Toler. married Tammy Marie Morgan.
Tammy Marie Morgan [Parents] was born on 15 Mar 1960 in Logan, Logan Co, WV. She died on 6 May 2017 in Raleigh General Hospital, Beckley, Raleigh Co, WV. She was buried on 10 May 2017 in Morgan Cemetery, Garden Gap, Hanover, Wyoming Co, WV . She married Toler.
Dennis Allen [Parents] was born on 13 Dec 1954. He married Susan.
Susan was born on 13 Feb 1954. She married Dennis Allen.
F i Myrtle Marie Vaught was born in 1938.
William Reavis.William married Billie Robinson.
Billie Robinson.Billie married William Reavis.
F i Carol Reavis was born in 1936.
William Tompert Jr was born in 1931 in Isaban, McDowell Co, WV. He married Eleanor A. Mitchell on 1 Mar 1952 in Hensley, McDowell Co, WV.
Eleanor A. Mitchell [Parents] was born on 30 Jan 1934 in Davy, McDowell Co, WV. She died on 23 Jul 2016. She was buried in Cremated. She married William Tompert Jr on 1 Mar 1952 in Hensley, McDowell Co, WV.
William Howard Terry was born on 24 Jun 1889 in Pittsylvania Co, VA. He died on 25 Aug 1946 in Welch Emergancy Hospital, Welch, McDowell Co, WV. He was buried on 29 Aug 1946 in Iaeger Memorial Cemetery, Roderfield, McDowell Co, WV. He married Lillie May.
Lillie May was born in 1901 in WV. She married William Howard Terry.
William Andrew "Andy" Taylor.William married Nancy Stansberry.
Nancy Stansberry.Nancy married William Andrew "Andy" Taylor.
F i Ida Jane Taylor was born on 1 May 1904. She died on 9 Feb 1956.
Raymond Lee Salyers [Parents] was born on 17 Mar 1949 in War Eagle, Mingo Co, WV. He died on 22 Oct 2016 in Logan Regional Medical Center, Logan, Logan Co, WV. He was buried on 27 Oct 2016 in Noah Justice Cemetery, Mud Fork, Panther, McDowell Co, WV. He married Sharon Gail Lockhart about 1969.
Sharon Gail Lockhart [Parents] was born on 24 Mar 1951. She married Raymond Lee Salyers about 1969.
M i Ellis Oscar Ames was born in 1891.
Carmelo Sidoti.Carmelo married Phyllis Lisciandro.
Phyllis Lisciandro.Phyllis married Carmelo Sidoti.
M i Tindaro Sidoti was born in 1909.


Dubai was the fifth-largest market for lamb and sheep exports from Australia in the second quarter of last year, according to Meat and Livestock Australia.
Halal food products from Australia and New Zealand are the first imports to be subject to the UAE's new standards, which aim to create a global mark of quality for the Islamic food industry.
The halal mark was unveiled by the Emirates Authority for Standardisation & Metrology (Esma) at Gulfood yesterday, following a three-year development process that is part of Dubai's push to become the global capital of the Islamic economy.
The new halal certification covers the full process from farm to slaughter to additives and ingredients used, Esma said.
The standards are backed by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the 57-country body that aims to preserve Islamic social and economic values.
Within two years all food imports will need the mark to pass through the country, Esma said.
About a fifth of the global food trade is halal, according to Datamonitor, and it is forecast to be worth US$10 trillion by 2030, a Global Futures and Foresights study says.
Halal food imports into the GCC will reach $53.1 billion by 2020, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.
"More than 85 per cent of the food we import comes from non-Muslim countries," said Dr Rashid bin Fahad, Minister of Environment and Water, who is also chairman of Esma.
Dubai was the fifth-largest market for lamb and sheep exports from Australia in the second quarter of last year, according to Meat and Livestock Australia. Saudi Arabia was the fourth-biggest during the period. Much of 2015 demand is expected to come from the Middle East.
"We are privileged to be the first international exporters, along with New Zealand, to carry the new halal mark," said David Beatty, regional manager for Meat & Livestock Australia.
The new standards will also help UAE-based exporters compete in international markets, companies said.
"The accreditation means we will not need certificates from different regions with differing levels of compliance," said Ishaque Noor, group managing director at Albatha Consumer Group.
"It will give customers and consumers total confidence that the food they are buying, and the supply chain, is Sharia-compliant.
Albatha's Global Food Industries, which manufactures frozen food in Sharjah, is the first company to get the mark on its products. Esma did not disclose which countries would next be subject to the new standards for halal food imports. But in October, Dubai said it was in talks with Malaysia's government over a deal to agree mutually acceptable halal standards.
Yesterday, Brazil's meat export body said the introduction of the mark would not cause any disruption to trade.


Yoda and Backpack interview Scott Mann a former Lt. Col and Green Beret. He is the CEO of Mission America and author of the best-selling novel "Game Changers". Scott weighs in on ISIS in America, the Wounded Warrior Project, Mission America's Victory Garden Tour, and going local to defeat ISIS.


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Sweeping reforms passed in Sudan: FGM banned, alcohol permitted
Amar Diwakar
Abdalla Hamdok
Sudan's new leader wants foreign help to sure up finances
Sudan PM unveils first post-Bashir cabinet
United States, Sudan agree to upgrade diplomatic ties
Why are Sudan's protesters snubbing the UAE and Saudi Arabia?
Are Gulf monarchies trying to hijack the Sudan uprising?
Other amendments include abolishing the death penalty for apostasy and no longer requiring women to have permission from male family members to travel outside the country with their children.
Sudan's ruling body, the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), has ratified a set of sweeping changes to the country's penal code that include banning the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) and allowing non-Muslims to consume alcohol.
The reforms are part of a bid to implement its constitutional mandate and strengthen its democratic transition.
Anyone found guilty of performing FGM will be sentenced up to three years in prison.
Public flogging will also be banned.
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok hailed the decision as "an important step in reforming the justice system."
Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdulbari said the amendments to the 1991 Criminal Law, originally introduced by the disposed Omar al-Bashir government, are designed to safeguard citizens' rights as promised in the country's constitutional charter.
"We cancelled the Article 126 of the Sudanese Criminal Law and have ensured religious freedom and the equality in citizenship and rule of law," he said.
"All these changes are aiming at achieving equality in front of the laws. We have dropped all the articles that had led to any kind of discrimination. We ensure our people that the legal reformation will continue until we drop all the laws violating the human rights in Sudan."
Abdulbari added that a commission to study laws and recommend reforms will be set up shortly.
Article 152, which was used to regulate women's dress code and behaviour, was also repealed.
"Criminal justice reforms were a crucial part of the popular protest movement's demands to secularise the state and the announcements over the weekend will have been welcomed by civil society groups," said Patricia Rodrigues, an analyst specialising in East Africa for the geopolitical advisory firm Control Risks.
"The announcement also follows other reforms introduced in December 2019 that amended Public Order Laws to allow women more civil liberties."
She added that the developments will be viewed favourably by domestic and international human rights groups, and potentially improve the global perception of the transitional administration.
While the move to ban FGM has been welcomed by women's rights groups, the practice remains deep-rooted in conservative quarters of Sudanese society and implementation is likely to pose a challenge.
In neighbouring Egypt, where FGM was banned in 2008 and elevated to a felony in 2016, nine of 10 Egyptian women were still reported to have undergone the procedure, with around 80 percent carried out by medical professionals.
Some activists questioned the timing, saying that the Covid-19 pandemic puts them at a disadvantage since awareness campaigns cannot be mobilised nor can law enforcement training be conducted.
"Currently there are fuel shortages and long daily power cuts as well as rising infections of Covid-19," said Nahid Toubia, a leading Sudanese women's health rights activist specialising in FGM. "Communication and people's mobility are severely hampered. These are not the conditions where advocacy for legislating against FGM is a priority or even possible."
Still, the move's symbolic and consequential nature cannot be downplayed.
"Legal reviews and amendments will continue," Hamdok pledged, "until we address all distortions in the legal systems in Sudan."
The current Hamdock-led transitional government took over from Omar al Bashir who came to power in 1989 in an alliance with conservative hardliners and used the prevailing 30 years to enforce strict Islamic laws under his autocratic rule.
The spate of amendments ratified by the TSC were strongly opposed by voices from the country's religious establishment, including some from hardline groups that made up sections of the previous administration.
Abdel-Hay Youssef, the ultraconservative preacher, slammed the TSC chairman Abed-Fatah al Burhan and his deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (Hemedti).
"The issuance of amendments to the criminal law confirms to every fair [person] what those concerned said long ago that this government came as a war against virtues, and an aggression against the nation's religion and identity" said the cleric, who is believed to be in self-exile in Turkey.
Youssef called on the army to step in "to defend the law of God" adding that Burhan and Hemedti "betrayed God and his messenger".
"Uprooting this obscene government is a mandatory duty & obligation of every capable person," he added.
This was echoed by Mohamed Ali Al Juzooli, the head of state of the Law and Development Party (LDP), who urged the armed forces to overthrow a government that he deemed to be a "foreign project".
Salafist preacher Mohamed Abdel-Kareem also called for demonstrations to protest the amendments.
Head of the Just Peace Forum (JPF) Tayeb Mustafa, said the government had come "to fight God and his Messenger" and described cabinet ministers as "anti-Islam secularists and communists."
But this rhetorical pushback might not amount to anything substantive.
"Such groups have organised protests against the current administration earlier this year, but their networks of political and financial power are in the process of being dismantled," said Rodrigues.
"This means that while they may organise further protests, they will largely be unable to prevent these changes from being implemented in the coming months."
A fragile transition
The amendments come amid the backdrop of fresh protests demanding faster and more comprehensive reforms from transitional authorities.
Radical socio-political transformation was a crucial part of Sudan's nonviolent revolution, which led to the overthrow of the Bashir military regime last April.
The popular protests' slogan of "Freedom, peace, and justice" represented the yearning of many Sudanese civil society, which led to a negotiation process culminating in a transitional political structure tasked with turning those dreams into tangible rulings.
The civilian-led transitional government formed in September has faced a number of challenges inherited after decades of political oppression and economic mismanagement, as it shepherds the country for three years until democratic elections in 2022.
The Hamdock government has to also delicately balance the expectations of the civilian movement and economic liberalisation with the powerful interests of the military, who continue to retain significant influence in political and economic affairs.
Any attempt at transitioning from dictatorship to a democratic system is fraught with formidable challenges. While Sudan embarks on a path toward democratic and accountable government, economic fragility threatens to derail its transition.
Deteriorating economic conditions, the primary driver for the protests, has only exacerbated political and economic strain in the midst of a pandemic. Sudan is among the most affected African countries in terms of confirmed Covid-19 cases and deaths.
An unsustainable fuel subsidy policy is in desperate need of reform, and has contributed to the country's growing fiscal deficit and debt, which stands at $60 billion.
Inflation topped 100 percent last month and its currency has plunged to 141 to the dollar on the black market compared to 55 at the official rate.
With an estimated 65 percent of its 44 million people living in poverty, the stakes for economic reform are high.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has implored that Sudan be allowed to access the international assistance necessary to confront the pandemic, citing worsening health and economic impacts as well as the potential of "unthinkable negative spillovers" on regional and global stability.
Sudan's constitutional charter calls for a range of legal and institutional reforms, many that have yet to materialise. The fresh batch of legal changes will help mollify some of those concerns and act as a signal to international donors.
"The reforms will work to demonstrate to domestic and international audiences that Hamdok's administration is serious about human rights issues," said Rodrigues.
"These changes may improve Sudan's relations with Western countries more generally and also boost the prospects for the removal of Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism by the US and thereby unlock much-needed emergency financial assistance for Sudan."
However, the ultimate goal of removing Sudan from the US State Department list (which it has been on since 1993) remains a significant challenge, one that might have a lasting impact on the success or failure of the transitional government.
The denial of access to development assistance and concessional loans, along with the deterring global banks from dealing with Sudan, leaves it subject to assistance from countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which have opportunistic political interests linked to their support.
The Friends of Sudan group, which enlists the USA, UK, France, Germany, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Ethiopia, claims to support the democratic transition and economic reforms set out in Sudan's constitution. Khartoum's geostrategic position, spanning the Horn and North Africa, make it integral for many of those states' foreign policy objectives in the region.
Last month, foreign donors guaranteed $1.8 billion to ease Sudan's economic pain. The EU pledged $350 million, the US earmarked $356 million, while the UAE and Saudi Arabia donated $50 million and $10 million respectively.
However, it is still well below the $8 billion in aid Hamdok said was needed over two years to turnaround Sudan's crisis-ridden economy and recover the oil revenues it lost when South Sudan seceded in 2011.
For now, it appears "the Sudanese economy will continue to be fragile albeit with humanitarian aid flows preventing an economic collapse," Rodrigues declared.

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Investigative Journalist
Iraq Oil and Gaza Gas: Factors in War?
Institute for Public Accuracy Nafeez Ahmed August 11, 2014
ANTONIA JUHASZ, antoniajuhasz at gmail.com, @antoniajuhasz
Juhasz is an oil industry analyst and investigative journalist who has written extensively on oil and the war in Iraq in two books, The Bush Agenda and The Tyranny of Oil, including "Why the Iraq War Was Fought for Big Oil," on CNN.com.
She said today: "U.S. Military engagement in Erbil is certainly about oil, but it's also about politics and the Obama administration is not the Bush administration. Western oil companies and the Obama administration will not permit ISIL to control Kurdistan and are willing to engage militarily to achieve this goal. The Kurds have spent the entire period following the 2003 U.S. invasion offering up their oil to western oil companies on the most generous of terms, even implementing the western-oil-company-written Iraq Oil Law when the central Iraqi government refused to, in hopes that doing so would win U.S. support for independence. This week's military operations may prove the Kurds right — an outcome that may have been sealed the moment the Peshmerga took the Kirkuk oil field (one of the world's largest) from ISIL and for the first time put it solidly in Kurdish control. Exxon, Chevron, Marathon and Genel — the oil company run by BP's former CEO Tony Hayward — among many other western oil companies have sizeable interests in Kurdistan. So do many of the talking heads from the Bush administration now filling the airwaves in favor of war, most importantly, Zalmay Khalilzad.
"The 2003 invasion put a great deal of Iraq's oil into the hands of western oil companies (see my CNN Op Ed, "Why the Iraq War was Fought for Big Oil"), but they have been unable to fully take advantage of Kurdistan's because of the dispute over who ultimately controls its oil. The Obama administration would not have gone to war only to secure this access. Both western oil companies and the Obama administration have interests in a unified Iraq under more favorable leadership for a broad range of reasons. Today's U.S. military engagement is about getting rid of Maliki in order to put in place a government better able to maintain 'stability' in a manner more fitting U.S. interests throughout the country, including oil interests and including Kurdistan. Both western oil companies and the U.S. government prefer a unified Iraq and are willing to threaten the central Iraqi government with an independent Kurdistan to get the central government in line. If it won't get in line, then I imagine they'll decide that an independent Kurdistan will have to do."
NAFEEZ AHMED, iprdoffice at gmail.com, @nafeezahmed
Ahmed writes the Earth Insight column at The Guardian. He recently wrote the piece "IDF's Gaza assault is to control Palestinian gas, avert Israeli energy crisis."
He also recently wrote "Armed robbery in Gaza – Israel, U.S., UK carve up the spoils of Palestine's stolen gas" for The Ecologist, which states:
"Since the Oslo Accords, although the Palestinian Authority's maritime jurisdiction extends up to 20 nautical miles from the coast, Israel has incrementally reduced Gaza's maritime jurisdiction by 85 percent from 20 to 3 nautical miles — effectively reversing Palestinian sovereignty over the Gaza Marine.
"But with Israel's determination to access Gaza's gas accelerating in the context of the risk of a 2015 energy crunch, the fundamental obstacle to doing so remained not just the intransigent Hamas, but an insufficiently pliant PA seeking to engage the West's arch-geopolitical rival, Russia.
"Israel's own commitment to blocking a two-state solution and bypassing Hamas meant that its only option to bring Gaza's gas into production was to do so directly — with, it seems, the competing collusion of American and British energy companies.
"The IDF's Gaza operation, launched fraudulently in the name of self-defence, is certainly though not exclusively about permanently altering the facts on the ground in Gaza to head-off the PA's ambitions for autonomously developing the Marine gas reserves, and to eliminate Hamas' declared sovereignty over them."
Ahmed is executive director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development in London. He has advised the British Foreign Office, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and U.S. State Department. He writes for The Ecologist and The Guardian on the geopolitics of interconnected environmental, energy and economic crises. His latest nonfiction book is A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save it, and his forthcoming novel, Zero Point, is out this August.
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©2019 Antonia Juhasz


22nd Euro-Global Summit on Food and Beverages during February 28-March 01, 2019 in London, UK organized by world class confernece organizer Conference Series llc Ltd.
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dunkin donuts has always been my favorite desert after dinner, it just have the perfect test that i need.
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Lend a playful update to your working wardrobe with the Ariela Dress from Hobbs this season.
In a feminine flared design, this dress features a classic round neckline with tie detailing and three-quarter length sleeves. With a relaxed fit, it falls to a complimentary knee length and fashions an all over spot design.
Slip on a pair of classic court shoes to wear at work, alternatively wear with tight and boots for a gorgeous weekend look.


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Often students ask me how to start a personal home yoga practice. It is easy to dismiss this question as silly. Surely the aspirant just gets on the mat and practises the poses that they know. But students and teachers alike know that it is not so easy.
It took me five years to establish my own personal practice. It was a struggle. There were many mental obstacles to overcome. For the first five years of my yoga learning I was, as Prashant Iyengar says, "a class goer" only. Initially I was going to two classes per week. After two years of classes, I began to contemplate the idea of home practice. This was solely and absolutely motivated by my ego. Other people in my class had started doing Sirsasana (headstand) in the middle of the room and I was the only remaining student firmly glued to the wall. I was embarrassed by this as I was not used to being 'last' in a class of anything. I resolved to practise at home.
For those five years I had the intention of practising each morning. I made many attempts. I would set the alarm for a ridiculously early hour – 5 am, with the intention of practising for two hours before going to work. The alarm would go off (and wake my partner up), I would turn it off and then lie in bed thinking that I really should get up and practise, and what I could practise if did. Very soon it was 7am at which point I would get up and get ready for work.
I wasted time, my partner was angry, I lost sleep and nothing was achieved. Yet I persisted, repeating this same scenario, often for a full week at a time. There were many perfectly good excuses. It was cold; I'd have to turn the heater on. I didn't know where my yoga mat was. I'd had a late night. I was tired. I was feeling premenstrual. I deserved to rest. And so on the excuses went.
On occasion, common sense and will prevailed; initially at least. I got up, dressed, found the yoga mat and set up in supta virasana (supine hero pose) over a bolster. I would stay in a sleepy fashion in the dark for 15 minutes or so, sit up to continue practice, only to then change my mind and convince myself that I really was too tired to practice after all, and promptly go back to bed.
Time was wasted again and again. I devoted a lot of mental energy and time to self-flagellation. I was lazy. I squandered time. I was the sort of person who lets themselves down. Someone who sabotages their own best intentions. I was a 'gunna'. I was gunna do this and that but, in fact, did nothing.
Still I tried, and sometimes got further than supta virasana. I would do adho mukha virasana, uttanasana (standing forward bend) and adho mukha svanasana (dog pose). Then I would remember the words of my teacher, PL, stating "if after 15 minutes on your mat, you still really don't want to be there, then stop". Upon recalling these well-intentioned words, I would say to myself that I really didn't want to be there anymore and give myself permission to return to bed!
Occasionally, I would try practising after I came home from work. However, I needed to have a rest first, then a cup of tea, by which time it would be 6.30 or 7pm – time to cook and eat dinner. The mental obstacles and excuses continued.
Eventually I realised that, to avoid self-sabotage, some forward planning was required. I needed to know what to practise. I started to read Light on Yoga (the seminal text from BKS Iyengar). I focussed on the introduction and then the appendices, within which three courses are given. At night, prior to going to bed, I would choose a sequence from Course One and keep the book open to the correct page ready for morning practice. I even got out my mat and props ready for the big practice. However, upon making it to the mat in the morning I realised that I only knew a few of the Sanskrit names of the asanas. This meant I kept having to flick through the book to the photographic plates to identify the asanas listed in the sequences. This took up a lot of time and I only managed to do 10 12 poses before running out of time. But it was a start.
After a few weeks of these experiences, I resolved to complete one of the Light on Yoga Course One sequences every morning. To avoid wasting time because I didn't know the names of the asanas, diligently I started to copy out the sequences by hand (no home computer or printer in those days) the night before. I would refer to the photographic plates and draw a matching stick figure beside the Sanskrit name of the pose. This way I would know what poses to do and not have to keep flipping through pages in the book. This method proved to be highly successful. Not only did I nearly complete each sequence (they get very long) but in taking this approach I very quickly learnt all of the Sanskrit names of the asanas.
I would still sleep-in sometimes, but I had established a regular home practice a few times per week. It had taken me five years, but I had finally cracked it! The next year or so still involved many failed practice attempts. But I had more successes than I did failures.
Of my early days in yoga being a 'class goer' only, I often said of my relationship with yoga that I was 'flirting' with yoga. When I finally overcame the mental obstacles to personal practice, by writing out sequences and practising a couple of times per week (in addition to class going), I referred to myself and yoga as 'being engaged'.
Finally, because I was enjoying both practising and the rewards it brought (improved sleep, less volatile moods, firmer stronger legs, a sense of overall contentedness), I reduced my working hours to four days per week so I could attend another led practice with PL, as well as incorporate reading yoga texts as part of my yoga study. I was practising or going to class at least six days per week. I joked that it was the moment that I became married to yoga.
The marriage has been tested many times with the arrival of children, work requirements and meeting the needs of extended family members. Finding the time to practise is eternally difficult. The only way to do this is to plan the time and days for a practise and to stick to it. I regularly say 'no' to requests from other people for me to do something, or ignore work that needs to be done, in order to preserve the time for practice.
It doesn't matter how long it takes you to establish your own personal practice – it might take years, it might be just a matter of months. But don't give up. It is only when personal practice is truly established that real meaningful transformation of the self can take place. We begin to realise that yoga is not merely about exercise but it is a method to study ourselves, change ourselves and ultimately gain a sense of internal freedom.


There are enough top 10 lists at the end of any year to form a list of The Top 10 Top 10 lists. So, this isn't a list of this blog's most-viewed recipes in 2012. Instead, I figured I'd end my blogging year by putting together a list of what I think are the Should Have Been Top Tens; the recipes I adored writing, eating and sharing with you over these last twelve months but that didn't get a whole load of love in pageviews. They're the recipes that got away. So, read on. Maybe you'll feel a little regret that you didn't make the most of them when they were available and, after a few drinks late at night, start wondering why it is you never really connected and decide to give them another try.
Learning to make perfect pickles is like riding a bike. Okay, not really. But you could eat these pickles while riding a bike, and that's a pretty good first date.
This dish makes me so happy I want to dance when I eat it. A slow and dirty dance complete with goofy, self-mocking facial expressions.
I want to eat some then use a pair to beat a steal pan drum under a palm tree while wearing a coconut bra. Let's delete the evidence though, m'kay?
I'm not kidding. Best ever. Certified by the people who decide such things (okay, Mr. Feedbag).
Uh... what? Sorry, I got distracted looking at the photo. I can't... ya. Good.
A simple fruit pie goes Hollywood. Except here fat is your friend.
Hot and creamy. It's like 50 Shades of Seafood.
So weird it's wonderful. Instead of simmering meat in stock, pork meets citrus juice and they're a perfect match.
These saucy little numbers aren't just appetizers. They're the main course, baby. Napkins optional.
This fresh and fabulous classic has been attending our family barbecues longer than my husband has. We go wayyy back.
Sometimes recipes aren't love at first sight. And that's okay. Sometimes you have to try them out and see if there's anything there. But in the end, sometimes the first instinct is the right one and it's not you, it truly is them. For whatever reason you read this blog in 2012, thanks for showing up. I hope you come back in 2013.
My handsome man is kind of fanatical about wings so I'm gonna give yours a go. Happy New Year to you and your boys!
4 of those are family favourites already. I accept the challenge on the chocolate chip cookies...I want the pantry full of healthy things for January and there are chocolate chips taunting me in there. Must make the cookies and eat them all before 2013 so I can start on the right foot!
The crab and asiago bake looks amazing.
The chocolate pudding was amazing. Notice I used the past tense...it went fast!


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Gypsy Gina
Leita Kaldi Davis worked for the United Nations and UNESCO, for Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Harvard University. She worked with Roma (Gypsies) for fifteen years, became a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal at the age of 55, then went to work for the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Haiti for five years. She retired in Florida in 2002. She wrote a memoir of Senegal, Roller Skating in the Desert, and is working on a memoir of Haiti.
by Leita Kaldi Davis (Senegal 1993-96)
GINA LEANS into the corner of the tenement kitchen, trying to stay out of the way.
She's only nine years old and doesn't take up much space, pushing close up against the walls. She idly stretches out a finger and runs it down the yellowed, chipped paint, and puts her finger into her mouth. Streaks of dirt mark her cheeks; her black hair hangs in tousled strands around her face; her bare toes wiggle on the crusty linoleum floor. She watches dust motes sparkling like tiny diamonds on sun rays filtering through the dirty window.
Gina is small and light, full of frenetic energy, chattering incessantly, moving in perpetual pirouettes. She beams in wide smiles when pleased but, when crossed, her brow creases, and she crashes into thunderous tantrums. Her mercurial energy seems limitless but, when expended, she drops like a felled tree.
Gina's mother yells at her from the doorway. "Stop pickin' at that wall! It's dirty!"
Rosa is twenty-eight years old, statuesque, framed in a window where light plays upon her dark, long hair, and flashes from a dangling earring. Rosa is not her real name, it's her American name. Among the Rom, or Gypsies, everyone has secret Romani names that godparents whisper into a baby's ear, a name that only the family and spirits know. Rosa has an ofisa, a store front on the first floor of the building where a picture of an open palm hangs in the window with the caption, "Psychic Readings – $10 special." Rosa sometimes stands in the doorway and beckons to passersby; occasionally someone, usually a woman, will wander in for a palm or tarot card reading. Rosa adroitly increases the price to $20 or $30 at the end of her reading because, she explains, she had read two palms instead of one, or spent longer on the tarot cards than usual. Sometimes she gets a customer who comes back several times to solve her problems by following Rosa's occult advice. These are the customers Rosa looks for, charging more for every session, relieving some gullible clients of "evil money." At the first sign of any altercation that might lead to a police investigation, the family packs up and disappears.
Rosa stands at the stove stirring a pot of spicy stew, in a cigarette in her other hand balanced on her hip. The kitchen is furnished with a formica table and four straight chairs; a window looks out across an alley onto another dingy building.
Gina's father, Danny, is out canvassing neighborhoods and parking lots in search of gaji, non-Gypsy, car owners, who might hire him to smooth out dents. Since he has no license for such work, he charges $20 or 30 a job, for which a licensed repairman might collect $200. He also goes to used car sales, buys cheap and tries to sell expensive after he does some body work on the cars. He visits other Rom in the city, talking with the men about business and clan gossip, marriages to be arranged, or the health of an elder. Gina's teen-age brother, Nicky, works with his father, and spends all his time with him. He's a tall boy with jet black hair that falls around his dark eyes. He shakes it back like a stallion would toss its mane, a gesture that looks haughty, defiant, that appeals to girls. He's a leader among the other boys, the strongest when it comes to rough-housing, the slickest when it comes to smoking cigarettes and nipping from the grown men's brandy bottles. But when they're around gaji, Nicky lets his father do all the talking as he looks at the ground in silence. He wonders a lot about the gajo world, the alien world he sees on TV where people live in big houses or even tenements like his, but whose family life is very different. When Nicky asked his father about those people whose lives included school and careers, Danny told him to pay no attention, it was all make believe. Nicky had gone to different schools until eighth grade, as they traveled around the country, and he knew how to read and write, which was a help to his father, who had never learned. Gina hopes she could go to school some day, but girls were usually kept away from gaji, who were considered to be a dangerous source of marimè . . . defilement. Instead, she would learn how to tell fortunes, "read people," her mother would say. There was nothing psychic about it, just an intuitive ability that was cultivated early in Romani girls. Rosa laughed at gaji women who thought she had supernatural powers.
Rosa put a bowl on the table, and yelled again at Gina. "Come and eat! You need to eat somethin'. You're too skinny. Who's gonna' look at you when we go see your cousins, and they're lookin' for a girl for their sons. Not too soon to be choosin' someone for you, you know."
Gina sidled over to the table and sat down in front of a bowl of steaming stew. The savory smell made her stomach rise, and with it a sudden surge of fury. She slammed her spoon onto the table, hunched her shoulders and glared at her mother.
"I don't wanna' eat, I don't wanna' get promised to any strange boy, I don't want you to keep telling me what I have to do." Her voice rose. "I don't wanna' live here . . . and I don't wanna' go anywhere else." Her rage crested then flowed away into tears as she bent her head onto the table and sobbed. "I don't know what I want."
Rosa stood still in the middle of the kitchen, staring at her daughter. The hand she'd raised to slap her, as she always did at such outbursts, fell to her side. What was wrong with Gina? She'd never behaved like this before; she didn't have her usual energy; maybe she was sick. Travel would cure her. Travel always cured the Rom, she reminded herself. Even old people who were very sick would be bundled up in a car and driven across the country, and they often arrived well. She touched her daughter's neck with a light hand. "Never mind. You can eat later."
Rosa heard footsteps outside the door, then Danny and Nicky walked in. Danny washed his hands and face, the gold chain around his neck swinging over the sink. Rosa watched him, thinking she'd better wash that shirt, a black nylon shirt that stretched across his growing paunch. Wiping his hands on a towel, he raised an eyebrow at her and patted his belly, as she set plates on the table. Moments later, a knock at the door made Danny jump up from his chair. He opened the door a crack and there stood a gajo, a young man wearing a shirt with an insignia on the pocket, a uniform of some kind. Danny raised his chin. "Yessir, what can I do for you?"
The man replied, "I'm from the Department of Public Health. We're inspecting this building, along with others on the block, for lead poisoning in the paint. We've tested downstairs and found that the walls are full of lead paint. I'd like to check your apartment."
Danny blocked the doorway. "What do you mean, lead poison?"
"It's a chemical that was used in paint years ago that's very toxic, especially to children. We're alerting landlords and tenants. We're getting them to clean up these places, remove the paint, you know. Before people get sick."
"So how would somebody get sick?" Danny asked.
"Just by breathing the dust from the walls, or, in the case of kids, putting stuff in their mouths that contains lead."
Rosa stood a few feet behind Danny listening to the conversation. She interjected behind Danny's shoulder. "So how would you know if somebody was sick with this, this lead poison thing?"
The gajo replied, "We do blood tests on everyone to see if they have any lead in their systems. If so, there are medicines to eliminate the toxins." He peered inside the room and glimpsed Gina, who had retreated to her corner. "You should all be tested. Especially your little girl there."
Rosa spoke close to Danny's ear in Romanes. "I ain't gonna' let those gaji take blood from my baby."
Danny poked her in the hip. "Shut up, I'll handle this."
"So, officer. That is, I guess you're an officer, being from the Department of Public Health and all. When would you want to do these tests, when do you have to come in here? We're not ready for you to do that now; we're on our way out."
"That's OK," replied the gajo. "I can come back tomorrow morning, test the walls, and tell you where to go for blood tests. The Health Department's not far from here."
"OK," said Danny. "We'll be waiting for you tomorrow morning."
He closed the door and shot the bolt. He and Rosa stared at each other, an unspoken signal in their dark eyes, an unheard alarm in their ears. They feared gajo officials of any kind; they were all more or less police, authorities who could arrest them, take their kids away, cause them trouble. An unspoken message passed between Rosa and Danny. "We're out of here."
As Danny and Nicky ate, Rosa gathered their belongings, rolling up sheets, blankets, clothes and stuffing them into bags and suitcases. "Gina, eat now!," she commanded, shoving a bowl of food in front of her. Gina picked at the food, ate a slice of bread and butter, and took a sip of Nicky's coffee. They were moving again. They were always on the move. As soon as Rosa had washed and packed their pots and pans, they hauled everything downstairs and stowed it in their big, old Cadillac.
The sun was already sinking, but they had often set out on the road at dusk, rolling during the night through small towns with flashing lights that beckoned to motels and all-night restaurants. Gina knelt in the back seat, staring out the window at that yellow line that run forever down the middle of the road, disappearing like an arrow in the distance. In the morning, they would stop to eat at a fast food place where everything was plastic and there was no danger of eating off gaji plates. They slept in the car, Danny and Nicky taking turns driving, heading for homes and ofisa of people of their clan. Danny spent a lot of time on his cell phone, calling people all over the country to see who was ready to move on, whose place his family could move into for a while. You were more welcome if you had baxht, luck, a roll of big bills and the power that went with it. Danny kept thinking, as he drove through the night, Nicky sleeping beside him, Rosa and Gina in the back seat, maybe Chicago would be a lucky place. His cousin had a nice set-up there; Rosa was good at fortune-telling and he heard there was a lot of work with cars. They could make it there, way better than Boston. He dreamed his dreams at the wheel, that eternal wheel of Romani wanderers.
NEXT DAY the Health Department Inspector knocked at their door. It swung open. He peered inside to see all the shabby furniture more or less in place, but no sign of people. They were gone. He thought about the mother, father and the young man; they'd all been living in a toxic oven for who knows how long. He thought about that little girl standing in the corner close to the walls. She ran the greatest risk of lead poisoning, because little ones breathe faster, and inhale more. What had frightened them away?
"Surely not me," said the Health Inspector to himself.


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In 2017, Franklin city, VA had a population of 8.33k people with a median age of 38.7 and a median household income of $38,760. Between 2016 and 2017 the population of Franklin city, VA declined from 8,413 to 8,334, a -0.939% decrease and its median household income grew from $38,333 to $38,760, a 1.11% increase.
The population of Franklin city, VA is 58.9% Black or African American Alone, 37.3% White Alone, and 2.78% Two or More Races. 2.26% of the people in Franklin city, VA speak a non-English language, and 99.5% are U.S. citizens.
The largest universities in Franklin city, VA are Paul D Camp Community College (284 degrees awarded in 2016).
The median property value in Franklin city, VA is $186,100, and the homeownership rate is 49.7%. Most people in Franklin city, VA commute by Drove Alone, and the average commute time is 25.4 minutes. The average car ownership in Franklin city, VA is 1 car per household.
Franklin city, VA borders Isle of Wight County, VA and Southampton County, VA.
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The economy of Franklin city, VA employs 3.49k people. The largest industries in Franklin city, VA are Health Care & Social Assistance (667 people), Manufacturing (629 people), and Educational Services (351 people), and the highest paying industries are Educational Services ($39,934), Administrative & Support & Waste Management Services ($35,744), and Professional, Scientific, & Management, & Administrative & Waste Management Services ($35,348).
Median household income in Franklin city, VA is $38,760. Males in Franklin city, VA have an average income that is 1.34 times higher than the average income of females, which is $55,180. The income inequality in Franklin city, VA (measured using the Gini index) is 0.478, which is lower than than the national average.
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Households in Franklin city, VA have a median annual income of $38,760, which is less than the median annual income of $60,336 across the entire United States. This is in comparison to a median income of $38,333 in 2016, which represents a 1.11% annual growth.
Look at the chart to see how the median household income in Franklin city, VA compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The PUMS dataset is not available at the County level, so we are showing data for Virginia.
In 2017, full-time male employees in Franklin city, VA made 1.34 times more than female employees.
This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in Franklin city, VA by number of full-time employees.
In 2017 the highest paid race/ethnicity of Franklin city, VA workers was Asian. These workers were paid 1.13 times more than White workers, who made the second highest salary of any race/ethnicity.
This chart shows the race- and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in Franklin city, VA by number of full-time employees.
The closest comparable wage GINI for Franklin city, VA is from Virginia.
In 2017, the income inequality in Virginia was 0.478 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 0.0649% growth from 2016 to 2017, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat less even.
The 2017 the GINI for Virginia was lower than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Virginia in comparison to the national average.
This chart shows the number of workers in Virginia across various wage buckets compared to the national average.
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In 2017, the tract with the highest Median Household Income (Total) in Franklin city, VA was Census Tract 901 with a value of $47,480, followed by Census Tract 902 and N/A, with respective values of $21,990 and N/A.
The following map shows all of the tracts in Franklin city, VA colored by their Median Household Income (Total).
Males 6 - 11
16.6% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Franklin city, VA (1.36k out of 8.2k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is higher than the national average of 13.4%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Males 6 - 11, followed by Females 25 - 34 and then Males 55 - 64.
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The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Franklin city, VA is Black, followed by White and Hispanic.
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From 2016 to 2017, employment in Franklin city, VA stayed at a rate of 0%, from 3.49k employees to 3.49k employees.
The most common job groups, by number of people living in Franklin city, VA, are Office & Administrative Support Occupations (407 people), Management Occupations (336 people), and Construction & Extraction Occupations (310 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Franklin city, VA.
The most common jobs held by residents of Franklin city, VA, by number of employees, are Office & Administrative Support Occupations (407 people), Management Occupations (336 people), and Construction & Extraction Occupations (310 people).
Compared to other counties, Franklin city, VA has an unusually high number of residents working as Law Enforcement Workers Including Supervisors (4.63 times higher than expected), Healthcare Support Occupations (2.3 times), and Community & Social Service Occupations (1.86 times).
The highest paid jobs held by residents of Franklin city, VA, by median earnings, are Computer, Engineering, & Science Occupations ($74,706), Health Diagnosing & Treating Practitioners & Other Technical Occupations ($54,608), and Healthcare Practitioners & Technical Occupations ($53,137).
The most common employment sectors for those who live in Franklin city, VA, are Health Care & Social Assistance (667 people), Manufacturing (629 people), and Educational Services (351 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Franklin city, VA, though some of these residents may live in Franklin city, VA and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
The most common industries in Franklin city, VA, by number of employees, are Health Care & Social Assistance (667 people), Manufacturing (629 people), and Educational Services (351 people).
Compared to other counties, Franklin city, VA has an unusually high number of Public Administration (1.85 times higher than expected), Manufacturing (1.78 times), and Administrative & Support & Waste Management Services (1.7 times) industries.
The highest paying industries in Franklin city, VA, by median earnings, are Educational Services ($39,934), Administrative & Support & Waste Management Services ($35,744), and Professional, Scientific, & Management, & Administrative & Waste Management Services ($35,348).
Domestic production and consumption consists of products and services shipped from Virginia to other states, or from other states to Virginia.
Motorized vehicles
In 2015, the top outbound Virginia product (by dollars) was Mixed freight with $27.5B, followed by Motorized vehicles with $26B and Electronics and $22.4B.
The following chart shows the share of these products in relation to all outbound Virginia products.
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In 2015, total outbound Virginia trade was $254B. This is expected to increase 46.7% to $373B by 2045.
The following chart shows how the domestic outbound Virginia trade is projected to change in comparison to its neighboring states.
Interstate trade consists of products and services shipped from Virginia to other states, or from other states to Virginia.
In 2015, the top outbound Virginia domestic partner for goods and services (by dollars) was Maryland with $23.4B, followed by North Carolina with $12.9B and Pennsylvania and $11.1B.
The following map shows the amount of trade that Virginia shares with each state (excluding itself).
89.4% of the population of Franklin city, VA has health coverage, with 44.7% on employee plans, 20.3% on Medicaid, 12.3% on Medicare, 9.61% on non-group plans, and 2.47% on military or VA plans.
Per capita personal health care spending in the county of Franklin city, VA was $7,556 in 2014. This is a 3.42% increase from the previous year ($7,306).
Primary care physicians in Franklin city, VA see 849 patients per year on average, which represents a 0.469% decrease from the previous year (853 patients). Compare this to dentists who see 1661 patients per year, and mental health providers who see 1187 patients per year.
Comparing across all counties in the state, Mecklenburg County and Halifax County have the highest prevalence of diabetes (15.6%). Additionally, Petersburg city has the highest prevalence of adult obesity (45.3%)
Primary care physicians in Franklin city, VA see an average of 849 patients per year. This represents a 0.469% decrease from the previous year (853 patients).
The following chart shows how the number of patients seen by primary care physicians has been changing over time in Franklin city, VA in comparison to neighboring states.
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Between 2013 and 2014, all personal health care spending per capita in Virginia (including private, Medicare, and Medicaid) grew 3.42%, from $7,306 to $7,556.
Between 2016 and 2017, the percent of uninsured citizens in Franklin city, VA declined by 17.2% from 12.8% to 10.6%.
The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Franklin city, VA changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
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Mecklenburg County and Halifax County have the highest prevalence of diabetes in Virginia, at 15.6%.
The following map shows the prevalence of diabetes in Virginia by county over multiple years.
Franklin city, VA is home to a population of 8.33k people, from which 99.5% are citizens. As of 2017, 0.984% of Franklin city, VA residents were born outside of the country.
The ethnic composition of the population of Franklin city, VA is composed of 4.91k Black or African American Alone residents (58.9%), 3.11k White Alone residents (37.3%), 232 Two or More Races residents (2.78%), 59 Hispanic or Latino residents (0.708%), 24 Asian Alone residents (0.288%), 0 Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander Alone residents (0%), 0 American Indian & Alaska Native Alone residents (0%), and 0 Some Other Race Alone residents (0%).
The most common foreign languages spoken in Franklin city, VA are Spanish or Spanish Creole (58 speakers), Tagalog (44 speakers), and Portuguese or Portuguese Creole (29 speakers).
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In 2017, the median age of all people in Franklin city, VA was 38.7. Native-born citizens, with a median age of 39, were generally older than than foreign-born citizens, with a median age of 34. But people in Franklin city, VA are getting staying the same age. In 2016, the average age of all Franklin city, VA residents was 39.
As of 2017, 0.984% of Franklin city, VA residents were born outside of the United States, which is lower than the national average of 13.7%. In 2016, the percentage of foreign-born citizens in Franklin city, VA was 1.87%, meaning that the rate has been decreasing.
The following chart shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Franklin city, VA compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
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82,876 ± 7,033 people
In 2017, the most common birthplace for the foreign-born residents of Franklin city, VA was El Salvador, the natal country of 103,545 Franklin city, VA residents, followed by India with 82,876 and Mexico with 56,021.
As of 2017, 99.5% of Franklin city, VA residents were US citizens, which is higher than the national average of 93.1%. In 2016, the percentage of US citizens in Franklin city, VA was 98.8%, meaning that the rate of citizenship has been increasing.
The following chart shows US citizenship percentages in Franklin city, VA compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
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In 2017, there were 1.58 times more Black or African American Alone residents (4.91k people) in Franklin city, VA than any other race or ethnicity. There were 3.11k White Alone and 232 Two or More Races residents, the second and third most common racial or ethnic groups.
The following bar chart shows the 8 races and ethnicities represented in Franklin city, VA as a share of the total population.
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2.26% of Franklin city, VA citizens are speakers of a non-English language, which is lower than the national average of 21.5%. In 2015, the most common non-English language spoken in Franklin city, VA was Spanish or Spanish Creole. 0.738% of the overall population of Franklin city, VA are native Spanish or Spanish Creole speakers. 0.56% speak Tagalog and 0.369% speak Spanish or Spanish Creole, the next two most common languages.
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Franklin city, VA has a large population of military personnel who served in Vietnam, 1.68 times greater than any other conflict.
In 2016, universities in Franklin city, VA awarded 284 degrees. The student population of Franklin city, VA is skewed towards women, with 505 male students and 975 female students.
Most students graduating from Universities in Franklin city, VA are White (136 and 47.9%), followed by Black or African American (123 and 43.3%), Hispanic or Latino (10 and 3.52%), and Two or More Races (8 and 2.82%).
The largest universities in Franklin city, VA by number of degrees awarded are Paul D Camp Community College (284 and 100%).
The most popular majors in Franklin city, VA are Liberal Arts & Sciences (60 and 21.1%), Registered Nursing (44 and 15.5%), and Other Liberal Arts & Sciences, General Studies, & Humanities (42 and 14.8%).
The median tuition costs in Franklin city, VA are $N/A for private four year colleges, and $N/A and $N/A respectively, for public four year colleges for in-state students and out-of-state students.
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In 2015, the most common concentation for Associates Degree recipients in Franklin city, VA was Liberal Arts & Sciences with 60 degrees awarded.
This visualization illustrates the percentage of students graduating with a Associates Degree from schools in Franklin city, VA according to their major.
Paul D Camp Community College
In 2016, the Franklin city, VA institution with the largest number of graduating students was Paul D Camp Community College with 284 degrees awarded.
In 2016, 70 men were awarded degrees from institutions in Franklin city, VA, which is 0.327 times less than the 214 female students who received degrees in the same year.
This chart displays the gender disparity between the institutions in Franklin city, VA by degrees awarded.
In 2016 the majority of degrees awarded at institutions in Franklin city, VA were to White students. These 136 degrees mean that there were 1.11 times more White students then the next closest race/ethnicity group, Black or African American, with 123 degrees awarded.
The median property value in Franklin city, VA was $186,100 in 2017, which is 0.855 times smaller than the national average of $217,600. Between 2016 and 2017 the median property value increased from $171,700 to $186,100, a 8.39% increase. The homeownership rate in Franklin city, VA is 49.7%, which is lower than the national average of 63.9%. People in Franklin city, VA have an average commute time of 25.4 minutes, and they commute by Drove Alone. Car ownership in Franklin city, VA is lower than the national average, with an average of 1 car per household.
In 2017, the median household income of the 3.47k households in Franklin city, VA grew to $38,760 from the previous year's value of $38,333.
The following chart displays the households in Franklin city, VA distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the $60k - $75k range.
In 2017, the median property value in Franklin city, VA grew to to $186,100 from the previous year's value of $171,700.
The following charts display, first, the property values in Franklin city, VA compared to it's parent and neighbor geographies and, second, owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property value buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Franklin city, VA the largest share of households have a property value in the $200k - $250k range.
This chart shows the households in Franklin city, VA distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Franklin city, VA the largest share of households pay taxes in the $800 - $1,499 range.
In 2017, 49.7% of the housing units in Franklin city, VA were occupied by their owner. This percentage grew from the previous year's rate of 49.7%.
This percentage of owner-occupation is lower than the national average of 63.9%. This chart shows the ownership percentage in Franklin city, VA compared it's parent and neighboring geographies.
The following chart displays the households in Franklin city, VA distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Franklin city, VA have 1 car, followed by 2 cars.
Using averages, employees in Franklin city, VA have a longer commute time (25.4 minutes) than the normal US worker (25.1 minutes). Additionally, 2.49% of the workforce in Franklin city, VA have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in Franklin city, VA compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
In 2017, the most common method of travel for workers in Franklin city, VA was Drove Alone, followed by those who Carpooled and those who Worked At Home.
Isle of Wight County, VA
Southampton County, VA


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Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the civil war, the commonwealth, and restoration,, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661 ..
The parallel between the English and American civil wars. : The Rede lecture delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge, on 14 June 1910,, by Charles Harding Firth ..


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New Foldable Smartphone Huawei Mate X To Finally Launch In China This Week
By Erwin Castro
Chinese smartphone giant Huawei is preparing for the much-awaited release of the company's first-ever foldable smartphone, the Huawei Mate X. Huawei Mate X is scheduled for release in China in November 2019, while the international release date is yet to be revealed by the company.
The new Huawei Mate X was first revealed at the recent 2019 Mobile World Congress event. The new foldable smartphone was originally scheduled for launch on June 2019, but was pushed back to another release date to allow more thorough testing and to avoid the same fate that befell the original Samsung Galaxy Fold, the Gizmo China reported.
Mate X will finally go on sale on Friday
Chinese smartphone users will finally get their hands on the new foldable smartphone. The new Huawei Mate X will go on sale on Friday for $2,422. Meanwhile, in Europe, Huawei has reportedly delayed the sales of its flagship Huawei Mate 30 series due to some trade issues. The company does not allow to ship new phones with Google mobile software installed under the US trade ban, the South China Morning Post reported.
Chinese smartphone giant Huawei is preparing for the much-awaited release of the company's first-ever foldable smartphone, the Huawei Mate X. Photo: Kārlis Dambrāns/Flickr
In addition to the Chinese release date, Huawei also posted some important messages on their official website, it said that the new foldable phone can't fold if it has a temperature of 23 Fahrenheit or -5 Celsius. The company also advises users not to remove the special protective film on the phone's screen.
About the new foldable smartphone Mate X
The new foldable smartphone brings an 8-inch OLED display that can, reportedly, fold outwards, resulting in a 6.38-inch rear display and a 6.6-inch main display. The Mate X is powered by Huawei Kirin 980 mobile chipset and comes with 8GB of RAM and up to 512GB of data storage. The phone gets its power from a 4500mAh battery cell.
As for the camera setup, the Huawei Mate X features a 40-megapixel main camera system, 16-megapixel wide-angle lens, and an 8-megapixel telephoto lens. The phone also comes with a time-of-flight sensor. The device also includes an LED flash, a USB-C port and a power button/fingerprint sensor. To support 5G technology, the new smartphone is equipped with Huawei-developed Balong 5000 modem.


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Speaker's exit puts public education on edge
Texas Legislature Elections
Date Posted: 10/26/2017 | Author: Mark Wiggins
Texas Speaker Joe Straus (R-San Antonio) announced yesterday that he will not be running for re-election to the Texas House of Representatives, and therefore will not return to lead the Texas House of Representatives when the 86th Texas Legislature convenes in January 2019. In addition, state Rep. Byron Cook (R-Corsicana), who chairs the House State Affairs Committee, announced the same day that he will not run for re-election in 2018.
The significance of yesterday's announcements can't be overstated. Speaker Straus and Chairman Cook each have played a tremendous role in protecting public school students and teachers, and their leadership during the 2017 legislative session prevented the worst anti-public education and anti-teacher legislation from becoming law.
ATPE presented House Speaker Joe Straus with an honorary resolution passed in July 2017, recognizing his support for public education.
Under Speaker Straus, the Texas House made public education its top priority. As part of House Bill (HB) 21 during the regular session, the House proposed $1.9 billion in increased funding for all Texas students. This legislation was opposed by the Texas Senate under Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who has repeatedly made private school vouchers a top legislative priority. The Texas House blocked Senate voucher legislation during both the regular and special sessions, as well as legislation that would have taken away the rights of teachers who choose to advocate for their children as members of professional associations like ATPE.
It is unclear who will step into the void created by the absence of Speaker Straus and Chairman Cook. What we do know is that anti-education forces are already celebrating victory, and those hoping to privatize public education and revoke the rights of students and educators will only be emboldened by this week's announcements.
It is therefore all the more important that we use our teacher voices in both the March primary and November general elections in 2018 to put public education supporters in office.
Rep. Byron Cook joined Corsicana ATPE members at a pro-public education rally in July 2017.
It is likely that there will be more news in the coming days related to leadership in the Texas Legislature, and we will continue to provide you with updates here at TeachTheVote.org. You can also check back soon at TeachTheVote.org to find out how your individual representatives voted during the 2017 legislative sessions.
The next Texas House speaker will have some mighty boots to fill. In the meantime, please join us on Twitter and Facebook as we say #thankyoujoestraus for all he's done for public education.
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Teach the Vote's Week in Review: Nov. 11, 2022
Today's post from the ATPE lobby team features election results, loan forgiveness news, TRS resources, voucher updates, thanks to our veterans, kudos, and more.


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Q: 'Intents' object has no attribute 'GUILD_PRESENCES' I'm working on a discord bot and everything was working correctly but suddenly I got this error and I just can't figure out what should i do.
Could not prepare the client: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Barni\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\interactions\client\bot.py", line 444, in _ready self._intents.GUILD_PRESENCES in self._intents AttributeError: 'Intents' object has no attribute 'GUILD_PRESENCES'
here is my code:
import discord
from discord.ext import commands,tasks
import random
import interactions
import asyncio

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.presences = True
intents.members = True
bot = interactions.Client(token="**token**", intents=intents)

@bot.event
async def on_member_join(member):
    guild = bot.get_guild(**my servers id**)
    welcome_channel = guild.get_channel(**welcome channels id**)
    embed = discord.Embed(title="Üdv a szerveren!", colour=discord.Colour(0x2ecc71),description=f'{member.mention}')
    await channel.send(embed=embed)

suntzulist=[]

file=open("suntzu.txt","r")

for sor in file:
    suntzulist.append(sor.strip())
file.close()

@bot.command(name="suntzu", description="Random Sun Tzu idézet", scope=879081332590927892)
async def suntzu(ctx: interactions.CommandContext):
    await ctx.send(random.choice(suntzulist))

@bot.command(name="help", description="parancsok megmutatása", scope=879081332590927892)
async def help(ctx: interactions.CommandContext):
    await ctx.send("`help` `suntzu`")

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print('-------------')
    print('Bejelentkezve')
    print('-------------')

bot.start()

I tried reinstalling the interactions plugin I but got the same error.
I also tried intents.guild_presences = True but then I got this
Traceback (most recent call last):   File "C:\Users\Barni\Desktop\PratBOT.py", line 10, in <module>     intents.guild_presences = True AttributeError: 'Intents' object has no attribute 'guild_presences'

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'No car? No problem': House committee rethinks transportation
by Ken Paulman June 11, 2021
TRANSPORTATION: After 19 hours, a House committee passes a $547 billion transportation bill that would include billions for mass transit and passenger rail while de-emphasizing road expansion, while a bipartisan group of senators say they have reached an agreement on infrastructure spending. (Washington Post, Reuters)
POLLUTION: The EPA announces it will move to tighten regulations on soot from power plants and other industrial sources, which has significant health impacts in urban areas. (New York Times)
EQUITY:
• During a visit to Nevada, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the Biden administration wants to mine lithium "in a responsible way" that respects Indigenous rights. (Associated Press)
• As energy companies position themselves as promoting equity and inclusion, lawmakers that are major recipients of their donations are pushing bills that would increase discrimination against transgender people. (Heated)
• A Massachusetts program intends to invest $10 million in up to 3 MW of solar projects on affordable housing buildings and assist interested community development agencies. (Energy News Network)
OIL & GAS:
• A federal judge blocks two Trump-era drilling plans on over 400,000 acres in Wyoming and Montana because federal land managers failed to consider the projects' effects on the greater sage grouse. (Associated Press)
• Analysts expect Canadian oil sands production to surge in the next two years despite the defeat of the Keystone XL pipeline. (E&E News, subscription)
• A proposed natural gas pipeline through a Black farming community in Illinois moves forward despite opposition from some landowners. (Chicago Sun-Times)
• The director of the North Dakota Pipeline Authority says Keystone XL's cancelation "adds a cloud to all new pipeline projects." (KFYR)
• Native American contractors working on the Line 3 pipeline replacement and expansion say recent protests "intentionally create a false narrative that there is no Native American support for this project." (Star Tribune)
• In a private call last month, former vice president Al Gore urged President Biden to stand firm on climate goals despite pushback during infrastructure talks. (Washington Post)
• Biden leans on Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and her history as a fellow former governor to get U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on board with the administration's energy agenda. (E&E News, subscription)
• House Republicans are launching a members-only climate caucus "to get conservatives more engaged on climate who otherwise wouldn't." (E&E News)
• Coal-fired power plants generating gigawatts of power in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio will shutter by mid-September, according to the facilities' owner; at least one of the facilities was slated to be converted to natural gas. (Associated Press)
• An Alabama strike against Warrior Met Coal has stretched to more than two months with no sign of relenting. (The Nation)
NUCLEAR: Details of a sweeping clean energy bill in Illinois include nearly $700 million in ratepayer subsidies to keep three nuclear plants operating. (WBEZ)
UTILITIES: Federal prosecutors have reviewed more than 1 million pages of documents as part of its ongoing investigation into the state's power plant bailout law. (Columbus Dispatch)
COMMENTARY: A climate policy think tank says an 80% by 2030 national renewable energy standard would open up $1.5 trillion in new investments while saving $1.7 trillion in health and environmental costs. (Forbes)
Ken Paulman
Ken is the director of the Energy News Network at Fresh Energy and is a founding editor of both Midwest Energy News and Southeast Energy News. Prior to joining Fresh Energy, he was the managing editor for online news at Minnesota Public Radio. He started his journalism career in 2002 as a copy editor for the Duluth News Tribune before spending five years at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, where he worked as a copy editor, online producer, features editor and night city editor. A Nebraska native, Ken has a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a master's degree from the University of Oregon. He is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors.
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How the U.S. benefits when China turns its back on Bitcoin
By John Ruwitch,
Emily Feng
John Ruwitch
A view of the Compute North facility in rural Nebraska.
In the farmland on the outskirts of Kearney, Nebraska, there's a field full of modified 40-foot shipping containers lined up in rows. It's off the main road and easy to miss; there are no signs and no big buildings.
But as you approach, you notice one thing: it makes a lot of noise.
Each container is lined with huge industrial fans, and filled with specialized computers. Inside, it's windy, and humming at about 85 decibels.
"Our technicians always have some sort of hearing protection when they enter," says Dave Perrill, CEO and cofounder of Compute North, which runs the facility.
Welcome to one of America's biggest data centers for cryptocurrency mining.
Here, thousands of computers are dedicated to solving a set of complex math problems that verify blockchain transactions and, in doing so, create bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. In industry parlance, it's called mining.
Until the middle of last year, most cryptocurrency mining like this took place in China, where the government has had an on-again, off-again relationship with cryptocurrencies. Last summer, it pulled the plug.
"We've certainly heard this news more than once, that China was banning crypto. But we had also heard the rumor so many times and it never came true. So when we first heard this one, we kind of thought the same, right?" says Perrill. "And then suddenly we started getting phone calls."
The calls were from operations trying to move mining gear — the computers — out of China to set up in the United States. For Compute North, it was a boon.
"We doubled in size," says Christopher Herbig, lead technician at the facility. "Like, we were busy nonstop for the whole summer. It was just crazy. And there's just continuing more and more demand all the time."
Eugene Gologursky / Getty Images for CoinGeek
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Dave Perrill (right), cofounder and CEO of Compute North, and Lars Jorgensen of TAAL Distributed Information Technologies speak during CoinGeek Conference New York in October.
China cracked down on bitcoin mining and transactions last year
Why were all these Chinese bitcoin enthusiasts calling Nebraska? Turns out, big changes were happening in China.
For years, it had been the global hub for bitcoin mining for one simple reason: power was cheap.
For decades, local government had built dozens of hydroelectric dams and wind farms, mostly in remote areas. Regional power grids have yet to connect cities with many of these massive renewable energy projects, a problem called curtailment.
Curtailment meant a good portion of this renewable energy was wasted — until bitcoin miners came along about a decade ago, after bitcoin officially began trading globally.
"We were somehow welcomed by the local Chinese governments, because we can buy electricity from them and we have good incentives to create local jobs," says Abdullah Han, a Chinese bitcoin miner based in Dubai and the founder of Meer Energy, which sells mining hardware.
Bitcoin mining takes a lot of electricity to power all the computer servers, so crypto entrepreneurs like Han sometimes directly set up data centers in rural Chinese villages to tap into these unused renewable energy sources.
"We enjoy the lowest price of industrial electricity," says Han. "Local governments would give us an industrial park and within that industrial park, they would give us like a lot of benefit from tax treatment and everything."
By September 2019, three fourths of bitcoin mining in the world was in China, according to the Cambridge Alternative Finance Benchmarks, a research center run out Cambridge University in Britain. But a backlash was brewing. The Chinese government blamed the unregulated cryptocurrency for an uptick in financial scams and for financing nefarious activity like fraud or ID theft.
Ng Han Guan / AP
A visitor passes by a logo for the e-CNY, a digital version of the Chinese yuan, displayed during a trade fair in Beijing, last September. That same month, China's central bank declared all transactions involving Bitcoin and other virtual currencies illegal, stepping up a campaign to block use of unofficial digital money.
Separately, China's central bank is also rolling out a state-run digital currency, which it is encouraging its citizens to use.
For years, China had made it hard for people in China to buy and sell bitcoin by forbidding its citizens from registering accounts on cryptocurrency exchanges and shutting down third-party platforms which had provided a workaround. But authorities turned a blind eye to bitcoin miners operating there at the time.
Last May, China banned financial institutions from using cryptocurrencies and vowed to "crack down" on mining. The next month, it banned power generation companies from supplying bitcoin, effectively stopping all mining. China had signaled several times before it would shut down bitcoin mining, only to walk those measures back. This time was different.
"The next day, we already heard of some mining farms being shutting down," says Chinese miner K.C. Tang, who had operations in China's Sichuan province and the Xinjiang region. "We start realizing the government was serious."
In September, China went one step further and banned all onshore bitcoin transactions.
The U.S. is a particularly attractive destination for Chinese bitcoin miners
Thus began what China's crypto enthusiasts are calling the "great mining migration," as Chinese mining operations big and small unplug and shift westward.
Tang is trying to find a new country to install his mining hardware, which he estimates in the range of "a few million pieces," but high shipping costs and legal complexities over importing computing hardware have delayed his plans.
Kazakhstan and Russia are two popular contenders for relocating miners' bitcoin-making computers because power is cheap, but infrastructure is not great. Tang says he is also concerned Russia could seize his servers.
Despite higher power and labor costs, the United States does have reliable legal protections over private property, Tang says. Elsewhere, he says, "Maybe the governments are not only shutting down the operation, but they also take take all your machines. You might lose everything, so the United States is a safe choice."
And that's why a field in Nebraska is now humming with computers.
Nebraska is one of several U.S. states welcoming foreign bitcoin miners
Almost overnight last summer, China's share of hashrate — the computing that creates bitcoin — dropped to near nil. And by last fall, the U.S. commanded the biggest share, according to Britain's Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance.
For Kearney, it's been a windfall. Until now, the town of roughly 30,000 people was perhaps best known outside Nebraska as a pit stop on I-80, almost exactly halfway between San Francisco and New York.
Mayor Stan Clouse says unemployment is low, the population is relatively young, thanks to the university in town, and land is plentiful.
"We're fairly diverse in our economic profile. But we felt that technology was one area where we needed to step up, develop a tech park, recruit tech industries," he says.
After a failed bid to woo an investment by Facebook, the town brought in Compute North, which opened its operations in 2019. By last summer, when crypto miners started fleeing China, it was poised for expansion.
Bureaucratic hangups in China, environmental concerns and infrastructure bottlenecks in the U.S. have slowed the mining migration. But many towns across the U.S. are eager to stand up facilities for miners and craft crypto-friendly regulation. Rockdale, Texas, a small town east of Austin, and Massena, in upstate New York, have already seen a sharp rise in cryptocurrency mining.
Perrill says the migration to the U.S. is good "because one of the criticisms of bitcoin is that it was controlled by China, quote unquote — that if you had over 50% of the hashrate, you could potentially do nefarious things. So the idea that it's, you know, moved to the U.S. and got even more diversified, I think overall is a good story."
Compute North employs around a dozen people — cryptocurrency operations aren't labor intensive. But the facility has helped expand and stabilize Kearney's power grid. Clouse, the mayor, says it has also boosted the town's fiscal revenue, allowing for fresh investment in the airport, which he hopes can help propel the economy.
Lamont Black, a finance professor at Chicago's DePaul University, teaches a course on blockchain — the decentralized ledger technology at the heart of cryptocurrencies. He says the flow of crypto mining to the U.S. will benefit America's overall blockchain ecosystem, too.
If the coins are minted here, he reasons, it could spur investment and innovation around the underlying technology.
"We're seeing an institutionalization of crypto that's becoming more mainstream, more regulated, and I think if we can facilitate that in countries like the U.S., then I think that gives us global competitive advantage," he says.
And that advantage could be crucial in an industry that proponents think could be as transformative as the internet itself.
John Ruwitch reported from Kearney, Nebraska. Emily Feng reported from Beijing.
John Ruwitch is a correspondent with NPR's international desk. He covers Chinese affairs.
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Emily Feng is NPR's Beijing correspondent.
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