Can You Keep Up With Pat Spain?
Fair warning: You'll need serious stamina to retrace the investigations this biologist-explorer undertakes for the first season of Legend Hunter. Pat might even have more time on the road than he does in the lab (and we love him for it).
Pat begins his acquaintance with the Ripper's crime spree in East London, where curator Patricia Knox introduces visitors to newspaper clippings from the 1880s. The museum gives the murders context by telling their story from the victims' perspectives — a sobering and unforgettable series of tales.
Hot on Jack the Ripper's terrifying trail, Pat heads to a port town in Kent to take a closer look at a letter penned by the notorious killer. Lost to historians for more than half a century, the missive just might reveal the fiend's identity once and for all.
Three thousand years old and ever-changing, London presents a new face to everyone who visits it. The Thames, on the other hand, has been untouched for a century — and it buries and preserves artifacts. Pat receives special permission to join a historian along its banks in search of evidence from crimes long past.
Pat joins geologist Eric Drummond to inspect the Tufa line — that is, a formation that indicates the former waterline of Lake Cahuilla, a massive body that once filled southern California's Imperial Valley. Did this desert really swallow a massive Spanish galleon hundreds of years ago?
If there is treasure from an ancient expedition to be found in the desert, hopeful hunters need to go high-tech. Pat boards an airboat to join a robotics expert in hopes of using a remotely-operated vehicle to get to the bottom of the mystery (and the Salton Sea).
A Swedish rancher named Nels Jacobson once unearthed a chest that might have been part of the California desert's legendary Spanish treasure. Pat and his team inspect the site: Could the barren land be coaxed into regurgitating its fortune?
Pat hops into a helicopter to head down to the California-Mexico border, where petroglyphs dating back to the early 1600s depict what appears to be a massive ship. It's a strong lead — and following it proves dangerous, given the unpredictability of local sand storms.
Built in 1959, this modernist resort once played host to Marilyn Monroe and the Beach Boys. Like the mysterious galleon Pat tracks across California, it fell victim to the desert's capriciousness.
Pat travels to the heart of dairy country in search of the Beast of Bray Road, a wolflike creature encountered a whopping 31 times between 1989 and 2006. Bears and wolves are thought to have cleared out of the area long ago — but the eyewitnesses Pat interviews leave little doubt that something has decided to pay special attention to this farmland.
Lee Hampel, the owner of this farm, tells Pat he saw the Beast of Bray Road just a few months ago. Infrared cameras and painstaking surveillance just might provide support for this persistent local legend (which means, of course, that it's camping time for Pat).
The Beast of Bray Road would have a hard time finding cover near its namesake thoroughfare, which is a mere four miles long and situated in open farmland between interstates. Wooded areas like this one, on the other hand, are well suited to large creatures — and sure enough, Pat finds unusual tracks there.
Could the werewolf-like creature reported so consistently in this area be a better-known species transformed by a debilitating disease? Do we know as much about the wilderness surrounding us as we think we do? Pat walks the road himself to consider the Beast — and arrives at an intersection of legend and science.
Believe it or not, visitors can lounge and even sleep in the very rooms where Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother were murdered. Pat doesn't settle in for the evening — but he does wonder if the Borden murders might have been the first tragedies in a series of connected killings at the end of the 19th century.
Pat revisits the Bristol County courthouse where, in 1893, Lizzie Borden was found innocent. She was suspected of murder because she stood to gain the most from her father and stepmother's deaths. Pat has a few theories about other family and friends that he needs to investigate before making up his mind.
The so-called Irish Crown Jewels were a symbol of England's dominion — and for more than a century, no one has known where they are. Pat dives into — and beneath — Dublin to find out what really happened to them.
Pat visits the supposedly secure library in Dublin Castle where a locked safe once held the Irish Crown Jewels. A series of underground tunnels links buildings all over Dublin, and it's entirely possible that one of the prime suspects in the jewels' heist used it to enter and leave that library undetected.
Though many of us associate vampires with Europe, superstitions (and grisly practices) associated with them made their way to America hundreds of years ago. Pat, in turn, makes his way to the Big Easy, a city that 50 modern-day vampires now call home.
Martha Dwight was the married daughter of Belchertown's Congregational minister. She was also one of one of the first Americans suspected of being a vampire, and Pat visits her 230-year-old gravesite to find out just how far her father and his flock went to prevent her from doing them harm.
Many of us roll our eyes at the idea that clandestine organizations target private citizens and attempt to control their minds, but decades ago, the CIA attempted to do just that. Pat visits the home at 225 Chestnut Street where government officials and their operatives dosed unsuspecting citizens with LSD.
Pat calls Chicago the "epicenter" of American mind-control stories because of its high concentration of "targeted individuals" (that is, people who believe they are unwilling participants in secret government programs). Most of them are unwilling to meet with him in person, but he finds a willing interviewee — and visits a shop that specializes in technology to counteract attacks like the one he describes.


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// Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

// Browser tests targeted at the RenderView that run in browser context.
// Note that these tests rely on single-process mode, and hence may be
// disabled in some configurations (check gyp files).

#include <utility>

#include "base/bind.h"
#include "base/callback.h"
#include "base/command_line.h"
#include "base/feature_list.h"
#include "base/strings/utf_string_conversions.h"
#include "build/build_config.h"
#include "content/public/browser/browser_context.h"
#include "content/public/browser/browser_thread.h"
#include "content/public/browser/render_frame_host.h"
#include "content/public/browser/render_process_host.h"
#include "content/public/browser/storage_partition.h"
#include "content/public/browser/web_contents.h"
#include "content/public/common/content_switches.h"
#include "content/public/renderer/render_view.h"
#include "content/public/test/browser_test.h"
#include "content/public/test/browser_test_utils.h"
#include "content/public/test/content_browser_test.h"
#include "content/public/test/content_browser_test_utils.h"
#include "content/public/test/test_utils.h"
#include "content/shell/browser/shell.h"
#include "content/shell/browser/shell_browser_context.h"
#include "content/shell/browser/shell_content_browser_client.h"
#include "content/shell/common/shell_content_client.h"
#include "content/shell/renderer/shell_content_renderer_client.h"
#include "net/base/net_errors.h"
#include "net/disk_cache/disk_cache.h"
#include "net/http/http_cache.h"
#include "services/network/public/cpp/features.h"
#include "services/network/public/mojom/network_context.mojom.h"
#include "testing/gtest/include/gtest/gtest.h"
#include "third_party/blink/public/platform/web_url_error.h"
#include "third_party/blink/public/platform/web_url_request.h"
#include "third_party/blink/public/web/web_frame.h"

namespace content {

namespace {

class TestShellContentRendererClient : public ShellContentRendererClient {
 public:
  TestShellContentRendererClient()
      : latest_error_valid_(false),
        latest_error_reason_(0),
        latest_error_stale_copy_in_cache_(false) {}

  void PrepareErrorPage(content::RenderFrame* render_frame,
                        const blink::WebURLError& error,
                        const std::string& http_method,
                        std::string* error_html) override {
    if (error_html)
      *error_html = "A suffusion of yellow.";
    latest_error_valid_ = true;
    latest_error_reason_ = error.reason();
    latest_error_stale_copy_in_cache_ = error.has_copy_in_cache();
  }

  bool GetLatestError(int* error_code, bool* stale_cache_entry_present) {
    if (latest_error_valid_) {
      *error_code = latest_error_reason_;
      *stale_cache_entry_present = latest_error_stale_copy_in_cache_;
    }
    return latest_error_valid_;
  }

 private:
  bool latest_error_valid_;
  int latest_error_reason_;
  bool latest_error_stale_copy_in_cache_;
};

}  // namespace

class RenderViewBrowserTest : public ContentBrowserTest {
 public:
  RenderViewBrowserTest() {}

  void SetUpCommandLine(base::CommandLine* command_line) override {
    // This method is needed to allow interaction with in-process renderer
    // and use of a test ContentRendererClient.
    command_line->AppendSwitch(switches::kSingleProcess);
  }

  void SetUpOnMainThread() override {
    // Override setting of renderer client.
    renderer_client_ = new TestShellContentRendererClient();
    // Explicitly leaks ownership; this object will remain alive
    // until process death.  We don't deleted the returned value,
    // since some contexts set the pointer to a non-heap address.
    SetRendererClientForTesting(renderer_client_);
  }

  // Navigates to the given URL and waits for |num_navigations| to occur, and
  // the title to change to |expected_title|.
  void NavigateToURLAndWaitForTitle(const GURL& url,
                                    const std::string& expected_title,
                                    int num_navigations) {
    content::TitleWatcher title_watcher(
        shell()->web_contents(), base::ASCIIToUTF16(expected_title));

    content::NavigateToURLBlockUntilNavigationsComplete(
        shell(), url, num_navigations);

    EXPECT_EQ(base::ASCIIToUTF16(expected_title),
              title_watcher.WaitAndGetTitle());
  }

  // Returns true if there is a valid error stored; in this case
  // |*error_code| and |*stale_cache_entry_present| will be updated
  // appropriately.
  // Must be called after the renderer thread is created.
  bool GetLatestErrorFromRendererClient(
      int* error_code, bool* stale_cache_entry_present) {
    bool result = false;

    PostTaskToInProcessRendererAndWait(base::BindOnce(
        &RenderViewBrowserTest::GetLatestErrorFromRendererClient0,
        renderer_client_, &result, error_code, stale_cache_entry_present));
    return result;
  }

 private:
  // Must be run on renderer thread.
  static void GetLatestErrorFromRendererClient0(
      TestShellContentRendererClient* renderer_client,
      bool* result, int* error_code, bool* stale_cache_entry_present) {
    *result = renderer_client->GetLatestError(
        error_code, stale_cache_entry_present);
  }

  TestShellContentRendererClient* renderer_client_;
};

// https://crbug.com/788788
#if defined(OS_ANDROID) && defined(ADDRESS_SANITIZER)
#define MAYBE_ConfirmCacheInformationPlumbed \
  DISABLED_ConfirmCacheInformationPlumbed
#else
#define MAYBE_ConfirmCacheInformationPlumbed ConfirmCacheInformationPlumbed
#endif  // defined(OS_ANDROID) && defined(ADDRESS_SANITIZER)
IN_PROC_BROWSER_TEST_F(RenderViewBrowserTest,
                       MAYBE_ConfirmCacheInformationPlumbed) {
  ASSERT_TRUE(embedded_test_server()->Start());

  // Load URL with "nocache" set, to create stale cache.
  GURL test_url(embedded_test_server()->GetURL("/nocache-with-etag.html"));
  NavigateToURLAndWaitForTitle(test_url, "Nocache Test Page", 1);

  // Shut down the server to force a network error.
  ASSERT_TRUE(embedded_test_server()->ShutdownAndWaitUntilComplete());

  // An error results in one completed navigation.
  NavigateToURLBlockUntilNavigationsComplete(shell(), test_url, 1);
  int error_code = net::OK;
  bool stale_cache_entry_present = false;
  ASSERT_TRUE(GetLatestErrorFromRendererClient(
      &error_code, &stale_cache_entry_present));
  EXPECT_EQ(net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED, error_code);
  EXPECT_TRUE(stale_cache_entry_present);

  // Clear the cache and repeat; confirm lack of entry in cache reported.
  {
    base::RunLoop run_loop;
    content::StoragePartition* partition = shell()
                                               ->web_contents()
                                               ->GetMainFrame()
                                               ->GetProcess()
                                               ->GetStoragePartition();
    partition->GetNetworkContext()->ClearHttpCache(
        base::Time(), base::Time(), nullptr /* filter */,
        base::BindOnce(run_loop.QuitClosure()));
    run_loop.Run();
  }

  content::NavigateToURLBlockUntilNavigationsComplete(shell(), test_url, 1);

  error_code = net::OK;
  stale_cache_entry_present = true;
  ASSERT_TRUE(GetLatestErrorFromRendererClient(
      &error_code, &stale_cache_entry_present));
  EXPECT_EQ(net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED, error_code);
  EXPECT_FALSE(stale_cache_entry_present);
}

}  // namespace content

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Round base for hats and fascinators. This is made of natural unbleached straw sewn in overlapping circles. Use tucked inside a large hat such as a saucer for a secure head fitting or pile on the sinamay ribbons or crin for a fabulous fascinator. Great base to sew flowers to.


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Recovery Plan – the Commission's proposal
Recovery Plan – the Commission's…
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To respond to the social and economic damage caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, in May 27th 2020 the European Commission has presented its proposal (which will need to be approved by the European Parliament and by the Council) named: "Recovery Plan for Europe". The plan is based on two key elements: an enhanced Multiannual Financial Framework (or the EU Budget) of 1,1 billion euros, and a new programme called Next Generation EU which allows the Commission to activate another 750 billion euros as soon as possible, issuing European bonds ("Coronabonds").
These additional resources will be available until the end of 2024 and 2/3 (500 billion) will be transferred to the States as non-repayable grants, meaning that they will not impact public debts. The programmes are added to the measures already activated by the EU (SURE, EIB and health ESM) for a total of 540 billion euros.
The plan is based on three pillars which in turn are divided into instruments and actions. You can find a quick analysis and Q&A below.
First Pillar: Support the recovery of Member States
Recovery and Resilience facility: the most substantial instrument of the entire plan: 560 billion euros of which 310 billions for non-repayable grants, the fund will support the investments and reforms that aim towards a sustainable recovery and a stronger resilience of the economies, with a particular attention to digital and ecological transformation, concentrating the resources in the areas mostly affected by the pandemic (like Italy).
REACT-EU: an assistance programme to support the recovery and the cohesion of the countries which will allow to allocate 55 billion euros (of which 50 from "Next Generation EU") through the cohesion policy instruments in a flexible way, as to concentrate the resources in those areas where the economic and social impact will be most severe;
Just Transition Fund: in order to avoid that the ecological transition excessively damages those areas where the core economic activity is dominated by polluting methods which will soon become obsolete, the Commission has presented in January its proposal for a Just Transition Mechanism, which lists the creation of a 10 billion Just Transition Fund. Together with the proposal to base the recovery on the ecological transition, the Commission has proposed to quadruple these funds thanks to Next Generation EU.
Second Pillar: Relaunch the economy and support private investments
Strengthen InvestEU, the principal European programme on investments, which followed the Junker Plan bringing its resources from 15,2 billion to more than 30 (15 from Next Generation EU dedicated to a new fund for strategic investments: the Strategic Investment Facility). The plan will provide a European public guarantee of 72 billion on investments, generating up to 400 billions in investments.
Solvency support instrument: with a budget of 31 billion euros (of which 26 from NextGenEU) this instrument will provide a public guarantee from the EIB of 75 billion which will allow to provide up to 300 billion euros to support companies and avoid the bankruptcy of healthy enterprises.
Third Pillar: Learn from the crisis
Eu4health: New health programme to equip and prepare Europe against future sanitary threats with a budget of 9,4 billion euros.
Enhanced RescEU: strengthening of the civil protection mechanism of the EU through subsidies and tenders managed by the Commission of up to 3,1 billion euros.
How is Next Generation EU financed?
To finance the necessary investments, the Commission will issue bonds on the financial markets on behalf of the EU. The strong credit rating of the Commission will allow it to obtain loans at a reduced cost, which will be covered temporarily increasing the limit on own resources currently in place.
Another important aspect of the plan is that the debt will not be repaid before 2028. Consequently, Member States will not be asked to provide an additional contribution to the EU Budget, at least until that date. Among the potential new resources that the UE could use to cover the financial costs (which would lower the contributions by the Member States), the Commission mentions the following: the extension of the exchange system of CO2 quotas of the EU to the maritime and air sectors (10 billion per year), a tax on non-recycled plastic, a web-tax on large digital companies (1,3 billion per year) and a mechanism to tax polluting imports from extra-EU countries (5-14 billion per year).
How many resources are destined to each country?
It is hard to establish exactly how the costs and benefits will be shared among single countries. In the Commission documents there is a table with the estimates according to which Italy would be the first beneficiary with 153 billion euros (20,4% of the funds) and the third contributor with 96,3 billion euros. Amounting to a net total of 56,7 billions. Conversely, Germany would be the first contributor (185,1 billion euros) and the fifth beneficiary (51,8 billion euros) with a highly negative net total of 133,3 billion euros.
What are the conditions to access the funds?
To access the funds Member States will need to draft reform and investment plans to implement with the support of the Commission. There will not be conditions tied to these funds, except for the respect of the programmes prepared by the Member States themselves and approved by the Commission.
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Matthew Vassar clearly wanted to leave a legacy, but he probably wasn't expecting it to extend to feline friends. Somehow, no other name seemed appropriate for the tiny kitten Betty Spencer Noyes '40 found near Main Circle during the 1995 reunion weekend.
Noyes heard a strange noise late one night. She found a sickly kitten, with no mother in sight. Noyes brought the "ugly, howling" animal back to Cushing to sleep in the laundry room. (Noyes' reunion roommate didn't appreciate the cat's squealing.) Early the next morning, Noyes met an alumna, a doctor who always carried emergency formula in her car. The newfound friends nursed the kitten to health, and Noyes took "Matthew Vassar" home to join her other three cats. "No one thought he would last long," Noyes said. "But now, Matthew Vassar's the biggest cat you will ever see!"


The Benjamin model E is nearly identical to the model F, but the rear sights on the E are placed toward the end of the stock, where the rear sights on the F are positioned farther back. The stamps on the breech also have different styles, and the front sights are different. The model E is a multi-pump pneumatic, muzzle loading BB gun with a muzzle pump, and walnut half stock. These were very popular BB guns for about 25 years, between 1910 and 1935.


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'Eternals' Writer Says Door Is Open For Galactus Apperance In Sequel
Eternals writer Kaz Firpo recently shared that a sequel could feature the MCU debut of Galactus.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to get more cosmic, with Eternals finally showing off the Celestials in all their glory. The massive scale of the Celestials inevitably has Marvel fans thinking about how Galactus could be realized in the future after the disappointing version in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
During an interview with The Direct, Eternals writer Kaz Firpo is in the same boat as many Marvel fans and would love to see Galactus in a potential sequel:
"Galactus is an amazing, amazing character, and villain. We are, you know, obviously setting the stage for intergalactic, cosmic, megalith confrontations, especially when you kill a space god—and then the space god comes and kidnaps you and plans to judge Earth, I think the door is very much open for world-eating villains… Galactus is one of those iconic figures of the Marvel Universe that [they're] excited to see."
Here is the synopsis for Marvel Studios' Eternals:
"The story takes place across two time periods. One storyline is set in the past when they operated as a formidable team and a close family unit. The second storyline is in the present, when the group has fractured and split apart, content to live among humans, hiding in plain sight. The prevailing threat of the Deviants, which once again threatens the existence of mankind, means the Eternals need to put their differences aside and regroup."
Chloe Zhao directed Eternals from a script she co-wrote with Patrick Burleigh, Kaz Firpo, and Ryan Firpo. The cast of the Marvel Studios project includes Gemma Chan as Sersi, Richard Madden as Ikaris, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo, Lia McHugh as Sprite, Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos, Lauren Ridloff as Makkari, Barry Keoghan as Druig, Don Lee as Gilgamesh, Kit Harington as Dane Whitman, Salma Hayek as Ajak, and Angelina Jolie as Thena.
Eternals is now in theaters. Stay tuned for all the latest news on the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and be sure to subscribe to Heroic Hollywood's YouTube channel for more original video content.
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HYBRIDMAGAZINE.COM | FEBRUARY 2001 - SWEET NOVEMBER (PG-13) hybridmagazine.com :: indie counter-culture daily, no secret handshakes.
Maybe it's because I saw it two days before Valentine's Day. Maybe it's because I'm a longtime fan of both Keanu and Charlize. Or maybe it's just because I'm a girl prone to random crying fits. But whatever the reason, SWEET NOVEMBER made me cry like a little baby and I loved every minute of it.
I went into this film knowing that at the very least I would be entertained for a few hours and I came out thoroughly entertained and appreciative of another movie whose trailer makes it look overly sappy and poorly scripted. Anyone who has seen the aforementioned trailer knows that Nelson (Reeves) and Sarah (Theron) fall in love, Sarah gets sick and that something disastrous happens. Not the most original love story, but there's a twist. In order to live her short life to the fullest, Sarah agrees to stay with Nelson for a month only, "long enough to be meaningful and short enough to stay out of trouble." The month, of course, is November.
A perfect date movie just in time for Valentine couples everywhere, SWEET NOVEMBER succumbs to sappiness, but not too often and not to the point of annoyance. Just enough to make boyfriends groan and girlfriends sigh. Fans of the starring couple will get an eyeful too, as both Reeves and Theron look stunning throughout the film and serve as a wonderful foreground for the breathtaking scenery in San Francisco, where the story is set.
If you still don't want to see this film, at least go to see Jason Isaacs in drag. It's quite a switch from his cold-hearted Colonel Tavington in THE PATRIOT. Plus, Keanu sings and you can't get better than that!
SWEET NOVEMBER is not the perfect love story, nor does it have the requisite happy ending. It is not perfectly acted, nor masterfully directed. It is, however, fully what the title implies, sweet. And sometimes that's enough to make you cry.


The stages of life are always in motion. Parenthood is such a stage where you sacrifice everything for your beloved child. It is a blissful feeling when your little bundle of joy comes to your world. Your focus and elixir of happiness owes to your child. The relation between a child and a father is always special and pious as much as with the mother. Along with love and care, responsibility also comes forth. However the little bundle of joy is so special to you that you want to give him or her every happiness of the world. Of all the gifts and messages, having a tattoo in the honor of kids is the best way. You'll find many Tattoo Ideas for Parents that can certainly define the true love and make it look creative..
The greatest possession of your life becomes none other than your child. To show your love and gesture to your child an innovative way is welcomed. Getting a kids tattoo as a name or a face imprint on your body is one such idea. Check out for the best tattoo ideas for parents and showcase how your child is essential for your life.
What are the changes in your life when your kid is born?
Your life does not remain the same after a child is born. The joy of being a parent comes with certain hiccups.
You have to learn how to balance between life and work.
You have to set your priorities and cannot neglect the child.
You have to feed your kid on time.
You have to teach your child good manners.
You have to know when to fulfill his demands and not to pay attention to her tantrums unnecessarily.
You want him to grow as a good human being.
You will sacrifice your time and important meetings for your child.
It is not unusual that we love to be loved. Out of the many ways parents try to symbolize the birth of a child, getting tattoos of kids is a unique one. Imprinting your kid's face or the name on any part of the body, you can showcase your love astoundingly. Honoring your kid in such an unusual yet special way is a step forward to make the kid feel how deep your love is. Expressing your love to your kid in this way is astounding. It will make your child feel how special he or she is. Tattoos for dads and tattoos for moms with the kid's name will deepen the bond between you and your kid. This will be a lasting memory of the special feeling and joy which you experience once in a lifetime.
As you decide to get tattoos in honor of child you might be perplexed with the multitude of tattoo designs available. It is wise to research the designs of tattoos from various sources, considering that it will be etched in your kid's honor. Choose those designs that aptly relate to you and your child. You can get tattoos of your child's face or its photograph, the name of your child or numbers associated with the day of birth. Consult with tattoo experts and parents who had the experience of being tattooed to avail the most appropriate options. With the internet at your fingertips, it is quite easy to look up for tattoo ideas on the internet too. Brainstorm for designs that will suit you and your kid the most.
The job of designing a unique and out of the box looking kid tattoos should be handed over to the professional tattoo designer who'll do the best job and share ideas on making it look unique.
It is a special moment when you become a parent. The joy of holding your child in your arms is unparalleled. Tattooing your body with kids' name isn't limited to celebrities, but common parents do follow this new age style. Inking your body with tattoos of your child's face or image is a great idea to immortalize the special feeling.


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Kate Douglas Wiggin (* 28. September 1856 in Philadelphia; † 24. August 1923 in Harrow, Middlesex, England) war eine amerikanische Kinderbuchautorin und Erzieherin.

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin wurde in Philadelphia geboren und ist walisischer Abstammung. Sie eröffnete 1878 den ersten kostenlosen Kindergarten in San Francisco (der "Silver Street Free Kindergarten"). Gemeinsam mit ihrer Schwester errichtete sie außerdem  in den 1880er Jahren eine Ausbildungsstätte für Kindergartenerzieher. Für eine gewisse Zeit lebte sie in Buxton, Maine, das sie für ihr Buch (und späteres Schauspiel) The Old Peabody Pew inspirierte.

Sie war aber auch als Kinderbuchautorin tätig, die bekanntesten waren The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887) und Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).

Ihr Roman Robinetta wurde 1914 im Schwäbischen Merkur in einer autorisierten Übersetzung von Julia Gräfin Baudissin als Fortsetzungsroman gedruckt.

Werke (Auswahl)
 1883: Story of Patsy
 1887: The Birds' Christmas Carol
 1898: Penelope's Progress
 1903: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. (deutsch: Rebekka vom Sonnenbachhof. übers. Natalie Rümelin. Stuttgart 1905)
        'Rebecca von der Sunnybrook Farm'. Deutsch von Nadine Erler. Verlag Rosenpark-Geschichten, Ettlingen 2023.
 1909: Susanna and Sue
 1912: A Child's Journey With Dickens (deutsch: Meine Reise mit Dickens. übers. Nadine Erler. Verlag 28 Eichen, Barnstorf 2016)
 1923: My Garden of Memory (Autobiografie)

Weblinks
 Bibliografie bei Project Gutenberg

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At times, being inside Taqueria Los Dos Laredos on Austin Highway was like those awkward visits to a friend's house when you were a kid and your friend's parents were fighting. The staff was making much commotion as they moved from task to task around the cash register and into the kitchen and back out. The commotion could be characterized as fighting, yes, but there was more to it than that, more complex.
And my waiter seemed to be in the center.
He saw my DSRL camera and it's like the floodgates opened and he proceeded to talk my ear off for almost the whole sitting about photography and camera equipment. Super friendly guy. But, dude, these tacos aren't eating themselves. Turns out he is an amateur photographer trying to get his own business off the ground. Everyone could hear our conversation. This Taqueria Los Dos Laredos — there are four of them — is a tight space with Magic 105.3, Today's Best Music, playing from on high.
The menu itself doesn't list its tacos. You have to go up to a framed taco listing next to the cash register, and all of the usual suspects are there. So I ordered, and they came, and I wasn't impressed. These aren't terrible tacos, but they disappointed me greatly.
Papa ranchera
Bean and cheese
Chicharron guisada
The papa ranchera had a great sauce in that the roasted tomatoes, onions and peppers were fresh and they balanced out one another. But the potatoes lacked seasoning and so the entire taco came off as bland.
The chorizo and egg was slightly burnt, dry and greasy with way too strong of a paprika flavor. It was like: Let me have a paprika taco with egg.
The bean and cheese overpowered by hard, shredded cheddar cheese. Hard in the grade of the cheddar, but also hard in the way cheddar stiffens when left out in the open. This kind of cheesiness actually can be quite tasty, but it negated the beans in this taco like the beans didn't matter and that's never a good thing.
The chicharron guisada was slightly crunchy, but there was absolutely no stew. Dried out, and so it seemed silly eating chicharrones in a tortilla without some kind of accessory or accompaniment.
So all of the tacos were off in some way. Even the hot sauces were unusual. The green not the typical watery sauce, but thick and garlicky. The red could have been chile de arbol or guajillo but was oily and bitter in a bad way. But then it had what looked like chopped cilantro in there. And too hot. Coming from me, that's saying something.
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The therapeutic effects of cyclosporin-A on experimental spinal cord injury
Background: According to the experiments, neutrophils and microglial cells are the first to attend the early phase of events in inflammatory response to SCI. Those pilot cells are seen in the first 12-24 hours and disappear about 3-5 days. The neutrophil accumulation and activation are steered by many cytokines such as TNF-α, IL-1 and IL-6. Neutrophils do accompany to the modulation of secondary injury mechanisms via neutrophil proteases and reactive oxygen molecules. When those processes are taken into account, depletion of neutrophils or depression of their functions may derive neuro-protection and neurological healing.
Purpose: To investigate the therapeutic and neuroprotective effects of Cyclosporin-A (CSA) on recovery processes using clinical and histopathological tests, which has not been used very frequently in clip compression spinal cord injury (SCI) models.
Material and Methods: Twenty-four Spraque-Dawley rats were divided into three groups: group 1 [Sham-control, n=8], group 2 [SCI+2 mL saline intramuscular (i.m.), n=8], group 3 [SCI+5 mg/kg CSA (i.p.) 1 h after SCI and for the following three days, n=8]. Rats were evaluated 1st, 3rd, 5th and 10th days after SCI, clinically by Drummond and Moore scale and under light microscopy and by TUNEL test; after scarification on 10th day.
Results: Clinical and histopathological results of treatment group were found significantly better than the results of the trauma group.
Conclusion: CSA can depress apoptosis and necrosis rates in a statistically significant manner and carry out the statistical difference in clinical results.
Author(s): Ali Riza Gezici, Guven Kilic, Tulin Firat, Seckin Emre Cancan, Aysel Kukner, Nezih Ozkan, Yasar Dagistan


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A Pale Horse Named Death is a group of Gothic metal and American doom metal, from Brooklyn, New York. It is formed by Sal Abruscato, the former drummer of Type O Negative. The band has a total of three albums: And Hell Will Follow Me (2011), Lay My Soul to Waste (2013) and When the World Becomes Undone (2019)
A Pale Horse Named Death is formed in Brooklyn, New York by Sal Abruscato, a year after the death of Peter Steele, singer and bassist of Type O Negative >>>. The band releases its first album, And Hell Will Follow Me in June the same year. The one who accompanies Sal is Matt Brown, sound engineer and former guitarist of Seventh Void. "The current between Matt and me is unique and unambiguous; it's very rare in today's music. We're killing the evil version of Lennon and McCartney. ", Sal Abruscato explains. And Hell Will Follow Me reached 5> top of the top 10 albums 2011 established by the magazine Revolver >. In 2011, the band separates from the guitarist Hambel and announces its replacement>.
On January 21, 2013, Lay My Soul to Waste was announced, and released on May 21, 2013 in North America >>> and May 23, 2013 in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It is published in Europe on May 24, 2013>. In the end the clip of the song DMSLT is published>. On February 16, 2014, the band gave a concert at La Boule Noire (Paris). At the end of 2017, Sal Abruscato announced his good-term start to the band Life of Agony, where he was the drummer and with which he recorded a third album with his band, called A Pale Horse Named Death.
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A video of the incident was taken near a fishing lodge in northern Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Suddenly, the huge black wolf leaps from the floor and runs towards the dog, whose barking turns much more intense as it becomes the wolf's target.
A real life embodiment of the Big Bad Wolf, the creature appears to be about seven foot long. It springs towards the barking dog before turning back into the woods.
The brave white dog wasn't too deterred by the wolf's initial pounce, and ran after it into the trees. However, the wolf seemed to turn back on its competition, and the camera loses focus as the dog's barks begin to sound pained.
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I work as a fishing guide in northern Saskatchewan and I shot this video on one of our trails around the lodge.
People have been expressing their fear at the video, with some suggesting the black creature is a timber wolf – which have been known to grow to huge lengths.
It's a timber wolf we have them here in Canada but they are rarely seen. This guy is pretty stupid allowing the dog to get that close.


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Cookies are Not Accepted - New York Times. Assessing the fallout from an exposed spy operation can be difficult, but the episode was considered particularly damaging.
The number of American assets lost in China, officials said, rivaled those lost in the Soviet Union and Russia during the betrayals of both Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, formerly of the C.I.A. and the F.B.I., who divulged intelligence operations to Moscow for years. The previously unreported episode shows how successful the Chinese were in disrupting American spying efforts and stealing secrets years before a well-publicized breach in 2015 gave Beijing access to thousands of government personnel records, including intelligence contractors. The C.I.A. considers spying in China one of its top priorities, but the country's extensive security apparatus makes it exceptionally hard for Western spy services to develop sources there. The C.I.A. and the F.B.I. both declined to comment.
Details about the investigation have been tightly held. Photo. My Father Was a Spy Who Helped Keep the Cold War From Heating Up. Inside the Stasi STD Clinics for 'Troubled' Women. The evils of totalitarianism come in many forms.
But the STD clinics of the German Democratic Republic were something special. HALLE, Germany—"Leave it alone," she was warned, "you will only harm yourself." Sixteen-year-old Elke Bauer, as we'll call her, wasn't supposed to ask too many questions: not about her sexual assault, not about her mysterious injections, not about the vaginal probing that amounted to torture, not about her virtual imprisonment. It was springtime in 1968, and Elke had gotten pregnant after a Russian soldier raped her in a forest near her home town of Halle, a city that back then had the bad luck to be in the Soviet-backed East German surveillance state, otherwise known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Is There a Russian Mole Inside the NSA? The CIA? Both?
The latest leak by the Shadow Brokers hackers exposed classified information that could only have come from within the NSA, setting the stage for a Cold War ritual—the mole hunt.
A message from Vladimir Putin can take many forms. It can be as heavy-handed as a pair of Russian bombers buzzing the Alaska coast, or as lethal as the public assassination of a defector on the streets of Kiev. Now Putin may be sending a message to the American government through a more subtle channel: an escalating series of U.S. intelligence leaks that last week exposed a National Security Agency operation in the Middle East and the identity of an agency official who participated. The leaks by self-described hackers calling themselves "the Shadow Brokers" began in the final months of the Obama administration and increased in frequency and impact after the U.S. bombing of a Syrian airfield this month—a move that angered Russia.
The Russian government immediately condemned the U.S. response. The new shadow brokers leak connects the NSA to the stuxnet cyber weapon used on Iran. The mysterious hacking group known as Shadow Brokers came back on Friday to drop its most explosive—and damaging—dump yet, a collection of alleged hacking tools for Microsoft Windows computers.
Buried among this new treasure trove, there are several mentions of previously disclosed NSA top secret programs and software such as "STRAITBIZARRE," used to control implants remotely, and "JEEPFLEA," a project to hack the money transferring system SWIFT. These provide yet another hint that these are indeed tools stolen from the NSA's elite hacking team. Perhaps more surprisingly, the dump also included one tool that was used in the famous Stuxnet worm, arguably the world's first digital weapon, used to hit an Iranian nuclear power facility and damage its centrifuges to slow down the country's nuclear weapons program.
"There is a strong connection between Stuxnet and the Shadow Brokers dump," O'Murchu told Motherboard in an email. Estonia: The Little Spycatcher Who Could. Every year the Estonians come out with an unvarnished and all too accurate assessment of Russian skullduggery.
The latest is very interesting indeed. Nobody does it better, but sometimes I wish someone would. Untitled. Newly declassified documents from the Reagan presidential library help explain how the U.S. government developed its sophisticated psychological operations capabilities that – over the past three decades – have created an alternative reality both for people in targeted countries and for American citizens, a structure that expanded U.S. influence abroad and quieted dissent at home.
The documents reveal the formation of a psyops bureaucracy under the direction of Walter Raymond Jr., a senior CIA covert operations specialist who was assigned to President Reagan's National Security Council staff to enhance the importance of propaganda and psyops in undermining U.S. adversaries around the world and ensuring sufficient public support for foreign policies inside the United States. But Raymond appears to have grasped his true importance. Russia's Spear Phishing Tactics in the 2016 Election Are Boring Compared to its 2008 Hack of the U.S. Military - Tech. Report: Russian Hackers 'Shaking Down' U.S. Liberals. Casey Anthony, who became a household name nine years ago when her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, went missing and was later found dead, spoke to the Associated Press about her case.
Anthony, now 30, has never spoken publicly about the trial. "Caylee would be 12 right now. And would be a total badass," Anthony told the Associated Press. The Spy Who Billed Me. (Photo: Photick/shutterstock.com) In 1961, when a KGB counterintelligence officer showed up at a CIA station in Helsinki, Jeanne Vertefeuille held the keys to the office safe.
"Responsibility for office funds was part of my normal administrative duties," the former CIA officer writes in Circle of Treason, the book she co-authored in 2013, "and therefore I could get into the strongbox where we kept our money. " The intelligence officer and his family needed to get out of the country, fast, and they needed money for the plane tickets and travel expenses.
More on The Shock Doctrine: Further reading on Ewen Cameron. Naomi Klein opens her book by making a connection between Ewen Cameron's psychiatric shock experiments at the McGill University in the 1950s, with the torture at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.
This selection of articles expands on these ideas: 1. Central Intelligence Agency, Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation, July 1963. This declassified CIA interrogation manual was used throughout Latin America in the 1960s and was heavily influenced by Donald Hebb and Ewen Cameron's mind control experiments at McGill University. Many of the sensory deprivation techniques described in the manual later resurfaced at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Leonard Cohen: Just the Facts. Maybe intelligence operatives wear tuxedos, drive Aston Martins, drink martinis, and say their names in reverse order, and maybe there's no need to wonder about anyone who doesn't fit that bill.
On the other hand, if (just say) an intelligence operative might be good at covering his tracks and assuming the appearance of being something other than an intelligence operative (like a poet-novelist turned folk singer turned pop star, say), then maybe tracking his activities, seeing which people he associates with, where his money comes from, which groups are backing him, where he travels to and when, what sort of things happen around him or what kind of coded messages he leaves behind ~ crazy stuff like that ~ would be the logical way to proceed? Please note, this post is not meant to assert that Leonard is now or ever has been an intelligence operative.
A Scientific Outlook: CCF, Bertrand Russell, William Empson, & The New Critics (Occult Yorkshire 11) "The state not only had a vested interest in becoming an active agent of evolution, it could not help but become one, willy-nilly. Fabians set out to write a sensible evolutionary agenda when they entered the political arena. Once this biopolitical connection is recognized, the past, present, and future of this seemingly bumbling movement takes on a formidable coherence.
Under the dottiness, lovability, intelligence, high social position, and genuine goodness of some of their works, the system held out as humanitarian by Fabians is grotesquely deceptive; in reality, Fabian compassion masks a real aloofness to humanity. It is purely an intellectual project in scientific management." — John Taylor Gatto, Underground History of American Education. Donald Ewen Cameron. Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Scotland in 1901. He graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. He began his career as resident surgeon at Glasgow Infirmary, but in 1929 moved to Canada to work in the Brandon Mental Hospital. In 1936, Cameron became Director of Research at Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts, and in 1938 was appointed Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Albany State Medical School. [cia-drugs] Article on Dr Donald Ewen Cameron in The Scotsman. Article on Dr Donald Ewen Cameron in The ScotsmanFri 6 Jan 2006 CRAIG HOWIE Stunning tale of brainwashing, the CIA and an unsuspecting Scots researcher HE WAS the Scot whose gilded career as the world's leading psychiatrist was mysteriously, and ignominiously, cut short.
They numbered in their hundreds, victims of Dr Donald Ewen Cameron's "brainwashing" experiments now known to have been funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) at the height of the Cold War. Fifty years later - with Cameron and most of his patients now deceased or in mental institutions - much remains murky about the often horrific and secretive research into mental illness at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute. The Secret (Insurance) Agent Men - latimes. Newly declassified U.S. intelligence files tell the remarkable story of the ultra-secret Insurance Intelligence Unit, a component of the Office of Strategic Services, a forerunner of the CIA, and its elite counterintelligence branch X-2. Though rarely numbering more than a half dozen agents, the unit gathered intelligence on the enemy's insurance industry, Nazi insurance titans and suspected collaborators in the insurance business.
But, more significantly, the unit mined standard insurance records for blueprints of bomb plants, timetables of tide changes and thousands of other details about targets, from a brewery in Bangkok to a candy company in Bergedorf. "They used insurance information as a weapon of war," said Greg Bradsher, a historian and National Archives expert on the declassified records.
How to Spin Russia's War on [Western-backed] Terror? Just one day into Russia's genuine "war on terror" corporate media have begun to claim, with almost no proof, that Russia is bombing innocent Syria civilians ( e.g. here, here and here). (One report from Reuters relies on a single Syrian Army defector as a source.) In fact, Syrians have been terrorized since 2011 in a vicious, US/NATO-backed covert regime change operation. An accompanying tactic involves routine demonization of Vladimir Putin, the man who after all accurately hit upon the horrific nature of US foreign policy at the UN in September. "In fact, the Islamic State itself did not come out of nowhere," the dreaded Russian head of state noted. US officials have exhibited uncertainty in how to publicly address Russia's direct military involvement in fighting the CIA-created "Islamic State" (ISIS) mercenary army. KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov's Warning to America. Untitled. Have Russian hitmen been killing with impunity in Turkey?
A series of assassinations has taken place in Turkey of men from the countries of the former USSR. There's evidence that some were carried out by killers from Russia, writes Murad Batal Shishani - including, in one case, names, photographs and a memory stick carelessly left behind for Turkish police to study.
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Do You Have a Hat?
By Eileen Spinelli
Illustrated by Geraldo Valerio
A fancy hat. A hat that's plain.
A hat for keeping off the rain.
A glowing hat. A hat with fruit.
A hat for that new dress or suit.
All herein have hats, it's true --
fantastic, magnificent hats!
What do Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, Russian-American composer Igor Stravinsky, South American entertainer Carmen Miranda, African-American cowboy Nat Love, and President Abraham Lincoln have in common?
HATS! Unique, distinctive, wonderful hats! And this bright and cheerful picture book from best-selling author Eileen Spinelli and colorful newcomer Geraldo Valério will have you thinking twice before going outside without yours!
Eileen Spinelli
Eileen Spinelli has written many books for children. Her 1991 debut Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch was?a Christopher Award winner, and she has gone on to author numerous picture books, poetry collections, and chapter books, including the bestselling?When Mama Comes Home Tonight,?and the critically acclaimed?Sophie's Masterpiece.?Eileen lives in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
Geraldo Valerio
Geraldo Valério is new to Simon & Schuster, but not to children's publishing. Born in Brazil, Geraldo was educated both in his native country and at New York University, where he earned an M.A. in Fine Arts. He began his career in children's publishing in 1995 with the picture book A Cobra Zola, published by Le Publishing House. He went on to publish other children's titles for Brazilian publishers. This is his first children's book in the United States. Geraldo lives in Portland, Oregon.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (October 1, 2004)
Grades: P - 3
Children's Fiction > People & Places > General
Children's Fiction > People & Places > Other
Children's Fiction > Clothing & Dress
Carolyn W. Field Award (PA)
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Virginia Young Readers List
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Spotted carrying around a mighty large box, 90210's Shenae Grimes wears American Eagle Denim Shorts. The actress was papped in out and about in Larchmont looking casual.
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On June 25th this past summer, our dear brother, the Rev. David G. Redlin of Tucson, Arizona, marked his fiftieth anniversary in the Lord's service as a Lutheran pastor. Since he had come into our Conference in 1991 by colloquy as the pastor of Good Shepherd Evangelical Lutheran Church, an independent congregation at the time, and had spent the first thirty years of his ministry in the Wisconsin Synod, the date of his ordination and installation into the pastoral office was not on our "radar," so to speak, and had regrettably completely escaped our attention. We were all assembled in Oak Forest, Illinois, for the Sixtieth Annual Convention of the Conference, June 24-26, fully engrossed in our joint work together, when the day came and went without notice. And, fully in keeping with Brother Redlin's humble spirit and unassuming nature, he "failed" to mention it to anyone; and his devoted and faithful wife, Susan, never let it slip. His congregation had been planning a surprise celebration with a special commemorative service in connection with the Festival of the Reformation at the end of October, when the pastors generally gather the week before for their Fall Pastoral Conference; and Good Shepherd intended to host that pastoral conference so that his brother pastors and our seminarians could all be present for the occasion and participate. Not realizing this, however, the convention canceled the fall conference this year as a cost-cutting measure; and the planned celebration was not mentioned — so as not to spoil the surprise.
When the congregation on October 5th announced its commemoration plans, it was too late for most everyone to arrange for travel on short notice; and the brethren in Tucson graciously postponed the "secret" event to November 20th. As it turned out, only the Conference President was able to attend; and the congregation asked him to preach for the occasion. It was a joyous celebration indeed, and the well-kept secret was divulged to Pastor Redlin only the week before.
For the well-attended service, Pastor Redlin served as liturgist; and President Mensing preached on Hebrew 13:7, taking as his theme: Let Us Remember Our Faithful Pastors — I. …because of their God-ordained office, II. …because of their God-ordained message, and III. …because of their God-ordained doctrine and faithful practice. A special choir, composed chiefly of the children of the congregation, sang Luther's beloved hymn, "Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Thy Word!"; and the service concluded with the reading of congratulatory messages from the pastors and congregations of our Conference. Thereafter a sumptuous dinner was served by the ladies of the congregation, and a special retrospective was presented during the afternoon tracing Pastor Redlin's career as a Christian pastor and celebrating fifty years of the Lord's gracious blessings. He was given a beautiful commemorative plaque and a special album filled with memorabilia. Throughout all of the tributes read from letters and delivered orally by members and guests, the aspect of Pastor Redlin's ministry most often mentioned and notably stressed was his unflinching adherence to God's Word, both in doctrine and in practice, many a time in the face of great difficulties and adversities, and his people's sincere love and gratitude to him for holding them, by God's grace and with His neverfailing help, to its precious truth. We all join them in grateful thanksgiving to the Lord of the Church for His abiding grace, help, strength and faithfulness to our dear brother and friend, Pastor David G. Redlin!
Pastor Redlin was born to Pastor Gerhard Redlin and Wilhelmina Loeffler on January 30, 1935 in Watertown, Wisconsin. His early childhood years were spent under his father's watchful eyes at parochial schools in Crete, Illinois and Watertown, Wisconsin. He attended high school at Northwestern Preparatory School, also in Watertown; and in 1958, he graduated from Northwestern College at the same campus in Watertown. He then studied for the ministry at the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary in Mequon, graduating in 1961. He was ordained and installed on June 25, 1961, in Nebraska, where he initially served two congregations as pastor and the next year concurrently served as vacancy pastor at Zion in Garrison. Pastor Redlin had a God-given zeal for mission work and helped found several mission congregations over the course of his ministry. In 1963, he received and accepted a call to Bisbee, Arizona, and served also as vacancy pastor at Douglas. In 1967, he was called to a congregation in Phoenix, and while there also served as vacancy pastor in Tempe and in Casa Grande. In 1971, he was called to Good Shepherd Ev. Lutheran Church in Tucson, where by God's grace he continues to serve as its faithful pastor and overseer. Together with the members of Good Shepherd, Pastor Redlin left the Wisconsin Synod in 1986 for doctrinal reasons and remained independent for six years, worshiping in the lower level of the parsonage on Melpomene Way from 1986-2002. Having undergone a colloquy by our Pastoral Conference, Pastor Redlin and the congregation joined our Concordia Lutheran Conference in 1991, where we have enjoyed one another's fellowship now for over twenty years. In October 2002, Good Shepherd's current church building was dedicated to the glory of God and with gratitude to the Lord for His gracious continued blessings.
Pastor Redlin and his dear wife, Susan, happily celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary in July, 2010; and they, together with four of their five grown children and their families, continue to enjoy "the unity of the Spirit" (Ephesians 4:3) in the fellowship of Good Shepherd Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tucson and as cherished brethren in our Concordia Lutheran Conference. May the Lord of the Church continue to bless abundantly all of Brother Redlin's faithful labors to the praise of His grace, to His glory alone, and for the welfare of His kingdom!


Execs Insist Martinez Will Be on the Move — to the Red Sox?
Cliff Lee is now a Phillie. Roy Halladay isn't, and neither is Victor Martinez.
This could mean big things for the Red Sox.
First, it suggests that the Phillies are out of the running for the Doctor — assuming that Lee isn't going elsewhere in a brewing three-way deal. That could mean — it probably doesn't, but it could mean — that the Red Sox are now the leading contender to land Halladay from Toronto, if Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi is still inclined to move him.
Consider that "erroneous" news on Tuesday that the Sox did not, in fact, offer up Clay Buchholz, Lars Anderson/Justin Masterson, and Michael Bowden in exchange for the ace. Those rumors don't brew out of nowhere. Nobody would be surprised to hear that Theo Epstein and friends have been working feverishly at the drawing boards to find a combination that unlocks Halladay from Toronto's grip.
Nobody would be surprised to hear the Sox have given up, either.
DeRosa, and Rafael Betancourt have all been moved.
"I don't think they'd move one without moving the other," an executive said of Lee and Martinez.
Rumors have been swirling for a while about the Sox trying to acquire both Lee and Martinez, especially because Martinez could be the long-term, power-hitting catcher Boston is looking for.
The 30-year-old is set to earn $4.5 million this year and has a club option for $7 million in 2010 — and the Sox would certainly be getting their money's wroth out of him. He's a switch-hitter, just like Jason Varitek, but unlike Varitek, he's hitting .283 with 15 home runs and 67 RBIs this year. Throughout his seven-year career (not counting 2002, when he played in just 12 games), he has never hit lower than .278 and he has hit over .300 three times.
Yes, Cliff Lee could have looked great in a Red Sox uniform next to Josh Beckett and Jon Lester. But Victor Martinez — or Roy Halladay — would look really good, too.


In Approximately 10 days after surgery when the esophagus and the surrounding tissues, especially the tracheostoma, are sufficiently healed and the nasogastric tube has been removed, or the same day in the case of secondary TEP puncture, voice training can start. Since the indwelling voice prosthesis is already in place, no time is lost by fitting the device. The first therapy session begins with a short recapitulation of the preoperative information (e.g., explaining the changes in the anatomy and the basic principles of the vocal rehabilitation) and an inspection of the prosthesis to make sure it is not obstructed. Next, the patient is instructed to breathe in gently and to open the mouth and produce a /ha/ sound. In these first voicing attempts the speech pathologist should digitally occlude the stoma for the patient. In most cases, the voice will come through after one or just a few attempts. Usually the best results are obtained when starting with exclamations like "ha" and "hi". With the fricative /h/ it is easier to start the airflow before phonation than with an isolated vowel. If the voice does not occur easily, the patient is asked to shout. A stronger airflow in this situation helps to initiate the voice. After the first several voicing attempts, the patient can be encouraged to lengthen the vowels and to start with short statements or phrases/sentences of two and three syllables (e.g., "Hello", "Hi there", "How are you", etc.). Furthermore, the laryngectomized patient can now try to occlude the stoma together with the speech pathologist, and then by him/herself.


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ISLAMABAD: Minister for States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) Lt Gen (R) Abdul Qadir Baloch on Wednesday apprised the National Assembly that currently, no bill regarding merger of FATA was being tabled before the Parliament.
Responding to points raised by JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazal ur Rehman and others members, the minister said status quo would be maintained in holding the general election 2018 in FATA.
Elections will be held on existing 12 National Assembly seats for FATA, he said and clarified that the bill being introduced in the parliament related to determining seats of FATA in provincial assembly.
He said that after one year of holding 2018 election, the local bodies election would be held in the tribal areas. He denied that the government had stated that it would merge FATA after five years, rather it had said that the process would be done within five years, outof which three years had already passed.
He said that the merger process could not be initiated unless proper infrastructure was built in FATA, adding that the government had set aside Rs 10billion for the purpose. The minister said 97.5 per cent internally displaced people (IDPs) had returned to their homes and just a few thousands were yet to return out of the 2.5 million IDPs.
He said that Jirgas were held in every agency of the area for deciding the status of FATA adding that the Jirga of 2012 which Maulana Fazal Ur Rehman referred to was initiative of his own party, and was signed by all the parties. However, all the parties now were favoring merger of FATA, except JUI-F, he added. He said FATA s merger package was still there and its implementation would be ensured.


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Review: Palit GeForce RTX 2060 GamingPro OC
by Parm Mann on 5 February 2019, 14:00
Tags: Palit, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)
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Palit GeForce RTX 2060 GamingPro OC
Page Jump: ========== 1 - Introduction 2 - Test Methodology 3 - 3DMark Time Spy 4 - Civlization VI 5 - Far Cry 5 6 - Forza Motorsport 7 7 - Gears of War 4 8 - Middle-earth: Shadow of War 9 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10 - World of Tanks enCore 11 - Power, Temperature and Noise 12 - Overclocking 13 - Conclusion
Settled on the GeForce RTX 2060 as your next graphics card? A fine choice, as Nvidia's latest x60 GPU serves as a useful upgrade path for gamers on previous-generation hardware. Prices start from £329, and for your money you're getting solid gameplay credentials at FHD or QHD resolutions, as well as the promise of a forward-looking Turing architecture.
The question that remains is do you opt for the tried-and-trusted Founders Edition, or should you lean toward a custom-cooled partner card? We've already taken a closer look at offerings from Asus, EVGA and Gigabyte, with mixed results, and today we turn our attention to Palit's GeForce RTX 2060 GamingPro OC.
It is quite clear that Nvidia's partners are feeling the squeeze when it comes to margin, and with the Founders Edition doing a stellar job at £329, there's little room to manoeuvre. Do too much and your card can be priced out of reach - the ROG Strix comes to mind - but do too little and there's no real incentive to tempt users away from the FE.
Palit lands on a somewhat satisfactory middle ground by charging £350 for a card that is factory overclocked and able to run both faster and cooler than Nvidia's reference board. Indeed, the small six per cent premium makes this one of the more palatable partner cards around and, up until February 25, the price point is helped by a promotion that makes any RTX 2060 purchase eligible for a free copy of either Battlefield V or Anthem.
But being competitive on price doesn't change the fact that the more affordable custom RTX 2060s tend not to be as pretty as the Founders Edition. If you appreciate the way your graphics card looks and feels, there's no two ways about it; the FE is downright gorgeous, the GamingPro OC decidedly less so. Palit's design excludes a backplate, revealing a bare PCB, the white LED strip across the top comes across as cheap, and though the plastic shroud on the front is rigid enough, it doesn't exactly exude quality.
Still, if you don't have a windowed chassis, none of that should matter. What's perhaps more important is that the RTX 2060 GamingPro OC weighs just 653g and measures 235mm x 112mm x 40mm. That's a fraction longer than the FE, yet this remains a dual-slot solution that ought to fit into most systems with ease while putting minimal strain on the PCIe slot.
And let's face it, the pared-down TU106 GPU employed by RTX 2060 doesn't need a hulking heatsink and cooler or multiple power connectors in order to function at respectable speeds. Palit's GamingPro OC is lightweight and requires just a single eight-pin connector, yet is factory overclocked to the same 1,830MHz boost clock featured on much larger, heavier and pricier competitors. The 6GB GDDR6 frame buffer remains cemented at the default 14Gbps, but we expect out-the-box performance to be as good as you get for an RTX 2060, and comfortably quicker than the FE.
The on-paper speeds are in line with expectations, and as tends to be the case there's room for more. When installed inside our quiet test platform, the GPU would routinely run within the 1,935MHz to 1,980MHz range. No qualms there, but GamingPro OC does miss out on a couple of features that some of the competition tends to offer. The first is that the fans don't switch off at low load. Palit's dual blowers aren't particularly vocal - the benchmarks will back that up shortly - but if you are aiming for absolute silence, this isn't the graphics card for you.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, the selection of outputs is surprisingly sparse. We've seen most AIB partners drop USB-C, presumably as a cost-cutting measure, but Palit also ditches the second DisplayPort, leaving just one of each of three output types; DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI.
Those seeking overall refinement will rightly gravitate toward the Founders Edition, but the brute-force approach never does any harm, and GamingPro OC's factory overclock ought to make it the fastest £350 solution in our charts. Let's see if the benchmarks concur, shall we?


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4 Lawyers from Strong-Garner-Bauer P.C. Recognized by 2021 Best Lawyers®
Over the past 45 years, our attorneys at Strong-Garner-Bauer P.C. have worked hard for our clients and honed our courtroom skills so we could provide top-tier representation to plaintiffs in personal injury suits. Our success has been recognized multiple times, both through strong trial results and invitations to exclusive attorney organizations. This year, we are proud to announce 4 of our attorneys have once again been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© publication.
The honorees are:
Jeff Bauer, listed for his work in insurance law and litigation as week as plaintiff's personal injury litigation and product liability litigation (Best Lawyers profile)
Neil Chanter, listed for his work in plaintiff's medical malpractice law, personal injury litigation, and product liability litigation (Best Lawyers Profile)
Steve Garner, listed for his work in insurance law as well as plaintiff's medical malpractice law, personal injury litigation, and product liability litigation (Best Lawyers profile)
Chandler Gregg, listed for his work in plaintiff's personal injury and product liability litigation (Best Lawyers profile)
Additionally, Jeff Bauer, Neil Chanter, and Steve Garner have been named as a Springfield "Lawyer of the Year," Jeff for his accomplishments in product liability litigation; Neil for his success in medical malpractice cases; and Steve for his insurance law work. This is the firms' eighth year running with at least one member named as "Lawyer of the Year." This honor goes to the attorney in each practice area and location with the highest feedback score.
Best Lawyers® Ones to Watch
We are also excited to announce the inclusion of 2 of our attorneys in the Best Lawyers® "Ones to Watch" list. Also decided by peer review, this award is open to attorneys who have been in private practice for 5-9 years or who are re-entering the field after an extended sabbatical. Lawyers selected for this recognition must undergo the same selection process as those on the Best Lawyers® list; after 10 years in practice, they are eligible for the full award.
This year, 2 lawyers from Strong-Garner-Bauer P.C. were selected as "Ones to Watch:"
Jacob Lewis, listed for his work in plaintiff's medical malpractice law
Nick Smart, listed for his work in plaintiff's medical malpractice law and personal injury and product liability litigation
We congratulate both of them on their first recognition by this award.
What Does a Best Lawyers® Nod Mean?
The legal community is home to a variety of awards, some less notable than others. The Best Lawyers in America started in 1983 and in the decades since has become a trusted source of consumer information. Published by U.S. News and World Report, The Best Lawyers in America gathers an estimation of a lawyer by looking to their peers. For each nominee, those in the same practice area and region are asked a simple question: How likely would you be to refer a case to this attorney if you were too busy to take it?
The Best Lawyers® editorial team also allows rich feedback in the form of open-ended comments respondents can use to explain or reinforce their vote. Once all ballots have been received, they are reviewed, and attorneys are ranked from most to least trusted. The top scorers go through a short eligibility check to ensure they are active and in good standing with their local bar before being added to that year's list. In 2020, the selections for The Best Lawyers in America were made based on 8.3 million votes nationwide.
Why Peer Reviews Matter
As attorneys, our competitors are often those who can most accurately judge our skills and successes. We attend the same continuing legal education seminars and social events, but also know how to pitch ourselves in comparison to others who might be after the same client. Though hearing a client's perspective on the support they received is valuable, those who share a profession and its associated pool of knowledge can provide perspectives and points non-attorneys would not know to look for. Peer review thus allows for well-rounded opinions consumers and lawyers alike can trust.
We Know How to Get Results
Our team at Strong-Garner-Bauer P.C. has been behind many big settlements and verdicts, including nearly $7 billion won against big tobacco. Recurring successes like those we've brought about are not due to chance. We've always been 100% dedicated to serving plaintiffs in personal injury cases so each case informs our strategy for the next. This focus has also allowed us to develop a technological approach to evidence creation and exhibition other firms simply do not have. Our attorneys work hard and do everything possible to find success for each client. Talk to us today to learn how our vision and dedication can help you after an accident.
Call Strong-Garner-Bauer P.C. at (417) 855-2022 or contact us onlineto schedule your free consultation. If you were injured by another's negligence, we're here to help.
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Whether you were together for ten years or ten days, breakups are tough. No matter the circumstances behind the end of our relationships, we all go through a similar, difficult aftermath. It usually involves some heart-wrenching music, a bit of social media obsessing, and a general mix of sadness, anger, frustration, and emotional numbing. It's all normal. You're grieving the loss of your relationship, after all. And, whether we realize it or not, the impact of a breakup is more than mental and emotional—it can be physical, too.
Trust me, I've been there. But I got through it with the help of a healthy lifestyle and a lot of self-care. Let's explore how heartbreak may affect your health—and how prioritizing wellness can actually benefit you through a breakup.
The emotional trauma of a breakup can often lead to mental and physical repercussions. The stress we feel can manifest in body aches, nausea, or heart palpitations. We also aren't thinking clearly and therefore tend to make poor decisions regarding our health.
Challenging situations and difficult feelings can cause us to lean on unhealthy habits. Some reach for food as a way to comfort and calm emotions. Others may feel too upset to eat. Sometimes we drink too much. We sleep too much or not enough. In some cases, we remove ourselves from social situations and become isolated. Previously healthy practices such as exercise are non-existent because we're too exhausted to leave the house.
Chances are, if you have been through a breakup, some or all of this may sound familiar. As a health and fitness professional, I never thought the day would come where I lacked the motivation to get out of bed. I'm someone who almost never misses workouts and I didn't even have the energy to walk my dog. Fully aware of the importance of nutrition, days passed before I realized I hadn't eaten a meal. I was caught in the trap of destructive behavior despite my predilection towards wellness.
As with any life transition, you often have a desire for connectedness. You feel alone, you struggle to make sense of why this happened to you. Instead of questioning what's wrong with you, take some steps to process your emotions with mindful meditation.
Meditation is more than just a way to calm our thoughts and lower stress levels. Research shows that our brain processes more thoughts and feelings during meditation than when we're just relaxing. To be mindful is to have a moment to moment awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions without judgment.
This comes more naturally to some than others. But with daily practice—even five minutes at a time—you'll be able to reach a more mindful state. Studies show that meditation improves emotional health and anyone can benefit regardless of a perceived natural ability to be more mindful. So, even if you have a harder time getting into meditation, it's worth it to try because the benefits will come.
Whether it's going for a long run or taking a spin class, intense cardio sessions are great for relieving stress and anxiety. High-intensity activity triggers the reduction in cortisol and adrenaline levels in our bodies. Plus, the endorphins released by the brain also contribute to a boosted mood. Both of these hormonal changes that result from physical activity can help you deal with the sadness that comes with heartbreak.
When the heart is strong, it pumps more blood as it contracts. This leads to a lower resting heart rate and reduced blood pressure over time, which equals a more relaxed body when you're not exercising. And we can't ignore the physical results of increased fitness. You may see that your arms and legs are more toned or your waistline is a bit tighter. These physical benefits combined with your endorphin-enhanced mental state can be a major confidence boost—necessary when we're feeling rejected after a breakup.
Feeling strong and empowered is so important when you're going through a life change like a breakup. You may find yourself feeling especially weak and vulnerable. Strength training can give you back your personal sense of control and power. If you haven't already started, incorporate strength training—bodyweight exercises, dumbbells, etc.—into your routine. If you're already a fan of strength workouts, try adding more reps or set goals to work up to heavier weights. As you grow stronger physically, you'll start to feel stronger mentally, too. Plus, since you'll be focusing on your form and movement patterns, you won't even have time to think about your ex.
Post-breakup, you're probably tempted to run into the arms of Ben and Jerry. And, while a few evenings of indulgence are totally fine (and necessary!) here and there, make sure the bulk of your diet isn't at the mercy of your emotions.
Always think about how certain foods make you physically feel after you eat them. Fast forward to that moment when you're in a food coma, feeling bloated and fatigued. The sugar high only lasts until your next binge. This cycle can be hard to break. Try to maintain a balance between your comfort foods and your regular healthy diet.
On the flip side, many of us are non-eaters during stressful or sad times. It's hard to muster an appetite when your stomach is in knots. This is also a dangerous habit to fall into as our brains and bodies need fuel to function properly—especially during difficult times. Do your best to maintain a somewhat regular diet and focus on filling foods. If it's really hard to eat, try homemade smoothies packed to the brim with ingredients rich in good carbs, healthy fats, and protein.
The unfortunate reality is that a traumatic event took place and you're grieving a loss. Breakups take time. And some of us never truly get over it. That's not to say that you'll never feel okay again, but it's safe to say you might never be the same—which can actually be a great thing.
The breakdown of a significant relationship can really shape who you are going forward. Healing is not linear. You'll make progress and you'll feel like you've slipped backward. But always remember that you are going forward. Honor your feelings because there isn't a time limit on grief. The journey can be rough but staying mindful of each stage can ease you through the transition. Focus on your physical and mental health and you'll come out of your breakup stronger—in every way.