Creating your own invitations to a tea party is a fun way to make the occasion even more special. Choosing a theme for the card adds to the overall concept, such as for a brunch or dessert tea. This is a guide about making a fall themed kitchen tea invitation.
I have a pack of napkins that was left over after a garden party. I decided to turn them into invitations for a kitchen tea. The kitchen tea was a brunch, so the mushrooms printed on the napkins were ideal for the occasion.
Score the 8.2" x 5.6" to create a card sized 5.6" x 4.1".
With the fold at the top, centre and glue the orange marbled paper to the front of the card.
Cut different mushroom pictures from the napkin. Remove the bottom napkin layers before gluing the napkin pictures to the card to make a collage. Note: Add glue to all areas of the napkin to glue it down completely.
Cut a strip of washi tape to add to the top of the card. Fold it in half and affix it over the fold of the card. Cut off any protruding edges. Repeat with the left, right, and bottom sides of the card.
Use the metal pens to add detail to the areas not covered by the pictures ~ add dots with the bronze pen and small squiggles with the gold pen.


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Mumias is a town in Kakamega County of Kenya. The town has an urban population of 116,358 (2009 census) and is the second largest town in Kakamega County.
Mumias was the centre of the Mumias District. The town is linked by road to Kakamega (in east), Busia (west), Bungoma (north), Butere, Luanda, Maseno and Kisumu (south). Two major rivers, River Nzoia and River Lusumu pass close to the town.

The town has four major hospitals namely, Mumias Level 4 Hospital (the largest) St.Marys' Mission hospital, Jamia Hospital and The Mumias Modern Dispensary. The town  has a modern bus park and a modern market.

The town hosts the Office of the Member of Parliament for Mumias West, the office of the Deputy County Commissioner. The town has a stadium, Bomani Grounds, used for official meetings, political events, games and other events.

The collapsed Mumias Sugar Company was a major employer in the region. The company owned the Mumias Sugar FC, which was one of the top football teams in Kenya until it was disbanded in 2007.

Five minutes outside Mumias town, on the road to Kakamega, there is a hospital, St. Mary's Mission Hospital and a medical college, St. Mary's School of Clinical Medicine. They are run by the Catholic Diocese of Kakamega (Mumias parish) which also sponsors several public primary and secondary schools namely: St. Mary's Girls High School, St. Anne's Mumias Primary School, St. Peter's Mumias Boys Primary School and St. Peter's Boys' High School.

Recreation
The town has a number of hotels and recreation centers. Hotels found here include, Number 70 hotel, Westgate hotel, Amazon, etc
Night clubs include, Finito Sports Club and bar, Joe's Lounge, ValuValu etc

History
The town is capital of the Luhya kingdom of Wanga. King Nabongo Mumia, who came to power in 1880, was the last sovereign king of Wanga. He was succeeded by his son Shitawa who ruled after his death in 1949 till the late seventies. He then was succeeded by Mumia II who is currently in power. His role remains largely non executive, but the royal family draws taxes from the trade that goes on in the county council of Mumias, which is to date still regarded as the seat of power. This includes taxes from the Mumias Sugar Company. The family still owns the land in the county although bits and pieces have been sold off to private developers. The entire Royal Family is still very closely linked to the choices of political leaders in the region as well as to their royal ties of the Abashitsetse clan. Each family has its own meetings (families keep the family tree with major families arising from the last sovereign Wanga government, with the brothers of King Mumia forming the Patriarchal Heads of the family). Mumias has a noticeable Muslim community, unique in western Kenya. It derives from trade links between Wanga state and coastal Kenya.
The town with two sub counties Mumias East and Mumias West in the larger county of Kakamega, is home to various Evangelical, Pentecostal and traditional Christian denominations.
The town was known as Lureko until it was renamed Mumias.

The Nabongo Cultural Centre in Matungu showcasing the Wanga Kingdom was opened in the outskirts of Mumias in 2008, near the traditional homestead of Wanga kings (Nabongos).

Religion
The town has two major religions, Christianity and Muslims although most other religions are found here. There are very many churches is the town and surrounding areas.

The area of Lukoye has a mosque called "Sheikh Khalifa Mosque", which was built in 1991 with Kuwaiti assistance. Other mosques have since been set up such as the one in Ekero area.

See also
Charles William Hobley

References

Further reading
Rough Guide to Kenya, 7th ed, 2002, p361

Kakamega County
Populated places in Western Province (Kenya)

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Close your eyes and focus gently.
Listen to the program using headphones.
Use headphones because the program uses binaural beats. Binaural beats are used in such a way that they bring about desirable changes in brainwave activity, so as to induce a state of meditation and deep relaxation.
Follow every instruction dictated in the program.
Listen deeply. Isolate and identify each sound that you hear.
Feel and understand every word of mantra. Be aware of the calmness of the process.
Focus on sound vibrations of the mantra, on the guardian deity.
Most important Factor for effective chanting is pronunciation. For doing right pronunciation chant with this program.
Chant slowly, chant each word as if you are savoring every syllable.
Chanting is not like singing a song, simply read the text or shout loudly. Just chant according to this program for avoiding mistakes.
Beginners should chant at normal loud. For intermediate chant in a low voice or simply recalling the mantra with lip movement. For advanced chanter – Mantra should be chanted within, without making any voice, lip movement or movement of tongue.
This program really takes only 30 to 45 minutes a day (or depend on mantra length), which you can use when your relaxing, when you wake up, when you go to bed, or when you are going to worship.


"Integrated Opposition" will take form as innovative arts installations within a series of re-imagined traditional structures made from either contemporary or traditional materials. By making approximately 6 tipis, sweat lodges and wigwams that embrace both customary and modernized building theory we examine the context of aboriginal identity through a contemporary lens. These structures house spaces for artists to create and present within as each discovers their own connections between past and present realities. Themes such as resistance, the formation and expression of identity, and cultural survival, as well as stories and reactions to the residential school system, racial discrimination, language and cultural barriers, and other traumatic or prohibitive experiences will be explored, creating an interesting and informative juxtaposition of ideas and materials forming a collective statement of opposition.
Each artist is responsible for the creation of a site-specific installation or performance-based artwork within their own constructed structure that responds to the themes outlined in this project. These pieces will contribute towards the larger narrative, which in turn will form a distinct component of Aanmitaagzi's large-scale community arts project, "Dances of Resistance" which is also working in partnership with the Active Arts Festival. Aanmitaagzi is an Aboriginal community arts group based on Nipissing First Nation, and their multi-year project, "Dances of Resistance", explores many of the ways that Aboriginal peoples have resisted assimilation despite repeated assaults upon their traditions and culture.
"Integrated Opposition" is an independent project operating within Aanmitaagzi's large scale event. Although the artists working with Clayton Windatt are all responding to the themes set forth by this event, they remain free to explore their own practice in whatever way they see fit. Aanmitaagzi has requested that Clayton Windatt attempt to secure funding to enable his project to go beyond their resources and become a highly acknowledged and recognized event on its own. This will add emphasis to the larger art project and enable his project to achieve a high level or artistic quality and an effective level of dissemination.


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Q: Search elements of a single character string in a dataframe column to subset it I have two dataframes:

set.seed(1)
df1 <- data.frame(k1 = "AFD(1);Acf(2);Vgr7(2);"
                  ,k2 = "ABC(7);BHG(46);TFG(675);")

df2 <- data.frame(site =c("AFD(1);AFD(2);", "Acf(2);", "TFG(677);",
"XX(275);",  "ABC(7);", "ABC(9);")
                  ,p1 = rnorm(6, mean = 5, sd = 2)
                  ,p2 = rnorm(6, mean = 6.5, sd = 2))

The first dataframe is in fact a list of often very long strings, made of 'elements". Each "element" is made of a few letters/numbers, followed by a number in brackets, followed by a semicolon. In this example I only put 3 "elements" into each string, but in my real dataframe there are tens to hundreds of them.
> df1
                      k1                       k2
1 AFD(1);Acf(2);Vgr7(2); ABC(7);BHG(46);TFG(675);

The second dataframe shares some of the "elements" with df1. Its first column, called site, contains some (not all) "elements" from the first dataframe, sometimes the "element" forms the whole string, and sometimes is a part of a longer string:
> df2
            site       p1       p2
1 AFD(1);AFD(2); 4.043700 3.745881
2        Acf(2); 5.835883 5.670011
3      TFG(677); 7.717359 5.711420
4       XX(275); 4.794425 6.381373
5        ABC(7); 5.775343 8.700051
6        ABC(9); 4.892390 8.026351

I would like to filter the whole df2 using df2$site and each k column from df1 (there are many K columns, not all of them contain k in the names).
The easiest way to explain this is to show how the desired output would look like.
> outcome
    k   site            p1          p2
1   k1  AFD(1);AFD(2):  4.043700    3.745881
2   k1  Acf(2);         5.835883    5.670011
3   k2  ABC(7);         5.775343    8.700051

The first column of the outcome dataframe corresponds to the column names in df1. The second column corresponds to the site column of df2 and contains only sites from df1 columns that were found in df2$sites. Other columns are from df2.
I appreciate that this question is made of two separate "problems", one grepping-related and one related to looping through df1 columns. I decided to show the task in its entirety in case there exists a solution that addresses both in one go.
FAILED SOLUTION 1
I can create a string to grep, but for each column separately:
# this replaces the semicolons with "|", but does not escape the brackets.
k1_pattern <- df1 %>%
  select(k1) %>%
  deframe() %>%
  str_replace_all(";","|")

And then I am not sure how to use it. This (below) didn't work, maybe because I didn't escape brackets, but I am struggling with doing it:
k1_result <- df2 %>%
  filter(grepl(pattern = k1_pattern, site))

But even if it did work, it would only deal with a single column from df1, and I have many, and would like to perform this operation on all df1 columns at the same time.
FAILED SOLUTION 2
I can create a list of sites to search in df2 from columns in df1:
k1_sites<- df1 %>%
  select(k1) %>%
  deframe() %>%
  strsplit(., "[;]") %>%
  unlist()

but the delimiter is lost here, and %in% cannot be used, as the match will sometimes be partial.

A: library(dplyr)

df2 %>%
  mutate(site_list = strsplit(site, ";")) %>%
  rowwise() %>%
  filter(length(intersect(site_list,
                              unlist(strsplit(x = paste0(c(t(df1)), collapse=""),
                                              split = ";")))) != 0) %>%
  select(-site_list)

#> # A tibble: 3 x 3
#> # Rowwise:
#>   site              p1    p2
#>   <chr>          <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 AFD(1);AFD(2);  3.75  7.47
#> 2 Acf(2);         5.37  7.98
#> 3 ABC(7);         5.66  9.52

Updated answer:
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)

df1 %>%
  rownames_to_column("id") %>%
  pivot_longer(-id, names_to = "k", values_to = "site") %>%
  separate_rows(site, sep = ";") %>%
  filter(site != "") %>%
  select(-id) -> df1_k

df2 %>%
  tibble::rownames_to_column("id") %>%
  separate_rows(site, sep = ";") %>%
  full_join(., df1_k, by = c("site")) %>%
  group_by(id) %>%
  fill(k, .direction = "downup") %>%
  filter(!is.na(id) & !is.na(k)) %>%
  summarise(k = first(k),
            site = paste0(site, collapse = ";"),
            p1 = first(p1),
            p2 = first(p2), .groups = "drop") %>%
  select(-id)

#> # A tibble: 3 x 4
#>   k     site              p1    p2
#>   <chr> <chr>          <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 k1    AFD(1);AFD(2);  3.75  7.47
#> 2 k1    Acf(2);         5.37  7.98
#> 3 k2    ABC(7);         5.66  9.52

A: Here's a way going to a long format for exact matching (so no regex):
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
df1_long = df1 |> stack() |>
  separate_rows(values, sep = ";") |>
  filter(values != "")

df2 |>
  mutate(id = row_number()) |>
  separate_rows(site, sep = ";") |>
  filter(site != "") |>
  left_join(df1_long, by = c("site" = "values")) %>%
  group_by(id) |>
  filter(any(!is.na(ind))) %>%
  summarize(
    site = paste(site, collapse = ";"),
    across(-site, \(x) first(na.omit(x)))
  )
# # A tibble: 3 × 5
#      id site             p1    p2 ind
#   <int> <chr>         <dbl> <dbl> <fct>
# 1     1 AFD(1);AFD(2)  3.75  7.47 k1
# 2     2 Acf(2)         5.37  7.98 k1
# 3     5 ABC(7)         5.66  9.52 k2

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Dabster Productions
It's Funny and It's True
Laughing at the things you're not supposed to
Comedy is at its most powerful when it takes on our darkest fears, our hardest times, and transforms them into laughter. Julia Sutherland looks into the corners of fellow stand up comedians' lives – performers who have chosen to share their deeply personal stories on stage to give a voice to issues otherwise overlooked. They have overcome their troubles and empowered themselves and many others to laugh at the things you're not supposed to laugh at.
Through comedy, Julia shows that sometimes it's OK not to be OK.
Our comedians perform stand up around these issues, before explaining in interview the story behind the laughs, as well as their reasons for sharing their experiences.
Episode 1: TX 23/07/17 – 19:15 iPlayer
Julia meets Janey Godley. Brought up in near-Dickensian squalor in the tough East End of Glasgow, Janey has faced sexual abuse, murder within the family, violence, sectarianism and more. She has coped with everything her life has thrown at her by turning each challenge and tragedy into hilarious stand-up comedy. Her own empowerment has given a voice to thousands of others by shattering taboos and breaking emotional shackles.
Julia also meets Heather Jordan Ross, who has toured the world with her show "Rape is Real and Everywhere". Through her stand up she has touched the lives of thousands of people who have had similar experiences, and has found relief in sharing her candid account and extremely dark humour. This is a very personal story told from a unique point of view.
Felicity Ward is an Australian comedian who has struggled with severe anxiety throughout her adult life – particularly challenging when it's your job to entertain strangers every night from stage. Glaswegian stand up Fern Brady has been forced to cope with depression, which is made far more difficult by her underlying anger issues that are provoked by the challenges of daily life.
Details of organisations offering information and support with sexual abuse and sexual violence are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline, or you can call for free, at any time to hear recorded information on 0800 077 077
"Guys are always like: 'If you can tell a murder joke, you can tell a rape joke,'
Well I don't know if one in three men in this audience has been murdered.." Heather Jordan Ross
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The National Institute for Metrology (INM) has the mission to assure the traceability, and accordingly, the trust in the measurements performed in the Republic of Moldova at regional and international level.
For this purpose, with the support of the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the assistance of the Competitiveness Enhancement Project of the World Bank, the INM laboratories were equipped with modern measurement equipments and the metrology experts benefited of specialized trainings and know-how transfer from internationally recognized metrology institutes.
At present, INM has a complex structure of 7 laboratories that constitute the basic capacity of the institute, along with other departments necessary for the organization and implementation of research programs, of maintenance and development of the National Measurement Standards Database.
INM is fully aware of the importance of its mission and all forces and capacities shall be focused towards its achievement.
Acting in order of achieving its mission, the INM team realizes a wide range of activities using modern equipment, implementing new technologies, applying measurement and research technologies in a continuous education process.
Within COOMET, a regional organization recognized internationally, INM performs measurements and shares experience with the colleagues from Germany, Romania, Slovakia Russia, Georgia, the Ukraine and other states. The communication with the metrology colleagues from other countries is an efficient way of improving the knowledge.
By implementing the newest measurement techniques at national level, INM follows the objective of assuring the consumers' right to pay strictly for the used products, of assuring the quality and safety of food products, the safety of pharmaceutical products etc.
At the moment, there are no manufacturing processes that would not imply measurements. In the case of food products, different types of measurements assure the exact dose of the ingredients, and in the case of packed products, the measurement instruments assure the exact quantity written on the package. In the area of construction products there are other types of measurements that assure the exact dose of the concrete ingredients, whose quality determine directly the reliability of the buildings. The same thing may be observed in the case of drug production, in the machine-building industry, oil industry or any other manufacture.
The evolution of technologies is impossible without exact measurements, and that is why a more technologically advances product requires higher accuracy of measurements. INM is fully aware of the importance of its activities, which are being constantly developed and extended. INM has the purpose of providing to the business the owned knowledge, experience and technical capacities. INM shall do its best to enhance the communication with the economic operators and shall enlarge the range of its activities in order to bring its contribution to the national economy development.


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LNG Canada: the northern LNG route to Asia
Posted by Lucien Joppen
During the third quarter of 2018, the single largest private sector investment project in Canadian history was given the green light. LNG Canada will build a 40 billion US dollar LNG export terminal in British Columbia, designated to serve the Asian market.
^ A bird's eye view of the LNG Canada terminal
By Lucien Joppen, Valve World
The small municipality of Kitimat (approximately 8,000 citizens) has been selected out of 500+ candidates for the LNG export terminal. In terms of location, Kitimat is ideally situated. It is connected to the Pacific Ocean via the Douglas Channel (90 kilometers). Kitimat also has a logistic infrastructure in place as the aluminum company Alcan has been active in Kitimat for decades. As a result, the Douglas Channel is a busy shipping lane. An added benefit of Alcan's presence is the development of hydroelectric facilities that are designed to provide Alcan with cheap and clean energy to support its power intensive processes. These facilities are also used for the LNG Terminal, thus reducing its CO2 footprint considerably, LNG Canada claims.
In October, LNG Canada - a joint venture between Shell, Petronas, PetroChina, Mitsubishi Corporation and KOGAS - finally tied the knot and signed a FID for the multibillion project. Due to fluctuating gas prices, the joint venture took several years to reach the aforementioned Final Investment Decision. The LNG Canada export terminal will feature two LNG trains that are able to process 14 million tonnes per annum. The joint venture partners are responsible for the transport of natural gas to the terminal located
in the small village in North-western British Columbia (see box Kitimat).
The natural gas supply for the terminal will be transported from the Montney-region in the North-eastern part of British Columbia via a 670 kilometre pipeline (see box Coastal GasLink).
Montney is a major shale gas and shale oil resource according to a comprehensive joint study in 2013 by the National Energy Board, British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission and the Alberta Energy Regulator. This study found that the potential resources contained within the formation were 12.7 trillion cubic meters of marketable natural gas, 14,521 million barrels of marketable natural gas liquids and 1,125 million barrels of oil. This estimate makes it one of the largest known gas resources in the world.
Markets out west
Most of the LNG to be produced in Kitimat will be transported to the northern region of Asia. As the IEA has predicted, natural gas demand will grow in China for the next decades.
Chinese gas demand is forecasted to grow by 60% between 2017 and 2023, underpinned by policies aimed at reducing local air pollution by switching from coal to gas. In the next five years, China alone accounts for 37% of the growth in global demand and will become the largest natural gas importer by 2019, overtaking Japan. The IEA also forecasts strong growth in gas use in other parts of Asia, including in South and Southeast Asia, driven by strong economic growth and efforts to improve air quality.
Justin Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister: "It's a vote of confidence in
a country that recognizes the need to develop our energy in a way
that takes the environment into account and that works in
meaningful partnership with indigenous communities."
Vote of confidence
Returning to the LNG Terminal in Kitimat, government officials and the private sector have stated that the project is an example of balanced and sustainable economic development.
"It is a vote of confidence in a country that recognizes the need to develop our energy in a way that takes the environment into account and that works in meaningful partnership with indigenous communities," Canada's PM Justin Trudeau stated.
Although the project revolves around the exploitation of fossil resources, the joint ventures have taken measures to reduce CO2 emissions in the liquefaction process by using renewable energy as mentioned earlier in this article. LNG Canada also stressed that the exported LNG will be used to displace more 'carbon intensive' energy sources, meaning coal, in order to reduce the impact on climate and air quality.
"LNG Canada is an attractive investment opportunity in a strong joint venture, with companies that have deep LNG industry experience. In the last two years, LNG Canada has improved its competitiveness, reduced execution uncertainty and gained significant stakeholder support."
Maarten Wetselaar, Integrated Gas and New Energies Director, Royal Dutch Shell.
"PetroChina strives to build a diversified oil and gas portfolio. The project's competitiveness, low carbon emissions and relatively short shipping distance to China mean LNG Canada can help supply the increasing demand for gas in China."
Mr. Wei Gao, CFO of the China National Oil and Gas Exploration and Development (CNODC).
"By this project, Mitsubishi Corporation will diversify its LNG supply portfolio, which contributes to enabling more stable energy supply to Asian customers."
Hidenori Takaoka, Group CEO, Energy Business Group, Mitsubishi Corporation.
Start in 2019
Before the FID, in April of 2018, LNG Canada already selected the joint venture between JGC Corporation (JGC) and Fluor Corporation (Fluor) as its EPC Contractor. According to LNG Canada, this decision was based on the consortium's value proposition, which includes health, safety, First Nations and stakeholder management, financial strength, technical design, execution plans, contract price and schedule.
Fluor has nearly 70 years of project experience in Canada, with over 7,500 construction personnel working on Canadian projects in 2017, while JGC has experience in construction of more than 48 LNG trains globally.
The project will start in the first quarter of 2019 and will take approximately six years. The first LNG is expected to be shipped from Kitimat halfway through the next decade.
The pipeline from the Montney Basin to the terminal in Kitimat
Coastal GasLink
The USD 4.7 billion pipeline that will transport natural gas to the Canadian coast will be the responsibility of TransCanada. The company operates one of North America's largest natural gas pipeline networks (91,500 kilometers) and delivers 25% of the natural gas consumed in North America every day.
The pipeline will be buried at a depth of about a metre, and the project will include the construction of some above ground facilities, such as meter and compressor stations. It is expected that the pipeline will require one compressor station at the start of operations. As many as seven stations could be added along the corridor in the future, depending on the volume of natural gas needing to be shipped.


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/ German History: Biographies
/ Sigismund
/ Sigismund: German King and Holy Roman Emperor
Sigismund: German King and Holy Roman Emperor
After the death of the German king and uncrowned Holy Roman Emperor Rupert in 1410, both Sigismund and his cousin, Jobst of Moravia, claimed victory in the imperial elections. Since Sigismund's half-brother Wenceslaus, who had been deposed from the German throne in 1400, had never waived his title, there were, for a time, three rulers of Germany. The death of Jobst (1411) and the withdrawal of Wenceslaus left Sigismund sole king and Holy Roman emperor-elect.
One of Sigismund's first tasks was to end the Great Schism in the church. He persuaded John XXIII (see Cossa, Baldassare), the strongest of the three schismatic popes, to summon a council at Konstanz (or Constance, see Constance, Council of). After three years of deliberation by the council, the schism was ended (1417). John Huss, the Czech religious reformer, had attended the council with Sigismund's guarantee of safe conduct, but, nevertheless, the council began heresy proceedings against him and condemned him to death. Sigismund signed his death sentence.
The burning of Huss hastened the Reformation in Bohemia and earned Sigismund the lasting hatred of the Czechs. When Sigismund succeeded to the Bohemian throne on his brother Wenceslaus's death (1419), he was bitterly opposed. To secure an army against the rebellious Bohemians, Sigismund convinced Pope Martin V to proclaim (Mar., 1420) a crusade against the Hussites. He had himself crowned king of Bohemia at Prague but was defeated by the Hussites under John Zizka and withdrew. In 1421 a Czech assembly declared him deposed, and shortly afterward the Hussites began their incursions into Germany (see Hussite Wars). Renewed attacks by the Turks occupied Sigismund in Hungary, while in Germany and Bohemia the Hussites continued to be victorious, defeating a new crusade (1431) against them.
Negotiations to heal the breach in the church were held at the Council of Basel (see Basel, Council of) and resulted in compromise with the drafting of the Compactata. The religious agreement opened the way to Sigismund's acceptance as king by the Bohemians in 1436. Shortly afterward, Sigismund died.
Accession to the Hungarian Throne
German King and Holy Roman Emperor
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Laffey Goes For Second Straight Solid Start Against Rangers Tonight
By AncientMariner Jul 5, 2010, 7:04pm CDT
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(Sports Network) - The Texas Rangers hope to get back on track this evening when they continue their 10-game homestand against the Cleveland Indians at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.
The Rangers began the stand as one of the hottest teams in baseball, but dropped two of three over the weekend to an even hotter team, the Chicago White Sox, culminating with a 5-3 setback on Sunday.
Scott Feldman (5-8) took the loss after allowing five runs -- four earned -- on eight hits over six frames. He walked one and struck out one for the Rangers, who have lost three of four to start July after closing June with wins in 16 of their final 18 games.
"I thought for the most part [Feldman] kept the ball down, it just didn't work out," Rangers manager Ron Washington said.
Hoping to get the Rangers back in the win column will be 28-year-old righty Omar Beltre, who will be making the second start of his big league career. Beltre did not get a decision on Wednesday against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, as he allowed three runs and five hits and walked four in four innings of a 6-4 win.
Beltre, of course, had been banned from entering the United States for five years after visa problems.
Cleveland, meanwhile, will give the ball to lefty Aaron Laffey, who picked up his first win of the year in his last trip to the hill. Laffey defeated the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday, holding them to a run and five hits in six innings, upping his mark to 1-2 to go along with a 5.55 ERA.
Laffey is 1-1 lifetime against the Rangers with an 8.64 ERA in four games, three of which have been starts.
The Indians enter tonight's opener after dropping two of three to the Oakland Athletics over the weekend, including a 3-1 setback in Sunday's rubber match at Progressive Field.
Austin Kearns accounted for the lone run with an RBI single for the Indians, who had won six of seven entering the contest. Jhonny Peralta and Trevor Crowe each had a pair of hits in defeat.
Fausto Carmona (7-7) was the hard-luck loser for yielding seven hits and three runs over seven frames.
Texas took two of three from the Indians earlier in the year and has won 10 of the 12 meetings since the start of last season
Indians Hit The Road In Style, Rout Rangers 9-3
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Before I forget AGAIN (I meant to do this yesterday), here are a few Mother's Day gift ideas and projects. Just in case you are a bad offspring (like me) and have yet to get this done.
I'm not that bad - I'm waiting to shop until tomorrow when I'll take the nieces to do theirs also. Maybe not the best plan, but it is a plan. I just hope I get done in time to go see Wolverine with friends.
Alright, now get to it!!


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The beginning of Elmar's end
Conservative party doesn't want veteran MEP to return to Brussels.
In addition to his duties as an MEP, Brok worked for years as a lobbyist and adviser to Bertelsmann | European Parliament
By Matthew Karnitschnig
January 8, 2019 10:19 pm CET
BERLIN — Europe isn't going to have Elmar Brok to kick around anymore.
That's if conservative party mandarins in the veteran MEP's home region of North Rhine-Westphalia get their way.
In a surprise move, Christian Democratic Union officials voted not to grant Brok, who has been a member of the European Parliament since 1980, a coveted spot on the party's candidate list for the European election.
Though a final decision won't come until state delegates vote on the list on January 26, party insiders say it could prove difficult for Brok to rally enough delegates to his cause. He said Tuesday that he has yet to decide whether to mount a challenge.
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Either way, Monday's vote by the party executive counts as nothing less than a slap in the face for Parliament's longest-serving member, a man who has become the face of the EU for many Germans. Brok's shaggy blonde hair, walrus mustache and silk pocket squares are fixtures on German public television discussions about Europe. He's also been a lively participant on Europe's conference circuit, explaining the positions of the Continent's hegemon to the rest of the EU.
Brok and other MEPs at a radio studio in Strasbourg in September 1990 | European Parliament
That Brok's enemies should come from his own house has as much to do with the changing dynamics in the CDU as with the man himself. A longtime ally of Angela Merkel, Brok owes much of his influence to his close association with the chancellor and a widely held perception outside Germany — true or not — that he has her ear.
Brok's defeat Monday night appears driven in part by score-settling within the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's richest and most populous region. State premier Armin Laschet pushed hard, some say too hard, for Brok, a strategy that ultimately backfired.
Even so, the fact that challenging Brok was even an option suggests that with the Merkel era slowly drawing to a close, many in the party want to start cleaning house to make room for a new generation. Stefan Berger, the party's choice for the spot that Brok coveted, is 49. Brok is 72 and will be nearly 80 by the end of Parliament's next term.
A contemporary of Wolfgang Schäuble and Helmut Kohl, Brok cut his teeth in the old West German CDU. Unlike most of his colleagues, however, Europe wasn't a stepping stone to higher office back home, but an end unto itself.
A 1995 debate on the TV set of the Parliament in Strasbourg | European Parliament
And a lucrative one at that. In addition to his duties as an MEP, Brok worked for years as a lobbyist and adviser to Bertelsmann, the media giant behind RTL and Random House. Though Brok's association with Bertelsmann, which is based in his home constituency of Gütersloh, raised plenty of eyebrows, he maintained his dual roles until he reached retirement age.
Legend has it that Kohl dissuaded Brok from relinquishing his MEP position in exchange for a career at Bertelsmann. Whatever the case, neither Kohl nor Merkel took issue with his dual roles.
Despite being referred to as "Mr. Bertelsmann" by fellow MEPs behind his back, Brok's stature only grew over the years. He served as chairman of Parliament's foreign affairs committee for 13 years in total and also played an influential role on the committee for constitutional affairs, a central forum for the debate on Europe's future.
As Parliament gradually evolved from a political backwater into a more formidable force, Brok became the most important German in Brussels. He used that influence both to help friends, most notably his Bertelsmann protégé Martin Selmayr, now the Commission's top civil servant, and to do Merkel's bidding in the EU.
That loyalty paid off. In 2004, Merkel elevated him to the CDU's executive committee, giving him a voice on all key party decisions.
Brok, next to the Dalai Lama in 2016 | European Parliament
In recent years, Brok has drawn attention for his outspoken position on Russia's aggression against Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. He has been one of the strongest and most consistent advocates for maintaining sanctions against Moscow.
As with his old friend Jean-Claude Juncker, Brok's long-standing commitment to Europe evokes admiration across the political spectrum, despite lingering questions about his ethics. In the wake of Monday's vote, even his political opponents are having difficulty imagining Parliament without him.
"Don't write Brok off!" Green MEP Reinhard Bütikofer wrote on Twitter. "Someone who understands the U.S. and especially Washington as well as he does is especially valuable to the EU at the moment."
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Brok's party allies, meanwhile, appear ready to continue the fight.
"Elmar Brok is one of the most distinguished German politicians in Europe," Laschet said on Tuesday. "We're going to need minds like his in the difficult times that lie ahead to deal with issues like Brexit and the formation of a new EU Commission."
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Q: Find and extract values in a column that are in a 6' radius of a value of the same column Ok guys, I'm new to VBA and first time posting on here. Here's my situation, I have a list of x, y, z coordinates that represent survey points. In the list each set of coordinates has an assigned feature code; there's only two different ones, (200=ground points) & (311=pole base points). I basically need to find the pole base coordinates and then find all the ground points that are in a 6 ft. radius of the pole base and then put that on a new sheet where I can do further calculations, such as determine the difference in the z values between the pole base point and the ground points.  See screen shot below for how the survey data looks once imported to excel.
I wrote one part of the code to find the pole number and coordinates by looking for the pole feature code "311" and paste it on a new sheet, but I can't seem to figure out how to write the code to find the ground points within the 6 ft radius of the pole. I know I can use the distance formula "=sqrt((a2-a1)^2+(b2-b1)^2)" just not sure how to code it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here's the first part of my code:
Sub embed_slope()
'
'
Dim P As Integer
Dim px As Long
Dim py As Long
Dim pz As Long
Dim gx As Long
Dim gy As Long
Dim gz As Long
P = 311
    For Row1 = 2 To 50
        For Row = 2 To 50
            Cells(Row, 3).Select                'search for pole feature code
            If Selection.Value = "" Then Exit For
            If Selection.Value = "311" Then
                ActiveCell.Offset(0, 8).Select      'copy pole number
                Selection.Copy
                Sheets("Data").Select
                Cells(Row1, 1).Select
                ActiveSheet.Paste                   'paste pole number on data sheet
                Sheets("Survey Input").Select
                Application.CutCopyMode = False
                ActiveCell.Offset(0, -7).Select     'copy coorinates
                Range(ActiveCell, ActiveCell.Offset(0, 2)).Copy
                Sheets("Data").Select
                Cells(Row1, 2).Select
                ActiveSheet.Paste
                Sheets("Survey Input").Select
                Application.CutCopyMode = False
            End If
        Next Row
    Next Row1
End Sub

A: I'm not sure what you need to do, but after analyzing your code, I'm guessing that you want someting like this code below. The procedure is looking for pole base points and copying their data to the Data sheet, and then searching all ground points which are in 6 ft. distance from every pole base point and also copying their data to the Data sheet. I used the function fnDistance to calculate the distance between the points.
Sub prcEmbedSlope()

    Dim wbWorkbook As Workbook
    Dim intBaseRow, intGroundRow As Integer
    Dim intTargetRow As Integer
    Dim dblXBase, dblYBase As Double
    Dim dblXGround, dblYGround As Double
    Dim dblDistance As Double

    Set wbWorkbook = Application.ThisWorkbook
    intTargetRow = 1

    'First loop (looking for pole base points)
    For intBaseRow = 2 To 15
        If wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intBaseRow, 3).Value = 311 Then
            dblXBase = wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intBaseRow, 4).Value
            dblYBase = wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intBaseRow, 5).Value
            'Copy pole base points data to the 2nd sheet
            wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Data").Cells(intTargetRow, 1).Value = wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intBaseRow, 1).Value
            wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Data").Cells(intTargetRow, 3).Value = wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intBaseRow, 3).Value
            wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Data").Cells(intTargetRow, 4).Value = wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intBaseRow, 4).Value
            wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Data").Cells(intTargetRow, 5).Value = wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intBaseRow, 5).Value
            wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Data").Cells(intTargetRow, 6).Value = wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intBaseRow, 6).Value
            intTargetRow = intTargetRow + 1
            'Second loop (looking for ground points within 6 ft. distance)
            For intGroundRow = 2 To 15
                If wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intGroundRow, 3).Value = 200 Then
                    dblXGround = wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intGroundRow, 4).Value
                    dblYGround = wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intGroundRow, 5).Value
                    dblDistance = fnDistance(dblXGround, dblYGround, dblXBase, dblYBase)
                    If dblDistance < 6 Then
                        'Copy ground points data to the 2nd sheet
                        wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Data").Cells(intTargetRow, 1).Value = wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intGroundRow, 1).Value
                        wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Data").Cells(intTargetRow, 3).Value = wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intGroundRow, 3).Value
                        wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Data").Cells(intTargetRow, 4).Value = wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intGroundRow, 4).Value
                        wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Data").Cells(intTargetRow, 5).Value = wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intGroundRow, 5).Value
                        wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Data").Cells(intTargetRow, 6).Value = wbWorkbook.Worksheets("Survey Input").Cells(intGroundRow, 6).Value
                        intTargetRow = intTargetRow + 1
                    End If
                End If
            Next intGroundRow
        End If
    Next intBaseRow

End Sub

Function fnDistance(ByVal dblXG As Double, ByVal dblYG As Double, _
                    ByVal dblXB As Double, ByVal dblYB As Double) As Double

fnDistance = Sqr((dblXG - dblXB) ^ 2 + (dblYG - dblYB) ^ 2)

End Function


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YSR er en forkortelse for Dr.Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy District (Cuddapah) tidligere Kadapa (telugu: కడప జిల్లా, ) er et distrikt i den indiske delstat Andhra Pradesh. Distriktets hovedstad er Kadapa.

Den 8. juli 2010 omdøbt regeringen i Andhra Pradesh. Kadapa distriktet til YSR distrikt til ære for Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy (1949-2009), der havde været guvernør i delstaten fra 2004-2009 og kom fra distriktet.

Demografi
Ved folketællingen i 2011 var der  indbyggere i distriktet, mod  i 2001. Den urbane befolkningen udgør  af befolkningen.

Børn i alderen 0 til 6 år udgjorde  i 2011 mod  i 2001. Antallet af piger i den alder per tusinde drenge er 919 i 2011 mot 951 i 2001.

Inndelinger

Mandaler
I Andhra Pradesh er mandal det tredje administrative niveau, under staten og distriktene. YSR distrikt har 50 mandaler

 Chakrayapet
 Atlur
 Chapadu
 Chennur
 B Matham
 Duvvur
 Chinnamandem
 B.Kodur
 Jammalamadugu
 Chinthakomma Dinne
 Badvel
 Kondapuram
 Galiveedu
 Chitvel
 Lingala
 Kamalapuram
 Gopavaram
 Muddanur
 Khajipet
 Kalasapadu
 Mydukur
 Lakkireddipalle
 Kodur
 Mylavaram
 Pendlimarri
 Nandalur
 Peddamudium
 Ramapuram
 Obulavaripalle
 Proddatur
 Rayachoti
 Penagalur
 Pulivendula
 Sambepalle
 Porumamilla
 Rajupalem
 T Sundupalle
 Pullampeta
 Simhadripuram
 Vallur
 Rajampet
 Thondur
 Veeraballi
 Sidhout
 Vempalle
 Veerapunayunipalle
 Sri Avadhuth Kasinayana
 Vemula
 Yerraguntla
 Vontimitta

Referencer

Distrikter i Andhra Pradesh


Thanks for that Cypheath, I just feel that these Companies are being ignored by bondholder depositors in the quest for a full refund and are maintaining a low profile, to the extent that they are not telling us anything that's not already in the papers. My IFA says the Companies offered a "menu" of investments and that included KSFIoM right up to when the trouble developed. I think we need to ask them to confirm or deny this. Probably wouldn't do this unless some sort of class action was likely. Re costs, I'm not an expert but if people who miss flights and lose out on holidays can get class actions to succeed (recent news item on TV, probably on Google somewhere), then it looks like the lawyers are offering a "no win no fee" deal somewhere. I intend to follow up with the Law Company that got the holidaymakers' cash refunds and check the terms of business they offer. I'll post anything I find for DAG consideration, although it may be we need to do it without DAG, who seem to be bickering more than ever!


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The newest batch of 2020 Chevrolet Corvettes come with a couple of treats etched into the windshield | Chevrolet photo
Owners of mid-engine, 2020 model Chevrolet Corvette, whose cars' VINs are 11000 or higher, have something that earlier owners didn't get.
According to the National Corvette Museum, those 11000+ cars include what have become known in the auto industry as "Easter eggs" — delightful once you find them — at the bottom of their windshields.
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On the driver's side, you'll find the words "Team Corvette" and the Next-Generation Corvette crossed-flags emblem. And on the passenger's side, there's a silhouette of Zora Arkus-Duntov, the legendary sports car guru who turned the fiberglass-bodied roadster into a performance icon.
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Several of the early cars were delivered across the road from the Bowling Green, Kentucky, assembly plant to the museum for its customer delivery program.
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The team look back on their favourite tech moments of the year
by: IT Pro
We're nearing the end of 2015 and the tech industry is having a little rest while it prepares for the busy 12 months 2016 is shaping up to be. Now's as good a time as any to take stock and look back on some of our favourite moments from the year gone by in tech.
Read on to see what the highlights of 2015 in tech were for the IT Pro team...
"My favourite tech this year on a work level is Slack it has been brilliant. It's enabled me to feel closer to my team and other departments as well as providing a useful overview of what everyone is up to.
"On a personal level I've enjoyed playing the CBeebies Playtime app with my daughter a wonderfully colourful and intuitive child (parent)-friendly app that has assisted her technical development for sure."
Paul Franklin, publisher
"It's not so much a tech highlight as something that just really stands out when I look back on the year gone by, but Google's Alphabet re-brand is up there. Not least because it was a complete shock to most of the industry and confused us completely!
"It will be interesting to watch what Alphabet does in 2016 in terms of existing companies under its umbrella and any new businesses it may well acquire."
Maggie Holland, group editor
"The government's decision to allow manufacturers to test driverless cars back in February was a huge step towards embracing a science fiction future here in the UK. There's a long road to travel before self-driving vehicles become ubiquitous, but cutting out the possibility of human error will mean safer journeys for everyone, and greener ones too, with cars better able to regulate their speeds and fuel consumption.
"Recent news that Google has held several meetings with the government about the technology shows the UK is trying to be at the forefront of this particular innovation."
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"As someone who enjoys writing about business, these have been two very interesting narratives to follow; on the one hand, HPE has been extolling the virtues of being a focused company, while Dell talks about being able to offer customers all their solutions in one place. They disagree with each other vehemently, but it's quite possible they are both right - that their customers are asking for this particular strategy. I will be very interested to see how this pans out across 2016 and 2017 for both companies, though."
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"Consumer cloud really came into its own this year, too, with the continued growth of services like Netflix and Spotify cementing the future of streaming. Both companies have conclusively proved this year that Media-as-a-Service is a winner for consumers."
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"A Very Profound Trespass of the American Consensus."
October 16, 2010 at 9:15 pm (By Amba)
That is so beautifully put.
Peter Hoh said,
Balderdash.
Americans aren't fed up with spending. They want spending, but only on the stuff they like, which is pretty much all of it.
Tell me more about the "radical policies" of the Obama administration. I haven't noticed any radical policies.
A backlash against a perceived overreach on health care is also a silly claim. Democrats have been advocating for something like a single-payer health care system for a long time. Carter didn't try. The Clinton attempt failed. This time, instead of trying for single-payer, they lower their sights and come out with a plan that is similar to what the GOP proposed as a counter to the Clinton plan.
Between the Clinton plan and the Obama plan there was what? A steep rise in health care insurance rates, a little talk about tort reform, and a little talk about health savings accounts. Oh yeah, and a 500 billion sop to seniors and the pharmaceutical industry.
We have a system in which less than a quarter of House seats are actually competitive. The gains Dems made in 2006 and 2008 were in these toss-up seats. They are easy for the GOP to pick off in a year when there's voter dissatisfaction, just as they were easy for the Dems to pick off in 2006 and 2008.
The leadership in the House typically sits in safe seats, so they remain, like barnacles on the ship of state. The voters can whipsaw control of the House between the two parties, but they can't get really change it.
The Senate is not likely to change hands, even with this supposed groundswell against the Democrats. Yes, some Democrats will lose their Senate seats, but not enough to swing the Senate. Be sure to thank Christine O'Donnell and the Tea Party, should there be a 50-50 split.
amba12 said,
I don't know if "radical" is the right word for hugely growing the government — even further — but that's what is objected to. It's taking up more and more of the functions of life (e.g. job creation) into government, which has the power to coerce and penalize, which has no competitor to make it efficient, and which has been demonstrated in Europe to bankrupt economies.
Agreed. I'm so looking forward to the change from Pelosi's facelift to Boehner's fake tan.
In the US, government has grown in size and scope since its inception. Growing government is as much an American tradition as apple pie.
As for government power, what's the alternative? You really want a weak federal government? It's not like the federal government just acquired the power to coerce and penalize. Remember the Whiskey Rebellion? Had they the internet, those guys in western Pennsylvania would have written fiery blog posts about President Washington, the usurper of freedom, bent on expanding government and threatening to destroy their livelihood.
Rod said,
I think the difference in the last two election cycles is fear. People understand the economy is broken. They intuitively understand the way to fix it is to balance the budget. They get a lot of talk about cutting taxes from one party and unlimited spending from the other. Neither party is willing to trim government because every program has its constituency.
The Republicans will probably win big, but it will not be a ringing endorsement of them. People remember that the economy fell apart on their watch. However, there is no sense that the Democrats have an answer. The mood of the public isn't anger so much as frustration. They are sick of both parties, and they are grasping at straws to find an answer.
It is the kind of time that gives rise to demagogues.
Peter, that sounds like a justification for endlessly growing government. (What comparison is tickling the edges of my mind? What in nature always gets bigger and bigger?) One would have to be a nut to want to abolish the federal government, but Democrats tend to argue as if any complaint or question about its size was tantamount to wanting to abolish it. That's disingenuous arguing, like saying any opposition to President Obama is racism — it's silencing rather than countering the argument.
The size of the federal government has burgeoned under both parties, but only Democrats have an ideological enthusiasm for that development. A majority of Americans across a pretty broad ideological spectrum had a gut feeling that the 2300-page health care bill and the new layers of bureaucratic labyrinth it creates far exceeded the optimal size and efficiency of government, and that it was passed without the consent of the governed. We can't just say "We are helpless to stop the growth of government, it is inevitable, a law of nature."
But, Peter, BTW, it's certainly true that people like spending that benefits them. I have a friend in NJ who's been unemployed for 2 years and is still job hunting. Her daughter-in-law's a teacher, her husband drives a bus part-time and has been denied full-time status and bennies for budget reasons. They are really strapped. She's a Christian conservative (if it weren't for her faith she'd be completely bonkers) and she compares Gov Christie to Obama and hates him nearly as much. She says they both just high-handedly do what they please.
wj said,
I think I might say that this election is not about anger, or fear (another analysis I have come a cross several times). Rather, I would say that it ispessimism.
The big issue, not the only big issue, but the one that overwhelms all the others, is the economy. It's not like this is the first time the economy has tanked. Granted, the previous couple of decades featured much milder economic cycles, and those are all that a fair number of people can remember. But a lot of the rest of us have been thru bigger swings, and even those who have not may at least have read something of the Great Depression (even if they are not familiar with the "panics" which afflicted the last half fo the 19th century).
But what is different, from what I can see, is the state of mind of the population. The normal American mindset, for the first couple of centuries of the nation's eistance, was optimism. Things might get bad, but the belief of most people was that they could and would get better. They would bet better again when things were bad. and they would get better over the long term as well. "Progress" was the expectation.
But that level of optimism does not seem to be present at anywhere near the same level today. There are groups that maintain it (especially immigrant groups, interestingly enough). But overall, people seem to think that the future has little or no prospect of being better than the past. The "past" that they view as better may have little relation to how that time actually was, but what matters is that they think it was better. In short, they are pessimistic about the future. And that, I would say, isthe critical part of the "new concensus".
There are a couple of results from this:
— There is a strong desire to turn away from anything (or anyone) who is preceived to have changed things from the way they were in that happy past.
— There is a huge potential opening for any politician who can articulate a theory about what would ahve to happen to get back to that happy past.
— There is little willingness to listen to anyone who tries to inject a little reality and dares to say "We've been living in a dream world. The party's over, and now we have to deal with the hangover and pay the bills." (Sorry for the mixed metaphors.)
All of which leads to an anti-incumbant swing (which mostly impacts Democrats, because they are the ones who won the litmited number of swing seats in the past couple of elections). It also leads to a rise in groups like the Tea Party, which haven't articulated much on what they would actually do, but are real clear on what they are against: government spending on any program that they don't personally benefit from. (But just try asking any Tea Partier what specific parts of Social Security, Medicare, and defense they would, and see if you can get an answer that even recognizes that major cuts in those are necessary if government is to really shrink and the budget balance.)
I don't believe that I suggested that you wanted to abolish government.
Your notion that "only Democrats have an ideological enthusiasm" for government growth doesn't match up with the track record of the past dozen years. Am I to believe that when the GOP held all the marbles in D.C., they grew government against their will? Or am I to believe that their expansion of government is somehow more acceptable, because they demagogue against it when the Democrats are in power?
Over the past 25 years, what spending has been cut? What spending programs have been substantially reformed? Welfare reform — under Clinton.
Ethanol has been shown to be a failed experiment, but the subsidies still flow. Doesn't matter which party is in control, this boondoggle benefits those who fill the campaign coffers, and so it continues.
Defense spending has ceased to be about meeting military needs. It's morphed into a jobs/stimulus program. The industry has figured out how to spread the money over enough congressional districts to keep them in business forever.
As for consent of the governed, what do you want? A referendum on each and every bill? Or only bills above a certain scope? We have a representative system. It works best when there's transparency and accountability, and when rules are followed. Yes, a 2,300 page bill is not very transparent. But the GOP leadership doesn't get points for transparency and following the rules. Consider how far they went to pass their major health bill, Medicare, Part D.
Peter, I'm not defending the Republicans. But you are defending the Democrats. As far as I'm concerned they're both unforgivable (but Bill Clinton is looking better and better, isn't he? Heh). It's a sad state of affairs when all we can do is slap one cheek in one election and the other in the next election, so that neither form of screwing up gets as far as it otherwise might.
One thing that is rarely mentioned is that as population grows, the systems that worked well enough to manage life with half as many people no longer work. Changes in technology and the evolution of finance may not be able to keep pace with the wavefront where a quantitative change becomes qualitative. How are so many people going to be supported? People are expensive and so business wants as little as possible to do with them — part-time work, contract labor, outsourcing, automation. Having government take care of them is a stopgap solution, because government is so unwieldy and printing money for social welfare is economically unsustainable. There may not be a solution. Ron? Tom Strong? You there?
I don't think that the problem is that we can no longer cope with population growth. Rather, at least as far as government finances are concerned, it is closer to accurate to say that the problem is that the population stopped growing so fast. (Note that this is not to say that there are not lots of other problems associated with population growth.)
The deficit problem for the Federal government (and for a lot of state governments) is that there are major programs which were designed for one demographic distribution, that are not viable with the one we now have. Suppose our generation had been full of 4 (or at least 3) child families, as our parent's generation was, rather than the 1-2 children per family that actually happened. The bulge in the population that is the Baby Boomer generation would not be rolling like a tsunami into the age bracket where the bulk of government outlays occur. If we still had a substantially growing working population, giving us a half dozen people working for each retiree still, Social Security and Medicare would be much smaller issues in the overall budget. Probably still a problem, but nowhere near as big a one.
But instead, we are looking at 2-3 workers per retiree. And that just isn't enough money coming in (absent enormous tax increases) to support the number of people who are "entitled" to benefits on the scale currently provided. Put another way, there were enough of us to support our parents on that scale. But there are not enough of our children and grandchildren to support us the same way. And an awful lot of us cheerfully ignored the obvious, and didn't bother to save enough to support ourselves.
Defending the Democrats? Only against the charge that they are significantly worse than the Republicans. Put me in a room full of Dem apologists, and I'd change my tune.
I agree that the two party system is too resistant to change. Moving from one to the other, when we ought to reject both, doesn't do enough.
There's nothing in the constitution about two parties.
wj — Social Security has never made sense to me. It's like a pyramid scheme you can never stop, because the people who paid in expect to get theirs back.
Peter — you'd think two parties WERE in the Constitution. Why are we so stuck with them? Sheer inertia?
When I was passing out John Anderson campaign literature in 1980, an old guy yelled at me. I can't remember his exact words, but he was pretty upset. He said something to the effect that running as an independent was un-American.
Maxwell James said,
Bill Clinton is looking better and better, isn't he? Heh
Bill Clinton was extremely fortunate – he became president right before the crest of a massive increase in the use and effectiveness of computing technology, which was a great and huge boost to the economy at the time. Other than that, what actually separates his governance approach from Obama's (other than Obama was lucky enough to get HCR passed and Clinton was not?)
Welfare reform.
But I agree that Clinton was lucky.
Passed in 1996, two years after the last Republican tidal wave.
But proposed by Clinton. i.e. it was actually something a Democrat and some Republicans managed to agree on.
I could support Mitch Daniels. Althouse has made some noise about him, too. Today, Andrew Sullivan posted this, which suggests that Daniels will have a hard time persuading the GOP to listen to him, let alone nominate him.
the real point is that all this should be debatable, if conservatism is going to regenerate as a serious governing philosophy, rather than as a formula for media success.
There you go breaking my heart again — pointing out someone I too could support who probably doesn't have a chance, who won't pander to unrealists and promise everything to everybody, won't pretend to a pie-in-the-sky ideological purity impossible in the real world.
Sure. And assuming the GOP retakes the House, I have no doubt Obama will propose an education reform bill. Thus far, Obama has governed as if Clinton were his favorite uncle, and I fully expect that trend to continue. And I think that remains true whether or not you admire or despise Bill Clinton.
Here's a somewhat more lengthy argument for my position.
Maxwell, that's a brutal review. And it's not in the New Republic or some other liberal rag. It's in the Weekly Standard.
My favorite line: "Readers will not be shocked that D'Souza's paradigm easily passes D'Souza's test. . . ."
Oh, Maxwell. (Comment 24) That's the most delicious fisking I've read in a long time. I feel warm all over.
Andrew Sullivan highlights a post from a Tea Party supporter who nonetheless is willing to offer some pointed criticism.
Christian Hartsock writes:
A convenient Tea Party mantra has been the presumptuous, and seemingly amnesiac notion that President Obama "betrayed the American people," that "We the People have spoken and never wanted Obama's policies."
Obama made his agenda clear during his campaign: He promised to socialize health care, to push for cap and trade, to implement tax policies that would "spread the wealth around," he equated redistribution of wealth with "neighborliness," supported the 2008 Wall Street bailouts, demonstrated his faith in Keynesian economics, his class warfare mentality, his distrust for the free market…
We the People were given these promises and facts, and We the People elected Barack Obama president by a 7 percent margin. Period. In fact, many of the promises the left held Obama to were broken, including his promise to preserve bans on offshore drilling, to close Guantanamo, to pass an immigration bill in the first year, and to pass the Freedom of Choice act, among other things. Thus the President has even fallen shy of satisfying his most liberal supporters.
To trumpet this narrative makes conservatives seem like sore losers in denial, and to threaten a "second revolution" with upside-down flags as a reaction to losing a fair election speaks more about a general bitterness towards the electoral process itself which is inconsistent with our supposedly superlative support for the constitution.


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• Population over 65 will double by 2030 in California.
• Livable communities enhance mobility for all.
Every morning Paul Zykofsky walks to work.
From his condo in the Midtown neighborhood of Sacramento, he strolls eight blocks under a leafy canopy of trees to his downtown job, passing homes, apartment buildings, restaurants, shops and offices.
Midtown was built in the late 19th century—before the automobile became king. With its lively mix of retail and housing, a population diverse in age and income, pedestrian-friendly streets, parks and easy access to light rail and bus lines, the once rundown Midtown is now one of Sacramento's trendiest neighborhoods.
It also fits the AARP model of a livable community. In a state with 36 million people, livability becomes critical—especially as people age. AARP projects California's 65-plus population will double by 2030.
In Sacramento, a 2004 city resolution encouraged greater use of streets by pedestrians and bicyclists. Planners reduced car lanes on some streets from three to two lanes to create bike lanes, and installed traffic-calming devices such as speed bumps.
That year Sacramento and San Diego counties approved tax ordinances to fund pedestrian-friendly transportation projects. And a statewide law passed last year requires cities and counties to design roads that can accommodate bicyclists and pedestrians as well as motorists.
In San Diego, the 230-acre Quarry Falls project will rise on the site of a sand and gravel quarry three miles from downtown. Its plan includes single-family homes, condominiums, apartments, parks, a civic center, retail, a school and more than 40 acres of open space, all connected by walking, hiking and biking trails. A shuttle will take residents to nearby light rail.
"The key is to create a place where you can live your life close to jobs and events in San Diego, with a shuttle through the site to points that are tied to transit," said Marco Sessa of Sudberry Properties, developer of the project.
Smart growth concepts have been applied since 1999 at Otay Ranch, a large development in Chula Vista where five of 16 planned villages connected by pedestrian paths and bridges have been completed. A senior apartment complex in the Heritage Towne Village received a Gold Award from the National Association of Home Builders in 2006 for its proximity to public transportation, shops and services.
"We have built a community with a sense of place, not just a series of homes," said Kim Kilkenny of the Otay Ranch Company, which developed the project.
From the coast to the central valley, planners view livable communities as welcome alternatives to traffic-congested cities and isolated auto-dependent suburbs.
Joan Aragone is a journalist based in San Francisco.


Filmmaker Aanand L Rai's upcoming mega project Zero has a star cast that many directors can only dream of! With Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma in the mix, there isn't anything more the audience can ask for.
Come December 21 and the world will be introduced to Bauua Singh, a man who may be vertically challenged but has a heart of gold. Today, the makers of Zero released a new trailer in which we get to witness the charm and charismatic of Bauua.
The highlight of the trailer has to be Bauua's line, 'Hum Jaiso Se Dekhte He Pyaar Nahi Hota Behn Ji, Dekhte Dekhte Ho Jata Hai'. This also gives us a glimpse of the characters incredible wit and humour. This happy go lucky man in the film is played by Shah Rukh Khan, whereas Anushka Sharma packs a powerful punch as a scientist who battles cerebral palsy. Katrina Kaif on the other hand plays a Bollywood diva battling alcoholism.
The Aanand L Rai directorial is all set to hit the screens on December 21. The lead trio of the film previously worked in Yash Chopra's swan song Jab Tak Hai Jaan back in 2012.


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The Further Adventures of Matthew Saroff, Itinerant Engineer
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Dedicated to His Craft
John Burck, aka The Naked Cowboy, entertained sanitation truck and city bus drivers on Times Square as the snow fell heavily around him pic.twitter.com/b614nG8LTQ
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 2, 2021
Wut?!
New York City.
Naked Cowboy.
Blizzard.
I'm not sure if this is laudable, demented, or both.
Forget it Jake, it's Times Square.
by Matthew G. Saroff
This Man Deserves a Raise and a 10 Year Contract
I have no idea whether or not Brian Williams knew that this was coming, or someone in the control room decided to take their piss, but this is fucking beautiful.
If you or a loved one has had an erection incited by Donald John Donald John Trump then you may be entitled to financial compensation https://t.co/8spbckocCx
— redacted (@gothpalindrome) January 22, 2021
An Emily Litella moment for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer worthy of his niece Amy Schumer.
Note to self: Don't confuse the words, "Insurrection," and "Erection."
When a Prank Goes Awry
A coupole of podcasters decided that it would be fun to put an OAN tags on their microphones, and do interviews of people who they would later mock.
Instead, they found themselves in the middle of a violent lynch mob:
Vloggers Walter Masterson and J.P. Scattini went undercover at the StopTheSteal rally to make what they thought was a comedy video, but it soon turned far darker and scarier in real time.
They put an OAN marker on their microphone, donned a Trump flag, Trump hats and flag masks, and started interviewing people. It didn't take them long to realize they were on the edge of an angry, misinformed mob. By the time that mob had broken into the Capitol, they realized this was no ordinary rally, there wasn't anything funny about it, and they needed to get the hell out of there.
They started off doing Borat, and they finished up doing Marie Catherine Colvin.
Dafuq?
I have a few questions…pic.twitter.com/DLsXtDlJuF
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) September 9, 2020
This is too weird for me.
Friday Blogging
Megan McCain, Communist
McCain: "I started getting angry that conservatives in particular, given we are the party of family values.. that we are leaving women in this country without the capacity and ability to heal physically [after childbirth]"
— Emily Peck (@EmilyRPeck) January 4, 2021
It's axiomatic that conservatives suddenly become liberals when the business of governing touches upon them and theirs.
We saw this with Sandra Day O'Connor, where her reputation for moderation was better described by narcissism: If she had been effected by it, whether it be sexism or reproductive rights, she was suddenly moderate.
About people who weren't her, and did not look like her or live a life like her, it's back to conservatism.
And now we see Meghan McCain doing the same thing.
After having a baby, she realizes that there needs to be some sort of regulation mandating paid maternity leave.
Socialism for me, and capitalism for thee.
If you are morally incapable of putting yourself in someone else's shoes unless it happened to you, you might be a conservative.
Hack Journalism
The Musical Accompaniment for This Year
What about the boy?
He saw it all!
And Now, a Completely Naked Video
Don't worry though, it violates no standards, because it is a naked B-52H Stratofortress.
The bomber, 60-034, also known as, "Wise Guy," had to be stripped down and rebuilt after being returned to service after storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, AKA the "boneyard":
As already reported in detail in this previous article, "Wise Guy" is the nickname of the B-52H Stratofortress bomber tail number 60-0034, that is being prepared to return to service with the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, by the Tinker Air Force Base's Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex.
The aircraft has arrived at Tinker AFB, on Apr. 1, 2020, to undergo PDM (Programmed Depot Maintenance), the final part of a three-phase process to resurrect the aircraft, that had been retired after logging more than 17,000 flight hours at the 309th AMARG (Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group) at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, in 2008.
There Are Two Choices for a Thanksgiving Post
You either post Arlo Guthrie's Alices Restaurant, or that WKRP in Cincinnati episode.
I choose the latter:
As God as my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly.
Bad Day at the Office
There was a mishap when a 70-ton Merkava tank rolled over after screwing up getting onto a transport trailer.
Thankfully, the only person on the tank was the driver, and he was not seriously injured:
An Israel Defense Forces tank flipped over on Sunday while trying to drive up onto a transport truck, the military said.
No one was injured in the incident, the IDF said.
In a video of the incident (above), the tank can be seen slowly driving onto the transport truck in the Jordan Valley. After it boards the truck, however, the tank continues traveling forward, gaining speed and flying over the side of the truck before landing upside down.
The tank's fire suppression system was then apparently activated.
The driver of the tank, 24, was taken to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital Mt. Scopus. He was lightly bruised, but was not found to be seriously injured. "He will remain for treatment and observation until tomorrow," a hospital spokesperson said.
I did not expect a tank to move that way.
A Ukrainian SU-27 pilot executing a landing on a highway as a part of a military sucked a highway sign into his air intake.
According to authorities, there was no damage to the aircraft, and no injuries.
When one considers that it not only took in the sign, which was probably either thin aluminum and wood, but also parts of the sign post (probably steel) and bolts attaching the sign to the post, this is an indication of how Soviet era engine designers prioritized resistance to foreign object damage: (FOD)
Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jet rammed into a street sign during military drills, 2+2 broadcaster reported, showing the video of the incident. The plane was landing on the Kiev-Chop highway when it grazed the sign and then pulled up in the sky again, with a metal part stuck in its air scoop. The Ukrainian air forces later stated it was a minor incident, noting that the plane was not damaged and the pilot didn't sustain any injuries.
Tweet of the Day
pic.twitter.com/OAFtUSNmBs
— Tony Banks (@Banks429) November 10, 2020
When Tony Banks, says to Trump supporters, "From the bottom of my ball sack, F%$# you!," I feel like cheering.
Good Writing
What's In the Mail Today?
You will not believe what we got in the mail on Wednesday.
Yes, we got a notice from the US Postal Service to make sure to vote early if we plan to vote by mail.
TWO WEEKS AFTER THE ELECTION.
I know that the Post Office performs many essential services, try getting a your medications through email, for one, and I am loath to make all the standard jokes, but seriously ……… What is up with this?
I guess I should feel grateful about this, because how often do I get to look for and then watch a video of guy in a bear suit rocking out about mail delivery.
Today in Mediocre French (With Subtitles)
Always fun to get RT'd but we're about ten minutes away from actual French people coming in here and telling me all the mistakes I made (I've counted three so far!!)
— Pjörk🐷 (@NicoleConlan) November 12, 2020
Before this, I never truly understood the deep existential angst that is Gritty before this, and it is completely appropriate that it is being said in French. (with subtitles)
H/t Naked Capitalism.
Exploding Cetaceans in History
It has been been 50 years since Florence, Oregon was showered with rotting flesh and blubber.
One of the epic fails in the history of carcass disposal, and it's ended up on YouTube:
7 November 2020, 7:46 PM
It's titled, "No, Elon Musk is a Terrible Person," and it shows just how close that he is to being a Bond villain:
This guy is at his core a nasty piece of work.
The Inevitable Downfall Vid
It was inevitable that this would happen. I first saw this on Facebook.
The juxtaposition of Trump, and Bruno Ganz's portrayal of Hitler is sublime:
Have I Mention That Cops Lie?
BREAKING VIDEO: Here Philly PD appear to smash the windows of a passing vehicle that was trying to turn around, then dragged the parents out and beat them on the ground in front of their terrified children. [@MrCheckpoint] pic.twitter.com/e6mmXWqzkr
— ☭ New York Socialist ☭ (@TheNYSocialist) October 28, 2020
Philadelphia's Finest
A Philadelphia toddler was ripped from his mom's SUV after police smashed in her windows.
The Fraternal Order of Police claimed in a Facebook post that the "lost" child was found "walking around barefoot" after police shot Walter Wallace Jr. https://t.co/CX9rpD8bSg
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 30, 2020
There are lies, damn lies, and every single word that you might ever hear from the Policemen's Benovelent Association
During the protests over the police shooting of Walter Wallace, Jr., police broke the windows of a SUV that had strayed into the area, beat its occupants, dragged them out, and then took the baby in the back and used it for a photo-op.
The victim has still not been told where her car is, which means that it, and the baby's hearing aid that was left in it, are "gone with the wind".
Somewhere in hell, Frank Rizzo is smiling:
Philadelphia police pulled a woman from an SUV during unrest in West Philadelphia Tuesday morning, beat and bloodied her, separated her from her toddler for hours, and kept her in handcuffs in the hospital, her attorneys said Friday.
She has not been charged with a crime, and police won't say what prompted the show of force.
Philadelphia civil rights attorneys Kevin Mincey and Riley H. Ross III are representing the woman and the toddler, who they said were both injured as police pulled them from an SUV shown in a now-viral video from the 5200 block of Chestnut Street at about 2 a.m. Tuesday. The video depicts at least 15 police officers swarming a vehicle, bashing in the windows, pulling out the driver and another passenger, beating them, then appearing to remove a child from the backseat.
Mincey said Young was struggling to get her child to fall asleep, and, hoping a car ride would help, she took the toddler with her to West Philadelphia to pick up her 16-year-old nephew from a friend's house as unrest roiled the neighborhood. Mincey said Young encountered police barricades and attempted to make a three-point turn when police surrounded the vehicle.
Then, he said, police pulled Young and the 16-year-old from the car and threw them to the ground; police beat both with batons, handcuffed them, and detained them, he said. Mincey said Young relayed that police at the scene refused to tell her where her child would be taken, saying only "he's gonna go to a better place, we're gonna report it to DHS," presumably referring to the Department of Human Services, the city's child-welfare agency.
Police then took her back to headquarters and processed her. Mincey said she was kept in a holding cell, wasn't informed of charges against her, and was issued a wristband that read: "assault on police." She was released without being charged. Mincey said she's unsure what time she was released, but she said "the sun was up."
Young and her son were separated for hours. Mincey said Young was in the police van with another woman who had a cell phone. Young called her mother, Mincey said, and the boy's grandmother went to the scene to retrieve the child. There, according to Mincey, police directed her to go to 15th Street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard, four miles away in Center City. The grandmother, Mincey said, found the child sitting in his car seat in a police cruiser with two officers. The child had a lump on his head and glass from the SUV's broken windows was still in his car seat, Mincey said.
Video shows Philadelphia Police breaking into an SUV in West Philly early Tuesday morning, and then beating the driver while a child was inside.
Mincey said police have not told the family where their vehicle is, and he said the child's hearing aid and Young's purse and wallet are still inside it.
Ross also slammed the National Fraternal Order of Police for on Thursday posting images of an officer holding the child and falsely writing in a caption: "This child was lost during the violent riots in Philadelphia, wandering around barefoot in an area that was experiencing complete lawlessness. The only thing this Philadelphia police officer cared about in that moment was protecting this child."
The child was the same one pulled from the SUV, according to images shot at the scene by an Inquirer photographer and a freelance photographer in the area. The Inquirer is not publishing images of the toddler out of concern for the privacy of the family and the child.
The FOP deleted the posts about 30 minutes after the Inquirer asked for comment. On Friday, an FOP spokesperson said after posting the photo, the organization "subsequently learned of conflicting accounts of the circumstances under which the child came to be assisted by the officer and immediately took the photo and caption down."
The video of the incident was shot less than 12 hours after two Philadelphia police officers shot and killed Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old Black man who family and neighbors said was experiencing a mental health crisis. Video of his killing showed him holding a knife and walking toward police when they opened fire, each firing seven shots.
Seriously, the cops are completely out of control.
Law Enforcement Misconduct
Hello Nurse!!!!
In a few weeks, they will be releasing the first new episodes of Animaniacs in over 20 years.
This will include Pinky and the Brain, but, unfortunately, no new Goodfeathers bits:
Readers of a certain age will have fond childhood memories of weekday afternoons spent in the company of the Warner siblings, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, the central figures of the hugely popular, Emmy-award winning animated series, Animaniacs. Now a whole new generation can appreciate their comic genius with Hulu's revival of the show, slated to debut next month.
The premise of the original Animaniacs was that Yakko, Wakko, and Dot were characters from the 1930s who were locked way in a water tower on the Warner Bros. lot until they escaped in the 1990s. Now they exist to wreak havoc and have fun. The format borrowed heavily from sketch comedy, with each episode typically featuring three short mini-episodes centered on different characters, connected by bridging segments. Other regular characters included two genetically altered lab mice, Pinky and the Brain, who are always trying to take over the world; Ralph the Security Guard; Slappy Squirrel and her nephew, Skippy; Chicken Boo; Flavio and Marita, aka the Hip Hippos; studio psychiatrist Dr. Otto Scratchansniff and Hello Nurse (also a common catchphrase); and a trio of pigeons known as The Goodfeathers.
As appealing to adults as to kids, the show was smart, funny, irreverent, and even educational, especially with its playful songs listing the nations of the world, for instance, or all the US states and their capitals—set to the tune of "Turkey in the Straw"—or all the presidents set to the "William Tell Overture." (My personal favorite was "The Solar System Song," complete with the obligatory joke about Uranus.) The writers were masters of parody, so much so that it became something of a badge of honor to be so featured. Honorees included A Hard Day's Night, Seinfeld, Friends, Bambi, Power Rangers, Rugrats, and The Lion King, as well as the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas Pirates of Penzance and H.M.S. Pinafore. And of course, the Goodfeathers segments invariably parodied characters from both The Godfather and Goodfellas.
When the original series began streaming on Netflix, it proved so popular that Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Animation began thinking about reviving Animaniacs. They ultimately inked a deal with Hulu, which included the rights for the original series, as well as Tiny Toon Adventures, Pinky and the Brain, and Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain. (That means we can all revisit our favorites on Hulu.) Spielberg returned as executive producer and insisted on bringing back most of the original voice cast for the reboot. A first-look clip debuted earlier this month at the virtual New York Comic-Con (embedded below), parodying Jurassic Park (John Hammond—or rather, a cartoon Spielberg channeling Hammond—reanimates the Warner siblings).
I hope that the writing holds up.
The original was magic.
Vote Early and Often
The whole family voted today.
We got absentee ballots and then drove to Hannah Moore park to drop them off.
I voted for Biden, though the I was very tempted to vote for the Bread and Roses Party candidate, they are socialists on the ballot only in non-swing states like Maryland, but in the end, my family's arguments prevailed.
I wanted to stop at the marijuana dispensary down the street after voting though.
It took about 15 minutes, and we caught it on video:
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reasonable structure effective working area is large, full-featured, simple operation, easy maintenance and adjustment, high reliability, low energy consumption, high production efficiency.
1.Body Construction: rugged body, reasonable structure, surface paint, nice corrosion.
3 .Itinerary: This machine adopts imported linear guide rail and circular shaft, slide surface precision high resistance to wear.
6. In normal grinding process, grinding scraping gum thickness should be maintained at between 0.1-0.3mm, such as a grinding scraping gum may appear too thick grinding motor suffocated, should immediately turn off the power to re-adjust the squeegee grinding thickness.
7. Close drive motor, and then grind off the motor, off vacuum cleaner.
Established in 2004,SHENZE YANGTAI RUBBER PRODUCTS CO., LTD, is a group company and mainly engaged in screen printing squeegee production, development, sale and research. Our company has a powerful senior team staff for squeegee research, development, production, sales and technical service.