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Long-time Clallam County PUD commissioner suffers stroke, resigns from post
Sunday, June 10, 2018 1:30am
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Hugh Haffner
PORT ANGELES — Longtime and soon-to-be former Clallam County Public Utility District Commissioner Hugh Haffner continues to recover from a May 10 stroke, his wife said.
"He can't hardly do anything," Diane Haffner said Friday. "I have him at home. It's really hard to get him up and get him down."
Haffner, 71, submitted a formal notice of resignation, effective July 15, on Thursday to PUD General Manager Doug Nass, the PUD board and county Auditor Shoona Riggs, citing "recent health concerns."
"I find it no longer possible to continue my duties as commissioner," said Haffner, the District 2 board representative for 24 years, who had said earlier he planned to retire.
"I have enjoyed my career at Clallam PUD, and I am sad to leave all of the wonderful PUD employees and my fellow commissioners behind," he said.
Attorney Jerry Rubin of the Seattle law firm William Kastner is conducting a personnel investigation into the circumstances surrounding Haffner's resignation, said Rubin and PUD officials who have declined to be more specific about an ongoing investigation.
PUD spokeswoman Nicole Clark said Friday that Rubin has not submitted his final report.
Rubin did not return calls for comment Friday.
Haffner's departure was discussed by the commissioners during April 16 and April 26 closed executive sessions that were held to discuss "litigation or potential litigation."
Haffner said on May 6, four days before his stroke, that he would resign in mid-July to take advantage of his PUD commissioner health insurance benefits.
He said his health was hampered by neck and back injuries he sustained in a 2013 car crash.
Haffner would not comment on potential complaints against him.
"I'm just getting tired of it," he said.
"It's time to get out of it and not have to deal with it anymore."
Nass acknowledged the existence of the investigation involving Haffner in an email he sent to employees "in the interest of transparency" and citing a May 13 PDN story disclosing the investigation, he said
"Upon its conclusion, I will let you know what, if anything, we can share at that time," Nass said in the email, telling employees to refer all public inquiries to Nass or Clark.
Clark said in an email to all PUD employees following Haffner's resignation notice Thursday that commissioners would announce the vacancy on the board on July 16, the day after Haffner resigns.
"I've had several people already inquire based on the earlier articles," Clark said. "So far we've had six inquiries.
"I'm happy that people feel strongly about it.
"The only legal requirement is they reside in and are registered to vote in that district."
The district, which does not include the city of Port Angeles, runs from the Dungeness River to the east side of Port Angeles.
Board President Ted Simpson said Friday that he expects that he and PUD Commissioner Will Purser will choose a replacement to fill out the final two years of Haffner's six-year term by the first week of August.
Compensation for the position is up to $43,380 annually and includes 75 cents a mile for use of a personal vehicle for PUD-related business compared to the IRS rate of 54.5 cents per mile.
"It shouldn't take us more than two or three weeks" to fill the position.
"I would think we would want to do it fairly soon."
Simpson, who is running for re-election in the Nov. 6, said he has not been interviewed by Rubin.
Simpson learned about Rubin's investigation following the board's executive sessions to discuss Haffner's resignation "after [the PDN] told me that there was an investigation and asked what was going on," he said.
Since then, the commissioners have talked more about the investigation in executive session, Simpson said.
"I'm not aware of any kind of complaint, allegation, or, you know, written or verbal or anything," he said Friday.
"I don't know what Jerry is doing, specifically."
Haffner has been "a good, consistent commissioner," Simpson said.
"His views, which have not always been the same as mine, ended up in some good, constructive dialogue that helped us make better decisions."
Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 55650, or at [email protected].
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August 1, 2017 ArtistsCranbrook, Drawing, Installation, Sculpture, VideoSteve Panton
Born Kansas City, MO 1981 / BFA, Kansas City Art Institute; MFA, Cranbrook / Lives in Detroit
Andrew Thompson considers art to be his "life organizing principle." It is, for example, how he researches topics that interest him, how he collaborates with people he likes, how he remains untroubled by the question of what to do with surplus funds, and even how he investigates traumatic events from his past. Thompson believes there is no inherent meaning in life, and hence we must all create meaning for ourselves and those around us. It is a philosophy that propels him along a creative path of his own design, free from the careerist moves often considered essential in the game of being an artist.
Thompson typically prefers to work with recycled materials. He is conscious that art should first of all do no harm, and that by re-purposing landfill bound material his work already creates value. Everyone Says Hi (2015), for example, was an ice cave-like installation in a corner storefront constructed from surplus mail. The title references a favorite song of Thompson's by David Bowie, one line of which goes, "I'd like to get a letter." It is a supremely sentimental tune that is in tension with the actual origin of the envelopes, which as Thompson puts it, are "almost exclusively from bank and credit card statements, junk mail, and debt settlement offers sent to my house," adding that "person-to-person correspondence from loved ones are rare, but they're in there," and that "the piece is a conflation of my desires, a wish list of wanting to have meaningful, intimate interactions, but instead being overwhelmed by, and embedded within, a culture of consumerism and credit. I want more than I give, I spend more than I have. All the creditors say "hi."" Like much of Thompson's work, it has elements of both comedy and tragedy.
There is an educational and discursive element to much of Thompson's art. In 2016, he was inspired by an investigation of contemporary gerrymandering to explore how the congressional boundaries surrounding his Eastern Market home have evolved over time. The resulting work, Representing Congress: Detroit's Belle Isle 1893-2013, used colored painter's tape to construct the historic boundaries on the floor of a large temporary gallery space. The piece is simultaneously a criticism of the state of politics, a meditation on the fragile nature of contemporary American democracy, and a reflection on the etymology of the word draw – what does it mean to "draw" an electoral boundary in a time when they are determined by voter pattern modeling and optimization algorithms, and what does it mean for an artist to reclaim the action of drawing?
Thompson often invites others to contribute to the making of his art. For example, Clothes Pit: Since You're Gone (2011) used clothes donated by friends to construct a fourteen foot high swirling "tornado" emerging from a clothes basket on the gallery floor; Redact Hamtramck (2012) was a large scale charcoal drawing / stop motion animation that showed how an aerial view of the eponymous city evolved from 1949 to 2012, and which acted as a framework to collect the memories of gallery visitors; and Five Years Ago (2016) in which recent arrivals to the city transcribed poems from two iconic Detroit writers – Detroit (While I Was Away) by David Blair, whose untimely death in 2011 was a major shock to the city's creative community, and What Work Is by Phillip Levine, who became America's Poet Laureate that same year – in a powerful metaphor for the continuous evolution, but fundamental resilience of Detroit's cultural memory.
Thompson's art is rarely confrontational, but often exhibits a deadpan subversive quality that works to deflate the cultural pretensions or rule set of a given situation. For example Untitled (Anton Art Center) (2012) showed Thompson circumventing a gallery rule that limited artwork height to avoid interference with the lighting, and The He-bops (Play Cyndi Lauper in the Style of The Clash) (2008) saw him expressing his, totally sincere, admiration for Lauper while gently undermining the seriousness of the gallery setting and "The Only Band That Matters." The Goodson Street Garden Banana Processing Unit (2014) was Thompson's contribution to a group show celebrating the humble banana, and encouraged visitors to deposit their banana peels into a composting pot for later re-use in the artist's garden. Its unpretentious nature, and casual inclusion of elements of recycling and participation, make it a prime example of the apparently chaotic, but actually remarkably coherent, work of this prolific artist.
Steve Panton, July 2017
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Everyone Says Hi, 2015, Used envelopes and fabric, 9ft x 14ft x 14ft.
Representing Congress: Detroit's Belle Isle District 1893-2013. 2016, Masking tape, lamp, the book Rat F**ked by David Daley, images from Kenneth C. Martis. 5ft x 40ft x 40ft.
Clothes Pit: Since You're Gone, 2011, Used clothing, laundry basket, wood, 14ft x 18ft x 20ft.
Redact Hamtramck, 2012, Charcoal, paper, participation, and video documentation, 14ft x 22ft x 2ft
Five Years Ago…, 2016, Social sculpture: Ink, backlit film, charcoal, paper, poetry from David Blair & Philip Levine, and participation, 10ft x 10ft x 10ft.
Untitled (Anton Art Center), 2012, Used grocery bags, used water bottles, water from the gallery, 16ft x 8ft x8ft
The He-bops play Cyndi Lauper in the Style of the Clash 2008, Live band, stage, wall collages, video. 8ft x 8ft x 8ft.
The Goodson Street Garden Banana Processing Unit, 2014, Plastic, newsprint, red wigglers, banana peels, participation, 18in x 14in x 12in.
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Discovering her cancer and pregnancy just two days apart, Elle Halliwell faced a heartbreaking decision — start lifesaving treatment, but lose her baby.
It took a trailblazing doctor from the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute to save the lives of both Ms Halliwell and her now 11-month-old son.
Eighteen months ago, Ms Halliwell, 32, was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia, a slow-growing cancer that begins in the bone marrow. Then, two days after her diagnosis, Ms Halliwell and husband Nick Biasotto discovered she was also pregnant.
After specialists from Sydney advised Ms Halliwell her best chance of survival was to abort her baby and begin a course of tyrosine kinase inhibitors, or TKIs, which are effective in treating CML but cannot be used during pregnancy, she and her husband turned to Professor Timothy Hughes, a haematologist and Cancer Theme Leader at SAHMRI.
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Professor Hughes, who last month won the prestigious GSK Award for Research Excellence for his work on CML, worked closely with Halliwell's haematologist as she began a course of Interferon, which is safe for use during pregnancy. When Ms Halliwell reached 36 weeks pregnant, on December 13, 2016, her son Tor Felix Biasotto came into the world.


"The entire country was watching when Rosie Sinclair was expelled from Forge, the prestigious arts school that doubles as a reality TV show. But few know how Dean Berg was mining students' dreams in laboratories deep below the school. And no one, least of all the Dean himself, knows that when Rosie's dreams were seeded into the mind of another patient, Rosie's consciousness woke up in that body–a girl far from Forge, a girl with a completely different life from Rosie, a girl who is pregnant.
I feel like I wasn't totally fair to the previous book, The Vault of Dreamers, when I reviewed it last year. I wasn't aware that O'Brien was doing a trilogy, and because of that, I wasn't happy with the ending. Now that I've had the opportunity to read the sequel, I can speak much more favorably about how things fell out in anticipation of the events in this novel.
The Rule of Mirrors is different from its predecessor in that there are two narrators this time, and they are essentially the same person. Part of Rosie's consciousness wakes up in a new body, Thea, and it's not just a new body that she has to contend with, but also a different race, social class, and phase of life. This is a girl who came from poverty, and suddenly she's thrust into a world of wealth that nonetheless comes with a whole different set of challenges. Meanwhile, the original Rosie engineers her escape from Dr. Berg and embarks on a quest to get revenge against him for holding her captive and mining her dreams.
This book is also different in that the reality show aspect is minimized, which makes sense given that Rosie only returns to the Forge school in order to sneak around the underground chambers. Thea has almost nothing to do with the Forge school aside from eventually showing up there near the end of the book, so there's a very different feel to this one.
I kind of wish that the inevitable romantic relationships had been left out, especially because it gets complicated with both Burnham and Linus (two guys who liked Rosie at the school) and Thea's old boyfriend Tom. It's more than I wanted to keep track of, and I was more intrigued by the psychology of one person in two bodies. In fact, that's the most interesting part of the story: watching Rosie struggling with her status in Thea's family and realizing that her actions will affect other people who love Thea for who she was before her accident.
There were also some cool twists that came about as both Thea and Rosie tried to find answers to what happened to them–one of the biggest ones being that Rosie isn't the only person to have woken up in a new body, but I won't spoil things by telling you who it is. I would have liked to see more about the dream seeding; I understand that the author tried to do this by focusing on Thea's awakening as Rosie, but a wider look would have been welcome.
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Most likely your firm will also become a little bit richer because our software will alow your sofware engineers seriously cut time-to-market and improve your users ' experience by the factor of 35.6 (Gartner or Forrester will come up with more precise metrics and will be happy to sell you an analytical report for a nominal fee of $54 a page ). Why did I even mentioned these cliches "time-to-market " and "users ' experience "? Excuse my corporate language. Do not know any better.


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Hanyer Mosquera Takes an Indefinite Leave of Absence
The Portland Timbers announced today that Hanyer Mosquera is returning to Colombia for an indefinite amount of time,
By Ryan Gates Mar 18, 2013, 10:11am PDT
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The Portland Timbers released a tweet concerning Hanyer Mosquera today and it is as follows:
Today, the Timbers have granted permission for Hanyer Mosquera to return to Colombia for an indefinite time due to personal reasons. #RCTID
— Portland Timbers (@TimbersFC) March 18, 2013
This season has not been kind to Mosco, as he started the year injured and, due to the signing of Mikael Silvestre, moved further down the CB depth chart. Once Mosco returned from injury he found that his starting job was lost to Andrew Jean Baptiste and has not even made a game day roster, thanks to the rise of Dylan Tucker Gangnes.
All of this may be weighing on Mosco, or it may be something else, because often when a player returns home it is for non-soccer-related reasons (death in the family, etc). One would hope it is benign and just a chance to sort out a his situation here in Portland. At this point, though, we can only speculate.
We will try and get more information on this situation and how it may affect the Timbers moving forward.
I am told that Mosco's departure ("personal reasons") is not due to an emergency. He is still on the roster. #rctid
— William Conwell (@williamconwell) March 18, 2013


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McCarthy"s concessions fail to win support for U.S. House speaker bid
Kevin McCarthy offered to reduce the clout of the U.S. House speaker's job on Thursday in a failed bid to persuade hardline Republican colleagues to back his candidacy, raising questions about their party's ability to wield power.
McCarthy has fallen short during seven roll-call votes over three days, paralyzing the chamber and illustrating the outsized influence of a small group of far-right lawmakers in the 435-seat House of Representatives elected in November to a two-year term.
A day after the group rejected a plea by former President Donald Trump to support McCarthy, the California Republican lawmaker offered to weaken the role, a change that political allies cautioned would make doing the job even harder.
In the seventh round on Thursday, McCarthy fell short of the 218 votes needed to secure the speaker post as 19 in his own party voted for rival Republican Byron Donalds, a 20th voted for Trump and a 21st declined to back any candidate.
A weaker-than-expected performance in the midterm elections gave Republicans a slim 222-212 majority in the House. All 212 Democrats again voted for their leader, Hakeem Jeffries.
McCarthy also failed to succeed Democrat Nancy Pelosi as speaker in six prior votes on Tuesday and Wednesday – the first time in a century that the House had failed to pick a speaker on the first ballot.
A ninth vote would tie the 1923 record and a 10th would be the most since 1859.
McCarthy's supporters promptly teed up an eighth vote, but his opponents remained unyielding.
"This ends in one of two ways: either Kevin McCarthy withdraws from the race or we construct a straitjacket that he is unwilling to evade," said Republican Representative Matt Gaetz, who voted for Trump.
As speaker, McCarthy would hold a post that shapes the chamber's agenda and is second in the line of succession to the presidency behind Vice President Kamala Harris.
He would be empowered to frustrate Democratic President Joe Biden's legislative agenda and launch investigations of Biden's family and administration.
McCarthy has been the top House Republican since 2019, but he has been unable to overcome the opposition of some of the chamber's most conservative members in the speaker election drama.
More than 200 Republicans have backed him each of the seven times this week, with less than 10% of lawmakers in the party against McCarthy. Among other things, the holdouts have said they believe McCarthy would be too willing to cut deals with Democrats who control the Senate and the White House.
The division has prevented House lawmakers from beginning their work including scrutinizing actions by Biden's administration and helping constituents navigate the federal bureaucracy.
"I'm very worried about it and I'm on the intelligence committee," said Republican Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, a McCarthy supporter who said that, unable to be sworn in until a speaker is chosen, he was unable to participate in classified briefings.
In a late-night bargaining session, McCarthy offered the holdouts greater influence over what legislation comes up for a vote, according to several media outlets. He also offered the ability for any single member to call a vote that could potentially remove him from the post – a step that helped drive at least one prior Republican speaker, John Boehner, into retirement.
Those concessions could potentially help McCarthy win over some of the holdouts but would leave him more vulnerable to the hardliners through the rest of the next two years if he ultimately wins the speakership.
"You have 20 people demanding that 201 surrender to them unconditionally. Well, I am not going to surrender," Republican Representative Trent Kelly told reporters after a late Wednesday vote rejecting McCarthy.
The inability to agree on a leader also raises questions about whether Republicans will force a government shutdown or risk default later this year in a bid to extract steep spending cuts. Some of the holdouts say they expect McCarthy or any other Republican leader to take that approach.
If McCarthy ultimately fails to unite Republicans, they would have to search for an alternative. Possibilities include No. 2 House Republican Steve Scalise and Representative Jim Jordan, who have both backed McCarthy. Jordan received 20 votes when nominated by the holdouts on Tuesday.
Republicans could also look to Democrats for help, although House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters that they have not reached out. Democratic Representative Ro Khanna told Reuters he and others could support a moderate Republican who would agree to share subpoena power with Democrats and to avoid brinkmanship over government funding and the debt ceiling.
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) talks with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as a 7th round of voting for a new Speaker begins on the third day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) gives a thumbs up as he gets a pat on the back arriving on the floor of the House of Representatives for another expected round of voting for a new Speaker on the third day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Late night office lights burn on the House of Representatives side of the U.S. Capitol after another day of voting, but no resolution, in the election of the new Speaker of the House, as Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) lost a sixth straight round of voting on the second day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 4, 2023 REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) pleads his case one-on-one with Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) after losing a 7th consecutive round of voting for Speaker of the House on the third day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) laugh together on the floor of the House of Representatives as a 7th round of voting for a new Speaker begins on the third day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
U.S. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) talks with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on the floor of the House Chamber during a late evening session, as the competition for Speaker of the House continues, on the second day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 4, 2023 REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) passionately addresses other conservative Republican members of the House in the middle of the House Chamber after a fourth round of voting still failed to elect U.S. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as new Speaker of the House on the second day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 4, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
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21 March is International Day of Forests. It is the day that the United Nations raises awareness on the importance of all types of forests. Also known as World Forest Day, the event has been observed since 2013.
"Forests and Education" is the theme for International Day of Forest 2019 – last year's was "Forests and Sustainable Cities". The event aims to bring more attention to the value of sustainably managed forests. On this day, we may all observe International Day of Forests. But for some, the commitment to sustainable forest management is an everyday endeavour. We would like to take this opportunity to share the good work and mission of the Riau Ecosystem Restoration (RER or Restorasi Ekosistem Riau) project.
At the 21st Conference of Parties in Paris (COP 21) in Dec 2015, the pulp and paper producer APRIL (Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited) made a commitment of USD 100 million over a 10-year period for the restoration, conservation and protection of Peatland in Riau. This is executed via the RER project.
RER is a collaborative project that brings together groups from the private and public sectors to restore and conserve ecologically important peat forest areas on Indonesia's Kampar Peninsula. The project was established in 2013 by APRIL in collaboration with the Community Resources Development Institute (BIDARA), an Indonesian social equity consultancy, and Fauna & Flora International (FFI), an international NGO whose mission is to conserve threatened species and ecosystems.
RER initially focused on the protection and restoration of 20,000 hectares of peat forest on the Kampar Peninsula. APRIL announced at COP21 that the RER project would now cover 150,000 hectares of forests – 130,000 hectares of which are located on the Kampar Peninsula, while 20,000 hectares are on neighbouring Padang Island.
There has since been encouraging results. Hundreds of flora and fauna species have returned to the area.
Sustainable forest management is no easy feat. RER employs a four-phase model of peatland forest protection, restoration and conservation using a landscape approach. They are protection, assessment, restoration and managing for sustainability.
The RER team works with experts and community groups to ensure solutions remains viable and effective, adopting evidence and science-based approaches to assess and manage the environments. Collaboration is extensive, as the team continues to engage local communities, government and adjacent forest concession license-holders.
The RER project is known for its integrated production-protection model which uses surrounding plantation forests that provide both protection as well as an active funding source for ecosystem restoration and conservation. A strong proponent of the production-protection model, APRIL has a unique 1-to-1 commitment, in which it pledges to conserve a hectare of tropical forest for every hectare of plantation it operates.
Find out more about RER on the recently launched RER website! Check out their blog on International Day of Forests 2019 and do also follow the project on Instagram.


Indonesia is being pushed by powerful mining multinationals to open up protected forests for mining, but the international campaign to prevent yet more forest destruction is gaining momentum.
A final decision on whether or not companies can mine in Indonesia's protected forests - putting at risk some of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world - is expected to be issued by Indonesia's parliament soon.
PT IMK will not have to pay compensation for throwing people out of their mining areas.
"Since the beginning of IMK's operations, fish have become scarce because IMK has polluted the river and our livestock can no longer graze because IMK has destroyed the area.
As Indonesia's forest crisis deepens, the environmental campaigning organisation, WALHI, has made a strong appeal to international donors to support a moratorium on industrial logging across Indonesia.
WALHI launched an attack on corrupt politicians and their cronies responsible for the worsening deforestation in Indonesia.
Human rights abuses connected to the logging industry will increase in West Papua as more forests are destroyed and the Indonesian security forces continue their business activities in a climate of impunity.
In July 2002, West Papuan human rights group ELSHAM reported a series of logging-related human rights abuses committed between February and June 2002 by members of the Indonesian armed forces stationed in sub-districts around Jayapura.


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2021 Kia Stinger spied
The 2021 Kia Stinger is getting some styling tweaks and a modestly more powerful twin-turbo V6, though the base four is expected to get a decidedly immodest bump in power.
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Australia's best-selling large car, the Kia Stinger, is getting a mid-cycle enhancement for 2021.
This GT was spotted testing in Europe. Though its wheels, headlights and tail lights are identical to the current model, previous spy photos have shown updated lighting elements.
The camouflage also likely conceals revised front and rear bumpers.
We expect the Stinger to get Hyundai and Kia's new 10.25-inch touchscreen infotainment system, as seen on the Kia Seltos and upcoming facelifted Hyundai i30. It'll replace the current model's 7.0-inch and 8.0-inch units.
A new, digital instrument cluster is also in the cards.
The Stinger's platform-mate, the Genesis G70, is also going under the knife this year.
Its existing petrol engines are expected to be replaced with those of the 2021 G80: a turbocharged 2.5-litre four-cylinder engine with 223kW and 421Nm and a twin-turbocharged 3.5-litre V6 producing 279kW and 530Nm.
Given the Stinger's close relation to the G70, it's possible – though far from confirmed – that it'll receive the same mechanical updates. There were rumours this wouldn't be the case, however The Korean Car Blog has published photographs of a disguised prototype that appears to be packing the 2.5-litre.
If both engines are introduced to the Stinger line, they'll represent a significant jump in power from the existing turbocharged 2.0-litre four and a modest increase from the twin-turbo 3.3-litre V6.
The existing four-cylinder produces 182kW and 353Nm while the considerably more popular 3.3-litre produces 272kW and 510Nm.
Unfortunately for the Stinger, it's battling against global trends with buyers in key markets like Australia and the US shifting ever more towards SUVs.
Chinese buyers still love sedans but the Stinger technically isn't one nor is it manufactured in China, which makes it a pricier, niche offering there, while US sales were down 17.5 per cent last year.
It doesn't help the Stinger that Kia has such a cluttered medium/large sedan range in the US, offering the Optima, Cadenza, Stinger and K900 in tandem.
Australian sales were down 9.4 per cent last year from 2018 volumes but, nevertheless, the Stinger sold more than twice as many units as the next most popular car in its segment, the Skoda Superb.
Holden sold almost three times as many ZB Commodores in 2019 but with stock of that model almost depleted following its discontinuation and Holden's shuttering, the Stinger has more than doubled its market share of the segment to 47.1 per cent this year.
VFACTS reclassification of the Peugeot 508 as a Medium car means the Stinger and Superb are now alone in the Large under $70,000 segment so expect the Kia's share of the segment to grow, even if sales don't.
Kia has yet to officially confirm a second generation of the Stinger.
In such a model's favour, though, continuing the Stinger line would help amortise platform development costs by offering a potentially higher-volume model on a Genesis platform.
2020 Mini Electric: Aussie allocation nearly sold out


On this occasion, Autism-Europe gathers stakeholders for a high-level conference in order to discuss about specific issues linked to Autism and exchange knowledge and expertise at the European Union level. Events are also organised in various countries by Autism-Europe members in order to raise awareness at the national level.
In 2015, Autism-Europe ran the campaign "Autism. Stop discrimination", calling on European leaders to promote the inclusion of people with autism in all aspects of life. This call resulted in the adoption of a Written Declaration on autism thanks to the support of 418 members of the European Parliament. As an outcome, a conference was held in the European Parliament to discuss about a possible European Strategy for autism.
In 2014, the European Days of Autism focused on access to vocational training and employment. In the framework of the Italian Presidency of the European Union, a conference will take place in Turin to share good practices from across Europe.
In 2012, the European Days of Autism focused on autism and ageing. What are the specific needs of elderly people with autism? How can we plan ahead? How can we fund the services required? What best practices in ageing services exist today that can be built upon to create benchmarks for the future?
Details of activities organised by our member organisations around Europe to mark the European Days of Autism.


Goma city in North Kivu, eastern Congo has turned into a battlefield between the population and State Police. Violence erupted yesterday morning. Majengo area of Goma is the centre of the violence. More details to follow asap.
Burundi Defies Empire in Africa yet again !
This is a supremely courageous decision that the small country of Burundi has made. The human rights allegations against the administration of Pres. Nkurunziza are part of a propaganda campaign for regime change.


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Witness the magic of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at the Winspear Centre. This evening's program will be conducted by William Eddins. In November of 2016, Sidorova made a sensational debut during the Late Night and Lighter Classics series. She gives accolades to Efrem Podgaits' concerto and labels the piece as "one of the best." The stunning Podgaits piece is joined by the stirring rhythms of Piazzolla and Falla.


I am sure you have heard many ways of making money online or extra cash from home in Kenya. Remember the quails business in Kenya? — that they made people millionaires? Heard about desi schemes and recently, organo gold coffee pyramid schemes? While our business is Sea Shipping & Air Cargo Shipping, a good portion of our customers do not know that they can make a living shopping and shipping items online for a handsome profit. There is more to it as you read down.
Want to Learn Money Making Strategies Without Spending Money?
I am not going to tell you about any unsustainable or illegal ways of making money online or offline but rather, practical, evidence-based best practices on how to make a sustainable income in Kenya. Who would not want to make extra money anyway?
How to use social media influence marketing strategy to attract, teach, keep repeat buyers who keep earning you money over and over again.
Offline strategies that you can implement in Kenya today and slowly build an income you can depend on.
Hot selling items you can buy on amazon while in Kenya and ship them to Kenya for a clean profit.
How to build an empire of customers who would not talk to anyone else other than you for whatever their needs are.
unexploited money-making strategies you can implement today and make sweet clean profits.
Online Money Making Strategies That Works Every Time.
There is a tendency to look far, wide and high for ways to make money. A lot of us in Africa believe that you cannot make money unless you become successful in school, get a good paying job – OR, become a politician. Formal education is not for everyone. We all cannot be politicians. There is something for everyone… and you could do it right here in Kenya.
ShopUSA is one of the premier online shopping websites featuring only USA & UK/European products. Their business model is based on that fact that cheap Chinese products are not for everyone. There is a huge market in Kenya who would rather pay a little more for a quality product than to buy single item several times in a year – from China.
Not all items from China are of poor quality. It depends on the target market the items were manufactured for.
ShopUSA also gives an opportunity to USA importers to sell on the website but they verify and vet every seller to maintain high quality & standards.
You can buy items from USA and list on their website. You just need to open an online shop.
They deposit affiliate earnings either on your mpesa or your wallet.
Their items can be more expensive compared with sites like Jumia and Kilimall.
Their network is more concentrated in big cities and high end areas.
Jumia has both affiliate program and a reseller program. They also have field delivery crew who makes money when they deliver an item and customer pays on delivery. This about this as the Uber Taxi Model.
A well-known website, thus it doesn't take much effort to tell them about it.
Wide countrywide, in fact, Africa-wide network and infrastructure.
Well, too known means not so good for affiliates.
Fiverr is SO MONEY for everyone with basic computer skills. You could make money on Fiverr to do something as simple as writing 300 words articles just about any topic. How many 300 word articles can you write? or something like writing reviews on online products. It is such an easy way to earn $5 that everyone should have an account.
Taking pictures with your phone!!
Not so many people knows how to make money writing content online about specific topics. Not so many people knows how to make money uploading videos on YouTube and other social media websites. It is simple! How does a TV station or a radio station make money?
By selling advertising to businesses. How does Nation Media or Standard make money? By selling advertising space to businesses. You may have seen advertisements on almost every website you visit. Sometimes you just click without knowing it is an advertisement.
Choose a subject that you know well about and think about the best name to give your blog. Example, say you are a biology teacher in high school and you are so so good in biology that students have nicknamed you a biology name… remember those nicknames in high school? Kamusi, – (we had that in Kiambu high), Pythagoras, Nuke, Atom, etc. Become that blogger who is so good at a subject that you command authority in that subject. Or lets say you are a fashion diva and you know a lot about fashion and cosmetics. Become that blogger!
Go to blogger.com or wordpress.com. They are both easy to use but I prefer WordPress for technical reasons I will discuss in the future.
Create a free account — lets say you went with wordpress.com as I have recommended.
Sell a product as an affiliate, a reseller or make money by displaying ads on your blog. You can even become a consultant at your own terms. Here is a hint. Math, Chemistry, Biology & Physics are particularly hard subjects in High School. If you became such a good high school Chemistry blogger and offer to tutor for a fee, I bet if you are good enough and persistent enough, you would make more money tutoring than being a biology teacher. Have your students pre-book and prepay, rent a venue and exceed their expectations. Think about it and Do it!
One of my client became a CPR instructor and a blogger about emergency preparedness and first aid. She's a nurse by profession. She became so good that private hospitals hires her to teach CPR and ACLS to their employees. She recently bought a home in Muthaiga. Her identity not revealed!
Curves with Style: This lady is SO SO on the money…. and it's her over and over again on her blog. If Nyawira recommended a fashion dress on her blog, my wife would get it PAP! we better be talking about if she likes it or not after I have bought. GET IT? BOUGHT = MONEY. Deal Closed!
Professor Michael Wainaina Blog: Now this is self-publishing that can land Dr. Wainaina to levels you cannot imagine. Just be yourself and blog about what you are or what you like.
Create a Facebook Page and link it to your blog above. DO it and stop excuses. Facebook page should be equal to the name of the blog page that you created. As a matter of fact, you should create both of them the same day. If you need to create a logo or head banner for your Facebook page, go to Fiverr and get one done for you for $5. If you want to order a gig but you are not able to pay on Fiverr, contact us and we will hook you up. We'll charge you $2.50 fee due to remittance and exchange rates.
Offline Money Making Strategies That You Could Implement in Kenya at Shoe-String Budget.
There must be a problem with our British education system. Having gone through it and then the American education system, there is either intentional or unintentional permanent damage British education does to its subjects. No wonder almost everything we know was discovered in the USA. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Computers, you name it.
Before you start casting stones, let me explain where I am going with this… with practical examples you can relate to. With our British education system, we are limited by how much money we have, not the ideas we have.
If you have 500 shillings, more than likely, your ideas will be limited to what business you can start with KES 500. Chicken farming, Selling seedlings in the local market — and that is fine. Nothing wrong with that but what if your ideas are great enough to be seen by others as great? Would they invest or loan you money?
Make Money Farming Without a Land or Money to Rent one.
I bet you know someone somewhere who owns a vacant plot somewhere. Ask them if you could use it and pay them something small after you sell your product. There are multi-million shillings companies in Kenya that started with a very little budget that does that. Some of them target land owned by people is diaspora.
I cannot tell you how many times I get asked…where and how can I get used/refurbished computers from the USA? Here are my two favorite sources. If you need help buying and shipping them to your doors, just let us know. You do not need to start wondering how to get them. Just contact us and we will make it happen!
Now this will make some people in Kenya want to put a price tag for my head revealing where they get these things from. Here are a few that I like and have used. I had written an article about how to buy used clothes and shoes from the USA and some people have been on my neck for more information. If you need to buy or arrange to ship, just let us know.
Of course, I won't start boring you with how you can make money driving for Uber or easy Taxi. If you did not know you could do that too, there you go but not for everyone.
Hi am ezekiel i also was wondering who i can ship books at my door sip can you help me plz….
Nice piece Sir.Great knowledge there!
Since all the ideas require you to have some money,how can you help somebody who has nothing ( not a single cent)to get started?
I have a blog whose domain is expiring on september.I thought it was easy to write original articles as googke reajires to be paid well.
Allow me to mention something about Internet business, being too broad means too hard to make money. I went through your website and it makes me wonder how and who will find your website, make enough clicks to even pay for domain renewal.
My advice to you would be as follows.
Start blogging about something specific you have knowledge and passion about. I would recommend something that has a market. The idea of focusing on something specific is to eliminate wasted effort. (Trust me, talking one article about politics and another one about health puts you head-on with big sharks like nation and standard newspapers. It is an uphill battle.
If you are a freelance writer, there are a lot of sites that pay for freelances but in my opinion, you would make better and more sustainable money if you focused on building your own brand. You can freelance while still building your own brand – nothing wrong with that.
I will give you a perfect example…. how to build your own niche (YOU DON'T PICK A NICHE MARKET). Say you know about make-up so well. You love it (most women do), you can write about it, talk about it, know something others don't about it. Get in and start teaching, showing and even helping others achieve their make up goals. Do it on your website, youtube, social media, in person and all. Your followers and your lovers will tell you what is it you can help them with. THIS IS HOW YOU FIND YOUR NICHE. You could be good and been teaching about make-ups but your followers might want to pay you money to be their private teacher. Or, a big name might want to hire you to produce content exclusively for them. OR, you might become a brand on your own without a single product.
EXAMPLE: People like Jane Mukami became a brand working out and posting on her facebook page. Before she knew it, she had over 20,000 followers. It was an epiphany to her that she can monetize her following. Today, she can boast of combined, more than 500,000 followers on social media. She became a brand before she ever sold a single product. The point is, focus on passion, service to the people and money will follow.
Priceless pieces of advises – Many thanks.
My Drop shipping website on Shopify is just a click away from being launched.
The only hurdle is payment processing.
I am an individual, not a company.
I need a step by step guide on how to get the money in Kenya & through what channel. What are the requirements, the pre requisites and how simple or complicated can it get ?
Await to hear from you soonest possible.


Throughout the previous Official Plan review process, City of Ottawa planning staff did not recommend any significant changes to the policies regulating rural subdivisions. At the time of the adoption of the update of the City's Official Plan (OPA 76), a motion was introduced and adopted by Council that imposed a moratorium on new country lot subdivisions for a period of five years. During that moratorium staff was requested to undertake an analysis of a different method by which future Country Lot Subdivisions could be regulated. In particular, Council was interested in the evaluation of the "cluster model" which would limit subdivisions to specific rural locations rather than allowing them to be scattered throughout the rural area.
Staff has produced a Discussion Paper dealing with country lot development and in particular the merits or disadvantages of a plan that focuses on the clustering of Country Lot Subdivisions. The purpose of the paper is to form the basis of further discussions with the rural community before staff returns to Council with a response to the questions in the Council motion and provides recommendations as to whether or not changes to the Official Plan are required. We encourage residents to provide feedback on this topic by visiting ottawa.ca/ruralreview completing the online questionnaire.


HF replaced my light with DOT approved LED units. The tires on mine were not on the recall, but those that were are replaced for free. HF just resumed selling the trailers again. I took the HF straps back and bought SmartStraps that I really like. So far, two trips and she has held in well. I can even load/unload by myself now.
First was about 90 miles (180 total), second 20 (40 total). First included ~25 miles I-75 construction rough road @ 60-65mph there and back. Bike (~600+ lb GoldWing GL1000) rode steady the whole time. Won't say I didn't feel it back there as the tire pressure may still be a bit high and it causes a bit of bouncing (pulled behind a 2001 S-10 4x4 four door). If the Equinox is a V6 it should do fine. We have a 2.4liter 4 AWD and I wouldn't attempt it with that. BTW, a jackass pulled from a side road blocking the 2 lanes in my direction yesterday with a big long bed crew cab dually. I got on the binders hard enough to kick in the ABS (sucky on these trucks) and steered for what I hoped would be an opening in the other lane as he wandered into the median and I just slipped past his rear bumper. Bike and trailer didn't seem to notice, and didn't effect my maneuvering.
Yeah, ours is the 4 cyl front wheel drive, but does have the factory mounted 2"reciever. I'm thinking it has a 1000lb. towing capacity. The dr650 weighs a bit under 400lbs wet, and I'd guess the trailer would be under 200 lbs?
Must be under 200, even with the ramp added. I put an el-cheapo chock on the front and an angle set just behind the front wheel to give it a bump that holds it in the chock when I get off. The deck boards are at a width such that I can put the kick stand down and climb off easily, then tie it down. I also put the axles on top of the springs instead of under. This lowers the trailer making it easier for load/unload. Moved the tongue and mid rail forward one hole (of the pre-drilled, but I drilled a couple more) to make sure I had 60/40 weight distribution without moving the bike and rail too far forward. To find the center point of the bike, I put one of the ramps on a pipe and rolled the bike on it until it pivoted. Turn out that is right under the stock footpegs. The rails are the cheapest HF steel rails. I haven't done any welding on it yet, but might weld a few joints this fall. I bought the trailer in 2014 on sale, but don't remember what I paid. I think the rails were $59.99 with 20% off and the chock was $16 on Amazon. About $10 worth of bolts and around $16 for the 5/4 x 6" deck boards. BTW, I washed out the chicken fat from the wheel bearings and repacked them with grease I had around for a boat trailer. They run cool so far.
This is how I strap it now, with one more from a soft strap around lower triple/fork, under the frame and back to another soft strap around the other lower triple/fork joint.


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A wave of violence and intimidation has engulfed Mexico in recent weeks as the country prepares for midterm elections on June 7, with gunmen killing four candidates and kidnapping dozens of residents in Guerrero state — reviving fears that the still-unsolved disappearance of 43 students last September was not an isolated incident.
Enrique Hernández, who was running for mayor of Yurécuaro in the western state of Michoacán for the left-leaning Movement for National Regeneration Party, was killed on May 14 when gunmen opened fire on his campaign rally. Hernández was a leader of the town's self-defense group formed in 2013 to curb the power of the Knights Templar cartel.
The state's attorney general, José Martín Godoy Castro, said Wednesday that the Yurécuaro's police chief and two of his aids knew about plans to kill Hernández, and left town ahead of the murder. Godoy said he would file charges — of participation through omission in a homicide — against the three officers.
Less than an hour after Hernández's murder, gunmen shot Héctor López Cruz 16 times as he returned from campaigning in Huimanguillo, in the southeastern state of Tabasco. López was running for city council of Huimanguillo on the ticket of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
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The weeks leading up to Mexico's June 7 regional elections have been a violent affair, with a slew of murders of candidates in some regions. The federal government assured the public it was providing security for candidates facing violence, while attempting to play down the security threat.
Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, speaking at a press conference Tuesday, said the government had a strategic plan to guarantee security for candidates in areas where homicides and drug-related violence are rampant, including the states of Jalisco, Guerrero and Tamaulipas. "We hope [the plan] will deliver results and the peace we are asking for," he said. Twenty candidates so far have asked for government protection and will receive it, he said.
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Can Mexico's Electoral Authority Stop Criminal Funding?
Mexico is weeks away from a landmark midterm election, but many analysts worry that the nation's electoral authorities are dropping the ball as far as criminal organizations financing their preferred candidates.
On June 7, Mexico will elect the entire lower house of congress, nine governorships, and local offices in more than half the country. While the Senate and the presidency are not in play, it is the most important date in the electoral calendar prior to the 2018 election.
Against that backdrop, some analysts are worried that the nation's campaign regulatory agency, the National Electoral Institute (INE), is not doing enough to prevent the flow of money stemming from organized crime into candidates' campaign war chests. Jesus Tovar Mendoza, the Executive Director of the think tank Red de Estudios sobre la Calidad de la Democracia en America Latina, recently complained to E-Consulta that the statutes enforced by the INE are insufficient.
According to Tovar, campaigns have to make detailed filings outlining what they spend, but the INE does little to verify where the money comes from. As a result, criminal groups are able to provide cash or in-kind benefits to campaigns or directly to voters in order to sway votes. And since INE leaders are heavily reliant on the political parties for their posts, there is a heavy disincentive to crack down on illicit funding, because all of the parties benefit from extra cash flowing through the campaign coffers.
Mexico has long struggled to deal with illegal political money. In the aftermath of Enrique Peña Nieto's presidential election in 2012, journalists and investigators turned up evidence of his party's illegal vote-buying schemes financed through prepaid debit cards. Some of the financing for these cards was traced back to figures linked to organized crime.
Mexico has also, of course, long suffered from the links between politicians and criminal organizations, which can be solidified through campaign contributions that essentially buy a politician's loyalty. The clearest example of this is the rash of prominent and powerful politicians who have been exposed as criminal allies, from former Michoacan Congressman Julio Cesar Godoy to Jose Luis Abarca, the former mayor of Iguala, Guerrero.
There is also the possibility that organized crime dollars could influence the outcome of the election. While swinging a presidential election in a nation of 110 million is a tall order, it is completely plausible to buy enough votes to influence a close gubernatorial election in, say Colima, a key Pacific state where 140,000 votes will likely be enough for a victory. That is to say nothing of the lightly contested local races around the country.
The INE was originally created in 2013 to replace the now-defunct Federal Electoral Institute (IFE). While organized crime was not a direct cause of the switch, the new agency at least theoretically should have helped limit the presence of dirty money in elections. The INE centralized the electoral apparatus, and reduced the role of state tribunals that were largely beholden to governors. Because state governments are widely seen as being more susceptible to corruption than their relatively honest counterpart at the federal level, particularly with regard to organized crime, this shift theoretically should have produced a less vulnerable electoral framework.
This logic, popular though it is in Mexico, appears to have been faulty. And not for the first time: many analysts have long advocated for the disappearance of Mexico's thousands of municipal police departments, again on the untested theory that the mere centralization of the forces into 32 states will translate into more effective police. As with the INE's replacement of the IFE, this was overly simplistic.
The persistent problems at the INE also demonstrate that institutional reform is a very tedious process. Mexican leaders have long demonstrated a fetish for creating new agencies when old ones fail. This is especially true in the security realm; Mexico has cycled through countless new federal police bodies over the past twenty years, none of them markedly better than their predecessors. The reason is that merely creating a new institution does nothing to strengthen it. On the contrary, often the same pathologies afflicting the old agency are absorbed into the new one. And while improving institutions is both a laudable and vital enterprise in Mexico, there is no reason to expect it to occur simply by decreeing a brand new entity. A new name is little more than a first step.
It's hard to determine at this stage how much damage there might be from criminal groups financing politicians. It seems unlikely that the new class of leaders will be especially vulnerable to narcos, since this is not a new problem. Nevertheless, it remains clear that this is one of a number of persistent security challenges that Mexicohas been unable to surmount.
And the result is a political class of which the nation is rightly suspicious. Mexico has grown quite competent at rooting out its most dangerous criminals with regularity. A more effective INE would be an effective tool in also reining in the criminals' political supporters, but it remains a far-off goal.
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Two candidates in Mexico's upcoming midterm elections were shot to death in different parts of the country amid a wave of violence and intimidation of candidates ahead of balloting next month.
Enrique Hernandez was in the middle of a campaign event in the town of Yurecuaro in Michoacan state when he was hit by shots from a moving vehicle Thursday about 8:10 p.m. He was running for mayor for the left-leaning Movement for National Regeneration, or Morena, party.
Less than an hour later, in the southeastern state of Tabasco, Hector Lopez Cruz, a candidate for local councilor for President Enrique Peña Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, was pumped with 16 bullets on his doorstep in the town of Mecatepec.
The assassinations come less than two weeks after Ulises Fabian Quiroz, a mayoral candidate for a coalition of the PRI and the Green Party, was slain in Atzacoaloya in the state of Guerrero.
Another aspiring candidate in Guerrero was killed and beheaded in March, and two others were kidnapped and then released.
The campaign for next month's mid-term elections in Mexico was marred by violence in the southern state of Guerrero on Friday when a ruling party candidate was shot dead by crime gang members.
Ulises Fabián Quiroz, a mayoral candidate in the municipality of Chilapa – located about an hour from state capital Chilpancingo – was dragged from his car, beaten and shot at least 15 times, authorities said.
The murder of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) official drew strong condemnation from all parties vying for mayoral, legislative and gubernatorial posts in Guerrero – one of the poorest and most violent states in the country.
"This deplorable action has forced us into mourning and to think about the climate of insecurity that prevails in Guerrero," said Héctor Astudillo, the PRI candidate for governor who suspended his campaign and attended Quiroz's funeral on Sunday.


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Swine manure management plans in North-Central Iowa: Nutrient loading and policy implications
L. L. Jackson, D. R. Keeney and E. M. Gilbert
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation April 2000, 55 (2) 205-212;
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D. R. Keeney
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Expansion of production in north central Iowa has occurred in dense clusters of confined feeding operations (UFOs), which poses questions about how manure nutrients are distributed on the landscape and whether manure management regulations are sufficient to protect water quality. Public record were used to document the manure management practices of 10 GZFOs housing 59,700 finishing hogs in a 1,554 ha area of Hamilton Coung, Iowa. Together, the UFOs generated an estimated 811,500 kg of nitrogen (N) each year, more than 70% of which volatilized into the atmosphere. CAFOs minimized the area required for applying manure by underestimating manure N content, projecting above average crop yields, and applying manure to soybeans. Some fields were claimed by more than one WO, and some field sizes were overestimated. Manure application based on crop demand for phosphorus would require 9,350 ha of cropland, compared to the 990 ha used by UFOs. Several policy changes could alleviate the nutrient management problems inherent in UFOs.
Laura L. Jackson is Associate Professor with the Department of Biology at the University of Northern Iowa. Dennis R. Keeney is Emeritus Professor retired from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University. Elizabeth M. Gilbert holdr a doctorate in Sociology and Lives in Hardin County, Iowa.
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Undeterred by the "doubters and the haters" in the light of an atrocious forecast for this year's Anzac weekend, we set out for this loop from Maitland Stream to Freehold Creek via Snowy Gorge Hut and Hideaway Biv. Unexpectedly, we were rewarded by half a day of clearing weather, which allowed us to sneak in a traverse along the ridge from Stony Peak to the tarn 1514m in the East Ahuriri. Team: Aaron Whitehead, Neil Sloan, Dave Laffan, James Thornton and Nina Dickerhof.


Because some of the short message programs the defendants set up complied with Verizon's rules, Verizon says it is unable to identify which customers didn't know about the charges for the services. As a result it has set up a Web page where customers can file a claim form and get reimbursed if they were wrongly charged for the services.
Verizon describes a plan enacted by the defendants over more than a year to evade detection by Verizon for text message campaigns that hid the cost of the services from consumers. The operator first approached Cylon in 2009 when it discovered that Cylon wasn't complying with Verizon's terms for offering premium text services. Verizon suspended Cylon as a result, but Hope and DeStefano came up with ways around the suspension, the operator says.
For instance, the defendants began setting up new companies each time they leased a short code and activated a campaign so that the operator didn't know the campaign was affiliated with Hope and DeStefano, Verizon alleges.
Short codes are short phone numbers the users can text in order to sign up for premium services. The CTIA mobile trade group administers short codes so that they'll work across operators. The campaigns promised to send text messages to subscribers regarding news, recipes and movie times, among other topics.
The defendants also instructed employees to lease short codes under their own names and used addresses at UPS stores in multiple states. "By using these multiple addresses, defendants made it more difficult to connect the [single-purpose-vehicle LLCs] and the short code campaigns to each other and to a single enterprise," Verizon claims in the suit.
The defendants then devised campaigns that complied with Verizon's rules and ran those campaigns as well as others that used the same short codes but didn't comply with Verizon's rules.
One example of an unauthorized campaign was an ad that appeared when users searched in Yahoo for "food network recipe." If Web users clicked on that advertisement, they were directed to what appears to be a cooking website. A pop-up ad on the site invites visitors to enter their mobile numbers in order to get the recipes.
However, the terms and conditions of the service are grayed out and users would have to scroll down on the page to see them, violating the operator's instructions for informing customers of costs, Verizon said. If users entered their mobile number, they received a PIN that let them opt into the service. However, the PIN entry page did not disclose subscription information as required by the operator's terms, Verizon said.
In a statement, Hope said he is "disappointed and distressed that the Texas Attorney General and Verizon Wireless have filed these two lawsuits which are designed to significantly harm our business and stifle our right to speak freely with our customers." He said neither the Texas attorney general nor Verizon contacted Jawa before filing the suits. He also said the company is unaware of any customer complaints in Texas. He called the lawsuits "misinformed" and said others that might follow suit would be "misguided."
The Better Business Bureau does not list any complaints against Jawa. However, Hope's company Cylon, which Verizon names as a defendant, has 37 complaints registered against it with the bureau over the past three years. The bureau has processed and closed all of the complaints.
Jawa seems to be doing well with its premium message business. In a local news station's profile of the company, Jawa boasts that it offers employees catered meals, a Ping-Pong table, and a tropical-themed nap room, complete with sleeping pod that "comes from England and has a James Bond, Dr. Evil feel," according to one employee.


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Labor Day wreck becomes double fatality
A passenger in a two-car collision on Labor Day has succumbed to his injuries, Texas Department of Public Safety officials said.
Dario M. Chavez, 51, of Austin, was pronounced dead Tuesday at 3:24 p.m. at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Temple after his involvement in a crash on U.S. Highway 183 the previous day.
The crash occurred at 2:50 p.m. – in rainy weather –two-tenths of a mile north of County Road 4026.
Senior Cpl. Monte Carroll of the DPS said a 2010 Ford F-350 pickup driven by Brandy I. Jones, 44, of Round Rock was towing a 1976 homemade livestock trailer northbound on the highway while Maria Rios Lopez, 67, of Austin was driving southbound in a 2014 Dodge Charger.
The pickup with the trailer lost control when it hydroplaned across the roadway into the southbound traffic lane, Carroll said. The driver of the Charger tried to avoid a collision, but the Dodge struck the right rear of the pickup.
Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Andy Garcia Jr. pronounced Lopez dead at the scene.
Acadian Ambulance Service transported Chavez, who was in the front passenger seat of the Dodge, to Rollins Brook Community Hospital. Gloria Chavez Jaramillo, 50, a passenger in the back seat who apparently was lying down when the impact occurred, was taken by Acadian Ambulance Service to Killeen's Metroplex Adventist Hospital.
Jones and her 10-year-old daughter – a right-front passenger in the Ford – were uninjured.
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Kingsport, Tenn., USA, March 5, 2019 - Eastman (NYSE:EMN), one of the world's leading specialty materials companies, announced today its intention to pursue the launch of an innovative advanced circular recycling technology that uses polyester waste which cannot be recycled by current mechanical methods, and as a result, often ends up in landfills and waterways.
Using the process of methanolysis, Eastman's advanced circular recycling technology breaks down polyester-based products into their polymer building blocks. These building blocks can then be reintroduced to the production of new polyester-based polymers, delivering a true circular solution. Eastman was one of the pioneers in developing methanolysis technology at commercial scale and has more than three decades of expertise in this innovative recycling process. Eastman's experience with methanolysis makes it uniquely qualified to be a leader in delivering this solution at commercial scale. Advanced circular recycling technology can be an especially impactful solution, as low-quality polyester waste that would typically be diverted to landfills can instead be recycled into high-quality polyesters suitable for use in a variety of end markets, including food contact applications.
"We recognize that plastic waste is a complex problem that needs advanced solutions. As we have engaged potential partners, it is clear there is high interest across the entire value chain," said Mark Costa, Eastman's Board Chair and Chief Executive Officer. "Our long history of technical expertise in chemical processes, including methanolysis, and our leading position in copolyester chemistry, enables us to provide this innovative solution to address the growing challenges of plastic waste in our environment."
Eastman's efforts to find new end-of-life solutions to advance the circular economy align with the company's innovation-driven growth strategy and commitment to create value through sustainability. With a strong focus on issues and opportunities within the environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework, the company has established goals and strategies to address the world's complex challenges.
"We believe we have an obligation to enhance the quality of life in a material way," said David Golden, Senior Vice President, Chief Legal & Sustainability Officer, and Corporate Secretary. "As the desire grows for products that have a sustainable life cycle, Eastman continues to build on its heritage of world-class technology platforms and product innovation to offer solutions at the molecular level. Today, more than ever, the world needs innovation, and Eastman is excited about the possibilities we can achieve by working along the value chain, across industry sectors and with community partners to expand our efforts and make the greatest collective impact."
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Trump and the 'prosperity gospel' sell false promises to credulous evangelical Christians
President Trump has aligned himself with a false gospel. Both he and it promise you'll get what you want if you do what they want.
Brendan Clarey
Opinion contributor
President Donald Trump made a speech Friday night at a church known for preaching the "prosperity gospel," a false doctrine that claims those who give financial support for pastors and churches will become wealthy and healthy.
That Trump's first appeal in his "Evangelicals for Trump" campaign comes from this church, Miami's King Jesus International Ministry, sends a clear message to evangelical Christians: Prosperity gospel and Trump's promises are as spiritually hollow as they are similar.
Both rely on this basic principle: Give something now, get something later.
On one of King Jesus International Ministry's donation pages, called First Fruits, can be found a core tenet of the prosperity gospel: "God honors our faith multiplying those fruits and giving us a blessed year." Essentially, with a little faith, God will multiply your January gift into more money year-round.
Another prime example comes from another of the church's donation pages: "When we bring offerings to God, He brings overabundance to our finances."
The lie of the prosperity gospel
King Jesus International Ministry Pastor Guillermo Maldonado wrote a book, published in 2009, called "Jesus Heals Your Sickness Today," which the description yells in all caps: "WHILE THE WORLD IS SUFFERING UNKNOWN ILLNESS AND EPIDEMICS, THIS BOOK BRINGS TO LIFE THE MINISTRY OF JESUS. IF YOU OR A LOVED ONE NEED HEALING, HERE IS THE PERFECT TOOL YOU NEED TO ATTAIN IT."
The problem with Maldonado and his church's teachings is that in no way are they supported by Scripture. God doesn't promise his followers in the Bible that they will receive "overabundance to our finances" if only they cut him a check. Similarly, he never promises he will heal them when they are sick.
If you want to know what following the will of God looks like in practice, look at Jesus, who was brutally tortured and murdered on the cross for our sins. Look at all the apostles and martyrs who died on account of proclaiming the Gospel.
These people didn't receive back what they lost in earthly prizes or see their bank accounts increase. They sacrificed their lives for the sake of God's true word in order to receive the gift of heaven. The prosperity gospel is based on the lie that you can get everything you want from the world by following God. The true Gospel is that Christ alone saves sinners like you and me from eternal punishment if we turn from our sin and follow him by God's grace.
Too little, too late:Even if Joel Osteen did the right thing, he lost a chance to teach Christianity
It appeared Trump preached from an appropriate pulpit Friday night, considering the promises he made to evangelicals. Throughout the speech, Trump tried to sell himself to Christians as a political savior who, if they vote for him, can give them everything they've ever wanted politically and culturally.
Trump spent much of the speech trying to convince evangelicals that he has saved their religion from the clutches of the God-hating left. He alone ended the war on Christmas. He alone ended the government's war on religion. He alone can defend believers and our churches from being silenced by Democratic presidential candidates.
Trump promises to Christians what he cannot give
And in case you had any doubts that Trump is selling what he cannot possibly deliver, listen to what he said as his speech was coming to an end: "With millions upon millions of evangelical voters, Christian voters and voters of every faith, we will preserve our heritage, we will defend our liberty, we will reclaim our destiny, we will strengthen our families, we will build up our communities, we will restore the role of faith and true foundation of American life."
How will one vote for Trump on Election Day instantly reclaim our destiny (whatever that means)? Strengthen our families? Build up our communities? Restore the role of faith? If these kinds of core cultural changes aren't happening now, years after Trump took office and became evangelical's greatest champion in the White House, why should we expect to magically see them take effect on or after Nov. 3?
None of this means we shouldn't try to elect a president who will uphold our values and protect religious liberty. But that is the work of a politician, not a political savior.
Not the church I knew:Evangelical leaders grow more dishonest in defense of Trump
Trump's closing lines sounded more like an altar call than a political message: "Today in churches all across our land, believers are defending our God-given freedoms. We need every single person here today to talk to your families, talk to your neighbors, share our message of national renewal."
But President Trump's "message of national renewal" is ultimately a false gospel — earthly deliverance in exchange for political support. He cannot keep his promises in the same way that Maldonado and his church cannot keep theirs.
Donald Trump tries to brand himself as the savior of American Christians who will give them everything they want if they give him their votes. But as with the prosperity gospel, Christians must be wary of worldly promises from false political saviors. Christians will only ever have one savior, and he's not in the Oval Office — he's at the right hand of God the Father.
Brendan Clarey is an evangelical Christian and a former Collegiate Network fellow for USA TODAY's opinion section. Follow him on Twitter: @BrendanClarey
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Tag: medieval tiles
In which eight rare medieval wall tiles are bought for £17 and are now priceless.
The Tring Tiles.
Tucked away on a side wall in the Medieval Galleries in the behemoth that is the British Museum, hang the enchanting Tring Tiles. Remarkable then, that despite such an immense archive spanning thousands of years, these eight tiles have been on a world tour and are now on permanent display.
The history of the Tring Tiles is so terribly brief, as not much is known about them, not even whether they were made in England, or in France.
They have been described as a ceramic religious comic strip of the life of a young Christ, almost like a 14th century Springfield cartoon. The yellow characters tell apocryphal tales about the childhood of Christ in a raw comic strip full of odd and unfamiliar images; Christ killing a school mate who has annoyed him, in another scene, a man dies because he spoilt a pool that Jesus made and he is brought back to life and simply walks away! I don't recall being told these stories as a child.
Fashions come and go, and that extends to things ecclesiastical. During an early 18th century make-over of the Tring Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, the tiles were covered up and then stripped out in the early 1880's, only to be offered for sale in the Dickensian-sounding local Curiosity Shop. The owner refused to say how he came by them. Happy to sell them on however, to a Rev Owen, who upon his death in Chelmsford in 1922, the tiles were disposed off amongst his personal and household items. They were bought by an antiques dealer for £17, and he sold them to the British Museum.
So much could have gone wrong through all of these transactions! And then another two tiles turned up in Tring and were gifted to the V&A. Will any more turn up one day…I hope the residents of Tring are thoroughly examining their cellars and garden walls.
Although not a common English method, I like to think they could have been made in the nearby Penn potteries, an important centre for decorative tiles that were destined for great houses and buildings across London and the South East.
Just like the Holy Trinity Penn 'Doom' painting that was very nearly lost if it weren't for the rain, so too would these remarkable treasures have also been lost. Thank goodness for eagle-eyed folk and purveyors of all things curious!
"Eight tiles of lead-glazed red earthenware with decoration representing incidents from the apocryphal accounts of the infancy of Christ. Executed by scratching through and cutting away a white slip under a yellow clear glaze.' British Museum
Origin: England. or France
Made: late Medieval, circa 13th century
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"Mama, Papa, I'm going to make a museum…" claimed the precocious founder of the Natural History Museum in Tring!
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Heated competition must've gotten the best of Los Angeles Clippers player, Austin Rivers, on Thursday. Rivers catapulted a seat cushion into the stands at the Sacramento arena striking a fan in her eye. Rivers stated, "The pillow was light and it just flew into the air backwards. I didn't really look when it went into the crowd." It was not proven that the fan was targeted, but Rivers was fined $25,000 and issued an apology to the fan.
He went on to say that it was not his intention to hurt any fan during Wednesday night's game against the Sacramento Kings. They won the game 111-104. It's unclear why the cushion was thrown, but Coach Doc Rivers and Austin appear to be very apologetic regarding the incident.


It is anticipated that Friday, September 20, 2013, will be proclaimed by President Obama as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Over the past several years, all or most of the 50 states have proclaimed POW/MIA Recognition Day in conjunction with the national effort. The League will ask each state to issue a proclamation, but we need your support! Please contact your Governor and ask for his/her support and a copy of your state's proclamation.
Across the country, local POW/MIA ceremonies are encouraged throughout POW/MIA Recognition Week, culminating with countless events and the national ceremony in Washington, DC, on Recognition Day. Support for these missing Americans and their families is deeply felt. America's POW/MIAs should be honored and recognized, rather than memorialized, with the focus on the need to account as fully as possible for those still missing, alive or dead. Strong, united support by the American people is crucial to achieving concrete answers, and now is the time to start planning for this year's ceremonies. The American people can make the difference.
Remember: Involving the state-level Department of Veterans Affairs, plus state, district and local veteran organizations, is the key to a successful event. Advance publicity must be a priority or attendance will be minimal. In order for the League to accurately respond to media inquiries and measure national awareness impact, please send information regarding activities to League National Coordinator, Lacy Rourke, by email at [email protected], by mail at the League office, or by phone at 703-465-7432.
Advertising: Develop posters and/or flyers to advertise local activities in the windows of area businesses. National POW/MIA Recognition Day posters will be available from the Defense POW/MIA Office (703) 699-1169) or online (http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/pow_day/). An explanation of the poster can be found here.
Invitations: For all events, invitations may be sent to POW/MIA families in your area through the Service Casualty Offices (USA 800-892-2490; USN 800-443-9298; USMC 800-847-1597; USAF 800-531-5501), the CIA 703-874-4270, State Department for missing civilians 202-647-5470, and the League's national office 703-465-7432. Invitations should also be extended to area veteran organizations, local dignitaries, civic organizations, etc. Speak to local civic clubs, veteran groups and auxiliaries, schools and churches prior to Recognition Day about the POW/MIA issue and plans for educational activities. Get them involved!
Write to your Governor, reinforcing the League's request for a proclamation supporting National POW/MIA Recognition Day, calling on all citizens to participate in honoring US personnel still missing from our Nation's past wars, returned POWs, and their respective families. Suggest that the Governor send a copy of your state's proclamation to the President, Secretaries of State and Defense, and to the Members of Congress in their state delegation.
Write letters to Congress asking them to ensure that adequate funding and personnel are provided each year to underwrite the operational requirements to maintain a high level of effort on accounting for US personnel still missing from past wars. Urge your elected officials to contact the Vietnamese Embassy, 1233 Twentieth Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036, asking for renewed efforts on their part to locate and provide archival records that could expedite the answers we seek in accounting for American POw?MIAs. This serves a two-fold purpose: 1) informing elected officials of constituent involvement; and 2) signaling Hanoi of US Congressional support.
POW/MIA Vigils (for 24 hours or for a specific amount of time related to the number of Americans missing in your area) are meaningful, visible displays of support for the POW/MIA issue. Vigils can include Candlelight Ceremonies, reading of individual names from the state or 50 names representing one missing man from each of the 50 states. Congressional involvement in such events also signals interest in and support for the issue.
Encourage flying the League's POW/MIA flag at the State Capitol, city hall and other local and state government buildings. Contact fire and police departments, schools and local businesses, requesting display of the POW/MIA flag at all appropriate locations. Check your local office of the U.S. Postal Service to ensure they have a flag and plan to display it, as required by law, at least six mandated days: Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, Recognition Day, & Veterans Day), if not 24/7. Rededication ceremonies may also be held for flags that are already on display, an ideal event to honor POW/MIAs from all wars. To obtain POW/MIA flags, contact the Ohio Chapter MIA-POW, Mrs. Liz Flick, 614-451-2405.
Distribute POW/MIA flyers available from the League's national office, 703-465-7432, to ensure updated, factual information is distributed.


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