-first century gold rush: debt collection.
* No Child Left Behind achieves its destiny: virtually every school in the state of Washington is a "failing school."
* All students at MPS now eligible for free meals.
* Teaching Is Not a Business.
* New Media: Time, Inc rates writers on how friendly they are to advertisers.
* Technocratic tweaks that will definitely solve everything: what if presidents only had one term? The icing on the cake is that if anything this would probably have the opposite effect.
* The problem with self-driving cars: they're still cars.
* Paul Campos with the latest on the law school scam.
* This November, the organizing committee of the MLA Subconference comes to Milwaukee.
* The Post-Welfare State University.
* Students who graduated in 2008 earned more credits in the humanities than in STEM, the study found. Humanities credits accounted for 17 percent of total credits earned by the typical graduate. In contrast, STEM credits accounted for 13 percent.
* Not only are men more likely than women to earn tenure, but in computer science and sociology, they are significantly more likely to earn tenure than are women who have the same research productivity. In English men are slightly (but not in a statistically significant way) more likely than women to earn tenure.
* The Adjunct Crisis: A Reading List.
* Top Legal Scholars Decry "Chilling" Effect of Salaita Dehiring.
* Huge asteroid set to wipe out life on Earth – in 2880. 865 years, that's all we've got…
* Mining Spill Near U.S. Border Closes 88 Schools, Leaves Thousands Of Mexicans Without Water. Meet The First Pacific Island Town To Relocate Thanks To Climate Change. The Longest River In The U.S. Is Being Altered By Climate Change.
* The venture capitalist are now weaponizing kids. Of course, when you find out how much raising a kid costs, child labor starts to make a lot of sense. Plainly parenting is a market ripe for disruption.
* What is your greatest strength as an employee? Bonus SMBC: on internship as neologism.
* How air conditioning remade modern America.
* How to Hide a Nuclear Missile.
* The winners of the 2014 Hugos.
* The rumor is that Doctor Strange will be part of a new Marvel paradigm that rejects origin stories.
* Twitter's management is very, very eager to ruin Twitter. Can Facebook catch up in time?
* Primary 2016 watch: Only Al Gore can save us now.
* And they've finally gone too far: Edible LEGO. Some lines man was just never meant to cross.
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Some Weekend Links
* In this future, if MOOCs are the route to a credential, they may initially retain some of the popularity that traditional higher education currently holds. But as people realize that the real opportunities continue to accrue to those who are able to attend whatever traditional colleges and universities that remain, they will go to even greater lengths than today to secure those spots. Meanwhile, those for whom access to this opportunity is impossible will be left even further behind.
* Tampering with powers mankind was never meant to know: The U.S. military has developed a pizza that stays edible for years.
* Socialism is not a flight from the human condition; it's a direct and unsentimental confrontation with that condition.
* Anyway, the point is this: maybe the exhaust port wasn't the problem.
* Faculty on Strike.
* Reclamations Special Issue: Securitization and the University.
* Can The Government Stop The Comcast/TWC Monstrosity? Comcast must be stopped. Preach.
* A Florida town is attempting to repeal its ban on homeless people using blankets and other means of shelter and comfort. That's good, I gue–wait, you banned what?
* Not only does the state's proposed law allow private businesses to discriminate against same-sex couples; it permits state employees to deny them basic services. WHAT?
* Another NFL cheerleader files suit against her team. This one details the copious amounts of clothing and body discipling for a job that pays $90 a game.
* Noam Chomsky, stealing my bit.
* Now playable! Sesame Street Fighter.
* Ellen Page comes out.
* Is the AA system of addiction recovery too unscientific to work?
* The Blum Center Takeover Manifesto.
* Why not cast Chiwetel Ejiofor as Doctor Strange? I'm on board.
* Because somebody had to: Debunking Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld.
The problem with the thesis is that in setting out their claim, the authors ignore the more obvious explanation for differences in group success: history. To be specific, in their quest to make it all about culture, the authors either ignore or strongly discount the particular circumstances of a group's first arrival, and the advantages enjoyed by that first wave.
* Then he said I want you to develop a plan to invade Ir[aq]. Do it outside the normal channels. Do it creatively so we don't have to take so much cover [?]
* But Truman's famously crisp sentence did encapsulate a recurrent American attitude toward the fearsome weapons the United States developed: they came to us almost accidentally, inadvertently, "found" in that cornucopia which modern science and technology provided.
* Leaks benefit the government, the author argues, in many ways. They are a safety valve, a covert messaging system, a perception management tool, and more. Even when a particular disclosure is unwelcome or damaging, it serves to validate the system as a whole.
* The Word You Are Searching for Is Rape.
* Wendy Davis Is Pretty Much Fine With the Abortion Ban She Filibustered.
* Another Day, Another Train Derails In Pennsylvania, Spilling Up To 4,000 Gallons Of Oil.
A recent analysis found that rail cars spilled more than 1.15 million gallons of oil in 2013, more than was spilled in the previous four decades combined. Still, some companies are looking to expand their oil-by-rail transport: expansion plans for oil-by-rail projects on the West Coast could mean that as many as 11 fully loaded oil trains would travel each day through Spokane, Washington. A Senate subcommittee was scheduled to hold a hearing Thursday on rail safety, but it had to be rescheduled due to bad weather that forced the closure of the federal government.
* STAMOS! Remembering The LEGO Movie Directors' Wonderful TV Show, Clone High.
* The (almost) entire run of Gargoyles is streaming legally on YouTube.
* Say I'm the Only Bee in Your Bonnet: A People's History of "Birdhouse in Your Soul."
* Facebook has added fifty alternative gender options.
* Texas Appeals Court: State Must Recognize Transgender Identities In Marriage.
* And in breaking news: Internet trolls are seriously bad news. The more you know…
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* "'The best way to interview is nonpregnant and ringless,'" that respondent said, adding she was only able to land a job after she kept her family secret during the interview process.
* Cheating on a quiz I can understand, but cheating in a quiz bowl? Oh, Harvard.
* Mad Men characters reimagined as Muppets.
* Ideology and fact-checking at the New Yorker.
As I pointed out in "Anderson Fails at Arithmetic," this allegation misleads the reader in two ways. Inequality has been reduced enormously under Chávez, using its standard measure, the Gini coefficient. So one can hardly say that in this aspect, Venezuela remains the "same as ever." Making Anderson's contention even worse is the fact that Venezuela is the most equal country in Latin America, according to the United Nations. Anderson's readers come away with exactly the opposite impression.
* The Jobs Crisis at Our Best Law Schools Is Much, Much Worse Than You Think: At some top tier schools, more than a fifth of students are underemployed.
* Investigators say Wilson County Deputy Daniel Fanning on Saturday was showing his weapons to a relative in a bedroom of his Lebanon home when the toddler came in and picked up a gun off the bed. Sheriff Robert Bryan says the weapon discharged, hitting 48-year-old Josephine Fanning. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
* High school students in Newark will walk out of classes today at noon, marching to Rutgers Law School to attend a State Assembly budget hearing on education funding.
* NCAA heroically prevents influence of money from corrupting college sports, bans Louisville men's team from flying to see women's team.
* Marvel Phase 3: Ant-Man and Doctor Strange.
* The Argument from Batman.
* Dr. Seuss's Evil Dead.
* The end of Bobby Jindal.
* Pink vs. Blue.
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Die Kugelbachalm (seltener: Obere Kugelbachalm) ist eine nicht mehr bewirtschaftete Alm in der Gemarkung Karlstein in Bad Reichenhall.

Die Almhütte steht unter Denkmalschutz und ist unter der Nummer D-1-72-114-191 in die Bayerische Denkmalliste eingetragen.

Geschichte
Das Gebäude wurde im 17. oder 18. Jahrhundert errichtet. Es heißt, die marmornen Fenster- und Türgewände stammen von der Turmruine Amerang. Der erdgeschossige Bruchsteinbau ist unverputzt mit Gewölben im Innenraum. Im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert wurde unter anderem die Ziegenmolke der Alm zur Kur und den Kuranstalten in Kirchberg und Bad Reichenhall verwendet und täglich frisch angeliefert.

Namensherkunft
Der Name stammt vom Kugelbach, der westlich der Alm entspringt und bei Schneizlreuth in den Weißbach mündet. Der Kugelbachbauer weiter östlich trägt den gleichen Namen.

Lage

Die Kugelbachalm befindet sich am Müllnerberg unweit des Paul-Gruber-Hauses auf einer Höhe von . Die Alm ist nur über eine nicht öffentliche Forststraße zu erreichen, Fußwege führen unter anderm übers Pfenniglandl, den Gebersberg und über die Gipfel des Müllnerbergs.

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Literatur
 Johannes Lang: Geschichte von Bad Reichenhall. Ph.C.W. Schmidt, Neustadt/Aisch 2009, ISBN 978-3-87707-759-7.

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Baudenkmal in Bad Reichenhall
Erbaut im 17. Jahrhundert
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Alm in Bad Reichenhall
Bauwerk in Bad Reichenhall

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This great period of Mesozoic life, this second volume of the book of life, is indeed an amazing story of reptilian life proliferating and developing. But the most striking of all the story remains to be told. Right up to the latest Mesozoic Rocks we find all these reptilian orders we have enumerated still flourishing unchallenged. There is no hint of an enemy or competitor to them in the relics we find of their world. Then the record is broken. We do not know how long a time the break represents; many pages may be missing here, pages that may represent some great cataclysmal climatic change. When next we find abundant traces of the land plants and the land animals of the earth, this great multitude of reptile species had gone. For the most part they have left no descendants. They have been "wiped out". The pterodactyls have gone absolutely, of the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs none is alive; the mosasaurs have gone; of the lizards a few remain, the monitors of the Dutch East Indies are the largest; all the multitude and diversity of the dinosaurs have vanished. Only the crocodiles and the turtles and tortoises carry on in any quantity into Cainozoic times. The place of all these types in the picture that the Cainozoic fossils presently unfold to us is taken by other animals not closely related to the Mesozoic reptiles and certainly not descended from any of their ruling types. A new kind of life is in possession of the world.
This apparently abrupt ending up of the reptiles is, beyond all question, the most striking revolution in the whole history of the earth before the coming of mankind. It is probably connected with the close of a vast period of equable warm conditions and the onset of a new austerer age, in which the winters were bitterer and the summers brief but hot. The Mesozoic life, animal and vegetable alike, was adapted to warm conditions and capable of little resistance to cold. The new life, on the other hand, was before all things capable of resisting great changes of temperature.
Whatever it was that led to the extinction of the Mesozoic reptile, it was probably some very far-reaching change indeed, for the life of the seas did at the same time undergo a similar catastrophic alteration. The crescendo and ending of the Reptiles on land was paralleled by the crescendo and ending of the Ammonites, a division of creatures like squids with coiled shells which swarmed in those ancient seas. All though the rocky record of this Mesozoic period there is a vast multitude and variety of these coiled, shells; there are hundreds of species, and towards the end of the Mesozoic period they increased in diversity and produced exaggerated types. When the record resumes these, too, have gone. So far as the reptiles are concerned, people may perhaps be inclined to argue that they were exterminated because the Mammals that replaced them, competed with them, and were more fitted to survive; but nothing of the sort can be true of the Ammonites, because to this day their place has not been taken. Simply they are gone. Unknown conditions made it possible for them to live in the Mesozoic seas, and then some unknown change made life impossible for them. No genus of Ammonite survives today of all that vast variety, but there still exists one isolated genus very closely related to the Ammonites, the Pearly Nautilus. It is found, it is to be noted, in the warm waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans.
And as for the Mammals competing with and ousting the less fit reptiles, a struggle of which people talk at times, there is not a scrap of evidence of any such direct competition. To judge by the Record of the Rocks as we know it today, there is much more reason for believing that first the reptiles in some inexplicable way perished, and then that later on, after a very hard, time for all life upon the earth, the mammals, as conditions became more genial again, developed and spread to fill the vacant world.


The association Yeshe Khorlo Europe was founded in 1999in Valempoulières, in the French Mount Jura, on His Eminence the 9th Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche's (Kunzang Rigzin Pema Namgyal) initiative.
In 1999, the Yeshe Khorlo association settled in Blye (39130), a little village in the French Jura, in the buildings of a children's holiday camp that was generously offered to His Eminence.
The center was inaugurated on August 15th, 1999, and Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche named the place "Pema Yang Dzong", Padma's Fortress (a hint to the great Indian master Padmasambhava, also known as Guru Rinpoche in the Himalayan countries).
Since then, the association is known as Yeshe Khorlo Pema Yang Dzong. Its first aim is to spread further the priceless spiritual legacy of the extraordinary teachings of Guru Rinpoche (considered as the reincarnation of our Guide Gautama, the Enlightened One), who visited the kingdom of Bhutan in the 7th century, even before going to Tibet.
The originality of Guru Rinpoche lies in the teachings he gave and which are discovered through time in the form of termas ("spiritual treasures" hidden in the water, earth, rocks or in the awareness).
Among the numerous tertöns (terma discoverers) who, from the 11th century onwards, appeared in the Land of Snow and on the Himalaya's foothills, one must remember the names of the five tertön kings (whose termas cover the whole range of the cycles of the Master, Dzogchen and the Great Compassionate One), namely Nyang Relpa-chen Nyima Öser, Guru Chöwang, Dorje Lingpa, Orgyen Pema Lingpa and Do-Ngna Lingpa (Jamyang Khyentse Wangbo).
His Eminence the Ninth Gangteng Tulku is the emanation of the immaculate Body of Orgyen Pema Lingpa, considered as the main reincarnation of the Omniscient Longchenpa.
The Buddhist Center Pema Yang Dzong is located in a peaceful place, below the small village of Blye. Teachings and transmissions in the tradition of Pema Lingpa are regularly organized there for persons of all levels : silent meditation sessions and basic teachings on buddhism, more specific teachings on daily practices and the inner yogas, teachings and transmissions on the great philosophical texts and the practices of Mahayana, Vajrayana and Dzogchen, initiations (Wang) bestowed by the masters of the lineage.
The teachers : Khenpo Karma Wangyel, brother of H.E. Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche, is the teacher in charge of Pema Yang Dzong, where he resides. Baza Guru Rinpoche comes once a year to teach the Tsalung according to the tradition of Pema Lingpa. H.E. Sungtrul Rinpoche, incarnation of the Speech of Pema Lingpa, came twice since 2014 to give initiations and bless the place ; and of course Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche has bestowed a great number of initiations and profound teachings of Vajrayana and Dzogchen since 1999.
– the building of the rooms and dormitory : with, in between, the common bathrooms, it consists of a dormitory divided in boxes of 1 to 5 beds on one side and of rooms of 1 to 4 beds on the other side. This building has a total capacity of 26 beds.
Between the teaching periods, the center can welcome a few persons for short or middle-lasting retreats.
The center is run by a small team of voluntary practitioners, with the help of members of the association and participants during the events and the teachings.


In an exclusive location, face to the Jialing River, next to the main routes the Chongqing Jihua Yuelai Oxygen Tower project is located at Yuelai Expiation Town area.
Elegant villas are shaped starting from a concept conceived from the geometric model of a flower that grows upward, an organic shape that becomes a reality.
A new living model in contact with nature thanks to the creation of luxury apartments surrounded by private gardens and the best luxury products.


Dev and Narvekar are at Mahek's house. Dev asks Narvekfar if he found anything? he says no. Dev goes in house to close it but finds Munim's message that Mahek did a mistake by firing at me but I wont keep her alive, save her if you can. Dev says Mahek's life is in danger, Munim has kidnapped her. Narvekar says its good that she is kidnapped by Munim, both are criminals. Dev shouts Narekar, Narvekar says you can shout but you cant wipe someone's hands from blood.
out and sees Sangeeta and her husband there, Koten says I am going to bank to depoist cheue, Sangeeta says let us know if you need anything.
Shanta makes bed ridden woman eat food and says eat it fast, I dont have time for you. Someone comes to house, Shanta asks him to come inside. Koten comes home, someone attacks him and kills him.
Officers tells about Mr. and Mrs. Koten's murder to Narvekar. Narvekar comes to Dev and tells him about Koten murder case, I need your help. Dev thinks that he is doing is deliberately, he says Mahek is missing and she is more important than this case, he leaves.
Narvekar and Dwani comes to Koten's house. They see Mr and Mrs. Koten's deadbodies. Narvekar looks at bodies, he says ask everyone around in building. Officer says they stole all things from locker, they used locker key.
Dev comes to garage in Wadala using the receipt.
Sangeeta and her husband gives statement to Narvekar, Sangeeta says people saw their bodies together. Koten's cook came to us in morning and said that Koten was not opening the door, then we called neighbor Soud, we tried to open the door, we went inside and saw them murdered, Koten gave me apartment key so I can open it in case of emergency, they were like parents to me, they both had health problems, aunty had stroke. Husband says their kids are settled in Singapore, Mr. Koten used to be worried about Mrs. Koten, Koten used to always say that they will leave the world together, I met him yesterday, he was going to deposit cheque in bank, then caretaker Shanta after work came to me so I locked their house from outside before Koten cameback home. Narvekar says killer used their safe keys to steal everything.
Narvekar investigates about the murder, officer says there were four maids, one caretaker Shanta, one cook, two maids. Caretaker didnt come from yesterday and she is not picking up call, Shanta's husband is a plumber and came to Koten's house and left after one hour of Koten's murder, Shanta and her husband are gone from their house.
Dev comes to garage and says to one man that I found your garage receipt in a house, do you know any Mahek? Munim? he says no. Another man comes there for a car pipe, he sees Dev there and runs from there. Dev asks garage owner who was that man? owner says why should I tell you? Dev grabs him and says I am from police, whats his name? garage owner says his name is Prakash. Dev think that Prakash knows where Mahek is.
Narvekar interrogates Koten's children. Their son says that father left everything when mom had stroke, daughter says they didnt have any fight with anyone, last month mom dad created some jewelry for us, son says they had cash of around 5 lacs. Dwani asks if they told anything about what they had in locker other than them? kids say no. Narvekar says someone killed Koten using a hammer and Mrs. Koten was killed by suffocating her.
Mahek is lying in a den, a man comes to her. She is unconscious. Kidnapper injects something in her arm.
PRECAP- Dev is searching for Mahek. Dev finds Mahek's laptop. He takes it hacker and asks him to crack her password. Hacker is Meera's friend and says what if I find something against Mahek regarding Meera's case in this laptop? Dev says then do as you want.
Narvekar says to Shanta and her husband that Mrs. Koten had abuse marks and only you could have done it. Shanta cries and says I accept that I beat her sometimes, I used to not give her food. Narvekar says you both hated them so much that you killed them.
Dev says to Sangeeta and her husband that at the time of murder, there were around 56 people in building and you people are on our doubt list among those 56.


Day after day, we're all bogged down by the time taken by daily chores, work, family, friends and a whole bunch of things. Some days we're caught up with tons of work, other days house chores. If we've successfully navigated that, we've got to manage the balancing act of family obligations and social obligations. There's very little time for oneself – to pause and reflect.
As if that isn't enough, the daily problems that come with each of the above is another task to deal with. Deadlines at work, remembering family and friends' birthdays, cooking, cleaning, taking care of parents – you name it, there's something important that one's forgotten but they're too tired to get it done. So it gets pushed.
Top this with dealing with negativity all around – politics, state of the nation, quality of life, terrible commute, weather, gossipy colleagues, people's irritating behaviour. You name it. We have a lot to complain about. Then comes the big daddy of all problems in our lives – social media. Those pesky apps that makes one feel less about oneself, makes one need validation from online users that really don't care about them. Social media is designed to make one keep scrolling like a bottomless cup of one's favourite drink. Social media is designed to amplify our fears, make us rage against one another, throw us in a downward spiral where it gets tough to come out of.
All of this sounds mighty depressing. And it is. In the isolated lives that we lead today, it's becoming increasingly easy to become cynical, to become pessimistic, to forget how to smile, to forget how to make others smile. It's too easy. Think about it. We are not leading the best quality lives we could. At least, I'm not. It's not easy to appreciate the little things around us as we're too busy existing.
In times like this, I guess it's important to identify the few things that makes one happy. I know, I know, it's too cheesy and cliche'd. But it's true. Make a list of the few things that makes one happy and just do it. Just. Do. It.
I'll start. The few things that make me happy: listening to my music, eating a crazy meal, learning something new, engaging in a productive discussion with someone 1:1, playing around with tons of data, being challenged, working out (currently kick boxing), walking.
All this sounds quite doable and it is. More so, it sounds like something I can do everyday. Which is also true. But what it lacks is mindfullness. When I am truly mindful while doing the things that make me happy, I feel great.
To being more mindful while doing the things that makes one happy!
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So the offenses have had their say, the pitching has had their say and the game has been previewed so it's time to put up or shut up. Who takes home the crown and gets the consolation prize that is facing off with the Chicago Cubs on the road in the NLDS? Is it going to be a Noah Syndergaard led New York Mets squad or is it going to be a Madison Bumgarner led Giants squad?
In all honestly I left the whole "even number" thing out as much as I could because on a long enough timeline that will have to come to an end eventually but I can't see the Mets getting passed the Giants in this contest. The Mets pitching is stellar and if they can get the ball to Jeurys Familia with a lead that may be the ball game leaving me with egg on my face but the Giants just have so much postseason experience and so many clutch hitters and so many players that have been there before it's hard to root against them in a one-game playoff. It may even be hard to root against them in a best of five series to be completely frank and honest. That is why I'm going with the Giants tonight in Queens.
Well that and I'm a Yankees fan and according to Michael Kay I can't be a fan nor can I root for both… and I'm inclined to agree with him.


Here is a post which is set to give you the recently updated list of the top 10 richest gospel musicians in Nigeria this year 2017/18. This article is going to be frequently updated as changes occur in the list of richest gospel musicians in Nigeria.
Gospel music in Nigeria has been a very popular genre over the years. Due to the religious belief of the people, they find gospel music appealing. This gospel musicians have also been doing an highly professional job over the years. As they have releasee hit tracks and also organised sold-out shows and concerts.
Sammie Okposo — Net Worth $750,000: The richest gospel musician in Nigeria for the year 2017/18 is Sammy Okposo and he deservedly takes the number one spot on this Fabinfos list. He is a popular gospel artiste and sound track producer.
Frank Edwards — Net Worth $600, 000: Number two on this list of the top 10 richest gospel artist in Nigeria for the year 2017/18 is Frank Edwards. His real name is Frank Ugochukwu Edwards is currently known as Nigeria's Hottest Gospel rock artiste Now.
Nikki Laoye — Net Worth $450,000: Nikky is one of the richest gospel musicians in Nigeria at the moment and she is not just rich but highly respected. She is one of Nigerian of gospel artiste ever to be interviewed and recognized on American entertainment channel, BET.
Sinach — Net Worth $420,000: Taking the number four spot on this list is Sinach, her real name is Osinachi Kalu and has released over ten albums, winning many awards and amassing a lot of wealth for herself.
Lara George — Net Worth $400,000: Lara George is highly talented and rich, she is a gospel singer, songwriter and producer. Lara George released her first single "Ijoba Orun" in the year 2008 andthe song went on to become an instant hit.
SamSong — Net Worth $370,000: Don't be surprised SamSong is one of the richest gospel musicians in Nigeria this 2017. He left his banking job to venture into gospel music after he discovered he had a passion for singing and he has gone on to make a fortune in the industry.
Eben — Net Worth $350,000: Eben is an highly talented gospel artiste and takes the number 7 spot on this Fabinfos list of the top 10 richest gospel musicians in Nigeria 2017/18. He bursted into limelight right after his first major public appearance, at a Youth Conference organized by Pastor Chris in 2005 where his track 'IMARAMA' was first heard.
Gozie And Njideka Okeke — Net Worth $320,000: The track 'Akanchawa' became a hit and put Gozie and Njideka Okeke in national limelight. Businessmen and women never joked with the song because is a financial breakthrough song.
Tope Alabi — Net Worth $300,000:Am sure you must have heard the name of Tope Alabi before, she is one of the most popular gospel musician in the country and also takes the number 9 stop on this list of the top 10 richest gospel musicians in Nigeria for the year 2017/18.
Esther Igbekele — Net Worth $250,000: She is a successful gospel artiste who is also known as Duchess of Gospel Music. Esther Igbekele started singing gospel music professionally in the year 1996, and has gone on to release over eleven albums to her credit.


Home Awards and Events Exploring New Trends At IFE 2019.
Exploring New Trends At IFE 2019.
The inaugural day at the 21st International Food & Drink Event [IFE] 2019 proved to be a huge success as crowds flocked to the showcase of 1,350 innovative, global and cutting-edge food & drink manufacturers.
Buyers from across the globe turned out to meet exhibitors face-to-face, taste new products before they reach the market and broaden their knowledge through thought-provoking content. The food & drink industry's biggest event of the year, IFE 2019 focuses on innovation and up-and-coming food & beverage trends.
Buyers discovered the health benefits of the fermented, slightly effervescent kombucha, a sweetened tea that in its raw form has been credited with boosting immunity and improving digestive health. Also on the menu was a punchy wasabi starter by Nick Russell of The Wasabi Company; a delicious Middle Eastern-influenced main course by Tony Kitous, and an exciting African twist on a chocolate brownie with Tokunbo Koiki, who shared her story and the history behind Nigeria's favourite flavours.
As part of the Food is GREAT campaign, Defra revealed its experiential Taste & Tales Wall, showcasing the heritage and exporting experiences of leading food & drink brands – complete with delicious samples, infused cocktails, fresh botanicals and live storytellers. While over at the DIT International Trade Hub, energy was focused around the Exporting is Great campaign and Exporting programme, including the introduction of a 'new to export' area which offered carefully selected UK companies the opportunity to display their brand to IFE's international audience.
Leading influencers from the food & drink industry stepped onto the Talking Trends stage to share their stories and expertise on hot topics that included a definitive look at the future of the food & drink industry and clear advice on how to grow brand awareness, engage customer, and create effective content in a Social Media Masterclass.
At The Hub, the event's networking space for exhibitors and visitors, debate centred on The Future of Retail. The lively conversation featured expert opinion from Hugo Horlick of RootLabs, Ingrid Caldironi of plastic-free shop Bulk Market, James Lowman of the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) and Rodney Hoinkes of global events company Fresh Montgomery.
Plus, as Brexit negotiations continue in Westminster, industry leaders debated the impact on food & drink prices, supply chains, and trends, as well as what Brexit could mean for British business. In particular, panellists discussed the opportunities presented to the artisan and speciality food markets.


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U.S. Surgeon General Open Letter to Higher Education Leaders
Citing the nationwide increase in COVID-19 infections, the U.S. Surgeon General has issued an open letter to colleges and universities across the country urging their support for COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma (CCP) donation.
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Published by Kirby Winn on Thursday, January 14, 2021 in News Releases
Citing the nationwide increase in COVID-19 infections, the U.S. Surgeon General has issued an open letter to colleges and universities across the country urging their support for COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma (CCP) donation. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH, writes that increasing infection rates is leading to a massive spike in demand for CCP. "That demand is quickly approaching 30,000 units per week," writes Adams. "Currently we are on par for collecting 30,000 units/week, but with increasing demand, it becomes more challenging to support the need. Current collections may not meet the demand as cases continue to rise exponentially over the next several weeks."
Open Letter from U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH
Additionally, on Wed., Jan. 13, the New England Journal of Medicine published a retrospective study on the effectiveness of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma as a treatment for patients with a COVID-19 infection. The study is accompanied by an editorial written by Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center's Chief Medical Officer, Louis M. Katz, MD.
The New England Journal of Medicine has published a retrospective study on the effectiveness of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma as a treatment for patients with a COVID-19 infection. The study is accompanied by an editorial written by Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center's Chief Medical Officer, Louis M. Katz, MD. (See links to NEJM content, below.)
NEJM - "Convalescent Plasma Antibody Levels and the Risk of Death from Covid-19"
NEJM - "(A Little) Clarity on Convalescent Plasma for Covid-19" (Louis M. Katz, MD)
To schedule a donation, potential donors who have had a positive test for COVID-19 infection may use the referral form at www.bloodcenter.org/cp or by calling (833) 610-1025.
Kirby Winn serves as Manager, Public Relations for ImpactLife. He enjoys working with media across the blood center's service region to share the stories of patients who have been helped by the generous volunteers who support our mission.
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Towards a satellite system for archaeology? Simulation of an optical satellite mission with ideal spatial and temporal resolution, illustrated by a case study in Scotland
McGrath, Ciara N. and Scott, Charlie and Cowley, Dave and Macdonald, Malcolm (2020) Towards a satellite system for archaeology? Simulation of an optical satellite mission with ideal spatial and temporal resolution, illustrated by a case study in Scotland. Remote Sensing, 12 (24). 4100. ISSN 2072-4292
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Applications of remote sensing data for archaeology rely heavily on repurposed data, which carry inherent limitations in their suitability to help address archaeological questions. Through a case study framed around archaeological imperatives in a Scottish context, this work investigates the potential for existing satellite systems to provide remote sensing data that meet defined specifications for archaeological prospection, considering both spatial and temporal resolution, concluding that the availability of commercial data is currently insufficient. Tasking a commercial constellation of 12 spacecraft to collect images of a 150 km 2 region in Scotland through the month of July 2020 provided 26 images with less than 50% cloud cover. Following an analysis of existing systems, this paper presents a high-level mission architecture for a bespoke satellite system designed from an archaeological specification. This study focuses on orbit design and the number of spacecraft needed to meet the spatial and temporal resolution requirements for archaeological site detection and monitoring in a case study of Scotland, using existing imaging technology. By exploring what an ideal scenario might look like from a satellite mission planning perspective, this paper presents a simulation analysis that foregrounds archaeological imperatives and specifies a satellite constellation design on that basis. High-level design suggests that a system of eight 100 kg spacecraft in a 581 km altitude orbit could provide coverage at a desired temporal and spatial resolution of two-weekly revisit and <1 m ground sampling distance, respectively. The potential for such a system to be more widely applied in regions of similar latitude and climate is discussed.
McGrath, Ciara N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7540-7476, Scott, Charlie, Cowley, Dave and Macdonald, Malcolm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4499-4281;
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Washington Words: Do you know?
Do you know who plows Washington city parking lots and alleys? It's Scott Weaver & Son Trucking & Excavation of Washington. Late last year, City Council approved a one-year extension of the city's contract with Weaver for the 2014-2015 winter season.
The contract was orginally approved in 2011 for 2011-2012 — Weaver was the lone bidder — and had a provision for one-year extensions for 2012-2013 and 2013-2014.
Why the extension beyond the original contract? Prices for plowing haven't changed since 2011. They're $400 per alley and $450 per parking lot per snow event. City Administrator Tim Gleason told council in a memo that Street Supervisor Kirk Hoog reviewed the contract and made minor adjustments that Weaver approved. The adjustments set times for plowing and added the police station parking lot to the list of lots that needed to be plowed.
STEIN'S LINES: This seems like a good deal for the city even though the extension for 2014-2015 wasn't part of the original contract. Most prices for services have gone up since 2011, not stayed the same.
sounds to me like Scott Weaver is doing a great service to the city of Washington by keeping his prices at the 2000 and 11 level. This is what it means to be a citizen in today's society thinking of the community and not yourself.


Rumors that Confluence is or will be selling Mad River Canoe (MRC) are simply not true, company president Bill Medlin told SNEWS®.
Rumors that Confluence is or will be selling Mad River Canoe (MRC) are simply not true, company president Bill Medlin told SNEWS®. "MRC is a key element of our growth strategy, and we have no plans to divest ourselves of the brand. We are planning on significant upgrades to the products next year and have just this past month moved the Royalex production from Vermont to North Carolina. Voyageur RF production was moved earlier in November. Composite canoe production will continue in Waitsfield only into the early part of January and will be moved as soon as the facility here is physically renovated. As you are also aware, we have just retained the services of Buff Grubb as brand manager for MRC," says Medlin. SNEWS® suspects that the root of this latest rumor can be traced to an attempt several months ago by a group of Vermont employees to make a bid for the brand in an effort to keep MRC in Vermont. According to Medlin, the initial bid that Confluence received was approximately a third of what the company values the brand, so the bid was dismissed and nothing more has been heard.


GIAC Stage 3 Minus K04-15 adds horsepower, torque and more throttle response throughout the power band. A K-04 Turbo, 5bar FPR, Exhaust, Intercooler is required to run this calibration.
GIAC Stage 3 K04-15 adds horsepower, torque and more throttle response throughout the power band. A K04-15 turbo, exhaust, inter-cooler, intake, 380cc injectors, 225TT MAF,F - N75 valve, turbo inlet hose, and a new green coolant temp sensor. are required to run this calibration.


Best Dressed of 2012 Emmy Award's Red Carpet : Everything About Fashion Today!
Today I bring you some of the best Dressed Ladies of the 2012 Emmy Awards. Tonight were the Emmys and as always celebrities got together and walked the Red Carpet in some really fancy outfits.
Here I bring you some of them. Hope you like them. Which one do you think got the best dressed award?


Healthy eating trends are costing Australians a total of $13.6 billion extra annually.
Ahead of International Women's Day on 8 March, Spice News will be running a series of Q+As with inspiring female figureheads from the Australian events industry. Next up is Joyce DiMascio, Chief Executive of the Exhibition and Event Association of Australasia (EEAA).
The SpiceNews team scaled 134 metres to the summit of the Sydney Harbour Bridge with BridgeClimb recently for an afternoon as part of a 3.5 hour team-building experience. Find out why we give the climb two thumbs up for the corporate market.


Journal of Oral Medecine and Oral Surgery is the new name of Médecine Buccale Chirurgie Buccale. This change is effective since 1st of January 2018.
This site is entirely financed by the French Society of Oral Surgery and does not receive any other subsidies. The articles of the Journal of Oral Medicine and Oral Surgery are written in the absence of any conflict of interest. The site is part of an exchange network between the SFCO owner of the title Journal of Oral Medicine and Oral Surgery and EDP Sciences, publisher of the Journal of Oral Medicine and Oral Surgery.
This site is reserved to dental surgeons, doctors, researchers and health professionals.


, in astronomy, the fourth asteroid to be discovered. It was found in 1807 by H. Olbers. It is the third largest asteroid in size, with a diameter of c.326 mi (525 km). Its average distance from the sun is 2.36 astronomical units, and the period of its orbit is 1,325 days.
..... Click the link for more information. . In 1999 the space probe Deep Space 1 passed within 16 mi (26 km) of Braille's surface, the closest flyby ever of an asteroid. Braille measures only 1.3 mi (2.1 km) by 0.6 mi (1 km). Its orbit is highly elliptical; its periapsis, or closest point to the sun, being midway between earth and Mars, and its apoapsis, or furthest point from the sun, is more than three times further from the sun than the earth is. In addition, much of Braille's orbit is a considerable distance above or below the ecliptic, the plane in which the planets circle the sun. Because of its orbit and geologic composition, it has been suggested that Braille was torn from Vesta, which has a huge crater, as the result of Vesta's collision with another celestial body.
A system of written communication for the blind in which letters are represented by raised dots over which the trained blind person moves the fingertips.
/breyl/ (Often capitalised) A class of writing systems, intended for use by blind and low-vision users, which express glyphs as raised dots. Currently employed braille standards use eight dots per cell, where a cell is a glyph-space two dots across by four dots high; most glyphs use only the top six dots.
Braille was developed by Louis Braille (pronounced /looy bray/) in France in the 1820s. Braille systems for most languages can be fairly trivially converted to and from the usual script.
Braille has several totally coincidental parallels with digital computing: it is binary, it is based on groups of eight bits/dots and its development began in the 1820s, at the same time Charles Babbage proposed the Difference Engine.
Computers output Braille on braille displays and braille printers for hard copy.
British Royal National Institute for the Blind.
We made her first brailled books, one sentence per page, usually about something meaningful to her.
Her brailled reading books now consisted of high-interest-low-vocabulary stories, such as those that are typically found in kindergarten classrooms.
Current transcribers are dedicated but unpaid volunteers who cannot meet the current demand for brailled textbooks and learning materials.