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New Jersey UPS shooting: Gunman has two female hostages
A suspected gunman at a New Jersey UPS facility who entered and fired shots this morning has not shot anyone directly.
As of noon Eastern Time on Monday, the man had two women held hostage. They are employees of the UPS facility.
After the incident began, 32 UPS employees were transported to a Holiday Inn, about 10 minutes away, Gloucester County spokeswoman Debra Sellitto said.
Police restricted travel on two roads near the facility. The incident is confined to the UPS building, Sellitto said.
The county received word of an active shooter situation around 8:30 a.m. ET, she said.
The building, located in an industrial district of the south New Jersey township of 6,000, is a bulk mail processing facility, UPS said.
"We are working with law enforcement as they respond and cannot provide information about the identity of people involved at this time," the company said on Twitter.
In a tweet just before 10 a.m. ET, the New Jersey State Police said local police were responding to an incident in Logan Township.
The township's school district is under modified lockdown, and no one can enter or leave any of its schools after police notified the district of "police activity in a nearby industrial park," Superintendent Patricia Haney said.
The nearby Swedesboro-Woolwich School District said it is monitoring the situation. The students are safe, the district said in a note to parents.


You might imagine that the time to start coaching yourself comes when you make a mistake, but this is not so.
Is it possible to learn from successes as well as failures?
The answer is yes. In fact, it is essential if you are going to repeat those successes and maintain good performance. By coaching yourself, you can identify exactly why something went well, what it was that you did that made the difference and how you can repeat it in future situations.
Successful people usually realise that their success does not happen by chance; they often talk about 'creating my own luck'. What they mean is that success or so-called luck comes about through careful research, meticulous preparation and skilful behaviour. If you are going to continue to have successes, you need to learn what created them in the first place, so that you can repeat that behaviour and enjoy repeated successes.
This could involve day-to-day situations, such as a meeting well chaired or a difficult conversation with a customer handled well. Or you might be looking at longer-term projects that you have successfully carried out (these are usually the result of a number of repeated successes that built up to the overall success).
Think about situations where you have been successful and ones that have not gone so well: what was the difference that made the difference?
Often, it is something internal to you in terms of how you were thinking and feeling – something that enabled you to say and do the right thing at the right time, leading to the success.
Learning from success is a skill in itself. It involves getting beyond basking in the glow of your success and thinking critically about how it happened.
What successes have you had recently that you want to learn from?
Do you revisit mistakes and failures to learn from them?
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything.
Some people find it difficult to learn from failures because they spend so long beating themselves up or feeling foolish that they don't actually learn from these experiences and therefore avoid them in the future. The page on Mastering your inner critic will help you to debrief in a balanced way that will assist you in learning from the experience when things go wrong.
We are all human; we all make mistakes at times. However, the biggest mistake that we can make is when we fail to learn from these situations. Many successful inventors and business people have a history of 'failures' and bankruptcies behind them. However, they picked themselves up; learned what there was to learn, and eventually won through.
Success is 99 per cent failure.
What mistakes have you made recently that you want to learn from?
How do you respond to your mistakes?
With fear, humiliation, anger, shame? All these negative feelings get in the way of learning from the situation. The page on Realistic and constructive debriefing in this topic will help you to learn from mistakes.
Are there better ways of doing this?
Are there other people who are really good at this and who I can learn from?
How can I get better at this; what skills do I need to learn or what behaviour do I need to change?
Is there a completely different approach I can take?
Are there things I can delegate or let go of?
What do I do well? Can I do more of this?
What strengths do I have? Am I fully utilising these?
There are times, either in our work or our personal life (and if we are unlucky they might happen together), when things are challenging. There may be deadlines to be met, organisational changes happening, audits taking place, house moves, children's exams, illness in the family – and the list can go on.
We can feel at such times that we have enough on our plate without taking on more tasks, but self coaching can help you to support yourself and stay on top of everything. Check in with yourself, asking some pertinent questions to check that you are at your best and doing things in the wisest of ways. This can ensure that you maintain your performance levels, even during challenging times.
In fact, self coaching can make the difference between working effectively under pressure and becoming stressed. The latter is to be avoided, as it will only add to the challenges you face. See the Stress Management topic for more information on this.
To increase your interest and job satisfaction.
Whichever is the case, by coaching and developing yourself, you will feel better about yourself and your situation, while if you simply coast you are likely to end up dissatisfied and demotivated.
This may be linked to the coasting scenario described above or there may be other causes of your demotivation and dissatisfaction, and these could lie within or outside your work.
You have a choice to either sit with it and stay stuck, or do something about it through coaching yourself.
Once you have the habit of coaching yourself, you will be planning out what you want to learn and where you might use your learning before choosing and attending a development programme. Sometimes people choose to attend workshops that are not really relevant because they have not thought through what their needs are and whether the programme will meet them.
During or after a programme, especially if it takes place over a period of time, self coaching can assist you with applying your learning back at work and further developing your skills. For example, coaching yourself would assist you in getting more from attending a management development programme, as you would be observing and reflecting on your behaviour, both during the programme and back at work.
You will definitely get more for your money and learn more when you combine coaching yourself with other development activities.
Whether what you are learning is technical or non-technical, the self coaching habit will help you to reflect on what you learn and consider how to apply it in the work place.
If you are undertaking CPD as part of your professional development, coaching yourself will also assist you with this process. With CPD, you need to be able to reflect on your learning so you can report on what you have learned from the activities you have undertaken.
Firstly, coaching yourself will help you to prepare and take an active part in any appraisal or performance management process, as you will have a clearer understanding of your strengths, areas for development and lessons learned.
Secondly, in most organisations, managers take into account any learning and development that has resulted from coaching yourself. You might want to discuss with your manager how both of you can weave this into the appraisal and performance management process.
Nowadays, most appraisals and performance management meetings are meant to be a two-way process, with the person who is being appraised talking about their own assessment of their strengths and development needs. It will be much easier for you to do this if you have been going through a process of coaching yourself in the preceding six to 12 months.
If, as part of the self coaching process, you have been asking for and using feedback, this will also make the appraisal process easier – hopefully, with no surprises either for you or your manager. If you have been coaching yourself, you will be ready to contribute your thoughts and experiences, and challenge any feedback from your manager that you do not agree with.
As with preparing for appraisals, you will be more aware of your strengths and have examples to share with interviewers if you have been regularly coaching yourself. Also, it is likely that any interviewer will also be interested in your coaching process and appreciate the fact that you are proactive in your own development and take action on a regular basis to enhance your skills and performance.


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I Believe In Miracles - Silk
"Far out." There was no mistaking the note of awe in Sandburg's voice.
"What's far out, Chief?" Jim asked almost absently, not really tuned in on his partner's wavelength.
Blair closed the magazine he'd been reading with a guilty look. "Oh, nothing. It's a surprise."
"I hate surprises."
"No, you don't. You hate change. There's a difference."
"Why don't you explain it to me someday, Einstein? I'm all agog." Jim snapped his newspaper to attention. It wouldn't dare defy the Sentinel's command. Unlike Sandburg.
"Mmm...maybe." Blair licked his lips, probably more from nerves than anything else. Suddenly Jim was riveted. Lately he was having a devil of a time trying to control his reaction to Blair. It was the little things that were nearly his undoing. Things like a careless head toss, that fall of dark auburn hair cascading before his eyes like a silken waterfall. Or the tip of his pink tongue innocently protruding between his teeth as he concentrated particularly hard on a paper he was grading.
"You...uh...got plans for tonight, Chief?"
"Nothing special, Jim. Why?"
Jim shrugged. "No reason. Just wondering."
Blair raised an eyebrow, obviously waiting for further explanation. Shit, how could a man be intimidated by a single quirk of an eyebrow? Granted, it was attached to his undeniably beautiful partner, but-wait a minute! Did I just call Blair beautiful?
Blair grinned from ear to ear and Jim knew he was in deep trouble. "To my face, man. I had no idea you felt that way."
"Felt what way?" Jim inquired blankly, sure that he had just detoured into the Sandburg Zone.
"You know."
"No, I don't know."
"Yeah, you do."
"I'm telling you I'm clueless here, Chief."
"You're telling me," Blair huffed.
When Blair started to get up, Jim could feel his resolve weakening. Grabbing the younger man's wrist, he said softly, "Please don't go."
"Give me a good reason to stay, Jim."
"Can't you think of one yourself?"
"Sure I can. But," Blair continued in a tone that was laced with melancholy, "why I want to stay and why you want me to stay are probably two different things."
"Why do you say that?"
"Oh, come on, Jim. You know, sometimes I think I might as well be talking to the wall. I'd probably get better answers."
"Nice try, Sandburg, but you didn't answer my question either," Jim said triumphantly.
"Guess you win." Blair tossed the magazine aside and stood up. "I'm going to take a shower, then head on to bed."
Jim stared at his partner. "You don't want to stay up and watch the game with me?"
Blair shook his head. Immediately Jim was transported by the sight of his unruly curls bouncing back and forth, the rhythm somehow hypnotic. He knew he was dangerously close to zoning, but he couldn't look away.
Recognizing an imminent zone-out, Blair touched Jim's cheek with the palm of his hand, his long, sturdy fingers absently stroking the bare skin there. "Jim? Jim...don't do this, man. It's no big deal. I'm just tired, that's all. I'm not mad at you. I'm not...anything," Blair's voice, normally firm and quietly confident, faltered, then trailed off.
Coming to with a visible start, Jim's expression suddenly softened as he continued to gaze at the young anthropologist. "Oh, no, you're definitely something, Chief." Jim's voice was an audible caress to Blair's frayed sensibilities.
"Go take your shower. Then come back here. I'll help you comb out your hair."
Blair's blue eyes widened. That was an intimate task he reserved for himself and, in the past, an occasional lover. It was also astonishingly un-Jim-like. "You will?" he asked, seeking confirmation.
"Uh huh. You look like you need to relax, Chief. You let me do all the work for once."
Blair decided not to mention that the idea of Jim working his fingers through his hair was hardly relaxing. In fact, it was, well, erotic. If Jim thought that stroking and petting him was going to put him to sleep, he was sadly mistaken.
"O-kay."
Blair worried his lower lip, unaware that the restless motion caught Jim's attention. If he had seen the uncontrolled heat that leapt into Jim's lambent blue eyes, Blair's fear of venturing into uncharted territory alone would have been assuaged.
Blair made it as far as the bathroom door before Jim called out to him. Glancing shyly over his shoulder, Blair had no idea that he was under renewed romantic scrutiny. The older man affected a casual stance, one hip higher than the other, his jeans drawn more tightly across his groin. "You never did tell me what the surprise was, Chief."
An unabashed grin pulled at Blair's mouth. "That's why it's called a surprise, Jim."
"So you're not going to tell me?"
"In due time, Jim. In due time."
Jim nodded, apparently unconcerned. But his Black Ops-trained mind, honed by years of experience in stealth and covert missions, was already miles away. What if I just take a peek inside that magazine while you're in the shower, Blair? Will I be furious and amazed? Or will I be helplessly hoping and aroused?
All in due time, indeed.
Jim lay back on the couch and closed his eyes, letting his mind roam freely, filling in the blanks as he listened to Blair shower. The wet slap of a hand against bare skin, Jim could only guess where, provoked such a wave of longing that he sighed loudly. All right already, he told the suddenly rambunctious nerve endings in his groin, I admit it, I want Sandburg. Adjusting himself surreptitiously, though there was no need to, Jim resisted the siren call to fantasize about his partner. If there was any justice left in the world, he would get to experience the real Blair Sandburg up close and personal in just a few more minutes.
A drop of cold water trickled down Jim's arm, startling him awake. He opened his eyes slowly, only to find that Blair was leaning over the couch, his wet curls disarmingly tangled around his face. "Jim? That offer still good?"
"Sure, Chief." Okay, when had his voice suddenly grown so husky?
Jim sat up and waited for Blair to come around the couch. To his amazement, Blair didn't move at all. Jim cocked his head and studied his partner. If he didn't know better, and if he wasn't absolutely sure that he was the Sentinel and Blair was the Guide, he would think that Blair was zoning.
But that didn't make any sense. He'd have to be intensely focused on something, and frankly, Jim couldn't think of a Goddamned thing that interesting. Except...
...well, there was him. Jim.
But that would mean that-
Oh, Chief. If this is a dream, and you never really woke me up, don't. Cause I like it here.
Using Blair's state of non-awareness to unfair advantage, Jim turned his face up, as if expecting a kiss. Another droplet fell, landing just below Jim's right eye. His skin sizzled where it lay, his sense of touch so high, Jim could feel it grow warm, sending its wet heat out along his nerve endings like so much sleepy fire.
"Blair..." he whispered, his voice a shiver that crept gently into Blair's subconscious.
Blair's eyelids fluttered, then stayed open, his smoky blue eyes impossibly dark now, as his pupils fully dilated. "Jim?" he asked, as though he didn't quite recognize the man on the couch.
"C'mere," Jim softly entreated.
Like someone spellbound, Blair slowly moved in Jim's direction until he was hovering above Jim's lap. Jim mentally chastised himself for thinking with his dick and spread his legs, creating a space for Blair to sit, his back to Jim's chest. Pulling the sodden strands through his fingers, Jim asked, "Did you bring the conditioner?"
Blair visibly started at the sound of Jim's voice so close to his ear. "How do you know that I didn't already do it?"
Jim gathered Blair's thick curls in his hands and pulled them off his neck, exposing one of the most kissable napes he'd ever seen. "I didn't smell jasmine...and green tea...and chamomile," Jim said, each pause punctuated by a small puff of breath to Blair's bare skin.
Blair bit his lip to keep from crying out at the sensation. Jim's lips were almost touching him. Oh, please, he prayed, just a tiny bit closer.
He handed the conditioner and a wide-toothed comb to Jim with trembling hands, hoping that Jim would be too preoccupied with smell to notice the fine vibrations running through his Guide's body.
Jim poured a quarter-sized dollop of conditioner into his hands and started to rub it into Blair's scalp. If Blair hadn't been teetering on the edge of coming from the feel of Jim's hands on him, he would have relaxed and fallen asleep. But there was no way he could do anything but sit up, pay attention, and pray.
The gentle tugging of his hair continued until Jim had worked all of the conditioner into it. With a finesse Blair never would have attributed to Jim before, Jim deftly separated Blair's curls, taking great care to detangle the mane he secretly coveted.
When he was done, he grieved the loss of all that silky hair flowing through his fingers. By Blair's uncharacteristic silence, Jim assumed that the younger man had fallen asleep. Much to his surprise, however, Blair was not only awake, but impatiently twisting his body to face him.
"That was...amazing, man," Blair said in an awestruck tone he usually reserved for rare anthropological artifacts.
Jim braced his hands on his partner's shoulders, unaware that they then slipped down his arms, seemingly of their own volition, caressing and gently massaging. "You're amazing, Chief."
"Me? What'd I do, Jim?" Blair asked, sure that Jim would make a wisecrack of some kind, lightening the unspoken tension between them. That's one thing Jim could be depended on to do, bring things back to normal.
"You know what I want, but you give me what I need," Jim said in a hushed whisper.
Figuring he was damned if he did and damned if he didn't, Blair decided to go to Hell in a fast car. "What do you need from me now, Jim?" he inquired, his full, sensual lips parting as if they were contemplating which part of Jim to kiss first.
Jim began to smile. "For once, what I want and what I need are the same thing, Chief. And you know what? You're still the only one who can give it to me."
"What is it, Jim?"
"You."
They moved towards one another with a certain inevitability, their lips meeting for the first time in a kiss that bespoke the love and affection that had been the hallmark of their relationship from the very beginning.
They were best friends, destined to be lovers, each one in his own way charged with the protection of the other.
They were lovers, destined to be the one who came to stay for a week and stayed and the one who watched over all of Blair's hair and fingers and toes.
"I love you, Chief."
"I know, Jim."
"You know how insecure I am. Could you whisper the words to me just once like you really mean it?"
Blair smiled, his eyes crinkling at the corners, which made Jim want to kiss him all the more. "I love you, Jim," he said quite plainly, not in a whisper at all.
He really meant it.
"By the way, Blair," Jim murmured against his lover's cheek. "What was in that magazine that made you laugh? You never did tell me the surprise."
"Someone played a practical joke on me, Jim. I thought it was you."
"Me? No." Jim shook his head. "I don't have the reflexes anymore for all that gameplaying, Chief."
"Someone cut out the head on this big, buff guy and replaced it with a pic of you."
"Oh?" Jim frowned. "How come that made you laugh, Chief? What was this godlike being doing exactly?"
Blair whispered something in Jim's ear and Jim started to chuckle. "Well, now, it's been a while, but I do take requests."
Tell Silk how you liked it!

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15.05.17 Leaders of the Russian car market in 2016
For the last year, 1.43 million new cars were sold in Russia.
14.01.22 - 09:48 AVTOVAZ increased sales by 2% in Russia in 2021
AVTOVAZ sold 350,714 LADA vehicles in the Russian market
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Porsche spoke about new products for Russia in 2022
Porsche spoke about new products that will appear in the Russian market in 2022. As the press service of Porsche Russland informed the agency AUTOSTAT, an exclusive version of the Panamera called Platinum Edition will go on sale in spring.
New Porsche 911 GT3 starts in the Russian market
Porsche has unveiled the seventh generation 911 GT3 sports car, developed in close collaboration with Porsche Motorsport. The cost of new items is from 13 million 180 thousand rubles. The cars would appear in Russia in May 2021, the press service of the Stuttgart brand reported.
The most powerful Porsche 911 Turbo S is available in Russia
Russian dealers of Porsche began sales of the new 911 Turbo S Exclusive Series – the most powerful version of the 911 Turbo S, the production of which is limited by 500 units. The price of new items starts from 17 million 188 thousand rubles, reports the press service of Porsche Russland.
About 30% of Porsche cars are sold on credit or leasing
More than 1,000 customers Porsche since the beginning of 2016 used the products "Porsche Financial Services Russland". The total share of credit and leasing sales of Porsche cars was 29% in January-November, and for the same period in 2015 - 10%, an increase was almost three times.
The new Porsche Cayman 718 is available for order in Russia
Russian dealers of Porsche began to take orders for the mid-engine sports coupe 718 Cayman and Cayman S 718 of the fourth generation. The novelty will be on sale from the end of September 2016.
The most affordable Porsche Macan is available for order in Russia
Russian dealers of Porsche began to take orders for the new Macan crossover with initial equipment at the price of 3,686,000 rubles. The most available version of the model will be on sale in June of 2016.
Porsche Macan will receive a new base version in Russia
Porsche Company is expanding the family of compact SUV of new starting model Macan. Its four-cylinder turbocharged engine is designed specifically for the sports car in the SUV segment. In Russia, the Macan will be available for order from April 1st, 2016 at the same time the price in rubles will be announced.
Porsche in 2015 set a new sales record in Russia
Russian dealers of Porsche at the end of 2015 sold 5290 cars – it is more by 12.4% than in the previous year.
Porsche has opened a new dealership in Siberia
The company "Porsche Russland" has opened a new official Porsche Centre in Siberia. The opening of the Porsche center Novosibirsk is an important milestone in the history of Porsche in Russia, by marking the increasing presence of the brand in the Siberian region, informed the press service of "Porsche Russland".
Porsche begins sales in Russia of "charged" version Macan
Russian dealers of Porsche began sales of "charged" version of crossover Macan, which received the prefix in the name GTS. Prices for the model, which will be between the modifications Macan S and Macan Turbo, start at 4.485 million rubles.
The new CEO of Volkswagen became the head of Porsche
General Director of the Volkswagen Group was appointed Matthias Müller, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Porsche. In this post, the 62-year-old senior manager replaced Martin Winterkorn, who resigned on September 23 in connection with the "diesel scandal."
Porsche increases sales in the Russian market
Porsche dealers in Russia sold 2,090 vehicles for five months of 2015 - 27% more than a year ago. At the same time the Porsche Boxster sales increased by 12% compared to the same period last year.
Porsche suspended shipment of vehicles to Russian dealers
Today Porsche Russland company temporarily suspended shipment of vehicles to its dealers.
Porsche will develop the engine for the "Cortege"
Central Research Institute for Automobile (NAMI) is going to sign an agreement with Porsche Engineering about the developing of a propulsion system for vehicles of the "Cortege". This program provides the creation of vehicles for the Russian political elite.
Porsche will produce SUV based on 911
German car manufacturer of sport cars Porsche will produce the off-road version of the 911. The car will be called 911 Safari and it will be modeled on the rally model 911 SC Safari of 1978.
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Special version of Porsche Cayenne will appear in Russia in January
Porsche Company has unveiled a new special series of crossover Cayenne - Cayenne Platinum Edition. The model differs by an exclusive appearance and rich standard equipment. In Russia, the crossover will be available to order at the price of 3 million 446 thousand rubles.
Porsche presented in Russia the most powerful crossover
Company Porsche presented the flagman crossover Cayenne Turbo S. Its engine could reach 550HP and 750 Nm, due to this fact the crossover became quicker than the modification Turbo. Besides, this new vehicle received some authentic design touches.
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В последнее время для стратегического успеха поставщика в среднесрочной и долгосрочной перспективе значимость приобрела клиентская база OEM-производителей. В отчете рассматривается позиция ОЕМ-производителя в отношении закупок.


Ninety minutes after scarfing down a pie at 800 Degrees, I did another loop around SLS - looking, seeking and stomach grumbling. I've already eaten at Northside Cafe and 800 Degrees today, everything else is closed except Umami Burger.
A little over a year ago, we published a "Vegas Eats Preview" of Ubuntu Burger and the rest of the L.A. based restaurants coming to SLS. Our preview dining series was so successful, a local weekly newspaper in Las Vegas hired a pre-eminent, sorta-famous L.A. food critic to retrace our footsteps through sbe dining. Our paths diverged when said critic filed gushing non-reviews of these joints. The truth will set you free!
So I'm here. Returning for the first time to Uhura Burger at SLS Las Vegas. I'll guess that this is probably my 8th time eating at Umathurman Burger, starting with the original (now closed) location way back when. The first burger was a revelation - juicy, rare and uniquely flavorful. The second was pretty damn good too. As Ustream Burger has expanded, what made it unique - spectacular, meticulous, gourmet execution - has been downsized.
Peering into the space from outside, I see more TV sets than Dominick's Widescreen Superstore. Riiiight... Utube Burger is also a sportsbook. Being that I am one of the few people in this world who has zero interest in professional sports, sports television and sports betting, I asked the hostess if there was a location in this establishment that wasn't bombarded by television sets. She looked at me with a puzzled look and said "uh, no" and proceeded to walk me to a table in the center of the room surrounded by a wall of TV's on one side and smaller TV's on other sides.
I motioned to an occupied booth in a slightly darkened corner, one that traded a prison wall of giant tv screens for a personal sized one in the booth. "Okay" the hostess said, while unloading me and the menu. I wonder what would've happened if I snatched the remote control and put on Bravo.
I glanced at the menu and ordered a Manly Burger and Maple Bacon Sweet Potato fries. I probably should've taken the time to inspect the menu to see if all of the "no substitutions" nonsense was on this menu as well.
The condiments arrived in tasting spoons. "Garlic Aioli", "Diablo Sauce" (red peppers and mayo), "Jalapeno Ranch" and "Umami house-made catsup." Umustbejoking catsup is the fruity, sweet stuff that isn't spicy, salty and tangy. Not a fan of catsup, bring on the Heinz.
A short time later the food arrived.
Maple Bacon Fries ($6) - sweet potato fries covered in maple glaze bits of bacon and chives. The double sweet went great when dipped in the Diablo and Jalapeno ranch sauces. The promised bacon pieces were few and far between. I should've ordered regular French Fries.
The Manly Burger ($12) - cheddar cheese, bacon lardons, onion strings, ketchup and mustard spread. Looks different compared to the preview version one. Looks like SLS was a little light on the cheddar cheese and even lighter on the mustard spread.
Taking a look inside - pink, not purple... this is medium rare. The burger was tender, flavorful and perfectly cooked. Other than the the off-kilter mix of expected toppings (which a something a first-timer might not notice) it was still tasty.
On the way out, I poked my head out onto the Beer Garden. There were no patrons out there as the weather was frighteningly hot despite the protection of landscape painted curtains. The only employee out here was cheering at a hockey game on TV. Antlers!
Lunch for one with a soft drink came to $23.24 with tax.
I've had the opportunity, but never tried this place due to the LA review.
I dislike eating blood and pathogens from my cooked mammal, so I always go medium well. I also usually order burgers veggie-free like a five year old, though I can get by with nothing pickle/onion based if absolutely necessary. Reading their menu is a minefield of NOPE.
I guess I should call them someday and ask them how much they're willing to sacrifice their brand identity for my business.
Looks interesting so if I wander down this way when i hit town during VIMP I will check it out. I do love a good burger.


I first met the Buddha on a lonesome trail north of Taos. He smelled of wood smoke and jasmine. His pack overflowed with fresh fruit, deer antlers, Indian silks, and a bundle of twisted sticks. He wore a Chinese hat, no shirt, khaki pants and the bare remnants of what were once Mexican sandals.


This morning we concelebrated Mass together in the ruins of the priory of St Augustine, after first honouring his burial place. We processed through the ruins to the remains of the crypt for our service. Our preacher was Canon Professor Esther Mumbo of Kenya. A wonderful final service in this sacred place.


Democracy and the rule of law are bedfellows who take stuttering steps forward in Africa, and the now-concluded Kenyan elections are a case in point. With the results of the first round annulled by the courts, the second round went ahead after the Supreme Court failed to muster a quorum to rule on its legality.
There was certainly violence during round two, though not nearly as much bloodshed as had been feared. But election season was also marred by two violent attacks: before the first round, a senior figure in the electoral commission was killed; before the second, an aide to a Supreme Court judge was shot. If this was an unsubtle warning to the judge not to attend the court when it was hearing the opposition's petition against the second round, then it worked. She did not attend.
The result, another term for the incumbent president, Uhuru Kenyatta, was a problematic and hollow "victory". Only a little over 30% of the electorate voted, and that means it wasn't just supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga who stayed away. It suggested a groundswell feeling that the election no longer represented anything democratic. In several of the very poorest constituencies, no one voted at all. That, in itself, suggested something: that the poor do not see democracy – or for that matter, politics – as a pathway out of deprivation and poverty.
Kenya's tawdry and grim elections may have been a global news story, but they were conspicuously absent from the concerns of the country's former master, the British government. Whitehall, once the nerve centre of colonial supremacy and now the seat of the Commonwealth of Nations, offered nothing in the way of a strong or meaningful statement, or even a commentary. Instead, it was preoccupied with retaining all the African support that it could.
In the penultimate week of October, I attended a reception for African ambassadors held in the palatial surroundings of Lancaster House. Kenya was not even mentioned in passing.
Instead, the UK's Minister for Africa, Rory Stewart, spent his time smoothly explaining why one minister for Africa now reports to two ministries, the Department for International Development and the Foreign Office. What was clearly an economic measure was spun as a happy marriage in which aid and foreign policy could go hand in hand.
But Stewart himself admitted that aid would in future no longer demarcate the UK's approach to Africa. In a candid but elegant statement, he said that the time would come when Africa would be richer, or at least more economically dynamic, than the UK – and implicitly pleaded with the ambassadors to make sure Africa remembers the UK when that day comes.
With Stewart's words, the UK was effectively declaring a downhill future in the uncertainties that will accompany Brexit. Some of those present later remarked to me that I had shed my usual inscrutability and appeared astonished – and if that was the message I took home, it was the same message received by the ambassadors. "It's not often we hear a 'please help us' pitch from the UK," one whispered in my ear.
But not a word on Kenya, no good news story, nor even a nod to a specific African problem or issue – except some opening lines of condolence for the hundreds slain in Mogadishu by terrorist bombs.
Perhaps the government is keeping its powder dry on Kenya pending the release of observer group reports, but Stewart will have had good briefings already on the expected tenor of the EU report at least. More realistically, Kenya represents an important economic partner for the UK, and Stewart would surely like to see that relationship grow.
With self-interest and panic and impending irrelevance on their minds, Whitehall's attention span is stretched. The electoral and democratic failings of Commonwealth partners may attract a mild comment of disappointment, but nothing robust – nothing to acknowledge that an independent Kenya, which could have become a post-colonial beacon, has instead seen its democracy turn into a charade.


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Suzanne Lebsock (born December 1, 1949 at Williston, ND) is an American author and historian.  Her works include her first book The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 which was published in 1984 and won the Bancroft Prize, and A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial.  She has won the Francis Parkman Prize for her writing, and  is a Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She specializes in women's history.

Lebsock has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial and MacArthur foundations.

Personal life
Lebsock was formerly married to Richard Levis McCormick, a former president of Rutgers University. They have two children, Betsy and Michael.

Published works
 A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial
 Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism (Women in American History) [with Nancy A Hewitt]
 The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784–1860
 A Share of Honor: Virginia Women, 1600-1945.  [with Kym Rice]
 Woman Suffrage and White Supremacy: A Virginia Case Study

References

Living people
21st-century American historians
1949 births
MacArthur Fellows
American women historians
20th-century American historians
People from Williston, North Dakota
Writers from North Dakota
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
Bancroft Prize winners

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It was a great study in weeds. Next, we bought a wooden mailbox post from Home Depot, stained it and replaced the ugly, bent metal pole and the dented mailbox as well. Carpet stains galore. We also scrounged for free materials now and then, including the mulch, some of the tile, hardware and hedge cutting Aberdeen even tools. Glow-in-the-dark stars on bedroom ceilings. I actually have 2 of them, each one uses a different power source. you need take the piece down and bring it to a cutting area to do it. The area was tiled and painted, and we used leftover travertine tile from my in-laws' house to make a one-row backslash around the new toilet vanity.


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Q: CMake builds shared library to `.dylib` on Mac but `.so` on Ubuntu I am new to using CMake as required by an external library. My program written in C++17 compiles to a shared library intended to be used via a Python API using ctypes.
When I build on my mac, the resulting file is a .dylib. But when I compile on our Linux cluster (Ubuntu), I get a .so.
This is only a problem since I need to tell python the extension of the library. Swapping out the name in Python yields the same behavior. How can I make it to build to the same extension/library type on both platforms?
Here is an abbreviated CMakeLists:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
set (CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
set(CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
project(BICS_ABM)
add_subdirectory(igraph)
add_subdirectory(googletest)

enable_testing()

# Add testing
enable_testing()

add_library(BICS_ABM_lib SHARED # MODULE
    src/BICS_ABM.h
    src/print_attributes.cpp
    src/decrement.cpp
    src/set_sick.cpp
    src/transmit.cpp
    src/distribute_vax.cpp
    src/history.cpp
    src/BICS_ABM.cpp
    src/py_defs.cpp
    src/params.cpp
    src/mixing.cpp
    )

add_executable(BICS_ABM_tests
    src/tests/tests_main.cpp
    src/tests/decrement_tests.cpp
    )

file(COPY data DESTINATION ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})

target_link_libraries(BICS_ABM_lib PUBLIC igraph)
target_link_libraries(BICS_ABM_tests PUBLIC BICS_ABM_lib PRIVATE gtest gtest_main )

include(GoogleTest)
add_test(Vax_tests BICS_ABM)
add_test(DataTests BICS_ABM)
add_test(DecrementTests BICS_ABM)

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How can I make it to build to the same extension/library type on both platforms?

As for the file extensions, you can either deal with this on the Python side of things using platform.system(), or you can set the CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX to some platform-independent value in your CMake configure command with the -D option format.
As for the file type, different platforms support different shared library binary formats and they tend to be largely platform specific. As far as I'm aware, for example, you can't just plop a DLL onto a Mac or Linux machine and expect it to just work.
You may also be interested in Boost.Python, pybind11, and nanobind.

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Set at the centre of our solar system, the Sun's brilliant light shapes our sense of time, our health and our environment.
The exhibition The Sun: Living With Our Star tells the story of humankind's ever-changing relationship with our closest star and how it shapes many of the most fundamental aspects of our daily lives.
Download the guide below to support your visit. The guide includes a map of the exhibition, key objects not to be missed and discussion questions to try out with your group during the visit.
An activity to help students explore the galleries and work together to choose an object for each challenge.


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Q: HTML div is not covering full 100% width in iPhone I have uploaded a website to my server to test it on the iphone. However, the footer is not covering full width on the iPhone, especially on the Safari web browser. I believe this has something to do with an absolutely positioned DIV #leaf-print that I have in the #header.
I have looked at tens of articles on Stackoverflow, but still not able to find a solution. The site is located at: www.azumis.com/clients/onaturals. Ideally I would need some sort of CSS code to force the width of the viewport on the iPhone screen to 952px. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

A: you are using
html,body{
  width:952 px;
}

CHANGE IT TO
html,body{
  width:100%;
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
}

SCREENSHOT AFTER THAT CHANGE
STILL THE PROBLEM EXISTS BECAUSE ::
though  you have made the change html,body{width:100%;} but again you are overriding it by
body{
  width:952px; /*..why????..as you have done it after html,body{width:100%;} its overriding the width:100% to width:952px;
}

change it to
 body{
   width:100%;
   margin:0;
   padding:0;
   overflow-x:hidden;
 }

and also make
 #footer{
   width:100%; /*...instead of 1024px;...*/
 }

IF IT's STILL NOT WORKING THE FOLLOWING CODE MAY HELP YOU
 #footer{
   width:100%; /*...instead of 1024px;...*/
   position: absolute;
   right: 0;
   left: 0;
 }

A: This is a bit of an old question, but I just had a similar problem with some HTML that was sent to me to make revisions to. It took a bit of head-scratching but I found that the solution was rather simple.
Remove this line from the <head>
<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, width=device-width" />

Since your design is not responsive, you want it to be controlled like a non-responsive website when viewed on mobile devices. The viewport meta is not required and is causing the problem with elements not properly filling 100% of the screen. If you inspect your HTML as it is rendered in iOS you will see that your HTML & body tags only fill half the screen.
Open iOS simulator, launch your site in Safari in the simulator, then open the desktop version of Safari, and you will see an iPhone Simulator option in the Developer menu which will open an inspector window that is actually inspecting the simulator. Bizarre implementation on Apple's part, but being able to inspect HTML as it is run in the simulator has been a sorely missed feature for developers, so yay!
Hope this solves your problem! ;)


The US Treasury on Friday was forced to enact 'emergency measures' after spending its borrowed time and money. By month's end, Uncle Sam's piggy bank will be down to just $50 billion, US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned Congress.
By now, hand-wringing warnings that the US Treasury is about to go bust brings to mind the story of the little boy who cried wolf so many times that everybody eventually ignored him – much to his tragic demise.
The reality, however, is that the problems gripping the US government and its profligate spending is no fairy tale: The US government will have exhausted its emergency funds by the end of February unless Congress can once again conjure up the political will and public patience to pass a new budget deal.
Under the budget agreement passed by Congress in October, the debt limit was suspended on February 7. Beginning on Saturday, the debt limit goes back to its current level of $17.2 trillion.
"If Treasury has insufficient cash on hand, it would be impossible for our nation to meet all of its obligations for the first time in history," Lew told lawmakers.
Congress has raised the debt ceiling three times since 2011.
The last risk of American financial insolvency happened in October 2013 when the Republicans forced the shutdown of the government over what they believed was excessive government spending. A global financial earthquake was diverted at the eleventh hour when the Democrats and Republicans passed a resolution postponing the debt.
The political showdown left the United States with the economic equivalent of a black eye: Its first credit downgrade in history.
This time around, the Treasury Secretary warned, US politicians don't have the luxury of time on their side simply because the US Treasury is spending more money than it is receiving. To further the burden, the US is heading into its annual tax season, when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will start paying tax refunds.
The Treasury may be forced to take extraordinary measures – like suspending investments in the retirement funds of federal employees, for example – that will certainly attract public criticism. Lew did not provide any clear indication as to when the Treasury will exhaust its borrowing capacity.
"Based on our best and most recent information, however, we are not confident that the extraordinary measures will last beyond Thursday, February 27," Lew said. "At that point, Treasury would be left with only the cash on hand and any incoming revenue to meet our country's commitments."
Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., incited partisan bickering when she called the approaching deadline "another round of Republican debt limit drama."
"We're now at a point when the Treasury Department will have to take extraordinary measures to ensure the United States can continue to make the payments it owes, including Social Security checks and even tax refunds," she said, as quoted by USA Today. "There's no reason to drag this out any longer."
The Obama administration has said the issue is not up for negotiation. "Our position has not changed: President Obama will not pay ransom in exchange for Congress doing its job," White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Friday.
A group of corporate executives urged Congress in a letter to pass a debt limit increase to avoid any unpleasant surprises in global markets.
"Any default by the federal government on its debts would cause devastating, long-lasting effects for all Americans," AT&T (T.N) Chairman Randall Stephenson and United Technologies Corp (UTX.N) Chairman Louis Chenevert, two top officers of the Business Roundtable, wrote.
Republican House speaker, John Boehner, promised that the February-27 deadline will be met.
"Look, we do not want to default on our debt, and we're not going to default on our debt," he told reporters.
Many experts agree that the Republican Party is so unfocused in terms of what concessions to demand from the Obama administration that a bipartisan agreement may be its best option.


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На чемпионате мира по стрельбе проходившем с 22 июля по 5 августа 2006 в Загребе (Хорватия) Белоруссия завоевала 6 медалей

Результаты

Полный список результатов сборной Белоруссии

Мужчины
 Пневматическая винтовка, 10 м.
 Виталий Бубнович – 697,3 очка – 5-е место (олимпийская лицензия)
 Пневматическая винтовка, 10м, движущаяся мишень, смешанная скорость.
 Андрей Васильев – 383 очка – 9-е место.
 Малокалиберная винтовка, стрельба из положения лежа, 50 м.
 Сергей Мартынов – 702,1 очка – золотая медаль.
 Петр Литвинчук – 595 очков – 14-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия – 1775 очков – 10-е место.
 Малокалиберная винтовка, стрельба из трех положений, 50 м.
 Сергей Мартынов – 1164 очка – 24-е место.
 Петр Литвинчук – 1162 очка – 27-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия – 3459 очков – 10-е место.
 Пневматический пистолет, 10 м.
 Сергей Юрусов – 575 очков – 32-е место.
 Юрий Долгополов – 575 очков – 40-е место.
 Константин Лукашик – 575 очков – 43-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия – 1725 очков – 11-е место.
 Малокалиберный пистолет, 20 м, скоростная стрельба.
 Владислав Коцаренко – 566 очков – 41-е место.
 Малокалиберный пистолет, 50 м.
 Константин Лукашик – 654,4 очка – 8-е место.
 Сергей Юрусов – 557 очков – 21-е место.
 Юрий Долгополов – 545 очков – 46-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия – 1649 очков – 8-е место.
 Винтовка, стрельба из положения лежа, 300 м.
 Сергей Мартынов – 594 очка – 20-е место.
 Анатолий Клименко – 591 очко – 37-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия – 11-е место – 1776.
 Винтовка, стрельба из трех положений, 300 м.
 Анатолий Клименко – 1163 очка – 15 место.
 Виталий Бубнович – 1163 очка – 17-е место.
 Сергей Мартынов – 1150 очков – 31-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия – 3476 очков – 7-е место.
 Стандартная винтовка, стрельба из трех положений, 300 м.
 Анатолий Клименко – 584 очка – 5 место.
 Виталий Бубнович – 583 очка – 7-е место.
 Сергей Мартынов – 582 очка – 9-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия – 1749 очков – золотая медаль

Женщины
 Пневматическая винтовка, 10 м, движущаяся мишень, постоянная скорость.
 Ольга Маркова – 376 очка – 7-е место.
 Пневматическая винтовка, 10 м, движущаяся мишень, смешанная скорость.
 Ольга Маркова – 374 очка – 8-е место.
 Пневматическая винтовка, 10 м.
 Светлана Будько – 393 очка – 37-е место.
 Анна Румянцева – 391 очко – 55-е место.
 Галина Кравцова – 390 очков – 69-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия – 1174 очка – 15-е место.
Малокалиберная винтовка, стрельба из трех положений, 50 м.
 Светлана Будько – 578 очков – 14-е место.
 Галина Кравцова – 571 очко – 41-е место.
 Татьяна Косенцова – 567 очков – 53-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия – 1709 очков – 12-е место.
 Винтовка, стрельба из положения лежа, 50 м.
 Татьяна Косенцева – 591 очко – 17-е место.
 Галина Кравцова – 586 очков – 42-е место.
 Анна Румянцева – 586 очков – 45-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия – 1744 очка – 14-е место.
 Пневматический пистолет, 10 м.
 Виктория Чайка – 485,1 очка – бронзовая медаль
 Людмила Чеботарь – 382 очка – 13-е место.
 Евгения Галузо – 374 очка – 65-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия – 1140 очков – серебряная медаль
 Малокалиберный пистолет, 25 м.
 Людмила Чеботарь – 781,3 очка – 6-е место (олимпийская лицензия).
 Жанна Шепелевич – 779,2 очка – 8-е место (олимпийская лицензия).
 Евгения Галузо – 575 очков – 21-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия – 1735 очков – серебряная медаль
 Винтовка, стрельба из трех положений, 300 м.
 Татьяна Косенцева – 580 очков – серебряная медаль

Юниоры
 Винтовка, стрельба из положения лежа, 50 м.
 Тимофей Вышинский — 686 очков — 14-е место.
 Юрий Гаркавый — 580 очков — 42-е место.
 Артем Федосеев — 570 очков — 66-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия — 1736 очков — 15-е место.
 Винтовка, стрельба из трех положений, 50 м.
 Тимофей Вышинский — 1132 очка — 29-е место.
 Юрий Гаркавый — 1117 очков — 49-е место.
 Пневматическая винтовка, 10м, движущаяся мишень, постоянная скорость.
 Роман Гришаев — 564 очка — 6-е место.
 Игорь Толкач — 557 очков — 15-е место.
 Юрий Макаревич — 541 очко — 26-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия — 1662 очка — 7-е место.
 Пневматическая винтовка, 10м, движущаяся мишень, смешанная скорость.
 Роман Гришаев — 379 очков — 4-е место.
 Игорь Толкач — 367 очков — 17-е место.
 Юрий Макаревич — 363 очка — 22-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия — 1109 очков — 4-е место.
 Пневматическая винтовка, 10 м.
 Павел Уласеня — 586 очков — 35-е место.
 Артем Федосеев — 578 очков — 67-е место.
 Юрий Гаркавый — 572 очка — 77-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия — 1736 очков — 20-е место.
 Пневматический пистолет, 10 м.
 Виталий Куди — 561 очко — 47-е место.
 Малокалиберный пистолет, 50 м.
 Виталий Куди — 547 очков — 6-е место.

Юниорки
 Малокалиберная винтовка, стрельба из положения лежа, 50 м.
 Алеся Шишко — 580 очков — 29-е место.
 Анна Пронько — 577 очков — 44-е место.
 Лидия Жогальская — 555 очков — 70-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия — 1712 очков — 16-е место.
 Винтовка, стрельба из трех положений, 50 м.
 Анна Пронько — 557 очков — 52-е место.
 Алеся Шишко — 557 очков — 53-е место.
 Лидия Жогальская — 540 очков — 69-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия — 1654 очка — 19-е место.
 Пневматическая винтовка, 10 м.
 Алеся Шишко — 393 очка — 11-е место.
 Анна Пронько — 386 очков — 70-е место.
 Лидия Жогальская — 378 очков — 100-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия — 1157 очков — 21-е место.
 Пневматический пистолет, 10 м.
 Юлия Гаджиева — 375 очков — 22-е место.
 Екатерина Дрызлова — 373 очка — 28-е место.
 Алла Барановская — 367 очков — 44-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия — 1115 очков — 9-е место.
 Малокалиберный пистолет, 25 м.
 Екатерина Дрызлова — 556 очков — 32-е место.

Результаты чемпионата мира по стендовой стрельбе

Мужчины
 Круглый стенд
 Владимир Коровинский — 118 очков — 37-е место.
 Андрей Геращенко — 110 очков — 89-е место.
 Валерий Кукобако — 109 очков — 92-е место.
 Командное первенство. Белоруссия — 337 очков — 20-е место.

Юниоры
 Круглый стенд
 Алексей Тортиков — 102 очка — 43-е место.

Стрелковый спорт в Белоруссии


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Skillet Keeps Rocking Harder Than Other (Christian) Bands
by Rick Moore September 11, 2020, 8:33 am
Skillet is one of the most successful Christian rock bands, if not just one of the most successful rock bands in general, of the 21st century. Now the band has released Victorious: The Aftermath, a deluxe package containing last year's Victorious album, as well as piano-heavy "re-imagined" versions of several tracks from that album as well as three new songs.
The band consists of lead vocalist/bassist John Cooper, his guitarist/keyboardist/harmony singer wife Korey Cooper, lead guitarist Seth Morrison, and drummer and co-lead vocalist Jen Ledger. John Cooper is the writer or co-writer of nearly the band's entire catalog, with co-writers including his wife, Christian Producer of the Year Seth Mosley, and other band members and writers. He spoke with American Songwriter by phone from the band's home base in Wisconsin about the new album package and his beard.
"There were lots of reasons that went into doing that," he said. "I had a couple of songs that I really wanted on the [original Victorious] record, but you only have so many slots. We looked at the Covid timetable – are we gonna be out [of work] for six weeks or eight weeks? And that was six months ago! We had the time, I thought we'd just finish up some of the tunes and see what happens. So we thought, Why don't we just do Victorious: The Aftermath with some brand-new songs on it and we can do some piano versions of other songs. It's been a crazy time, such a crazy year. It just felt like the right thing to do. We recorded at the house, and Korey produced the bulk of the record anyway, so that worked out great because we weren't allowed to leave the house for a few months."
Skillet is one of the few rock bands from the '90s still going as strong as ever. "It took us so long to be recognized," Cooper said. "We were a band for 10 years before we really had a hit song. By the time people were saying, 'Oh, I know this band' and we had a gold record, we were already in it 11 years. It took a long time to ramp up, but the cool thing has been that those fans stayed with us. Sometimes you see a band come out and their single's number one, and they last for a few years, but they're a flash in the pan. Skillet was built on that hardcore fan base who said their favorite band in the world was Skillet, while everybody else was like, 'Who?' But when you do that, those fans are with you forever."
Skillet is different from many Christian bands, in that it rocks harder than most, and doesn't exactly write what is considered typical praise and worship material. But they've been highly successful with fans of both Christian and secular rock, with some 12,000,000 albums sold according to Billboard.
"Skillet is a little bit unique in that," Cooper said. "You can call it just luck, but I call it providence. It's that thing that a lot of people try to do, and I can't take credit for it. But we have tried to be known as a rock band. I want to be known as a rock band, but I speak out about what I believe, and what's most important to me is not politics. It's faith in Jesus Christ, who gave me hope, gave me a brand-new life. And I want people to discover that same hope in Jesus that I have."
"Our songs are typically not very obviously Christian," he continued. "They can feel spiritual to people, or they can have multiple meanings. And sometimes that means Skillet isn't quite Christian enough for some Christians, and sometimes we're a little too Christian for people who aren't. But for the most part, it leaves the art open to interpretation. And in general, I think people enjoy that about art. And then, in interviews like this one or on stage, I get to talk about what it is that I believe."
Skillet has announced a pair of full-production drive-in shows to take place October 9-10 in Cedar Park, Texas in October. "I love playing concerts, I love connecting with people, I love having a message of hope in a world that's going crazy with violence and pandemics. People are scared for their lives for multiple reasons. There's so much going on. That's why I really enjoy playing concerts, because music helps people, and the message of our songs helps people, and I like that. I think the fans are just desperate to get out of the house and do something fun," said Cooper, who sounded he's ready to have some fun too.
For the "panheads" who are wondering about the state of Cooper's celebrated beard, recent photos show that he's been letting it grow to epic dimensions while in quarantine. "Yep, it's gotten quite big," he said. "I just can't find a reason to trim this thing."
Dig Skillet? Of course you do.
Go pre-order the new tunes.
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Acceptance Reunites, Discusses Inspirations Of U2-Meets-The Killers Tune, "Midnight"


Canova Media goes behind the scenes with celebrated fashion designer, Lucian Matis as he designs the Baileys® Glass Dress. Influenced by the new Baileys® bottle design, Lucian Matis uses broken glass from old Baileys® bottles to create a gown that is awe-inspiring. The dress made it's runway debut at Toronto Fashion Week 2013, and proved to be a real show stopper!


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High hydrophobic amino acid exposure is responsible of the neurotoxic effects induced by E200K or D202N disease-related mutations of the human prion protein.
Corsaro A, Thellung S, Bucciarelli T, Scotti L, Chiovitti K, Villa V, D'Arrigo C, Aceto A, Florio T. High hydrophobic amino acid exposure is responsible of the neurotoxic effects induced by E200K or D202N disease-related mutations of the human prion protein. Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 2011;43(3):372-82.
Mutations in prion protein are thought to be causative of inherited prion diseases favoring the spontaneous conversion of the normal prion protein into the scrapie-like pathological prion protein. We previously reported that, by controlled thermal denaturation, human prion protein fragment 90-231 acquires neurotoxic properties when transformed in a ß-rich conformation, resembling the scrapie-like conformation. In this study we generated prion protein fragment 90-231 bearing mutations identified in familial prion diseases (D202N and E200K), to analyze their role in the induction of a neurotoxic conformation. Prion protein fragment 90-231(wild type) and the D202N mutant were not toxic in native conformation but induced cell death only after thermal denaturation. Conversely, prion protein fragment 90-231(E200K) was highly toxic in its native structure, suggesting that E200K mutation per se favors the acquisition of a peptide neurotoxic conformation. To identify the structural determinants of prion protein fragment 90-231 toxicity, we show that while the wild type peptide is structured in a-helix, hPrP90-231 E200K is spontaneously refolded in a ß-structured conformer characterized by increased proteinase K resistance and propensity to generate fibrils. However, the most significant difference induced by E200K mutation in prion protein fragment 90-231 structure in native conformation we observed, was an increase in the exposure of hydrophobic amino-acids on protein surface that was detected in wild type and D202N proteins only after thermal denaturation. In conclusion, we propose that increased hydrophobicity is one of the main determinants of toxicity induced by different mutations in prion protein-derived peptides.


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Janet Kamerman Named Assistant Dir. of FBI's Training Division
WASHINGTON — Janet L. Kamerman, the FBI's associate executive assistant director of the Human Resources Branch, has some added duties.
On top of her current job, she will also become assistant director of the FBI's Training Division.
The FBI said in "her new role, she will assume additional responsibilities for all FBI training programs, including the new agent and intelligence analyst training programs, as well as the National Academy, which provides training to federal, state, local, and international police executives."
"While retaining her stewardship of the FBI's Leadership Development Program as AEAD of Human Resources, Janet will help move forward the Bureau's training programs—for both our own employees and our local, state, and international partners," FBI director Robert Mueller III said in a statement. "Her newly combined responsibilities will strengthen the FBI's development opportunities for all employees to enhance the achievement of our mission."
Kamerman began her FBI career in July 1989 and was first assigned to the Houston Division where she worked organized crime and drugs, international terrorism and white collar crime. She eventually became supervisory special agent in Houston Division and supervised a drug squad.
In 2002, she went to headquarters as a supervisory special agent and unit chief in the Human Resources Division, the FBI said.
Later, she went to the Washington field office as an assistant special agent in charge overseeing administrative matters.
In 2005, she served as special assistant to Director Mueller and two years later was named as special agent in charge of the Honolulu Division. Three years later she returned to headquarters.
Before joining the FBI, she was a military police officer in the U.S. Army.
Posted: 3/30/10 at 10:40 AM under FBI, Milestone, News Story.
Tags: FBI, Janet Kamerman, Robert Mueller, Training Division


Recently, during a cross-country road trip, I decided to explore Richmond, Virginia.
Approaching the city from the south on I-95, I quickly realized that I did not appreciate Richmond's size. Downtown hosts a healthy number of high-rise buildings and its suburban fringe extends many miles beyond this core. In other words, there was no way I was going to have enough time to see anything beyond a sliver of this city.
I decided to explore an area dubbed the "Canal Walk" located on the edge of downtown. There is a lot to love about the Canal Walk.
The Canal Walk preserved an important element of Richmond's industrial history – the James River and Kanawha Canal. Before the railroad, canals we're essential mode of transportation for heavy and bulky materials. Richmond's canal connected the city to the James River and ultimately to the Atlantic ocean.
The new Canal Walk allows visitors to see how an industrial canal worked within the city. Interpretative signs tell the story of the materials that the canal moved and the people who worked in the area – many of whom were enslaved.


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'Kung Fu Panda' Director, Jeff Bridges, James Franco, Rachel McAdams Board 'The Little Prince'
Posted on Thursday, June 6th, 2013 by Angie Han
Seventy years after its initial publication, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic The Little Prince remains a favorite of readers both young and old. It was inevitable, then, that it'd be headed back to the big screen eventually. Fortunately for those who hold it dear, it sounds like there'll be some serious talent on board to get it right.
Mark Osborne (Kung Fu Panda) has been set to direct a new animated adaptation of the story, and it appears he's starting to line up quite a voice cast. Jeff Bridges, James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Benicio del Toro, Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd, and Mackenzie Foy (Breaking Dawn) are among the names attached. Get all the details after the jump.
The beloved novella is narrated by a pilot who has crash-landed in the Sahara. He encounters an odd boy who claims to be a prince who's fallen from his asteroid. Over the next several days, the little prince shares tales of his home planet and his travels through the rest of the universe. THR writes that Bridges will voice the pilot. The other actors' roles have not been revealed.
While The Little Prince is ostensibly a children's book, its gently philosophical nature has proven just as popular with adults. Since its original publication in French, the tale has been translated into over 200 languages and dialects and sold over 140 million copies, making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
The Little Prince has been adapted for screen, stage, and other media many times over the decades. Among them are a 1974 live-action musical movie directed by Stanley Donen, a '70s Japanese animated series and, more recently, a French TV series that began airing in 2010.
TheWrap reports that Paramount is likely to distribute Osborne's new film in the U.S. An exact release date for The Little Prince has not been announced, but according to Coming Soon the film will likely open in 3D sometime next year.
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Most of the boarding schools in the country have been inundated by applications for Form 1 places according to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education. There are concerns that most of the pupils who applied for places at boarding schools may fail to get places.
The Permanent Secretay in the Ministry of Education, Tumisang Thabela, said that parents who have applied for boarding places should plan for second options as it is not possible for the schools to accept all the applicants.
There are some schools with applications as high as 3 920 yet they have 120 available places.
As district teams, you are part of recruitment so let's avoid rent-seeking behaviour in that area.
I don't have actual figures and names of schools here but we do have a number of schools that are overwhelmed. So what will happen is that parents and their children have to accept that they might not be able to get their first choice schools because of competition.
However, there are some that have not attracted anyone as of now.
From the applications, it's clear that we had more applicants than available boarding places so some parents will have to make peace with the fact that not all of us can get boarding school places.
boarding schools should publish names of successful applicants so that those unsuccessful can look for other options. acknowledging that it is difficult to reply everyone.


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Biserica de lemn din Nicolești se află în cătunul Nicolești, ce aparține de localitatea Crăciunești din județul Mureș. Neînsemnată la prima vedere, aceasta surprinde prin planul simplu, fără pronaos, și forma semicilindrică a altarului. Biserica se află pe noua listă a monumentelor istorice sub codul LMI: .

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Vechimea construcției nu a fost stabilită cu certitudine până în prezent. Conform tradiției, biserica Sf. Nicolae din Nicolești a fost ridicată de călugărul Nicolae în secolul 14. Trebuie remarcat planul inițial simplu, compus numai dintr-un naos și altar. Acesta este cu totul neobișnuit pentru o biserică mai nouă. El își are corespondenți fie într-o posibilă capelă de altă confesiune din împrjurimi fie într-un model arhaic, păstrat de exemplu la biserica de lemn medievală din Putna. De reținut este și altarul semicircular, o formă care imită corul romanic, foarte rar întâlnită la bisericile de lemn.

Cercetătoarea Ioana Cristache-Panait interpretează anul 1846 inscris pe peretele de vest drept momentul unei refaceri. Este posibil ca atunci să fi fost adăgat pridvorul și micul turn peste el. Ulterior, probabil, pridvorul a fost închis cu scândură pentru a servi drept pronaos.

Biserica a fost devastată și jefuită în 1943-44. A rămas pustie până în anii 1960, când a fost restaurată.

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A spaghetti dinner fundraiser to support veterans programs will be held from 3:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at Landt-Thiel American Legion Post 470 in Saukville.
The menu includes spaghetti with meat sauce, salad, bread, coffee or milk and dessert. Carry-outs are available.
Tickets are $10 in advance or $11 at the door for adults and $4 for children under 12. Children under 4 are free. To obtain advance tickets, call 284-0296.
The Town of Saukville Plan Commission originally scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 7, has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, at the town hall.
Tuesday's meeting was canceled due to inclement weather.
The agenda for the meeting includes considering rezoning a portion of the Riveredge Nature Center to allow a new school to hold classes there this fall and a conditional use permit request by the owners of the Abloom Farm Resort, 2839 Hwy. 33.
The town hall is at 3762 Lakeland Rd.
Ozaukee Christian School will hold an open house from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, at the school, 341 S. Dries St. in Saukville.
The school is located in the former Immaculate Conception Catholic School building but is seeking a new location after the Milwaukee Archdiocese sold the building to the Redeemed Christian Church of God a year ago.


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Go, Go, Guillermo!
Guillermo del Toro is probably my top horror director—if not the top, he's definitely in my horror trinity. One of the things I like best about del Toro is how generous he is with other artists. He saw this short by Spanish filmmaker Andres Muschietti in 2008 and helped the artist develop it into the full movie Mama, which will be released January 18.
The short is terrifying, as is the trailer for the movie that will be coming out in three weeks.
I'm excited and plan on seeing the movie opening weekend to show my support. The last time Guillermo del Toro helped out a Spanish filmmaker, I was introduced to The Orphanage, which is one of my favorite movies of all time. Hopefully, Mama will hold me until del Toro's own feature, Pacific Rim, comes out on my dad's birthday, July 12. Maybe I'll go visit my dad in Iowa to see that one.
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Insidious Has Some Good, Genuine Scares
With Hurricane Sandy, we were housebound for a couple days, but my sister and I were two of the lucky ones. During and after the storm, we kept our power, Internet, and water. The most major inconvenience we experienced was not having direct subway service for a week, but on Monday the glorious Q started working between most parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan. With Internet and power, we were able to entertain ourselves with streaming Netflix, and I finally got to watch the horror movie Insidious, which has been haunting my queue for a while.
I'm glad my sister was home when I decided to watch it because the first half was so scary that I jumped a few times and maybe even yipped a little at one point. In Insidious, a family of five moves into a large house—mom and dad, two young sons, and an infant daughter. Patrick Wilson plays Josh, the father of the family, who is mysteriously absent for the first part of the story. He's a schoolteacher and claims he is suddenly busy grading papers and tests. Knowing what a teacher's salary is, I don't see how this family can afford their living situation. Renai, his wife (Rose Byrne), is a stay-at-home mom and once-in-a-while music composer, yet they live in a house like this:
While Dad is teaching and grading papers, Renai gets to set up the household and take care of the kids. After getting her two boys off to school and her fussy baby down for a nap, she's finally able to take a break and sit down at her piano for some R & R with her trusty baby monitor…and that's when she hears mysterious, threatening voices over its speaker. I feel like I've seen this plot device used before in a movie, but for the life of me I can't remember which one. It worked fabulously in Insidious, though—that's the moment when Renai is aware that there's something not quite right in her house.
Besides living in a haunted house, things start to get so much worse when one of her sons, Dalton (Ty Simpkins), falls into a mysterious coma. He's whisked away to a hospital where doctors and specialists are unable to say what's caused this condition, but they give the family hope that he may just wake up. When Dalton comes home (still in his comatose state), the haunting kicks into serious gear and various ghosts pop up, menacing Renai and her children but generally leaving her husband alone. This is the seriously scary part of the movie, where the entities appear for a flicker of a moment, like in The Sixth Sense or The Orphanage, and you never know where they're going to be.
Renai finally comes to believe that it's not her house that's haunted but her comatose son. I have heard of this happening before, where for some reason ghosts attach themselves to a living person because of their warmth or some other quality. I'm not sure if I buy it. Once I had a dentist who liked to practice her New Age skills on me after cleaning my teeth or drilling and filling. She would do reiki treatments or something else where she would ring bells and wave tuning forks around my head. I didn't mind that as long as it was free. But then she started telling me about how she could see spirits attached to me, one older, nasty woman in particular. She told me her daughter could get rid of her in a session and that she would set me up with an appointment if I wanted. I declined nicely and never went back to that dentist again. It just got a little too weird.
Rather than going this route, the movie ends up taking a Shirley MacLaine turn that was unexpected for me. But I found that once the monsters' motives were revealed, they just didn't seem that nefarious. After that, they end up getting a lot more screen time, but I liked it better when the monsters were mostly hidden in this movie. When they did come out, the scares were gone and they just weren't that interesting anymore. Instead, I found myself more curious about this family's source of income. Renai must have penned an incredible film score or something that kept them afloat since the family brought Dalton home in his comatose state—plugged into various machines with home health aides dropping by every once in a while. Either that or teachers get some killer health insurance.
tagged as Insidious, Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Shirley MacLaine, the orphanage, The Sixth Sense, Ty Simpkins
At a dinner recently with friends, I talked about my horror blog and the conversation segued into movies that had scared everybody the most as kids. The sisters Leora and Sharoan brought up Burnt Offerings and were nearly peeing themselves while talking about the scary limo driver. I had never seen this movie, but with a cast featuring Burgess Meredith, Bette Davis, and Karen Black (the original scream queen), I immediately Netflixed it and Kristi and I watched it this last weekend.
I've always had a soft spot for Bette Davis (who could not?), but with her appearance in Burnt Offerings, she has become my old-lady idol. Screw wrinkles, she puts on her eyeliner anyway, and of course, it's liquid eyeliner. Red or orange lips and a black cigarette always in her hands, punctuating her bitter sarcasm. I adore her, with her little pooch stomach hanging out but stylish in bold floral prints, the height of seventies fashion.
Karen Black is also strong as the loving wife who twists domesticity into horror. The ladies dominate this little movie with the one adult male figure (Oliver Reed as Black's husband) reduced to an infantile state, even further regressed than his son at one point when the wicked home and hearth has had its way with him.
The ending was a surprise to me, not because of where the story leads–any horror fan could see that one coming–but because the young son is allowed to see his father cartwheel from the top of the house and is then covered with his father's blood when he splats on the family station wagon. That just doesn't happen any longer in Hollywood. Children are comforted and cosseted with happy endings, reassured that nothing traumatic can't be undone.
Foreign filmmakers are more daring when dealing with children. I'm thinking of Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and The Orphanage by Juan Antonio Bayona. I do remember critics saying that Pan's Labyrinth could never be made in today's Hollywood because of the traumatic ending that happens to a child. Last night, I attended a panel with the Japanese horror director Hideo Nakata who filmed the Ringu series. He said there are no ratings systems in Japan and anybody can go see a horror film, whether they're one year old or a hundred. I wonder if that has something to do with it.
tagged as bette davis, burnt offerings, guillermo del toro, hideo nakata, juan antonio bayona, karen black, pan's labyrinth, ringu, the orphanage


And Chapter Two officially begins! This is a fun chapter. For clarification, this chapter takes place about two years prior to the beginning of the story. Hopefully it will clear up a few mysteries about Amelia's past. I really love this chapter, and I'm excited to share it with you all!
Please leave comments or questions below, and have a beautiful day!


Varmint, deer, target, big game -- this lineup of 6.5mm bullets covers a broad spectrum of uses: (from left) Hornady 95-gr. V-Max; Nosler 100-gr. Ballistic Tip; Sierra 100-gr. HP; Barnes 120-gr. TSX BT; Nosler 120-gr. Ballistic Tip; Sierra 120-gr. Spitzer; Speer 120-gr. Hot-Cor SP; Sierra 123-gr. MatchKing BTHP; Nosler 125-gr. Partition; Hornady 129-gr. InterLock; Hornady 129-gr. SST; Nosler 130-gr. AccuBond; Swift 130-gr. Scirocco; Hornady 140-gr. InterLock; Speer 140-gr. Hot-Cor SP; and Hornady 160-gr. InterLock RN.
Few cartridge introductions have had the fanfare of Hornady's 6.5 Creedmoor. It was developed in 2007 by Hornady's Dave Emary and former Camp Perry champ Dennis DeMille. The intent was to create an "across the course" round for high-power matches, and to that end it succeeded admirably. Factory ammo was loaded with Hornady's sleek 120- and 140-grain A-Max bullets, producing flat trajectories with less recoil than the .30s.
It didn't take long for hunters to discover the 6.5CM. The reputation of long-for-caliber 6.5mm bullets for deep penetration is well known, and today's selection of high-tech bullets allows you to tailor a load for just about any application.
The 6.5CM is based on Hornady's .30 T/C and has been described as the .260 Remington "done right." There's considerable justification for this. The 6.5CM case is .115 inch shorter and has less body taper and a sharper 30-degree shoulder than the .260.
But unlike the .260 Remington and 6.5-284 Norma, the 6.5CM case was designed from the ground up as a short-action cartridge. Bullets in the 6.5CM can be seated out to match throat dimensions, so they don't eat up valuable powder space, yet still fit in a short-action rifle.
Our test rifle this month is my Ruger M77 Hawkeye. Its 26-inch barrel rings every drop of velocity out of the powder charge. Ruger cuts 6.5CM barrels with a 1:8 twist that will handle virtually all of the wide range of bullet weights available.
Forget what you've read about "overstabilizing" light bullets. Today's bullets are much more uniform than those of old and typically shoot like a house afire, regardless of twist.
For testing I mounted a new Bresser 6-18x40 True View scope in Warne QD rings. I used Hornady New Dimension dies I got when I bought the rifle. Standard, large-rifle primers are most appropriate for the relatively short and compact charges of the 6.5CM. Magnum primers are not needed, but match-grade primers might be worth a try for specialty loads. In addition to factory ammo, Hornady also offers cases.
Appropriate powders are in the medium- to slow-burning range. Several new numbers such as Hornady Superformance powder from Hodgdon, Varget, Hybrid 100V and Vihtavuori N-150 were excellent with selected loads. Additional powders that deliver noteworthy performance are Reloder-17, Norma URP and Winchester 760.
Load development for any 6.5mm cartridge is a real treat because the selection of .264-inch bullets is so varied.
We tested more than 60 different bullet and powder combinations, but the final cut includes only the best load with each bullet listed.
For a light-recoiling load for paper punching or popping the occasional 'chuck, check out the 95-grain Hornady V-Max over 41.0 grains of Varget. At a velocity of 3,362 fps, it was the fastest load tested, and accuracy was great. A couple of 100-grain favorites are the Nosler Ballistic Tip and the Sierra HP. Both were exceptionally accurate at a bit over 2,900 fps. The new IMR 8208 XBR and good old IMR 4064 were the standouts here.
The 120-grain bullet lineup runs the gamut from target to game. The velocity of factory loads offers a clue as to speed goals here. Hornady lists its 120-grain A-Max at 3,020 fps, but it registered 2,818 fps in the Hawkeye.
For a hunting load, 47.5 grains of Superformance with the 120-grain Sierra Spitzer at 2,984 fps punched tidy little groups. The Nosler Partition is always a good choice for big game, and a charge of 43.0 grains of H-4350 gave the 125-grain version 2,737 fps. For pure paper punching, Sierra MatchKings are always tough to beat. The 123-grain MK over 38.4 grains of Varget zipped along at 2,823 fps and averaged a hair over a half inch.
AccuBond liked 39.0 grains of IMR 4007 SSC. Velocity was 2,655 fps, and groups averaged .87 inch.
The 140-grain selections are ably represented here by the Speer Hot-Cor and Hornady SST. Both are excellent medium-game bullets and preferred Vihtavuori N-550 and Hybrid 100V, respectively.
Finally, there's the grand old 160-grain RN, one of the best designs ever. At reasonable ranges it shoots plenty flat enough and has contributed to the reputations of many 6.5mm cartridges.
With appropriate handloads, target shooters can be highly competitive without developing a flinch, and hunters can take medium to big game efficiently. The 6.5 Creedmoor is the real deal.


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After launching its national tour at the Providence Performing Arts Center in the fall of 2015, "Beautiful —The Carole King Musical" returns to PPAC Feb. 27–March 4. "Beautiful" tells the inspiring true story of Carole King's remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and best friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history.
Several cast members have been a part of the "Beautiful" national tour, since it opened in Providence more than two years ago. Sarah Bockel, who stars as Carole King, previously understudied the role. Andrew Brewer (Gerry Goffin) and Jacob Heimer (Barry Mann) performed originally as the musical duo The Righteous Brothers.
Rhode Island native John Michael Dias performs as Neil Sedaka and others, and is excited to be performing back at home again. "I grew up watching all the big shows coming through the PPAC," said Dias. "It's really an honor to be performing on that stage for the fourth time." Visit PPAC's Facebook page at facebook.com/ProvPacRI to see John's video series that he shot exclusively for Providence.
Caitlyn DiPompo is the marketing projects specialist at the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC). Caitlyn has done a lot with her B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in her communications and public relations career. In her spare time, Caitlyn enjoys exploring The Creative Capital and the state of Rhode Island, writing, cooking and being every dog's best friend.